McCain\’s speech represents a clear departure from the current Administration and his past
Republican Presidential candidate John McCain yesterday gave a landmark speech on the responsibility to engage more seriously in disarmament. Paul Ingram, Director of BASIC, said:
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.
In this issue: Commitments to disarmament and arms control ; Country reports ; Missile Defence
On March 14th, Iran held parliamentary elections for the 290-seat, Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami, the Islamic Consultative Assembly.
BASIC Co-Executive Director, Paul Ingram, is to present two papers seeking to change the frame of the international debate over Iran's nuclear program to an international conference on the subject in Tehran on 9th March, hosted by the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), a think-tank closely associated with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic. One is entitled Iran's Role in Moving Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World, the other Other solutions to Iran's Energy Insecurity.
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
On their way back from the international conference on nuclear disarmament in Oslo, Norway, George Shultz and Sam Nunn addressed a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Security and Non-Proliferation, clerked by BASIC.