Berlin Wall Anniversary is Time to Rethink Nuclear Arsenal

Craig and Marc Kielburger, 11.13.2009

Co-founders, Free The Children

Commemorating a historic event is one thing - actually fixing its legacy is another. Today, the world's attention is on the Berlin Wall. Twenty years...

Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down

Chris Weigant, 11.10.2009

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

The fall of The Wall signified the fall of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. And while this was of enormous historical import, I fear that future generations won't really pay much attention to it.

Music for the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Tim Mohr, 11.09.2009

Writer, translator, former Berlin club DJ

The awareness of mortality in 1980s nuke-pop was amplified by the inescapably bleak Cold War reality. With the fall of the Wall, much of the threat evaporated. The music, however, lives on.

Berlin '89: When the Impossible Became Real

Joe Cirincione, 11.09.2009

President of Ploughshares Fund

I was in Berlin 20 years ago this week. I saw the impossible first-hand: the people of Germany taking down the Wall. Twenty years after, we are at another historic point. Domestically, we see it in issues like health care.

North Korea: Journalists vs. Diplomats?

John Feffer, 11.06.2009

Co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus

For real progress to be made in resolving the longest-standing adversarial relationship the United States has with any country in the world, journalists would be well-advised to sit on their hands and keep their mouths shut.

Thinking the Unthinkable on Nuclear Policy

Alyn Ware, 11.05.2009

It's become commonplace to say we can't put the nuclear genie back in the bottle. There's a grain of truth to this, but it doesn't mean we can't still make complete nuclear disarmament a reality.

Honoring Women for Peace

Steven Crandell, 11.06.2009

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

I want to tell a story about three women, a golden dove and the pursuit of peace.

When Will the U.S. and Russia Stop Acting Like It's Still the Cold War?

Russ Wellen, 11.04.2009

Of Scholars

Unless nuclear states can shed the Cold War mentality once and for all, it's hard to be optimistic about the long-terms prospects for disarmament.

Obama to Iran: Abandon Nukes or We Will Defriend You on Facebook

Andy Borowitz, 10.30.2009

BorowitzReport.com

"Obama can and probably will convince other nations to defriend Iran," said one foreign policy insider who attended the speech. "Whether or not he can convince them to block Iran remains to be seen."

Lula's Red Carpet Welcome for Ahmadinejad

Robert Amsterdam, 10.29.2009

International lawyer on emerging markets, politics of business, and rule of law

Why, with so much going for him and his country, should the president of Brazil make such controversial choices in his friends? The logic of the relationship with Iran is perplexing.

Eyes on the Real Prize

Gloria Duffy, 10.28.2009

President of the Commonwealth Club of California

The US is entering a season of key international negotiations, during which two arms control treaties that have been languishing for years will hopefully be completed.

The Twin Brother of Annihilation

Robert Koehler, 10.22.2009

Syndicated writer, editor at Tribune Media Services

The argument: In a world held hostage by nuclear weapons, there are smaller aggregate numbers of war dead; therefore, God bless nukes. Or maybe not.

Why Terrorists Never Have Gotten Hold of a Nuke and Why the Taliban Won't Be First

Keith Thomson, 10.17.2009

Reporter and author

Say the Pakistani government somehow falls to the Taliban. With a maniac at the button, cities in the Pakistani arsenal's 2,500-kilometer range could get turned into vacant lots.

What Nuclear Weapons Really Mean

Russ Wellen, 10.15.2009

Of Scholars

A Personal 'Nuclear Posture Review' When viewed on film, a nuclear weapons test might strike the discerning eye as a rip in the very fabric of exist...

Why Ostrom's Nobel Is Even More Shocking Than Obama's

Randall Amster, 10.14.2009

Peace educator, author, and activist

Make no mistake, despite the somewhat tame Nobel committee description, Ostrom's body of work is inherently radical, demonstrably anti-corporate, and implicitly socialistic.

A Nobel Prayer

Jim Wallis, 10.13.2009

Founder of Sojourners; speaker, author, activist

The vitriol against Obama's peace prize and "those Norwegians" who gave it to him is much deeper than the president's lack of achievements thus far; it is based on a fundamental clash of worldviews.

Leave Punishing Iran to Iranians

Melody Moezzi, 10.13.2009

Author, Activist & Attorney

It's clear that Iran's strongest adversary today remains within its own borders. The current Iranian regime has far more to fear from its own people than it does from any foreign powers.

Time to Worry About Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons

Abdulhadi Hairan, 10.15.2009

Afghan Author, Journalist, and Research Analyst

The world should not just close its eyes to Pakistan and say, 'there is no danger, everything is safe.' There is currently a dangerous vulnerability in officials who still sympathize with Taliban militants.

Will Japan Go Nuclear?

Joe Cirincione, 10.13.2009

President of Ploughshares Fund

A small group of conservative Japanese defense officials have spread the view that if the United States reduces its nuclear arsenal, then Japan will build its own nuclear bombs.

Obama and the Nobel: Just Bizarre

Jesse Larner, 11.13.2009

Jesse Larner is a New York-based writer on politics and culture.

Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.

Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it!

Michael Moore, 10.09.2009

Oscar and Emmy-winning director

Freedom can not be delivered from the front seat of someone else's Humvee. You have to end our involvement in Afghanistan now. If you don't, you'll have no choice but to return the prize to Oslo.