SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama and other world leaders agreed Sunday that next month's much-anticipated climate change summit will be merely...
Gloria Duffy | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
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.
Jan Egeland | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
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.
Louis Belanger | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
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.
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
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.
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
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.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
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.
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...
Christopher Chyba | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
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.
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
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.
Jamie Metzl | Posted 03.30.2009 | World
As new leaders, Presidents Obama and Medvedev have an invaluable opportunity to reestablish trust and work toward a stronger partnership based on shared interests.
Robert Mackey | Posted 03.14.2009 | World
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.
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...
Ruth Messinger | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
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.
Russ Wellen | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
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.
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | World