“I can’t believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Government
President Kennedy on Disarmament
Address to the U.N. General Assembly, September 25, 1961 …“Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at … Continue reading
Secretaries Shultz, Perry, Kissinger & Senator Nunn on Nonproliteration
[google-translator] Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Risks: The Pace of Nonproliferation Work Today Doesn’t Match the Urgency of the Threat March 6, 2013 George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn Op-eds/Statements Every American president since the end of World War II has sought to come … Continue reading
Latin America on Disarmament
[google-translator] Statement Latin American and Caribbean Leadership Network for Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation On the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Test-ban Treaty March 2015 Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 September 1996, the Comprehensive Test-ban Treaty did not yet enter into force. Eight States – the … Continue reading
Asia-Pacific Pivot
January 19, 2016 In 2015, Congress tasked the Department of Defense to commission an independent assessment of U.S. military strategy and force posture in the Asia-Pacific, as well as that of U.S. allies and partners, over the next decade. This Center for Strategic and International Studies work fulfills that congressional … Continue reading
President Eisenhower On Disarmament
“Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite … Continue reading
John Hylan, Mayor of New York
March 26, 1922 “The warning of Theodore Roosevelt has much timeliness today, for the real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation… It seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative … Continue reading
The South China Sea & Climate Change
11/24/2015 BackgroundSo what does the South China Sea have to do with climate change, the yawning gap in the distribution of wealth and income and the approaching water crisis? In a word, everything. In “Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea And The End Of A Stable Pacific,” Robert D. Kaplan, … Continue reading
Might Makes Right
[google-translator] It having been shown in the foregoing discourse, 1. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood, or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, or dominion over the world, as is pretended: 2. That if he had, his heirs, yet, had no … Continue reading
Gridlock
Gridlock is a philosophical and emotional reaction to internal demographic, economic and social changes of unprecedented magnitude and scope. Simply stated, it is the quintessential conflict between the irresistible force -change- and the immovable object -status quo. While gridlock is not the cause of the aforementioned problems, it does … Continue reading