A New U.S. Government Could Be the Bright Light in a Bleak Nuclear Arms Future

May 2, 2007 Analysis by Douglas Roche, O.C.Embassy Representatives of 188 nations, which have ratified the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), are meeting in Vienna this week and next to try again to construct a viable plan for nuclear disarmament. They will continue these meetings each year until 2010 when a critical decision will have to be […]

Say No to the US-India Deal

 April 27, 2006 by Jonathan Granoff and David Krieger Common Dreams To view the original version of this article, please click here. George W. Bush thought that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He was wrong. Now Mr. Bush has returned from India, and has proposed a nuclear deal that he believes will […]

A Dangerous Deal with India

 March 29, 2006 by Jimmy Carter The Washington Post During the past five years the United States has abandoned many of the nuclear arms control agreements negotiated since the administration of Dwight Eisenhower. This change in policies has sent uncertain signals to other countries, including North Korea and Iran, and may encourage technologically capable nations […]

Permission Slips

 April 21, 2004 By Jonathan Granoff, Michael Doyle and Robert Grey Jr. Common Dreams People make mistakes. We should not be too surprised or dismayed at the failure of intelligence regarding weapons in Iraq. We now know that blood and treasure is being spent based on speculation or evidence ignored. David Kay’s testimony that Iraq […]

Power Over the Ultimate Evil

 Nov/Dec 2003 By Jonathan Granoff Tikkun There are approximately 30,000 nuclear weapons in the world, 90 percent of which are possessed by Russia and the United States. The United States has about 11,000 nuclear weapons, and the Russians have about 19,500 nuclear weapons. Thousands of these are Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles; they are armed, targeted and […]

Don’t Make Mini-Nukes

June 9, 2003 By John Holum International Herald Tribune WASHINGTON, DC–Even as U.S. forces struggle to consolidate victory in a war justified largely to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the White House is preparing to build and test new nuclear weapons for America’s own arsenal. The administration supports provisions in the 2004 Defense Authorization […]

U.S. Hard Line will not Curb North Korea’s Nuclear Policy

 April 22, 2003 By Urs A. Cipolat The Progressive The Bush administration wrongly believes it can eliminate the nuclear threat by wars of prevention. This policy may actually stimulate efforts by other countries to quickly obtain nuclear weapons. Earlier this spring, North Korea became the first country ever to effectively withdraw its signature from the […]

A Pretty Poor Posture for a Superpower

March 13, 2002  ROBERT S. McNAMARA and THOMAS GRAHAM Jr.L.A. Times During the Cold War, peace was supported by the doctrine of “mutual assured destruction,” which simply meant that each side maintained second strike capability, thereby deterring nuclear war. The Antiballistic Missile Treaty and other treaties limiting the use of offensive nuclear forces were the […]

A Leading Role for the Security Council

 October 21, 2001 By Mikhail S. Gorbachev The New York Times MOSCOW – In the past month, the world has witnessed something previously unknown: a common stand taken by America, Russia, Europe, India, China, Cuba, most of the Islamic world and numerous other regions and countries. Despite many serious differences between them, they united to […]

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 Brezhnev regime came to agreement on a “big idea” […]