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Nuclear Nonproliferation

May 25, 2010 | Works and Days

History Down the Danube

We are heading down the Main-Danube canal to meet the Danube with stops and lectures in Regensburg and Vienna, today and tomorrow. There is much discussion in the group...

May 11, 2010 | Washington Times

Restoring 'peace through strength'

We call on elected officials, candidates for office and others who share these principles to join us in advancing them and, thereby, in restoring the time-tested practice of promoting international peace through American strength...

May 6, 2010 | International Herald Tribune

Too Much Mr. Nice Guy

There are three ways in which I believe recent decisions by the Obama administration are, unintentionally, actually fostering the proliferation of nuclear weapons rather than constraining them...

April 26, 2010 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)

Obama's Iran policy is all bark and no bite

Despite allowing the Iranian government to escape sanction for a year of not accepting sugar-coated Western deadlines to abandon their nuclear program, and doing nothing about discovery of another nuclear plant at Qom, Team Obama is suddenly making an awful lot of noise...

April 22, 2010 | Washington Times

The next arms-control agreement

With the new START treaty and the Nuclear Posture Review accomplished, the Obama administration has an enormous opportunity to capitalize on its momentum. It should propose that NATO negotiate with Moscow to reduce the number of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe...

April 15, 2010 | Thoughtful Ideas

President Obama Bows to China’s President Hu at the Nuclear Security Summit

Critics of President Obama, conservative pundits and intellectuals, decry his bowing to third world oligarches and dictators.

April 14, 2010 | Corner (National Review Online)

It Is Not the Bomb, but Who Has It

It is fine and good for President Obama to assemble leaders to join forces to track down fissionable material that might get into the hands of terrorists and to encourage non-proliferation. Few presidents could have rounded them all up in one place.

April 14, 2010 | Politico

Nuclear review shows bipartisanship

The release last week of the Obama administration’s Nuclear Posture Review brings long overdue attention to the vital issue of U.S. strategic posture.

April 12, 2010 | Wall Street Journal

From Reagan to Obama

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.

April 10, 2010 | New York Times

How to Build on the Start Treaty

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.