The presidents of the United States and Russia have proclaimed that they will work for a world without nuclear weapons. Vice President Joe Biden reaffirmed that goal in a recent major policy speech. But the speech was more than that: Biden affirmed that a world without nuclear weapons would also be a compass by which the administration would steer current policy.
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Russia hails agreement on nuclear arms treaty
”If you look at the actual treaty, they are not going to be cutting up weapons. They are just not going to be deployed. It is quite a modest treaty. It is important in what it says about US-Russian relations. It is a signal of the tangible improvement.”
BASIC Program Director Anne Penketh quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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http://www.smh.com.au/world/russia-hails-agreement-on-nuclear-arms-treaty-20100325-r005.html
Disarmament activist warns on new war
“The US military has a very established policy of bringing to the president all options they possibly can in a point of crisis.”
BASIC Executive Director Paul Ingram interviewed by RT News.
Read more:
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-03-18/war-iran-weapons-mackinnon.html?fullstory
Peeling the Onion: Towards a Middle East nuclear weapons free zone
Israel should realize that attending an international conference with its neighbors is in its own security interests
Sensitive rationalization or overlooked expansion? Demystifying the Obama plan for missile defense in Europe
Obama’s phased adaptive approach for missile defense will improve the security situation in Europe but could cause strategic problems with Russia.
Getting to Zero Update
Negotiations between Russia and the United States on the follow-on agreement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) resumed in Geneva, but appeared to face continuing challenges over the issues of telemetry, delivery vehicles carrying conventional warheads, and missile defense. Read more below.
BASIC welcomes Vice President’s push for treaty banning all nuclear explosions
The British American Security Information Council welcomes the renewed US commitment to press for the long-overdue Senate ratification of a treaty banning all nuclear explosions.
Visions for a New Century: Launch of New Public Conversation on Nuclear Disarmament
Brian Eno, rock musician and artist, invited an eclectic collection of fellow musicians, artists, business people, senior politicians, officials, philanthropists, actors and writers to his London studio on the evening of February 1st to broaden support for nuclear disarmament.