Arms Control

Obama Pushing Arms Control With Russians On Asia Trip

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | World


SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama and other world leaders agreed Sunday that next month's much-anticipated climate change summit will be merely...

Eyes on the Real Prize

Gloria Duffy | Posted 10.28.2009 | World


Gloria Duffy

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.

An Arms Trade Treaty Is Necessary and Possible

Jan Egeland | Posted 10.07.2009 | World


Jan Egeland

Governments are meeting this month in to discuss a crucial treaty that could save thousands of lives. Negotiators will tell us that it can't be done, that we have to live with automatic guns and other weapons of mass misery.

Arms Trade Must Be Regulated - Crucial Month at the UN

Louis Belanger | Posted 10.06.2009 | World


Louis Belanger

in 2006, 153 governments took the historic step of voting to begin work on an Arms Trade Treaty. Now, governments have the chance to launch formal negotiations to make the Treaty really happen.

Latin Arms Race Heats Up: Obama Leans on Brazil To Buy Boeing Warplanes

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 11.28.2009 | World


Eric Ehrmann

While sharing his vision of a more peaceful world with the UN and demanding big Pentagon cuts, Obama has also been lobbying Brazil to buy warplanes from shrinking defense giant Boeing.

Dr. Strangelove vs. the President

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics


Lorelei Kelly

The subject of nukes will be present a lot over the next year. The Strangelove echo chamber is preparing to scare us back to the 1960s.

Post's Krauthammer Pushes Dangerous Fantasy

Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.10.2009 | World


Joe Cirincione

Krauthammer wants Russia to build more nuclear weapons. Why? Because he thinks we can shoot them out of the sky like clay pigeons. This is simply not true.

Obama Meeting With Medvedev Monday, To Discuss Arms Control

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 08.05.2009 | World


MOSCOW — Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry on Monday, with each declaring his determi...

Obama's Nuclear Realism

Christopher Chyba | Posted 05.25.2009 | World


Christopher Chyba

Nuclear weapons present us with a set of bad choices. Obama's choice -- to take nuclear arms control and nonproliferation seriously -- is the one most likely to lead to a secure future.

Obama Needs to be Nuanced in North Korea Response

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.07.2009 | World


Steve Clemons

In engineering one of the first global crises designed to test the new administration, North Korea seems to be demanding that it not fall too far down the Obama priority list.

Marriage Counseling for the United States and Russia

Jamie Metzl | Posted 03.30.2009 | World


Jamie Metzl

As new leaders, Presidents Obama and Medvedev have an invaluable opportunity to reestablish trust and work toward a stronger partnership based on shared interests.

The Only Real "Existential Threat": A Sane Path for Reducing Nuclear Arsenals

Robert Mackey | Posted 03.14.2009 | World


Robert Mackey

The new administration needs to take on the one real "existential threat" to the Republic -- the sane, mutual reduction of nuclear weapons in the United States and the Russian Federation.

Russia Wants To Negotiate Arms Control With Obama

AP | Posted 01.17.2009 | World


MOSCOW — Russia's foreign minister said he hoped that Moscow will negotiate a new arms control deal with Barack Obama's administration, news age...

A Farewell to Arms in Darfur

Ruth Messinger | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics


Ruth Messinger

China denies that its actions contravene the arms embargo. It has tried to wash its hands of any role in the genocide with a shifting deck of denials.

Hey Pentagon, How Are Nuclear Weapons Working Out for You?

Russ Wellen | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics


Russ Wellen

While for many of us, nuclear weapons conjure up images of burning flesh, moral appeals are lost on the Pentagon. Its only concern is winning wars.