“…This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet … Continue reading
Category Archives: Policies
The North Korea Saga
September 24, 2017 As with Dracaena cinnabari’s labyrinthine, spiny canopy, the ramifications of North Korea’s nuclear program reach everyone on this planet. In fact, it threatens to bring to a boil the simmering rivalry between China and Russia on the one hand, and the United States, NATO (notably, Germany does … Continue reading
Deeds, Not Ineffective Rhetoric
July 14, 2017 The comings and goings of the Trumps and Clintons are but skillful distractions from the grave issues afflicting our country and the world: climate change, the global water crisis, the flat-out refusal of the world’s nuclear powers to eliminate humanity’s sword of Damocles, the lack of commitment … Continue reading
Banning Nuclear Weapons
April 21, 2017 The ongoing tension between the U.S. and Russia over NATO’s expansion to the Baltic and Black Seas -and Russia’s strategic countermeasures in the Crimea, the Ukraine, Syria, and to a lesser extent Iran- is reminiscent of the powder keg that was Europe just prior to World War … Continue reading
The Winds of Terminal War
[google-translator] September 8, 2016 Lately, focused on the impending presidential election, Syria, the Ukraine and the South China Sea, American mainstream media have all but ignored climate change. It’s as if there’s a consensus that war will inevitably transform Earth into another Mars long before it broils into another Venus. … Continue reading
Resetting U.S.-Russian Relations
[google-translator] February 4, 2016 Henry Kissinger’s speech (original link to https://gorbachovfund.ru is broken) at the Gorbachev Fund in Moscow From 2007 into 2009, Evgeny Primakov and I chaired a group composed of retired senior ministers, high officials, and military leaders from Russia and the United States, including some of you … Continue reading
Fiscal Year 2017 Defense Department’s Budget Request
February 2, 2016 Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter revealed the 2017 fiscal year budget request. Essentially it is a continuation of former Secretary Chuck Hagel’s view that the path forward for the U.S. is an open-ended arms race to safeguard the nation’s interests, even if they perpetuate our addiction … Continue reading
Doomsday Clock 2021
June 5, 2021 It is now 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been to civilization-ending apocalypse. Read the entire statement here. Editor’s note: Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the … Continue reading
President Reagan Quotes on Disarmament
“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
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