Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Japan needs to loosen the US nuclear leash
Asahi Shimbun Hiromichi Umebayashi April 20, 2010 The greatest achievement of the investigation into "secret pacts" between Japan and the United States was a clear recognition that there was indeed a tacit agreement between the two governments concerning the...
Japan and NATO Are Ready for the US to Reduce Nuclear Weapons
Huffington Post by Alyn Ware February 18, 2010 It has been nearly a year since President Obama's now famous Prague speech, announcing America's commitment to a nuclear weapons-free future. A key test of that commitment is at hand: the current U. S. Nuclear...
Harper government missing on nonproliferation
Embassy by Douglas Roche and Ernie Regehr February 3, 2010 High-ranking officials of the US State Department, NATO and the United Nations were in Ottawa last week to meet with the leaders of five national nuclear disarmament groups and experienced civil society...
Heeding the warning of bioterrorism
The Hill by Barry Kellman January 25, 2010 The warning is clear: Bioterrorism is a serious danger to the United States, says the Report Card Grading Government on Protecting the United States, released Tuesday by the congressionally-mandated...
Biological weapons hazards
LA Times LTE by Barry Kellman December 16, 2009 Characterizing the Obama administration's decision to not support international monitoring of the Biological Weapons Convention as "ducking the issue" manifests a serious misunderstanding of how to reduce...
Stepping into the Biopolicy Breach
The Hillby Barry Kellman, BSG Member December 15, 2009 The Commission on Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism identified two existential threats: nuclear and biological weapons. Bioweapons are easier to make and could be used repeatedly to inflict widespread...
Thinking the Unthinkable on Nuclear Policy
The Huffington Post by Alyn Ware November 9, 2009 In late September, President Obama chaired the UN Security Council as it adopted an unprecedented resolution on non-proliferation and global nuclear disarmament, vague on the details perhaps, but...
A Well-Deserved Nobel Prize
The Edmonton Journal by Douglas Roche "But he hasn't done anything yet!" That sentence was on the lips of skeptics the minute they heard that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. The doubters are wrong. Obama has already restored...
Evangelical Voices Against Nukes
Washington Post/Newsweek by GSI Board Member Tyler Wigg Stevenson Even a casual student of American politics must wonder what evangelicals are doing at the vanguard of a new movement toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. After all, the anti-Communism of a...
A Nuclear-Weapons-Free World: Is it achievable?
UN Chronicle by Miguel Marin-Bosch After the worst of times, we are perhaps entering the best of times for proponents of nuclear disarmament. At long last, advocates of the elimination of nuclear weapons have reason for some guarded optimism. The road to a...