disarmament

Russia Fires Off START Warning

Dec 21, 2010
Some members of the US Senate are dragging their feet and kvetching about wording issues in the latest American-Russian disarmament pact, the START treaty, as they prepare to vote for its ratification In response, they have received a clear message from Moscow .
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Pinning Down a Disarmament Deal

Mar 26, 2010
President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have agreed on final terms for a new nuclear arms reduction agreement, a successor to the START treaty of 1991. The new deal will remove about a third of the warheads deployed by each country.

More Obama Talk From the Nobel Jury

Oct 14, 2009
All but one of the five judges who picked President Barack Obama as the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize sounded off on Tuesday about their decision, noting Obama's less-than-jubilant initial reaction to the announcement and shedding more light on the reasons behind their choice, which one judge reported was unanimous.

He’s Earned It — for Now

Oct 10, 2009
In Obama’s nine months as president, he has put U.S. relations with Russia on a more constructive course; has seen Iran agree to open its nuclear facility near Qom to international inspection; and, despite Israeli and Palestinian intransigence, has kept the two sides negotiating with America’s dogged envoy, George Mitchell, who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland.Congratulations to the Norwegians for having the wisdom to give President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.

North Korea Talks Fizzle

Dec 11, 2008
North Korea and the US have agreed to the broad strokes of a nuclear disarmament deal, but hammering out the details is proving to be a monumental challenge U envoy Christopher Hill announced Thursday that talks were essentially on ice It may or may not help that Kim Jong Il has been missing in action for months.

Global Zero Pushes for a Nuke-Free World

Dec 10, 2008
The founders of Global Zero, including Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev and Sir Richard Branson, want to do for nuclear disarmament what Al Gore and other environmentalists did for climate change. While the vast majority of the world's citizens seem to favor going nukeless, the issue has been confined to the back burner.

McCain Aims to Work With Russia on Arms Control

May 28, 2008
John McCain may seem similar to President Bush in many ways, but the presumptive Republican nominee is apparently looking to draw some clear distinctions between himself and the outgoing president in regard to how he proposes to deal with tensions that have cropped up between the U.S. and Russia around the issue of nuclear disarmament.