Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Disaster Spotlights Need for International Action
September 23, 2001 By Kim Cranston and Laura Mcgrath Moulton San Jose Mercury News Since World War II, humanity has mastered extraordinary challenges. We can orbit the earth. We can transplant organs. We can travel faster than sound, and we can communicate...
Missile Defense a Threat
August 11, 2001 By Jonathan Dean and Jonathan Granoff Chicago Sun Times Commentary In their July 22 meeting in Genoa, Italy, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to consider the topics of national missile defense and further cuts in nuclear...
Addressing the Cold War’s Unfinished Business
June 4, 2000 By Alan Cranston and Tad Daley Los Angeles Times When Air Force One touched down in Moscow yesterday, nuclear politics again took center stage, just as they did so often during the Cold War. Nearly three decades ago, the Nixon administration and the...
Defensive Shield Would Reduce Safety, Fail to Stop Missiles: The New Nuclear Question
June 4, 2000 By Alan Cranston and Zachary Bishop Allen San Jose Mercury News YOU ARE POINTING a loaded machine gun at someone just a few feet away. His loaded machine gun is aimed at your chest. You've been doing this for 50 years, and now your adversary is...
Fail Safe Remains a Tale for Our Times
April 5, 2000 By Alan Cranston Global Beat Syndicate SAN FRANCISCO -- This Sunday, a live television drama will reintroduce millions of viewers to the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. The CBS television network will broadcast a remake of Fail Safe, the 1964...
U.S. Must Rethink Its Nuclear Policy
June 9, 1998 By Alan Cranston San Francisco Chronicle India's and Pakistan's nuclear tests reveal the impotence of current policies intended to prevent proliferation. Moralizing appeals, threats of sanctions and offers of military and economic aid for not...
Nuclear Abolition Statement by International Civilian Leaders: An Assessment and An Appeal
February 1998 By Alan Cranston Disarmament Diplomacy -- Issue No 23 The abolition statement by international civilian leaders, made public on 2 February 1998 by General Lee Butler and the State of the World Forum - the full text of which follows this article - follows...
Nukes Beget Nukes: Away with Bombs
November 16, 1999 By Alan Cranston San Francisco Examiner LOS ALTOS HILLS: Shortly after atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I met Albert Einstein. He warned if the bomb were developed further, and ever used all-out, the human race could be...
NATO and Peace Would Gain from a No-First-Use Policy
December 15, 1999 By Thomas Graham, Jr., Robert Mcnamara and Jack MendelsohnL.A. Times We believe it is critical for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to reconsider its nuclear policy and agree to a no-first-use provision on nuclear weapons. Such a policy would...
A Nuclear Crisis
February 23, 2000 By Jimmy Carter Washington Post Every five years, the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT) comes up for reassessment by the countries that have signed it. This is the treaty that provides for international restraints (and inspections) on...