Start Treaty

Will Obama Sell Out Disarmament Like He Did Bank Reform and Health Care?

Russ Wellen | Posted 12.30.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Nuclear War, Nuclear, Nato, Mysterious Norway Light, Moscow Times, Satan Missile, Russia, Start Treaty, Obama, World News
Russ Wellen

What's to keep the START treaty from winding up as watered down as President Obama's feeble attempts at bank and health care reform?

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Stephen Colbert's Secret Plan to Defend America

Joe Cirincione | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ploughshares Fund, The Colbert Report, Queen Noor, National Security, Nuclear Strategy, Nuclear Weapons, Grizzly Bears, Russia, Nuclear Posture Review, Start Treaty, United States, Stephen Colbert, Canada, Terrorism, Global Zero, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

Stephen Colbert's plan to string a microscopically thin razor along our entire border is brutal, indiscriminate, dangerous... and smarter than the nuclear defense we now have.

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Will Japan Go Nuclear?

Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Hu Jintao, Yukio Hatoyama, Barack Obama, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear Posture Review, Start Treaty, United States, Japan, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Nuclear-Free World, World News
Joe Cirincione

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.

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It's About the Bomb, Not Obama

Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Leadership, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Start Treaty, Nobel Peace Prize, United States, Barack Obama, Nuclear Terrorism, World News
Joe Cirincione

After the circus quiets down, we should think about what this award is really about: There is real danger out there. If we do not change course, nuclear bombs will explode in our cities.

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Presidential Leadership: "The Future Does Not Belong to Fear"

Joe Cirincione | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Nuclear Weapons, Ctbt, Speech, Barack Obama, United Nations, Non-Proliferation, North Korea, United States, Start Treaty, Nuclear Posture Review, Multilateral Diplomacy, Iran, Hillary Clinton, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

Obama's priorities are spot on. Nuclear threats are growing. The previous administration's military approach to the problem failed.

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Cash for Nuclear Clunkers

Joe Cirincione | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Russia, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Robert Gates, National Security, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Cash for Clunkers, Start Treaty, Defense Spending, Nuclear Terrorism, Air Force, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

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.

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The Heart of the Future

Robert Koehler | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nationalism, Russia, Nuclear-Disarmament, Start Treaty, United States, Human Evolution, Predatory Beasts, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Koehler

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.

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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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Sen. Kyl Puts Hold On State Dept. Nominees

Foreign Policy | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, State Department Nominees, Start Treaty, Senator Kyl, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama, John Kyl, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry, Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, State Department, Kyl, Harry Reid, Politics News

All State Department nominees are on hold, some Hill and other sources tell The Cable. A congressional source says that Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) put a hol...

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Obama -- It's Time to Visit the UN

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Start Treaty, Economic Recovery, Foreign Affairs, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Economic Crisis, United Nations, Politics News
Stephen Schlesinger

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.

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