How to Disarm a Nuclear North Korea

By Victor D. Cha

February 17, 2024

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...

President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev

Thank You, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev

By Nathan Pyles

March 30, 2011

“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...

Internet Cafe Hanoi, Vietnam

Instant Global Communications and Social Networking

By Nathan Pyles

March 29, 2011

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...

Dump of yellow and black barrels with nuclear radioactive waste. Danger of radiation contamination of industrial containers. 3D illustration.

Poor ROI from Nuclear Weapons Spending

By Nathan Pyles

March 30, 2011

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,...

Man breaking window with fist on grey background, closeup.

The Fallacy of Deterrence in a Proliferated World

By Nathan Pyles

March 30, 2011

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...

President John F. Kennedy Signing Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963.

Building off of Past Arms Control Successes

By Nathan Pyles

March 30, 2011

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...

Simultaneous Alignment of All the Stakeholders.

Simultaneous Alignment of All the Stakeholders

By Nathan Pyles

March 30, 2011

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...

Midge Miller of Madison, Wisconsin

Our Nuclear-Free Opportunity: Introduction

By Nathan Pyles

March 29, 2011

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...