arms control

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  4/19/2022
  

  How China's Nuclear Arms Buildup Will Make a Tripolar World, and What it Means for Peace

  by Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.

  "There is nothing the United States can do to prevent China from joining it and Russia as the world’s top nuclear powers, but there are things that U.S. strategists and defense planners can do to mitigate the consequences."

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• SOURCE: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  10/29/2021
  

  The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Nuclear Bomb

  by Alex Wellerstein

  Read a detailed account of the moment in the Cold War when the United States and Soviet Union contemplated, then developed and tested, nuclear weapons of horrifying power. 

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• 6/13/2021
  

  It's Time for a "Don't Trust, Do Verify" US-Russia Cybersecurity Treaty

  by Glenn C. Altschuler and Justin Lifflander

  The Reagan-Gorbachev summit meetings that yielded the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and established mutual weapons monitoring weren't expected to succeed, but offer hope that negotiations between Biden and Putin could advance progress toward needed mutual cybersecurity action. 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  5/25/2021
  

  Missile Defense is Not a Substitute for Arms Control

  by John Tierney and Samuel M. Hickey

  A former Congressman and an arms control analyst argue that the key goal of upcoming meetings between Biden and Putin is nuclear arms control; the United States can afford to use its technological superiority in missile defense as a chip to ensure this greater goal. 

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• 4/25/2021
  

  The Fateful Choice: Nuclear Arms Race or Nuclear Weapons-Free World

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Nuclear-armed nations face a choice: to push ahead with a wasteful course that raises the risk of nuclear war, or to lead toward a world without nuclear weapons. 

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• 3/28/2021
  

  Can Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Overcome the Opposition?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  People who want to end the nightmare of nuclear destruction that has haunted the world since 1945 should consider widening the popular appeal of nuclear weapons abolition by strengthening the UN’s ability to provide international security.

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• SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal
  2/15/2021
  

  Will the Nuclear Powers Ever Be Willing to Forgo Their Nuclear Weapons?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The collapse of the Soviet Union has paradoxically created a climate where the perceived danger of nuclear weapons has waned, taking energy from a growing movement toward arms control and disarmament. 

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• 1/17/2021
  

  The Great Evasion

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Joe Biden should reverse the nation's long dereliction of duty in leading the world toward nuclear disarmament and reducing the threat of nuclear war.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/31/2020
  

  George Shultz Speaks Out for Renewing U.S. Leadership Overseas

  The long-serving Secretary of State's new book laments the unwillingness of current leadership to embrace the international cooperation and diplomacy needed to solve the world's largest problems.   

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• 11/10/19
  

  It’s Been 32 Years since the Conclusion of the INF Treaty Yet Arms Control Is Still Vital

  by Stephan Kieninger

  It is imperative to avoid a situation where we might have no arms control and no mutual verification at all. Against the backdrop of the Trump Administration’s loathing of arms control, it will be up to the European NATO allies to conceptualize a new arms-control framework for the post-INF world.

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• 5/26/19
  

  How About a Peace Race Instead of an Arms Race?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  On September 25, 1961, dismayed by the Soviet Union’s recent revival of nuclear weapons testing, John F. Kennedy used the occasion of his address to the United Nations to challenge the Russians “not to an arms race, but to a peace race.”