BASIC has submitted a brief to the US Strategic Posture Review Commission. Here is an excerpt from the Executive Summary:
Possible savings from paring down the arsenal
Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (Arizona) recently made a speech at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council and said: We should work to reduce nuclear arsenals all around the world, starting with our own,
adding: We do not need all the weapons currently in our arsenal.
A world without nuclear weapons: Joint BASIC, USIP, Carnegie event
BASIC co-sponsored a briefing with the United States Institute of Peace and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on March 6, hosted by USIP.
Event Title: A world without nuclear weapons: the international dimension
Panelists: Ambassador Max Kampelman, of Counsel, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Ambassador James Goodby, Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution
Congressmen, Reagan administration policy experts, and activists call for reducing US nuclear arsenal
US Rep James McGovern (D, Massachusetts) hosted a briefing titled 'Global Security Priorities in the 21st Century' on February 6, 2008, in Washington, DC. Panelists who participated in the briefing called for the United States to reduce its nuclear weapons arsenal and use the savings to increase funding for non-proliferation programs and international assistance for children as a means of strengthening US national security.
The panelists included:
Nato ministerial meetings in Brussels: Looking Ahead to the Istanbul Summit in 2004
A Review of the Nato Defense Ministers' Meeting and a Preview of the Nato Foreign Ministers' Meeting