START-ing a new security

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  Huffington Post by Rhianna Tyson Kreger December 23, 2010   If you witnessed a lot of hubbub in Dupont Circle pubs last night, it’s a good chance it was the celebrations of my passionate arms control friends and colleagues, relishing the victory that...

Japan and NATO Are Ready for the US to Reduce Nuclear Weapons

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

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....

Thinking the Unthinkable on Nuclear Policy

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

  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...

Nuclear Testing and Proliferation: An Inextricable Connection

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Disarmament Diplomacy by Thomas Graham, J.r and David Hafemeister   President Obama’s call in Prague to complete the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was widely praised on the global stage. But what will be entailed for the United States to...

Nuclear Weapons Free: Let’s Support President Obama

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Huffington Post by GSI President Jonathan Granoff August 27, 2009   Nuclear weapons are abhorrent in anyone’s hands. Imagine if the Biological Weapons Convention said that polio and small pox as weapons are banned universally but the plague as a weapon can...

Japan ready for ‘no nukes’

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

The Japan Times by Shingo Fukuyama and MPI Steering Committee member Hiromichi Umebayashi August 25, 2009   As the Obama administration contemplates major reductions to its nuclear arsenal, Japan’s commitment to nuclear disarmament is being tested as never...

Mr. Obama and Nuclear Weapons

Jul 6, 2012 | Op Eds

Washington Post Letter to the Editor Thomas Graham, Jr. April 13, 2009 Anne Applebaum claimed that worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons was President Obama’s idea [“Yes, We Can . . . Disarm?” op-ed, April 7]. But President Ronald Reagan called...