Aug 10, 2009
On July 20, 2009, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Physicians for Social Responsibility co-hosted a briefing on nuclear reprocessing. The briefing featured Dr. Frank von Hippel, Henry Sokolski, and Dr. Edwin Lyman.
Aug 3, 2009
Obama and Medvedev in Moscow hammered out the framework for an agreement to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). Much more work lies ahead, but conditions are now ideal for the United States and Russia to conclude significant arms control initiatives in the coming months and years. These initiatives will strengthen U.S. security and improve America’s standing in the world.
Jul 28, 2009
On July 22, 2009, the House Appropriations Committee completed its markup of the fiscal year 2010 Defense Appropriations bill (HR 3326). The Committee bill provides $636.6 billion in total funding, $3.8 billion less than the President’s request. Of the total, $508.4 billion is for the Department of Defense “base” budget and $128.2 billion is for ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jul 22, 2009
In this full-length article published by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, John Isaacs and Travis Sharp review the history of missile defense since World War II in search of insights that can be applied today. Isaacs and Sharp argue that President Obama retains two viable options for U.S. missile defense in Europe: “The Bargaining Chip" or "The Gas Mask."
Jul 15, 2009
Part of President Obama’s ambitious arms control agenda is a fissile material cutoff treaty (FMCT) that would ban the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons purposes. In this new factsheet, Kingston Reif and Madeleine Foley examine the purpose, background, politics, and challenges of the FMCT.
Jul 13, 2009
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) completed its markup of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Defense Authorization bill (S. 1390) on June 25, 2009. The marked up bill recommends $679.8 billion in funding, $375 million less than requested by the administration.
Jul 6, 2009
This week in Moscow, Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev are holding a summit meeting that will heavily influence the next decade of U.S.-Russian relations. If the two leaders strike up a personal and political rapport, it could unfreeze a relationship that became icy in the final years of the Bush and Putin administrations. If the summit produces less favorable results, it could intensify mistrust and leave several foreign policy wounds to fester.
Jul 6, 2009
Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev are meeting this week in Moscow for their first full summit. High on their agenda is the landmark 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which will expire on December 5. In this op-ed published by Reuters, Lt. Gen. Robert Gard and Kingston Reif explain the importance of negotiating a START follow-on agreement.
Jul 2, 2009
From July 6 to 8, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev will meet in Moscow for their first full summit. High on their agenda is the impending expiration of the landmark 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and the ongoing negotiations to replace it with a new strategic arms reduction agreement.
Jun 24, 2009
The House Armed Services Committee completed its markup of the Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Authorization bill (HR 2647) on June 17, 2009. The marked-up bill recommends an overall FY 2010 authorization level of $680.5 billion, which includes $130 billion for ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and $550.5 billion for the Pentagon and nuclear weapons activities.
Jun 23, 2009
Though burdened with political constraints on its freedom of action, the Obama administration already has made overtures to Iran that may appear merely symbolic but have historically proven successful at breaking the ice in preparation for larger diplomatic initiatives. In this new policy brief, Travis Sharp argues that there are reasons to be guardedly optimistic about the future of U.S.-Iranian bilateral relations.
Jun 23, 2009
The one major piece of President Obama's arms control agenda that could be completed this year is a follow-on agreement to START. Most arms control experts agree that ratification with more than 67 Senate votes will be necessary to build momentum for more controversial treaties to follow. John Isaacs and Kingston Reif dissect the domestic politics of START in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online.
Jun 22, 2009
Despite recent setbacks, the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty has proven successful. Since 1990, over 60,000 weapons systems have been either removed from the treaty zone or destroyed. The United States should work to revive the CFE. But it must do so carefully because the treaty has become entangled in debates over wider European issues.
Jun 16, 2009
A CNN poll conducted April 9-11, 2010, found that 70 percent of respondents said that the U.S. Senate should vote in favor of the U.S.-Russia New START agreement while a Quinnipiac University National Poll conducted from April 14-19, 2010, found that 60 percent of of respondents think that the Senate should ratify New START.
A Greenberg Quinlan Rosner/Democracy Corps poll taken May 10-12, 2009 has found that a majority of Americans, 71%, to be exact, supports President Obama's policies on a road to "a world free of nuclear weapons" - they just don't do so in those words.
Jun 16, 2009
Q&A on the technical issues surrounding the START follow-on agreement
Jun 16, 2009
A timeline of major START events between 1991 to 2010
Jun 9, 2009
The Council on Foreign Relations Task Force report shares many similarities with the final report of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. Most importantly, both reports call for reductions in nuclear stockpiles. Kingston Reif analyzes the CFR report in this new policy brief.
Jun 9, 2009
"There are no second acts in American lives," the famous author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. Tell that to U.S. and Russian officials who met in Moscow in mid-May to begin negotiating a new nuclear arms reduction agreement. Left for dead during the Bush administration, nuclear arms control is back for an encore performance - and not a moment too soon.
Jun 2, 2009
The Obama administration pledged to safeguard all vulnerable nuclear weapons and materials within four years. Yet the fiscal year 2010 nonproliferation budget submitted to Congress in May is disappointing. Instead of an increase in nonproliferation funding to meet the aforementioned goal, the administration actually requested less money than Congress appropriated in fiscal year 2009.
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