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Award-winning film about climate change and nuclear weapons.

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A crisis in financing Britain's replacement of Trident? (PDF)
Nick Ritchie and Paul Ingram, BASIC, 26 August 2010. Also see the related Press Release.

It's a no-brainer: ratify arms control treaty
BASIC Program Director Anne Penketh writes in The Hill's Congress Blog, 12 August 2010.

Getting to Zero links to latest news:
Clinton predicts Republicans will provide enough votes for arms treaty to ensure ratification, The Los Angeles Times, 12 August 2010.

British last-minute contribution to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, BASIC Press Release, 26 May 2010.


The British Election: What Happened and What Does it Mean?
Post-election discussion hosted by the Center for Transatlantic Relations and BASIC in Washington, DC, 7 May 2010.

 

Iran Update
Latest news and comment on the diplomatic movements over Iran's nuclear program, 18 August 2010.

New players in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program: Brazilian, Turkish, and Iranian objectives (PDF)
Maarten Fonteijn, Nima Khorrami Assl, and Paul Ingram, BASIC, 12 August 2010.

Stopping New START?
BASIC Backgrounder on Senate ratification hearings for treaty reducing US and Russian deployed long-range nuclear weapons, by Anne Penketh, 2 July 2010.

Getting to Zero Update
Latest developments on nuclear weapons and missile defense, 1 July 2010.

NPT Review Conference Day 20
NPT RevCon ends with adoption of consensus Final Document. Also see Nuclear arms treaty agreed with hope for deal on Middle East in The Guardian, and BASIC's full coverage of the conference, 28 May 2010.

 

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