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This is exactly how a nuclear war would kill you
December 26, 2018Matthew Kroenig has witnessed firsthand the growing fear that nuclear war is imminent. A professor at Georgetown University, he’s taught an undergraduate course on nuclear weapons and world politics for the past...
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American Foreign Policy Could Use More Prudence
December 3, 2018During George H. W. Bush’s single term in the White House, the Berlin Wall fell and Germany reunified peacefully. The Warsaw Pact dissolved, the Soviet Union crumbled, and the Cold War ended....
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We participated in INF negotiations. Abandoning it threatens our very existence.
By Mikhail Gorbachev & George P. Shultz
December 4, 2018More than 30 years have passed since the day the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, meeting in Geneva, adopted a joint statement declaring that “a nuclear war cannot...
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Trump’s Counterproductive Decision to “Terminate” the INF Treaty
By Daryl G. Kimball
October 21, 2018Under the influence of his new National Security Advisor, John Bolton, Trump announced Saturday at a campaign rally that he will “terminate” a key nuclear arms control agreement that helped end the...
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In Diplomacy, Trump Is the Anti-Reagan
By Bret Stephens
June 12, 2018An optimistic take on Donald Trump’s historic meeting Tuesday with Kim Jong-un is that it’s Geneva Redux — a reprise of the 1985 summit between Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
The nuclear non proliferation treaty is a treaty that was signed to limit the development and use of nuclear weapons by countries….
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Nuclear Weapons Capabilities for International Peace
Our Nuclear-Free Opportunity: Introduction
Midge Miller of Madison, Wisconsin, passed away several springs ago. She was 86. Like most of you, I did not know her. I saw her speak only once at a local public...
Interdependence of Global Economies and Financial Systems
Instant Global Communications and Social Networking
Welcome to the new nuclear arms race
If you missed out on the first nuclear arms race, you’re in luck. It’s back. On Friday, the Trump administration announced the U.S. would…
INF Treaty Crisis: Background and Next Steps
Trump administration risks Reagan’s legacy on nuclear disarmament
INF Treaty talks between Russia and the U.S. fail at summit
The pact was designed to keep ground-based nuclear weapons out of Europe. Washington has accused Moscow of violating it for years…
24 years ago today, the world came disturbingly close to ending
Pence Says U.S. Still Waiting on North Korea for ‘Concrete Steps’ to Denuclearize
A Review of Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
Ken Adelman’s ‘Reagan at Reykjavik’ adds to the growing body of literature covering the hastily arranged 1986 U.S. and Soviet Union summit held in Reykjavik, Iceland. No superpower summit since the 1945...
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
The Long and Winding Road to Nuclear Security
U.S. to withdraw from nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, says Russian violations render the Cold War agreement moot
The United States will pull out of a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, the Trump administration announced Friday, ending a cornerstone…
Warren introduces bill to stop US using nuclear weapons first
Trump Administration Begins Production Of A New Nuclear Weapon