International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

By Chuck Baynton

The dawn of the nineteenth century saw widespread, legally sanctioned markets where black Africans were bought and sold by white Europeans. By century’s end, that practice was gone. The United States was...

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...

The nuclear money pit

The recent sabre rattling by Vladimir Putin may have unwittingly done what the United States Congress has failed to do for decades: refocus attention—and billions…

The Dawn of Nuclear Weapons Goes Viral

It was near midnight when John Coster-Mullen, the author of “Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man,” was scrutinizing one image among…

U.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A sprawling new plant here in a former soybean field makes the mechanical guts of America’s atomic warheads. Bigger than the Pentagon, full…

Nuclear weapons lab employee fired after publishing scathing critique of the arms race

James E. Doyle’s ordeal with Washington began one morning in early February last year, when his supervisor stopped by his desk at Los Alamos National Laboratory…

What the Air Force can learn from the nuclear cheating scandal

Before they go on duty with U.S. nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles, officers are trained in classrooms and simulators. They are schooled in weapons…

Measured Progress on Nuclear Security

Although the summit meeting was overshadowed by the crisis in Ukraine, 53 international leaders in The Hague this week made important progress on securing nuclear…

The U.S. has treated Russia like a loser since the end of the Cold War

By Jack F. Matlock Jr

One afternoon in September 1987, Secretary of State George Shultz settled in a chair across the table from Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in a New York…

A nuclear weapons strategy that’s stuck in the past

By Rachel Maddow

The major general “was visibly agitated about the long delay” at the airport, the witness said. “He appeared drunk and, in the public area, talked loudly about…

Imagine World Without Nuclear Weapons

By Desmond Tutu

In February 1990, the same month that Nelson Mandela, also known as Madiba, walked free after 27 years behind bars, South Africa’s then-President, Frederik…

Congress, don’t pass the Nuclear Weapons Free Iran Act

By Steven L. Spiegel

A large portion of Congress is poised to vote for a bill that would intensify sanctions against Iran in the middle of the talks currently underway. This is a terrible…

The Endless Arms Race: Despite Great Power Promises, New Nuclear Weapons Are On the Way

It’s heartening to see that an agreement has been reached to ensure that Iran honors its commitment, made when it signed the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation…