February 4, 2016 Henry Kissinger’s speech at the Gorchakov 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 present here today. Its purpose was to … Continue reading
Category Archives: Policies
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 2016
January 22, 2016 It is still three minutes to midnight Lynn Eden, Robert Rosner, Rod Ewing, Lawrence M. Krauss, Sivan Kartha, Thomas R. Pickering, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Ramamurti Rajaraman, Jennifer Sims, Richard C. J. Somerville, Sharon Squasson, David Titley From: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board … 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
Secretaries Shultz, Perry, Kissinger & Senator Nunn on Nonproliteration
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 to … Continue reading
Latin America on Disarmament
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 United … 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
COP21 And Nuclear War
January 3, 2016 The Doomsday Clock Last year, on January 22, 2015 to be precise, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced the Doomsday Clock to 3 minutes before midnight, a metaphor to indicate how close our species is to extinction. Among other things, the scientists are (correctly) concerned with … 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