Jul 6, 2009
Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev are meeting this week in Moscow for their first full summit. High on their agenda is the landmark 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which will expire on December 5. In this op-ed published by Reuters, Lt. Gen. Robert Gard and Kingston Reif explain the importance of negotiating a START follow-on agreement.
Jul 2, 2009
From July 6 to 8, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev will meet in Moscow for their first full summit. High on their agenda is the impending expiration of the landmark 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and the ongoing negotiations to replace it with a new strategic arms reduction agreement.
Jun 24, 2009
The House Armed Services Committee completed its markup of the Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Authorization bill (HR 2647) on June 17, 2009. The marked-up bill recommends an overall FY 2010 authorization level of $680.5 billion, which includes $130 billion for ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and $550.5 billion for the Pentagon and nuclear weapons activities.
Jun 23, 2009
Though burdened with political constraints on its freedom of action, the Obama administration already has made overtures to Iran that may appear merely symbolic but have historically proven successful at breaking the ice in preparation for larger diplomatic initiatives. In this new policy brief, Travis Sharp argues that there are reasons to be guardedly optimistic about the future of U.S.-Iranian bilateral relations.
Jun 23, 2009
The one major piece of President Obama's arms control agenda that could be completed this year is a follow-on agreement to START. Most arms control experts agree that ratification with more than 67 Senate votes will be necessary to build momentum for more controversial treaties to follow. John Isaacs and Kingston Reif dissect the domestic politics of START in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online.
Jun 22, 2009
Despite recent setbacks, the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty has proven successful. Since 1990, over 60,000 weapons systems have been either removed from the treaty zone or destroyed. The United States should work to revive the CFE. But it must do so carefully because the treaty has become entangled in debates over wider European issues.
Jun 16, 2009
A CNN poll conducted April 9-11, 2010, found that 70 percent of respondents said that the U.S. Senate should vote in favor of the U.S.-Russia New START agreement while a Quinnipiac University National Poll conducted from April 14-19, 2010, found that 60 percent of of respondents think that the Senate should ratify New START.
A Greenberg Quinlan Rosner/Democracy Corps poll taken May 10-12, 2009 has found that a majority of Americans, 71%, to be exact, supports President Obama's policies on a road to "a world free of nuclear weapons" - they just don't do so in those words.
Jun 16, 2009
Q&A on the technical issues surrounding the START follow-on agreement
Jun 16, 2009
A timeline of major START events between 1991 to 2010
Jun 9, 2009
The Council on Foreign Relations Task Force report shares many similarities with the final report of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. Most importantly, both reports call for reductions in nuclear stockpiles. Kingston Reif analyzes the CFR report in this new policy brief.
Jun 9, 2009
"There are no second acts in American lives," the famous author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. Tell that to U.S. and Russian officials who met in Moscow in mid-May to begin negotiating a new nuclear arms reduction agreement. Left for dead during the Bush administration, nuclear arms control is back for an encore performance - and not a moment too soon.
Jun 2, 2009
The Obama administration pledged to safeguard all vulnerable nuclear weapons and materials within four years. Yet the fiscal year 2010 nonproliferation budget submitted to Congress in May is disappointing. Instead of an increase in nonproliferation funding to meet the aforementioned goal, the administration actually requested less money than Congress appropriated in fiscal year 2009.
May 22, 2009
On April 5, 2009, before a crowd gathered at Hradcany Square in Prague, President Barack Obama declared “America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” With these words, Obama implicitly endorsed Global Zero—a movement founded in December 2008 by some 100 political leaders from around the world to ban nuclear weapons.
May 15, 2009
With critical security upgrades still incomplete and the Russian nuclear infrastructure becoming more dilapidated, now is not the time to reduce funding for the Nunn-Lugar nonproliferation program. Yet that is exactly what President Obama proposed in his fiscal year 2010 budget.
May 12, 2009
A collection of newspaper editorials endorsing nuclear weapons reductions.
May 12, 2009
A collection of articles by analysts who oppose nuclear weapons reductions.
May 6, 2009
Two recent bipartisan reports strongly endorsed the importance of reducing the size of the U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals. Both reports clearly demonstrated that there is broad and wide support for a START follow-on agreement and that the United States and Russia have an important obligation to reduce the size and role of nuclear weapons in their national security policies.
May 6, 2009
On May 6, the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States released its final report. As one might expect given the diverse make-up of the Commission, the final report offers a mixture of good and bad recommendations. In this comprehensive analysis, Kingston Reif examines the two competing visions in the Commission’s report.
May 1, 2009
In this article published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online, Jeffrey Lewis and Kingston Reif explain why the need to replace outdated vacuum tubes is no reason to build a new generation of nuclear weapons such as the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW).
Apr 28, 2009
With 100 days now behind him and more than 1,000 left to go in his first term, President Barack Obama has given us much to celebrate – especially when compared to the dismal years of the Bush administration. John Isaacs offers a progress report on the Obama administration.
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