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with Henry A. Kissinger, James A. Baker III, Lawrence S. Eagleburger and Colin L. Powell
The world is safer today because of the decades-long effort to reduce its supply of nuclear weapons. As a result, we urge the Senate to ratify the New START treaty signed by President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev...
President Barack Obama shares President Ronald Reagan's desire to rid the world of nuclear weapons. He also shares Reagan's conviction that as long as nuclear weapons exist, the United States must maintain its deterrent capability through a stockpile of nuclear weapons that are secure, safe and reliable.
This has been a remarkable time for the Obama administration. After a year of intense internal debate, it issued a new nuclear strategy. And after a year of intense negotiations with the Russians, President Obama signed the New Start treaty with President Dmitri Medvedev in Prague.
The four of us have expressed our belief that the potential use of nuclear weapons is one of the gravest dangers the world faces and have expressed our support for moving toward a world without nuclear weapons. . . .
We who have served as secretary of the Treasury in both Republican and Democratic administrations write in support of the proposed legislation to prohibit certain proprietary activities of commercial banking organizations—the so-called Volcker rule, as part of needed financial reform ("It's Time for Financial Reform Plan C," by Alan Blinder, op-ed, Feb. 16). . . .
Editor’s note: The following is the text of a letter sent by the Committee on the Present Danger to President Obama, members of the Senate and members of the House regarding critical changes to America’s missile defense that will likely threaten American safety and security. . . .
Maintaining confidence in our nuclear arsenal is necessary as the number of weapons goes down. . . .
The potential spread of nuclear weapons to states and terrorists, the spread of nuclear technology and know-how and the residual nuclear threat from the cold war have brought us to the precipice of a new and dangerous nuclear era...
National security is about more than bullets...
The current economic crisis must be viewed as a gigantic wake-up call...
As economists, we write to support the plan before Congress dealing with the financial crisis...
The crisis over Georgia raises an issue familiar from history: In 1914, an essentially local issue was seen by so many nations in terms of established fears and frustrations that it became global in scope and led to the First World War...
The next president of the United States must be prepared from day one of assuming the office to address the many complex national security issues that confront the United States and our allies...
The accelerating spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how and nuclear material has brought us to a nuclear tipping point...
Turmoil in the US’s financial markets got the top billing in news reports about the recent meetings of the world’s leading international policymakers in Washington...
Today the lives of all Americans are affected in countless ways by forces and events from abroad — seemingly beyond our control...
The Convention of the Law of the Sea is back...
Israel is a free, democratic, open, and relentlessly self-analytical place...
We in the United States -- and we as global citizens -- live in what is, in many respects, a golden moment...
Nuclear weapons today present tremendous dangers, but also an historic opportunity...
At this critical moment in the immigration debate, conservatives need to examine the role we are playing in this great national issue…
Former Secretary of State George Shultz, a Republican, defends Obama’s nuclear strategy and discusses his vision of a world without nukes.
The idea of nuclear disarmament is gaining support internationally, with the United States leading the charge and China and Russia expressing interest, says George P. Shultz, Ronald Reagan's secretary of state from 1982-89. . . .
Nuclear Tipping Point is a conversation with four men intimately involved in American diplomacy and national security over the last four decades. . . .
Paul Solman talks to economist George Shultz about the merging of large, naitonal banks and how that could impact the idea that some companies are too big to fail. . . .
The new GI Bill gives vets money for tuition, housing and books...
Obama speaks to the U.N. Security Council about a world without nuclear weapons...
An hour with Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union and George Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State...
George P. Shultz comments on the philosophy of the Hoover Institution in getting involved in conferences around the world which seek to advance the idea of a world free of nuclear weapons...
Former Secretary of State George Shultz gives his advice on how to approach a global effort at nuclear disarmament. He believes it must be a global initiative, even if led by the U.S. President, with all countries participating equally...
George Shultz was there when nuclear disarmament slipped through our fingers...
Former U.S. secretary of state George Shultz and Stanford economics professor John Shoven join Forum to discuss their market-based prescription for health care and social security reform...
A conversation with George Shultz. Schultz served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989...
GEORGE SHULTZ & WILLIAM PERRY George Shultz , Former U.S. Secretary of State; Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution William Perry , Former U.S. Secretary of Defense; Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution A bipartisan team of George Schultz and William Perry discuss the spread of nuclear weapons and offer up a once-radical alternative: a world without nukes...
Can the world live with a nuclear Iran, or must that nation be stopped from attaining nuclear weapons at all costs....
How can a U.S. administration sustain political support for anti-terrorist activities about which the public must be kept in the dark? ...
A quarter century after the Cold War has ended, the U.S. still stockpiles thousands of nuclear weapons....
North Korea will refuse any international effort to purge the world of nuclear weapons. But Shultz reasons that the U.S. and its closest allies can lean on China and Japan to keep North Korea in check....
Former secretary of State George Shultz has joined several other former U.S. officials — Henry Kissinger, William Perry, and Sam Nunn — in directing the Nuclear Security Project, which is aimed at “ending nuclear weapons as a threat to the world.”...
Democracy Now! broadcasts from Stanford University in California where the Society of Environmental Journalists is holding its 17th annual conference...
George Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of economics in his career, the tension between morality and pragmatism in foreign policy, and the role of personalities and economics in diplomacy, particularly in US/Soviet relations in the 1980s...
This week's EconTalk is an interview with George Shultz...
The four most famous words of Ronald Reagan's Presidency almost were never uttered...
Author David Samuels interviews former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, and George Schultz...
Join the Hoover Institution in a panel discussion exploring: Implications of the Reykjavik Summit on its Twentieth Anniversary…