Arms Control

Andrea Stone

Why Rural Senators Want A Big Nuclear Arsenal

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Russia, Elections 2012, Icbm, Arms Control, Navy, Icbm Coalition, New Start Treaty, Air Force, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Video, Montana Senate 2012, Nuclear Weapons, Campaign Contributions, North Korea Nuclear Program, Pork Barrel Spending, Jon Tester, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- North Korea's failed rocket launch and new arms talks with Iran have thrust the issue of nuclear proliferation back into the headlines. ...

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U.S. Missile Defense Fantasy is Souring U.S.-Russian 'Reset'

Elliott Negin | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Russia, Arms Control, New Start Treaty, Missile Defense, Politics News
Elliott Negin

In his widely praised April 2009 Prague speech, President Obama presented a farsighted goal to strengthen U.S. and global security by reducing nuclear arsenals around the world. But since then, his administration has undermined its efforts to meet that laudable objective.

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Global Arms Trade Treaty Picks Up Speed

Louis Belanger | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Negotiation, Coalition, Arms Control, Arms, International News, Arms Trade Treaty, United Nations, World News
Louis Belanger

The Control Arms coalition is calling for a bullet-proof treaty that will prevent irresponsible arms transfers that fuel conflict, poverty and serious human rights abuses.

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Why We Must Ban High-Capacity Gun Magazines

Sen. Frank Lautenberg | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Brady Campaign, Gun Laws, High Capacity Clip, High-Capacity Ammunition Magazines, Tucson Shooting, James Brady, Arms Control, Handguns, Guns, Politics News
Sen. Frank Lautenberg

It's time to end the bloodshed and restore common sense to our gun laws -- beginning with a permanent ban on high-capacity gun magazines. These deadly devices are the weapon of choice for the deranged.

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Fresh Security Consensus Trounces Cold War Politics in New START Victory

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholics, U.S. Senate, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Protestants, Jewish, President Barack Obama, John Kerry, Arms Control, Democrats, Cold War, New Start Treaty, Republicans, Richard Lugar, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

The New START treaty has obvious benefits for national security. But the overwhelming vote in favor of the treaty (71-26) has much broader significance. And the still sizable vote against it, a troubling dark side.

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Dems Beat Back GOP Efforts To Alter Arms Treaty

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Arms Treaty, Start Treaty, Start, Arms Control, New Start Treaty, Russia US Arms Treaty, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama tried to sway reluctant Republican senators on Monday to back a new arms control treaty with Russia as GOP a...

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GOP Senators Swing Back to Military, Boost New START Prospects

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Kennan, US Military, Nuclear Weapons, Jim Demint, Dadt Repeal, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, Start Treaty, George Kennan Autobiography, Admiral Mike Mullen, Arms Control, Jon Kyl, Sen. Bob Corker, New Start Treaty, Barack Obama, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

Forced to choose between the recommendations of the US military and the extreme views of Senators Jon Kyl and Jim DeMint, enough Republican senators are going military to win Senate approval of the New START treaty this week.

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Why We Need New START

Rizwan Ladha | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Start Treaty, Sam Nunn, United States, Arms Control, Cold War, Nuclear Nonproliferation, New Start Treaty, Richard Lugar, World News
Rizwan Ladha

This article will be short, but hopefully to the point: New START must be ratified because right now, and as of December 6 of last year, we can no lon...

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A Way Forward for Nuclear Arms Control

Jonathan Pearl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Reagan, Russia, Congress, American Exceptionalism, ABM Treaty, Ronald Reagan, Trust-but-Verify, 2010 Elections, Disarmament, George W. Bush, Lame Duck Session, Obama Administration, U.S., Iran, Obama National Security, Nuclear, New Start Treaty, Russia Nuclear Arms, Nuclear War, Intelligence, Nuclear-Reductions, George H.W. Bush, National Security, North Korea Nuclear Program, Washington, Elections 2010, United States Foreign Policy, Start Treaty, Cheating, Verification, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Arsenal, Rose Gottemoeller, Nuclear Arms, United States, Abm-Treaty, Arms Control, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, u.s. Foreign Policy, Bush Administration, Senate, Nuclear Weapons, Midterm Elections, Nuclear Arms Control, 2010 Midterm Elections, Moscow, North Korea, Politics News
Jonathan Pearl

Even if New START is ratified before the Democrats' Senate majority significantly shrinks, it will not help advance nonproliferation advocates' long-term goals unless a lost consensus on arms control fundamentals is rebuilt first.

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Midterm Miscarriage

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arms Control, 2010 Elections, Barack Obama, Politics News
John Feffer

The elections will likely have a huge impact on U.S. foreign policy. A realigned Congress will alter how the United States engages (or doesn't) with the world.

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Rethinking the Saudi Arms Deal

William Hartung | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Arms Control, Arms, Weapons, State Department, Saudi Arabia, Politics News
William Hartung

Last week the State Department and the Pentagon jointly announced the largest arms sale in U.S. history -- dozens of fighter planes and attack helicop...

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New START Bipartisan Victory in Foreign Relations Committee

Don Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Lugar, Senate, Arms Control, New Start Treaty, Senator Kerry, Nukes, Foreign Policy, Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, National Security, Republican Senators, Start, Politics News
Don Kraus

The country is safer when Senate Foreign Relations Committee can rise above partisan politics. The treaty's ratification would have been a pipe dream without Republican votes on the committee.

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Countdown to Zero: A Compelling Film With a Critical Message

Jonathan Granoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Start Treaty, An Inconvenient Truth, Arms Control, Nuclear Weapons, Total-Abolition-of-Nuclear-Weapons, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Countdown to Zero, Politics News
Jonathan Granoff

The film's core message is compelling, effectively presented and unambiguous: the only way to address the nuclear threat of nuclear weapons is through their elimination.

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Obama Administration Pushing To Expand U.S. Arms Exports By Gutting Approval Process

McClatchy | Maggie Bridgeman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Arms Control, Obama Arms, Arms Control, Obama Arms Exports, Arms Exports, u.s. Arms Exports, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The United States is currently the world biggest weapons supplier — holding 30 per cent of the market — but the Obama administrati...

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States must agree an Arms Trade Treaty that could help save thousands of lives

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amnesty International, Oxfam, Arms Control, United Nations, World News
Louis Belanger

States must use every available minute to draw up a new international arms treaty that could save thousands of lives every year, NGOs from around the ...

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Arms Trade Treaty Talks at the UN: Bulletproof Arms Trade Treaty Needed

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Negotiations, Oxfam, Arms Control, Oxfam International, United Nations, Oxfam America, World News
Louis Belanger

Official talks for an Arms Trade Treaty starts on July 12th at the United nations HQ in New York. We need a robust deal to stop arms getting into the hands of human rights abusers and warmongers.

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Missile Defense and Arms Reduction

William Hartung | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Start Treaty, Obama, Arms Control, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, New Start, New Start Treaty, Politics News
William Hartung

Conservative pundits' efforts to make missile defense an issue in the upcoming ratification debate over New START misrepresent the reality of the nuclear treaty.

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Ratifying a New START: the Games Begin

William Hartung | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Start Treaty, Obama, Arms Control, Nuclear, Home News
William Hartung

The new nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia -- known as the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START -- was signed by President Obam...

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Obama's Big Picture: Are You Missing That Old-Time Strategery?

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Obama Foreign Policy, Bush Foreign Policy, Arms Control, Loose Nukes, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Dmitry Medvedev, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

So he has a big meeting -- big deal. The top guys from 40-some countries, they all have to drop what they're doing and troop over to Washington. And meanwhile, they tie up traffic. Great.

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Biden Courts the Non-Aligned on Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Npt, Wmds, Derek Chollet, Proliferation, Denis McDonough, Antony Blinken, Start, Joe Biden, Arms Control, Gary Samore, Jim Jones, Iran, Nuclear Summit, Susan Rice, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Ellen Tauscher, Malaysia, Israel/Palestine, Tom Donilon, Rexon Ryu, Algeria, North Korea, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Today, Joe Biden may have helped push a new "global social contract" on international security and safety a bit further by hosting personally at his private residence a unique lunch with the non-aligned state leaders.

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Deal With Russia Shows World Will See a New Obama This Year

Steve Kettmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, u.s. Foreign Policy, Vladimir Putin, Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, Arms Control, Europe, Barack Obama, World News
Steve Kettmann

The grand thinkers on foreign-policy theory love to argue that Europe is irrelevant in the early 21st century. It was only irrelevant to a Bush White House that tried hard to make it so. Obama, with very little effort, can and should do better.

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How Health Care Can Boost Arms Control

William Hartung | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Arms-Control, Health Care, Miliary, John Bolton, Heather Hurburt, Start, Arms, Health Reform, Jon Kyl, World News
William Hartung

To the extent that the President's health care victory shows that he will persevere in pursuit of major policy objectives, it could carry over into his pursuit of major nuclear arms reductions.

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From Russia with Love

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, United States, Lebanon, Arms Control, Israel, Syria, World News
James Denselow

Syrian-Russian relations are not a challenge to the US but rather should be a prompt to Washington to accept that almost a decade of policies have failed and that a new course must be adopted.

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Nuclear Pre-Game Huddle

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Politics, Arms Control, Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Start Treaty, Prague, William Perry, Nuclear Posture Review, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Mohammed ElBaradei, Mohamed ElBaradei, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

April will begin possibly the busiest four months in arms control history -- packed with a new Nuclear Posture Review, START Treaty, Nuclear Security Summit, and the Review Conference to the Nonproliferation Treaty.

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Obama's Nuclear Decision Day

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Germany, Terrorists, Secretary of State, Nuclear Weapons, Prague, National Security Advisor, President Obama, Iran, Arms Control, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Japan, North Korea, Secretary of Defense, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

A secret meeting in the White House today will set US nuclear policy. It will also test Barack Obama's sincerity and determination for a policy where the public has no real democratic voice.

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