by Kingston Reif The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published “Beyond Treaties: Immediate Steps to Reduce Nuclear Dangers,” a report on reducing nuclear risks that included a contribution from Kingston Reif, Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation. Reif’s contribution to the report is below. Click here for the full report. The United States and Russia should exchange […]
Challenges of Protecting U.S. Nuclear Weapon Materials
Note: Below are remarks delivered by Policy Fellow Nickolas Roth on the nuclear weapons complex in Geneva, Switzerland on September 12, 2012. For more information on the UNIDIR conference “Securing Civilian and Military Nuclear Materials: Current Status and Possible Improvements”, click here. For the past four years, many nations have focused their attention on securing […]
Nuclear Weapons: It Is Important to Continue Drawing Down
Note: A version of this op-ed was published in the Fall 2012 – ELECTION EDITION of VETERANS’ VISION (www.theveteransvision.com.) There are many serious anxieties in today’s world: a war in Afghanistan that has drifted into its second decade, a serious debt crisis facing the United States and many other countries, climate change, the threat of […]
Cold comfort
Published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online on August 27, 2012 Article summary below; read the full text online. As the plausible military rationales for nuclear weapons continue to deteriorate in the aftermath of the Cold War, political and psychological rationales for nuclear weapons — like providing reassurance to US allies — are increasingly […]
Board of Directors & National Advisory Board
Lt. General Robert Gard – Chair U.S. Army (Ret.) Laurie T. Dewey – President Activist; Philanthropist Paul Castleman – Vice President Businessman Lincoln Day – Treasurer Demographer Angela Canterbury – Executive Director Philip E. Coyle Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Peter Galbraith Former U.S. Ambassador Col. Richard L. Klass US Air Force (Ret.), VetPac Samuel […]