The world’s major nuclear powers are treaty-bound to move towards disarmament. The India-Pakistan clash underscores the need to get moving.
Nuclear Powers Need to Disarm Before It’s Too Late
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Nuclear Disarmament
Obama’s Nuclear Paradox
Obama’s approach to nukes will be his most significant legacy — as well as his most salient failure.
When the Left Turned Its Back on Nuclear Disarmament
In the 1960s, the New Left treated nuclear disarmament like your father’s activism.
Will the U.S. Get Serious Now About Eliminating Its Own Nukes?
The Iran nuclear deal could provide momentum for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East — and eventually a nuclear-free world.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces
As always, emphasis added.
Hunger Striking for Disarmament in France
Only a few weeks after Francois Hollande’s election, former Socialist Prime Minister Michel Rocard came up with an original budget-balancing solution: if France chose to relinquish its nuclear arsenal, he argued, “16 billion euros that serve absolutely no purpose” could be saved over five years.
Can We Abolish Nuclear Weapons Before We Abolish War?
Abolishing both nuclear weapons and war may not be possible without world government.
New START Closer to Breaking Out of the Blocks
Ratification is like the starter’s gun — but is the finish line disarmament or a nuclear-industrial complex more deeply entrenched than ever?
Disarmament and Nonproliferation: Which Is the Cart, Which Is the Horse?
Heretofore coexisting peacefully, the two are now juxtaposed.
START Now
After 65 years, is there anything new to say about nuclear weapons? Their immense and almost incomprehensible destructive power is well known. Their tenacious endurance as the weapon, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, is an unavoidable fact as nine nations currently stockpile these world menacers. Their super-power allure to emerging states remains untarnished despite international treaties discouraging proliferation.