May 22, 2009
On April 5, 2009, before a crowd gathered at Hradcany Square in Prague, President Barack Obama declared “America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” With these words, Obama implicitly endorsed Global Zero—a movement founded in December 2008 by some 100 political leaders from around the world to ban nuclear weapons.
May 15, 2009
With critical security upgrades still incomplete and the Russian nuclear infrastructure becoming more dilapidated, now is not the time to reduce funding for the Nunn-Lugar nonproliferation program. Yet that is exactly what President Obama proposed in his fiscal year 2010 budget.
May 6, 2009
Two recent bipartisan reports strongly endorsed the importance of reducing the size of the U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals. Both reports clearly demonstrated that there is broad and wide support for a START follow-on agreement and that the United States and Russia have an important obligation to reduce the size and role of nuclear weapons in their national security policies.
May 6, 2009
On May 6, the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States released its final report. As one might expect given the diverse make-up of the Commission, the final report offers a mixture of good and bad recommendations. In this comprehensive analysis, Kingston Reif examines the two competing visions in the Commission’s report.
May 1, 2009
In this article published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online, Jeffrey Lewis and Kingston Reif explain why the need to replace outdated vacuum tubes is no reason to build a new generation of nuclear weapons such as the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW).
Apr 28, 2009
With 100 days now behind him and more than 1,000 left to go in his first term, President Barack Obama has given us much to celebrate – especially when compared to the dismal years of the Bush administration. John Isaacs offers a progress report on the Obama administration.
Apr 16, 2009
In this new article published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online, Executive Director John Isaacs argues that the successful effort in the 1990s to approve the Chemical Weapons Convention provides a useful historical precedent to keep in mind as efforts move forward today to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. In both past and present efforts, Joe Biden is a central figure.
Apr 13, 2009
President Barack Obama has made it clear since the beginning of his administration that negotiating a new nuclear weapons reduction treaty with Russia is a high priority. In this new analysis, John Isaacs lays out the enormous momentum building for a follow-on agreement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expires at the end of the year. Isaacs also foreshadows the political challenges in getting a new treaty through the Senate.
Apr 13, 2009
In this op-ed recently published in the Asheville Citizen Times, Katie Mounts argues that in today’s world, the possession of thousands of nuclear weapons is no longer necessary for U.S. survival. In fact, the very existence of so many weapons increases the danger that human error will trigger an unintentional nuclear catastrophe.
Apr 5, 2009
The Senate does not actually ratify treaties—that is the job of the President. The Senate provides advice (on the substance) and consent (with two-thirds of the Senate required to approve a treaty). The Senate considers on the Senate floor resolutions of ratification rather than the treaty itself
Mar 23, 2009
In this four-part series published on the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s new blog, Nukes of Hazard, Travis Sharp examines what it will take for the United States to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Sharp looks at political, messaging, verification, and cheating issues related to the CTBT.
Mar 20, 2009
Since the dawn of the atomic age, the United States has sought to encourage the use of nuclear energy while minimizing the proliferation risks associated with it. The latest U.S. initiative that sets out to accomplish this is the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). In this policy article recently published in The Nonproliferation Review, Jeff Lindemyer argues that GNEP erodes the successful thirty-year U.S. position against reprocessing and allows for the spread of technologies that are not proliferation-resistant.
Mar 18, 2009
If Republicans continue to rally around "no," there will be important implications for national security issues in Congress over the next two years. John Isaacs explores three broad groups of executive-legislative national security topics in this article published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Online.
Mar 18, 2009
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of an international agreement that has prevented incalculable civilian deaths and injuries from war: the 1997 Landmine Treaty. While 156 countries have signed on, the United States is one of a small minority of states that has not yet agreed to join the ban on the production, use, sale, and stockpiling of anti-personnel landmines.
Mar 17, 2009
This table shows how Republican senators who belong to the 111th Congress voted on three previous arms control treaties: the 2003 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT); the 1999 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT); and the 1992 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
Mar 11, 2009
An overview of key terms used in START and other arms control treaties.
Mar 11, 2009
Experts Sidney Drell and James Goodby outline what a deployment of 1,000 nuclear weapons might look like.
Mar 10, 2009
A collection of articles and reports on START and current efforts to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.
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