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Another milestone to Zero: UK Statesmen Call for a World without Nuclear Weapons, BASIC Media Advisory, 30 June 2008

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Another milestone to Zero: UK Statesmen Call for a World without Nuclear Weapons

In a breakthrough op-ed in the Times newspaper, former long-serving UK Foreign and Defence Secretaries are endorsing the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Lord David Owen, Lord Douglas Hurd, and Lord George Robertson warn that the world is entering a dangerous new phase "that combines widespread proliferation with extremism and geopolitical tension...

Afghanistan Update, a summary of news and analysis, 2 July 2008.

Getting to Zero Update, latest on international nuclear disarmament efforts, along with news on nuclear non-proliferation and missile defence, 25 June 2008.

Open letter to the UK Government: New thinking required over Iran's nuclear programme (PDF), by Sir John Thomson, pointing out the need for new thinking and proposing an international enrichment facility in Iran, 19 May 2008.

Changing the Frame of the International Debate over Iran's Nuclear Programme: Iran's Role in Moving Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World and Other solutions to Iran's Energy Insecurity, BASIC Papers delivered by Paul Ingram to an international conference on Iran's nuclear programme in Tehran, 9 March 2008.

Iran Update, No. 120. Solana delivers revised P5+1 incentives package to Tehran - Iran will consider it. Bush pushes European allies for further sanctions. Obama offers security guarantee to Israel vis-à-vis Iran. Growing segments of Israeli political class support Iran strike. 23 June 2008

Nuclear Disarmament enters the mainstream - McCain speech supports Getting to Zero, BASIC Media Advisory. 28 May 2008.

NATO and the Afghan Insurgency: Looking Ahead to Bucharest (PDF), by Andrew Imbrie, BASIC Paper, 25 March 2008.

A World Without Nuclear Weapons: The International Dimension, BASIC event co-sponsored with the United States Institute of Peace and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC on 6 March 2008. Follow this link to USIP for a summary and audio recording of the event.

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