Nuclear Arms & Proliferation


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2009

  • Obama Trapped Behind Wall of Mideast Containment

    Ira Chernus : Middle East

    Why the Obama administration's efforts to achieve a Middle East peace between the Israelis and Palestinians are inextricably linked to its efforts to bring Iran to heel.

  • Huge Hurdles to Nuclear and Energy Reform

    Barbara Crossette : Energy

    At the UN this week, Barack Obama told the world to stop complaining about US hegemony and start working with Washington on big global problems. He should take his own advice.

  • Hiroshima Day

    Hiroshima Day

    Daniel Ellsberg : History

    The official secrecy and deceptions about our nuclear weapons posture and policies and their possible consequences have threatened the survival of the human species.

  • For the Sixty-Fourth Time: No More Nuclear War

    Frida Berrigan

    On the 64th anniversary of atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki the threat of a nuclear war remains potent. US nuclear policy hasn't changed enough since the Bush years.

  • Obama's Nuclear Challenge

    Jonathan Schell

    Obama's promise to move toward disarmament is not the same as achieving it.

  • North Korea Rocket Stirs Hawks

    Katrina vanden Heuvel : North Korea

    North Korea's rocket launch has set the hawks circling, threatening Obama's non-proliferation agenda before it's off the ground. Chuck Hagel is pushing back.

2008

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  • Shock Waves From Kilju

    Jonathan Schell

    A forgetful world was reminded this week that Kim Jong Il now holds in his hand the same pitiless weapon possessed by a growing number of nations.

  • Just Blame Bill

    Robert Scheer : North Korea

    Instead of pursuing real diplomacy with North Korea, the Bush Administration chose a my-way-or-the-highway approach. Rather than face up to the mess they made, it's easier to blame Bill Clinton.

  • Gone Nuclear: How the World Lost Its Way

    Richard Falk, Mary Kaldor, Randall Caroline Forsberg & George Perkovich

    As the world reacts to news of North Korea's underground nuclear test, a crucial anniversary is observed: Twenty years ago at the Reykjavik Summit, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev outlined a vision for a non-nuclear world. What went wrong? In this Nation forum, four experts from the nonproliferation movement discuss how to put disarmament back on the world's agenda.

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