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Missile defense turns 30By C. Dean McGrath Jr
North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile, and the Defense Department believes that the nation may soon be capable of building a nuclear-armed missile. Meanwhile,...
Abolish nuclear weapons before it’s too lateBy Robert E. Frye
How often do we hear “well that can’t happen here.” Whether it is a small event of violence or one that captures the attention of the entire world....
From Non-Proliferation To A Total Ban On Nukes – OpEdBy Tim Wright
At the beginning of March, the Norwegian government hosted a landmark conference in Oslo on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons and the inability of relief...
NNSA Nuclear Weapons Budget Ignores Fiscal Realities; Congress Should Re-Examine B61 ProjectBy By Daryl G. Kimball and Tom Z. Collina
The Barack Obama administration’s fiscal year 2014 budget request proposes spending $7.87 billion for National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Weapons Activities,...
Nuclear weapons must be eradicated for all our sakesBy Desmond Tutu
We cannot intimidate others into behaving well when we ourselves are misbehaving. Yet that is precisely what nations armed with nuclear weapons hope to do by censuring...
Another Try at Nuclear Talks
Negotiations this week between the major powers and Iran on its nuclear program achieved only an agreement to hold technical talks in March and then another meeting...
The Nuclear Agenda
President Obama set an ambitious goal in his first term when he endorsed the vision of an eventual world without nuclear weapons. After some early achievements,...
US leadership needed to prevent nuclear testing by North KoreaBy Thomas R. Pickering
Four years ago, President Obama warned that “the threat of global nuclear war has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up.” Last week, North...
Time to ban nuke testingBy jake garn and thomas graham, jr.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama noted that “our ability to influence others depends on our willingness to lead.”In the wake of North...
To Cut Wasteful Spending, Start With Nuclear WeaponsBy Robert Klass
The first “fiscal cliff” was temporarily averted through a last-minute congressional deal. The next “fiscal cliff”, the automatic budget...
