Iran attack not a problem, say war wonks
Earlier this month, more than a hundred Israeli fighter pilots strutted their right stuff back and forth over the eastern Mediterranean. “There is no way,” Helena Cobban reminds us at Just World News,...
View ArticleOne day, when it grows up, the anti-nukes movement will thank George Bush
“Sooner or later, [the arms control] community will. . . have to struggle with how to adapt its conceptual paradigms to the 21st century. When it does. . . the arms controllers will owe the Bush...
View ArticleThe Deproliferator: Can an FMCT restore our faith in disarmament treaties?
In his recent Arms Control Today article, Five Plus Three: How to Have a Meaningful and Helpful Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, Christopher Ford writes of the Obama administration’s intention to...
View ArticleThe Deproliferator: Israel — the reluctantest proliferator
On page 37 of the U.S. Joint Forces Command [Operating Environment 2008] report, the Army includes Israel within “a growing arc of nuclear powers running from Israel in the west through an emerging...
View ArticleHow much credit does the U.S. disarmament community deserve for Obama's...
The Deproliferator President Obama’s speech in Prague “represents a fundamental and important transformation in U.S. thinking about nuclear weapons,” said Arms Control Association executive director...
View ArticleAnother century of nuclear weapons — how is that good news?
The Deproliferator The Arms Control Organization’s Darryl Kimball explains: . . . the Department of Energy announced in 2006 that studies by Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories show...
View ArticleIt's not just hawks who question whether nuclear power is an 'inalienable right'
The Deproliferator Those advocating nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels have been dealt some serious blows. A recent report disclosed that: Each 1000 MW [megawatts] of nuclear power that...
View ArticlePhysics in action: Iran's potential energy vs. Israel's kinetic
The Deproliferator If Israel and Iran are playing rock, scissors, paper with their nuclear-weapons programs, Israel wins hands down. Kinetic beats potential energy to the punch and Israel is already...
View ArticleNuclear-power fuel too close to nuclear-weapon fuel for comfort
THE DEPROLIFERATOR — Recent statements by its chief representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency suggest that Iran may be backing away from an agreement to ships it low-enriched nuclear...
View ArticleU.S. determined to re-freeze thaw in relations with Iran
It was only supposed to be Iran’s uranium enrichment progress that was frozen after talks with Iran last month. But now, acting in bad faith by violating the spirit of the Geneva deal between the G5+1...
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