It’s Time to Step up Diplomacy with Iran
High-level diplomatic engagement would benefit both the international community and Iran itself.
Seed of Destruction: Nuclear ‘Pits’
How can we achieve nuclear disarmament when the Obama administration seeks increased funding for the core of the weapon — the nuclear pit?
Part 3-The Futility of Trying to Debate Our Way to Disarmament
In the end, disarmament won’t spring from a fruitless quest for ironclad rationales. Its establishment will be the result of a groundswell of reactions ranging from disgust with to bewilderment at a national security policy that puts the lives of tens of millions at risk.
Part 2-The Futility of Trying to Debate Our Way to Disarmament
Another obstacle to those who seek disarmament through policy channels is just how difficult it is to dispute “realist” arguments against disarmament.
What’s Next for the Nuclear Disarmament Movement?
Thousands of peace activists recently gathered in New York to demand a nuclear-free world. Are the media and the president listening?
Part 1-The Futility of Trying to Debate Our Way to Disarmament
In the long run, grassroots types sprouting by the side of the road — may have a better chance of implementing disarmament than those steering policy limos down the middle of the road.
The Nuclear Posture Attack
In a May 11 Washington Times editorial, Frank Gaffney, Ed Meese, Clifford May, and four additional coauthors called for a “renewed adherence to the national security philosophy of President Ronald Reagan: ‘Peace Through Strength.'”
Our Latest: Calderon, Thailand, and the Myth of Overtaxation
What IPS says about the world today.
The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands
The people of the Marshall Islands had their homeland and health sacrificed for U.S. national security interests. The Obama administration and Congress should promptly correct this injustice.
Nuclear Weapons Are a Gift From God
Nuclear weapons are a clarion call to look at the whole subject to which nuclear weapons are a sub-category — mass warfare.
Testimony: The Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Testing
Statement of senior scholar Robert Alvarez before the Subcommitee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, U.S. House of Representatives regarding the legacy of nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands.
Europe’s Sick of U.S. Nukes
Stockpiles undercut, instead of enhancing, security.
Sanctions Debate Heats Up
The recent and highly unusual public launch of a “conference committee” of both houses of Congress to hash out differences in long-pending legislation to impose unilateral sanctions on Iran marks a new stage in the escalating debate over what to do about Tehran’s nuclear programme.
Nuclear Follies
Are we in the process of giving up our nuclear addiction, or is this just flimflam from an addict who refuses to go cold turkey?
The New Anti-Nuclear Movement
The Obama administration has a new nuclear policy. And we need a new anti-nuclear movement that can reach for change.