No matter how you look at it, President Obama did not receive this award because he brought peace to some place in the world (the way previous recipients like Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela did).
Queen Noor of Jordan | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
It was my privilege to witness the UN Security Council Summit unanimously adopt a resolution calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
Frida Berrigan | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
Today, even though Russia and the United States have made a mutual commitment to "achieving a nuclear free world," there are many bedeviling details and hurdles ahead.
Jonathan Granoff | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
No Security Council resolution can eliminate nuclear weapons and nor should any responsible leader try to eliminate nukes by any one fell swoop. The abolition of nuclear weapons is a process, not an occurrence.
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.
Tom H. Hastings | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Why haven't we rid humankind of nuclear weapons?
Joe Cirincione | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
In 2004, I had the honor of introducing Senator Kennedy as a keynote speaker at the Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference. He was warm, gracious and generous.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
The most heartening sign for peace may be the absence of an anti-war movement, in that Obama holds anti-war views, not as his crusade, but as a natural aspect of his generation's thinking.
Frida Berrigan | Posted 09.06.2009 | World
Sixty-four years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we need more than symbols of peace. Memories of the destruction fade, while the terror of nuclear annihilation seems to have worn off almost completely.
William Hartung | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Presidents from John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan, have called for nuclear disarmament. But no president in the nuclear age has spoken of it as often as Barack Obama.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
If Secretary Gates is looking to save money and make us safer, there is no better place to start than by eliminating the security liabilities we promote in our arsenal of nuclear clunkers.
Steven Crandell | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
The most effective way to start a revolution in the 21st century is with a camera and an internet connection, as Erik Choquette proves with an award-winning video on nuclear weapons.
Robert Koehler | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
If we envision a nuclear-free world, the agreement reached by Medvedev and Obama to reduce their nations' nuclear arsenals to 1,500 warheads can easily seem minimalist in the extreme.
Russ Wellen | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
At least a couple of the world's most belligerent cold warriors shared their dreams of a world free of nuclear weapons with their counterparts across the frozen aisle.
Tad Daley | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
Does the Obama administration really think we can retain nuclear weapons for 50 more years and dodge the bullet of nuclear accident, terror or crisis?
Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
It is possible to disarm all nuclear weaponry by 2020. It is do-able. For the sake of our orphans, for the sake of your own families' children, let us commit ourselves to believing this.
Steven Crandell | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
Every nuclear weapon that is dismantled through such diplomacy is a victory for reason and compassion.
Steven Crandell | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
The goal of nuclear disarmament is no longer just a dream. On the contrary, it's now official policy. It's there on the White House website, in both the Homeland Security and Foreign Policy
Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics
I hope that the president may soon give some more direct attention to foreign affairs -- and I think that the best forum for that would be a speech before the United Nations General Assembly.
Steven Crandell | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
The news is not just noteworthy, it could be a game-changer. A London Times story by Tim Reid quotes a White House official saying : We are going t...
Brian Burton and David Capezza | Posted 01.05.2009 | World
Russia cannot understand why the U.S. continually sets up social networks to take in more friends, while socially-awkward Russia has trouble making friends at all.
Harold Pollack | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
I submit that Israel should offer a grand bargain to Iran and other Middle Eastern states. Israel should say: We will give up our nukes, verifiably, if you do the same, verifiably.
Louis Klarevas | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics