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

Russ Wellen | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Nuclear Weapons, Ronald Reagan, Cold War, Soviet Union, Missile Defense, Doomsday Device, World News
Russ Wellen

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.

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Obama's First 250 Days: Defining a President's Foreign Policy

Rebecca R. Friedman | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Missile Defense Deal, Obama Iran, Missile Defense, Foreign Affairs, Missile Defense Shield, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran, Bush Foreign Policy, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Advocacy, World News
Rebecca R. Friedman

The Obama foreign policy era officially began last week in Geneva. Now that the transition is fully over, the international community will find out whether President Obama can deliver on his commitments.

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Remembering 1989, Diversity in Post-Communist Europe

Barry D. Wood | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, 1989, Missile Defense, Eastern Europe, Igor Shuvalov, Globalization, Vaclav Klaus, Cold War, World News
Barry D. Wood

Today, nearly 20 years after the Berlin Wall came down, freedom and diversity are the realities in post-communist Europe.

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Shifting Gears on Missile Defense Marks a Shift in U.S. Policy Toward Russia, with Immediate Impact on Iran

David Paul | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Missile Defense, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Russia Georgia Conflict, Ukraine, Dmitry Medvedev, Realism, Foreign Policy, Dick Cheney, Kosovo Independence, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sergei Lavrov, Nato, Chechnya, Vladimir Putin, Gwot, Ukraine Gas, World News
David Paul

Ahmadinejad's normal swagger has been muted, perhaps with the realization that his days of manipulating Russia against the West have ended.

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From Idealism to Grand Strategy: The Next Challenge for Obama

Peter Henne | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Diplomacy, Russia, Obama Un Speech, US Grand Strategy, Missile Defense, Obama First 100 Days, US Foreign Policy, Obama Foreign Policy, China, Multilateralism, Politics News
Peter Henne

Our grand strategy should focus not on a threatening culture or the rise of another state, but on managing these fault lines and avoiding any sudden eruptions of conflict along them.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Karzai, Iran, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Star Wars, Missile Defense, Israel, Al-Shabbab, Obama, Somalia, Uganda, UN Security Council, Putin, Chavez, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The week's top stories in foreign affairs: Redirecting Missile Defense SI Analysis: The Obama administration announces that it is scraping plans fo...

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Obama's Missile Defense Plan Scales Back Reagan's Star Wars Vision: Analysis

nytimes.com | DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Missile Defense Plan, Obama Missile Defense, Eastern European Missile Defense Shield, Obama, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, Europe Missile Defense, Foreign Policy, World News

WASHINGTON The new plan that President Obama laid out for a missile shield against Iran on Thursday turns Ronald Reagan's vision of a Star Wars system...

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US European Missile Defense System: Alternatives Being Considered

AP | DESMOND BUTLER | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

Read More: US and Eastern Europe, Us and Russia, Missile Defense USA, Missile Defense, Us Security, Eastern European Security, US Protection, US Missile Shild, Eastern Europe Missile Defense, US Weapons, US Missile Defense, Russia Missiles, Poland, Controversial Missile Shield, Missile Defense Shield, Russia, Russia Missile Defense, Czech Republic, Iran Threat, Iran, US and Iran, World News

WASHINGTON — A senior Defense Department official said Thursday that the United States is considering options for European missile defense other...

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Gates Grounds the Airborne White Elephant Laser

Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Airborne Laser, Robert Gates, Center for Defense Information, Missile Defense, President Obama, Pork Barrel Spending, Boeing Company, President George W. Bush, Rep. Ellen Tauscher, Boeing 747, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

Now reporting to President Obama, who favors weapons programs that are effective and affordable, Gates is finally free to say that many of these programs don't work.

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Russia: US Missile Defense Shield Not Acceptable

AP | STEVE GUTTERMAN | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Missile Defense, Missile Shield, Missile Defense Shield, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, World News

MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Russia will still deploy missiles near Poland if the United States pushes ahead with a missi...

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Post's Krauthammer Pushes Dangerous Fantasy

Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Nobel Prize, Richard Garwin, Nuclear Weapons, Charles Krauthammer, Missile Defense, George W. Bush, Union-of-Concerned-Scientists, Ted Postol, Start Treaty, Neoconservatives, Science, United States, Washington Post, Arms Control, Barack Obama, World News
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.

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Russia: Not Ready for Obama

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Nuclear, Strategic-Arms-Reduction-Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, Moscow-Russia, Czech Republic, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News
Amitai Etzioni

As President Obama heads to Russia, stove-piping is blocking what could be a major multifaceted deal. The main negotiations in preparation for the president's visit are taking place in tightly controlled compartments.

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Obama's Consequential First 4th: NoKo, AfPak, Iraq, Russia, Palin (Palin?!)

William Bradley | Posted 08.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Missile Defense, Pakistan, North Korea, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, Moscow, Iraq, Navy, John McCain, Dmitri Medvedev, Marines, Vladimir Putin, Nuclear Test, Missile, Japan, South Korea, Korean War, Camp David, Islamic Republic of Iran, Politics News
William Bradley

North Korea was to have been the drama of the day. But it turned into a major fizzle.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Round-Up

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Russia, India, Yemen, Missile Defense, Pakistan, Al-Shabbab, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Greece, Sudan, BRIC Summit, Somalia, Benjamin Netanyahu, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, China, North Korea, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : What to Make of Iran's Post-Election Uproar Facts: Incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quickly declared the...

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Gates: US Putting More Missile Defense Around Hawaii

AP | ANNE GEARAN and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Gates, Missile Defense, North Korea Missile, North Korea, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is tracking a ship from North Korea that may be carrying illicit weapons, the first vessel monitored under toughe...

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Twenty Years Ago: Beijing, Warsaw, and History's Fork

John Feffer | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

Read More: Solidarity, Cold War, 1989, Missile Defense, Tiananmen Square, Poland, World News
John Feffer

There will be many commemorations of June 4, some joyous, some sorrowful. But 20 years later, I'm still waiting for my invitation to the Cold War's funeral.

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The Pianist: Polish Political Protest

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.29.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Obama Iran, Great Pianists, Celebrities Talk Politics, War With Iran, Missile Defense, Political Protests, Guantanamo Detainees, George W. Bush, President Obama, Guantanamo, Dixie Chicks, Artists, Iran, United States, Missile-Defense-Shield, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Politics, Classical Music, Krystian Zimerman, Poland, Protest, Guantanamo Bay, September 11th, Piano, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

There is something profoundly venerable about an artist who is not afraid to speak up. Krystian Zimerman spoke out against President Obama intention to press ahead with George W.'s plans to install a missile-defense shield in Poland.

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Prague '09: Swan Song for Star Wars

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Star Wars, European Missile Defense, Npt, Missile Defense, Foreign Affairs, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Obama Prague, Obama Administration, Nuclear Proliferation, Prague, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, World News
Lorelei Kelly

Our nation needs a twelve-step program to recover from a Cold War addiction. Cutting European Missile Defense and helping the communities impacted convert to other security priorities is step one.

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Levin Moves to Cut Waste, Fraud and Abuse from Missile Programs

Joe Cirincione | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fraud, Congressional Oversight, Aig, Defense Spending, Carl Levin, Barack Obama, Military Spending, Missile Defense, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

In putting the hammer down on the Missile Defense Agency this week, Carl Levin served notice that the lax policies of the Bush administration were over.

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Russia: Not a Quick Fix

Markus Ziener | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Iran, Obama, Missile Shield, Obama Secret Letter, Obama Letter, Missile Defense, Politics News
Markus Ziener

Is it realistic to expect the Russians to cooperate on the issue of Iran? Hardly.

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Russia: Obama Letter Has Nothing Concrete

Reuters | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russian President Medvedev, Anti-Missile Defense Deal, Obama Russia Letter, Medvedev Obama, Missile Defense, Medvedev, President Medvedev, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Dmitri Medvedev, Politics News

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has received a letter from U.S. President Barack Obama, Medvedev's spokeswoman said on Tuesday after being asked abo...

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US Can Intercept North Korean Missiles: Pentagon

Koreatimes.co.kr | By Jung Sung-ki | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Nuclear Program, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Pentagon, US Missile Defense Agency, Nuclear Program, Missile Defense, Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, North Korea Missile, North Korea Nuclear Weapons, United States, Obama North Korea, North Korea, World News

The United States has successfully intercepted missiles flying from North Korea three times in virtual scenarios testing its ballistic missile defense...

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Right-Wing Fear Machine

Lt. General Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.) | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Nuclear Weapons, Weapons of Mass Destruction, National Security, Missile Defense, North Korea, Iran Missiles, Barack Obama, Politics of Fear, Fearmongering, Right Wing Think Tanks, Right Wing, Right Wing Pundits, Video, Politics News
Lt. General Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.)

2008-12-15-radiological.jpgThis video comes courtesy of the unabashed hawks at the right-wing Heritage Foundation. Watch it for yourself, but you might want to put the kids to bed first.

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Need Cash? Cut Nukes

Joe Cirincione | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Gates, Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, Missile Defense, Military Spending, Barack Obama, Defense Spending, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

By cutting Cold War nuclear weapons, Obama could help save the auto industry, or finance anti-terrorism efforts, or rebuild the Army and Marine Corps crippled by the Iraq War.

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Con Games: Calling Dr. Strangelove

Michael Conniff | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Wmd, Kubrick, Missile Defense, Star Wars, Movies, Dr. Strangelove, Entertainment News
Michael Conniff

Kids of my generation spent lifetimes in ridiculous bomb shelters wondering if the lead in a pencil could protect us from imminent destruction.

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