Gareth Evans
Nuclear Disarmament Disarmed
SINGAPORE – US President Barack Obama’s foreign-policy landscape is littered with deflated balloons. Soaring speeches, high hopes, and great…
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With Iran's nuclear program raising fears about its ambitions, and political instability roiling the Korean Peninsula, nuclear disarmament remains a key global issue. What will it take for “rogue” states to abandon their nuclear ambitions? And will established nuclear powers ever dismantle their arsenals?
Deciphering Disarmament
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Rebecca Johnson
From Hiroshima to Disarmament
LONDON – On August 6, 1945, the first uranium bomb was exploded above Hiroshima with the force of 15,000 tons of TNT. A total of 140,000 peo…
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Imants Liegis, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Linas Linkevičius
Why Europe Still Needs Nuclear Deterrence
RIGA/VILNIUS/WARSAW – In recent months, we have joined discussions led by former United States Senator Sam Nunn, former British Minister of …
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Gareth Evans
Keeping Cool in the Nuclear Heat
CANBERRA – Perhaps it is going too far to say, as someone did after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill two years ago, that most Americans want a p…
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Jonathan Schell
Disarmament Wars
NEW YORK – On April 13, Iran is scheduled meet with representatives of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States – th…
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Gareth Evans
Nuclear Disarmament’s Midnight Hour
CANBERRA – Last month, the Doomsday Clock’s hands were moved a minute closer to midnight by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the respe…
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Mikhail Gorbachev
A Farewell to Nuclear Arms
MOSCOW – Twenty-five years ago this month, I sat across from Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland to negotiate a deal that would have reduced…
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Shlomo Ben-Ami
Nuclear Disarmament and Neighborhood Bullies
MADRID – Twenty-five years ago, at a summit in Rejkjavik, Iceland, US President Ronald Reagan stunned the world and his Soviet counterpart, …
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Malcolm Fraser
From Fukushima to Disarmament
SYDNEY – Months after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima compounds the hum…
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Desmond Tutu
Ending Nuclear Evil
CAPE TOWN – Eliminating nuclear weapons is the democratic wish of the world’s people. Yet no nuclear-armed country currently appears to be p…
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