Pick a Number Between One and Six

Staff / Truthdig Apr 10, 2010 "Between one and six." That's the number of nuclear weapons that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton believes North Korea to have, a rare public utterance on the estimated number of such weapons the Hermit Kingdom may possess. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Unveils New Nuke Policy

Staff / Truthdig Apr 6, 2010 President Barack Obama made the auspicious step of releasing his new Nuclear Posture Review on Tuesday, two days before he was due to co-sign an arms reduction treaty with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Prague. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pinning Down a Disarmament Deal

Staff / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Russia, U.S. Clash (Again) Over Missile Shield Issue

Staff / Truthdig Dec 30, 2009 Despite US-Russian progress since Barack Obama's inauguration on the sticky issue of the United States' planned missile shield system, the two sides are not completely in agreement on the matter In fact, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has brought it up again in conjunction with (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

More Obama Talk From the Nobel Jury

Staff / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

He’s Earned It — for Now

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Nobel Committee Secretary Explains Why Obama Won

Staff / Truthdig Oct 10, 2009 Perhaps Geir Lundestad, head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, knew that there would be questions about President Barack Obama's Peace Prize win, but regardless, he's ready for the biggest one -- why Obama? -- in this interview conducted and posted by his Nobel colleagues on Friday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

North Korea Talks Fizzle

Staff / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Global Zero Pushes for a Nuke-Free World

Staff / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

If at First You Don’t Get North Korea to Disarm …

Staff / Truthdig Oct 1, 2008 While Americans from the president on down were preoccupied with the financial meltdown, the disarmament deal with North Korea was quietly falling apart. Actually, talks with the nuclear hermit state have been on the rocks for some time, and have only grown more complicated since Kim Jong Il went MIA. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McCain Aims to Work With Russia on Arms Control

Staff / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

North Korea: Show Me the Money

Staff / Truthdig Mar 21, 2007 North Korea simply refuses to engage in the six-party talks until it receives $25 million in disputed funds. The disarmament deal struck by Washington and Pyongyang is now being held up by "technical problems." U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill expressed his frustration: "The problem is, you can't expect all these large delegations to sit around while it is being sorted out." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )