Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Articles and Background Materials

by John Isaacs [contact information]

Updated May 12, 2009

Alexei Arbatov and Rose Gottemoeller, "New Presidents, New Agreements? Advancing U.S.-Russian Strategic Arms Control," Arms Control Association (July/August 2008)

Bryan Bender, “Nuclear Agenda Draws Scrutiny,” Boston Globe (February 22, 2009)

Barry M. Blechman, “Don’t Reduce the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Unilaterally: We Need Levers to Move the World Toward Disarmament,” Stimson Center (January 21, 2008)

Boston Globe, "Obama may face fight on treaties," (October 25, 2009)

Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby, "What Are Nuclear Weapons For? Recommendations for Restructuring U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces," Arms Control Association (October 2007)

Lt. Gen. Robert Gard, Jr. (USA, ret.), Leonor Tomero, and Kingston Reif, "Strengthening U.S. Security Through Non-Proliferation and Arms Control: Recommendations for the Obama Administration," Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (December 2008)

David Holloway, "Further Reductions in Nuclear Forces," from Reykjavik Revisited: Steps toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, Hoover Institution (December 2008)

Global Security Newswire," No Plan Yet for Extending START Verification Measures," (October 8, 2009)

Eben Harrell, "Reducing Nuclear Weapons: How Much Is Possible?" Time Magazine (April 9, 2009)

Edward Ifft, "The Future of START," speech at the Arms Control Association (June 11, 2007)

Edward Ifft and Jennifer Mackby, “The End of START?,” Washington Post (April 20, 2007)

Daryl G. Kimball, "Jump-STARTing U.S.-Russian Disarmament," Arms Control Today (November 2008)

Daryl G. Kimball, reviewed by Douglas Shaw, “START I and Future Nuclear Weapons Reductions,” in 2009 National Security and Nonproliferation Briefing Book, p. 17-20, Peace and Security Initiative (November 2008)

Sergey Kislyak, interview in Arms Control Today (December 2008)

New York Times, "U.S. and Russia to Consider Reductions of Nuclear Arsenals in Talks for New Treaty" (March 31, 2009)

New York Times, "U.S. Seeks To Keep Watching Russia's Weapons," (October 20, 2009)

Pavel Podvig, "Formulating the Next U.S.-Russian Arms Control Agreement," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (December 18, 2008)

Federation of American Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Union of Concerned Scientists, “Towards True Security: Ten Steps the Next President Should Take to Transform U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy” (February 2008)

Global Security Newswire, “U.S. Could Seek Major Nuclear Weapons Cuts” (February 4, 2009)

Washington Post, "Broad U.S.-Russia Agreement in Works" (April 1, 2009)

Washington Post, "Clinton urges support for U.S.-Russian arms-control treaty," (October 22, 2009)