A world without nuclear weapons but that retains the ability to reconstitute them is considered by many an important step on the path to Global Zero.
True or False? We Can Abolish Nuclear Weapons, But Not the Know-How
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Stockholm Institute Peels Back the Veneer of Nuclear Disarmament
Arms control organizations focus more on the limited success of New START than the vast amount of money spent to keep nuclear weapons going.
Can the Genie of Nuclear Knowledge Ever Be Put Back in the Bottle?
What good is disarmament if the knowledge of how to make nuclear weapons can’t be abolished?
Taking Drones to Their Logical Conclusion: Nuclearize Them!
A successor to the Stealth bomber is planned that would not only be capable of bearing nuclear weapons, but could fly pilotless.
Review: America, Hitler, and the UN
According to convention, the United Nations began with the signing of the UN charter in San Francisco in 1945. From that beginning, the organization evolved into a global deliberative body of nearly 200 member states. For some, the UN is incapable of managing an anarchic international system. For others, the UN represents an attempt by the major powers following World War II to maintain or expand their empires by dressing them in the guise of an international democratic order.
The War Against Al Jazeera and Sami al-Hajj
Sami Al-Hajj was classified as an “enemy combatant” whose “access to senior terrorist leaders demonstrates his probable connections to the al-Qaida network and other militant jihadist organizations.” He was presented as “a member of al-Qaida who is an expert in logistics with direct ties to al-Qaida leadership.” However, new evidence has come to light that now shows the U.S. government hoped to use al-Hajj as an intelligence source, perhaps even an informant, to spy on Al Jazeera’s operations, or to track down Taliban and al Qaeda leaders.
60-Second Expert: DSK
The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), who has been charged with rape and forced imprisonment of a 32-year-old Guinean hotel worker at a $3,000-a-night luxury hotel in New York, can be seen through the feminist lens of the “personal is political.” As his personal case is being investigated, it is important to point out that the disrespect for women demonstrated by the man at the highest levels of leadership within the IMF is quite consistent with the gender bias inherent in the IMF’s institutional policies and practice.
Disarm to Prevent Proliferation? Or Halt Proliferation to Enable Disarmament?
To progressives, keeping states from seeking to develop nuclear-weapons programs requires us to begin disarmament as a show of good faith. Conservatives claim to see no evidence of that working.
Nuclear Pits: Death in Its Most Concentrated Form
A new facility under construction in Los Alamos that’s pivotal to the manufacture of “nuclear pits” is emblematic of Americans’ ambivalence about nuclear weapons.
Fukushima Be Damned, Federal Court Brushes Off Seismic Nuke Risks
The United States can’t have it both ways: ratifying disarmament treaties while building facilities to arm nuclear warheads.