Leaving Cheyenne Mountain
William J. Astore : Cold War
Post-cold war America is looking a lot like the former Soviet Union.
2007
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The Old and New Shapes of Nuclear Danger
Jonathan Schell : Arms Spending & Proliferation
During the cold war, the driving force was the bilateral arms race; now it's proliferation.
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Pakistan's Bomb: Have It Your Way
Catherine Collins & Douglas Frantz : Globalization
Thanks to globalization, the 'Islamic bomb' turns out to be a little bit American, Canadian, Swiss, German, Dutch, British, Japanese and even Russian.
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A Colder War
Jonathan Schell : Arms Spending & Proliferation
Richard Rhodes's Arsenals of Folly, sequel to the book that defined the atomic age, captures the political struggle that brought it to an end.
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Bush, Pakistan and the Bomb
The Bush Administration's failed war on terror has stoked the fires it was meant to quench. And in Pakistan, the risk of nuclear terrorisism is on the rise.
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Avoiding the Toughness Trap
William D. Hartung : US Foreign Policy
Candidates should rethink their commitment to outmoded security tools and veiled nuclear threats against nonnuclear states.
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The Spirit of June 12
Jonathan Schell : Peace Activism
Twenty-five years after the largest antinuclear demonstration ever, the movement has dwindled. But the threat of mass destruction grows greater.
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Iran Nukes Call Bush's Bluff
Robert Scheer : US Foreign Policy
Tehran's religious fanatics move closer to wreaking nuclear havoc, and what can Bush do about it? Nothing.
2006
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Shock Waves From Kilju
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.
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Just Blame Bill
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.
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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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Remembering Chernobyl
Twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster, an area twice the size of Rhode Island is uninhabitable, yet a power-hungry world thirsts for nuclear energy.
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Bush Blunders Go Nuclear
Bush's nutty nuclear braggadocio on Iran is a sign of weakness, not strength, proof that his five-year Administration is an abysmal failure.
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Talking Points for a Nuclear Strike
If the Bush Administration is serious about dropping an atomic bomb on Iran, it's really going to have to work on selling the concept.
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The Unforgettable Fire
Voices From Chernobyl is an oral history twenty years after a nuclear disaster.
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Learning to Love the Bomb
Could the world learn to live with a nuclear Iran? A new power equation of nuclear proliferation is emerging to challenge the Bush Administration's bluster on the subject.
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Ending Nonproliferation
President Bush's dangerous deal to deliver nuclear technology to India is a significant breach of the nonproliferation treaty and will make nuclear war more likely.
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Defusing the Iran Crisis
A peaceful resolution to the nuclear dispute with Iran is possible if world leaders work to eliminate the obstacles to intelligent compromise.
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Storm Clouds Over Iran
The confrontation with Iran is a wakeup call to states that possess nuclear weapons: In a world of nuclear apartheid, multilateral disarmament is the only course of action that can succeed.
2005
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Talks Without End
Jonathan Schell : US Foreign Policy
An agreement between the United States and North Korea resolving longstanding differences on nuclear weapons and energy programs at first was cause for celebration. But in fact, no real breakthrough has occurred. There is only the appearance of an agreement.
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Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
By insisting on its right to develop the full range of nuclear technology, Iran has become a Third World hero.
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Letter From Ground Zero
The Senate backed down from its "nuclear option." But would Bush actually reach for his?
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Letter From Ground Zero
At the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference, two groups are colliding.
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Bin Laden's Nuclear Connection
Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin : History
If America had agreed to a nuclear-free world, we wouldn't face threats today.
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A Con Job by Pakistan's Pal, George Bush
Robert Scheer : Arms Spending & Proliferation
Trying to follow the US policy on the proliferation of nuclear weapons is like watching a three-card monte game.
2004
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Nonproliferation Politics
Michael T. Klare : US Foreign Policy
Nonproliferation must be applied in a nondiscriminatory fashion to be effective.
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The Empire Backfires
Jonathan Schell : George W. Bush Administration
If the engine of a train suddenly goes off the rails, a wreck ensues. Such is the war in Iraq, now one year old.
2003
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Two-Bullet Roulette
American nuclear power plants are in serious danger from an easily fixable problem.
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Lessons From Chernobyl
The Chernobyl disaster provides the clearest evidence available of what a dirty bomb exploded by terrorists might do.
2002
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War Talk
It's not just the one million soldiers on the India/Pakistan border who are living on hairtrigger alert. It's all of us. That's what nuclear bombs do.
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Peace And Nuclear Disarmament: A Call To Action
Rep Dennis Kucinich : Anti-Nuclear Activism
Let it be said that the lack of free and open political dissent can be fatal in a democracy.
2001
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Bush's Nuclear Brinksmanship
There are still 2,000 nuclear weapons aimed at various Russian targets and poised for launch on extremely short notice.
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Who Pays for Nuclear Power?
Industry-favored legislation is coming up that, in the event of nuclear catastrophe, will make damn sure someone else foots the bill. Updated November 30.
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Nuclear Power & Terrorism
A clear-eyed discussion of how to defend nuclear power plants from the threat of terrorism just might conclude that they are indefensible.
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Letter From Ground Zero
The destruction of the twin towers was a taste of annihilation, a small piece of the end of the world.
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The New Nuclear Danger
Nuclear policy is more confused under Bush than at any time since the weapons were invented. A second nuclear age has dawned and it is out of control.
This Week: Katrina vanden Heuvel on the meaning of patriotism this July 4th. Plus, some of our most compelling interviews from the first half of 2008: Victor Navasky on the experts getting it wrong about Iraq; Stuart Klawans on Romanian film; and Arthur Danto on the state of contemporary art. (13mb mp3)
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