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Nuclear Nonproliferation

January 10, 2012

Book by Taubman highlights five cold warriors, including three Hoover fellows, and their quest to ban nuclear weapons

The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb by Philip Ta
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The Partnership, by Philip Taubman, a former Hoover media fellow and former New York Times reporter and now a consulting professor at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, cites a January 2007 opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that “captured both the long-term vision of a world free of nuclear weapons and a set of more immediate steps to reduce nuclear dangers.” The ideas about how to disarm our nuclear establishment evolved over many years of detailed work, but The Partnership gives much credit for building support to ban nuclear weapons as well as providing hope that the world could be free of nuclear weapons to the 2007 Wall Street Journal op-ed.

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November 10, 2011

Perry strives for worldwide nuclear disarmament

William Perry, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University, discusses his concerns about the broadly emerging proliferation of nuclear weapons and growing access to the ingredients for making them. The Cold War may be twenty years in the past, but Perry, who turned eighty-four in October, is engaged in its aftermath: the danger remaining in the massive US and Russian nuclear stockpiles and the clamor by countries and rogue military groups to make use of them.

October 1, 2011

Can Iran be Deterred?

On nukes, the theory is not reassuring
April 7, 2011

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November 12, 2010

Hoover Institution Hosts Conference on Nuclear Nonproliferation Addressing Issues of Deterrence

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STANFORD—“We have to rethink the nuclear principles on which we’ve been operating,” said Henry Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of state, who spoke at a dinner on Thursday, November 11, in connection with a Hoover conference on nuclear nonproliferation titled “Deterrence: Its Past and Future.”
October 1, 2010

Waging War, Building States

Seeking an elusive blend of hard and soft power

July 2, 2010

Only a START

Now Washington and Moscow must use the latest disarmament treaty to keep pushing for a safer world. By William J. Perry and George P. Shultz.

June 16, 2010

Center for International Security and Cooperation launches new initiative to reduce nuclear risks

William J. Perry
William Perry, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Siegfried Hecker, former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, have joined forces to launch the Nuclear Risk Reduction (NRR) initiative to address the changing nuclear threat following the end of the cold war. Their effort to reduce nuclear risks is a companion to another critical joint effort to eliminate nuclear weapons launched by Perry, former secretary of state and current Hoover distinguished fellow George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and former senator Sam Nunn.
June 4, 2010

Goodbye, nuclear bomb

Nuclear Tipping Point

The very men who turned the U.S. into a nuclear power during the Cold War are now working to eliminate these weapons of mass destruction from the face of the earth. George Shultz, William Perry and James Goodby explain in an interview with Helsingin Sanomat why we should seek a nuclear-weapons free world.

May 28, 2010 | Reuters

U.S. sees Iran, Afghanistan as gains in Russia relationship

Russia's support for fresh U.N. sanctions against Iran and its help on Afghanistan show how Washington's "reset" of relations with Moscow is delivering results, President Barack Obama's top adviser on Russia said...