We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth. Ronald Reagan, 1985 Inaugural Address
By Victor D. Cha
North Korea’s nuclear test and military provocations in 2009 and 2010 created a situation far too dangerous to leave unattended. When President Obama hosts South Korean President Lee Myung-bak this week, they...
By Nathan Pyles
“The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into a reality.” President Ronald Reagan...
By Nathan Pyles
Several years ago I was in Shanghai during China’s National Day. Most of the central city was closed to traffic because of expectations for huge crowds gathering in the Bund – the...
By Nathan Pyles
At the height of the Cold War my father went to Vietnam in the first of many waves of U.S. servicemen. In 1965 international telephone service was unreliable and incredibly expensive. While...
By Nathan Pyles
In the introduction to her most recent book, Moral Clarity, Susan Neiman paraphrases Immanuel Kant – “Truth tells us how the world is; Morality tells us how the world ought to be.”...
By Nathan Pyles
The world is not, never has been, and never will be – in a static state. The North Korean 2009 nuclear test is further evidence. Since the global political landscape continuously shifts,...
By Nathan Pyles
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer understands the limitations of a nuclear deterrence policy in a highly proliferated world. In a 2002 Weekly Standard article entitled The Obsolescence of Deterrence, he wrote, “Yes, deterrence...
By Nathan Pyles
There is no shortage of skeptics who question if nuclear weapons can ever be fully eliminated. Since nuclear weapon technology has already been invented, they will say, ‘the nuclear genie cannot be...
By Nathan Pyles
It is said that timing is everything. Throughout the tense days of the Reykjavik Summit in October of 1986 if President Reagan’s and Secretary General Gorbachev’s staffs had been surveyed, we would...
By Nathan Pyles
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...