A Vatican official challenged the security theory of nuclear deterrence as immoral at the United Nations this week and called for “genuine progress” toward complete nuclear disarmament.
George Beebe: Russia Is Hedging Its Arms Control Bets on Next U.S. Administration
TNIOctober 22, 2020
What will that mean for New START?
Daniel Larison: Trump’s Arms Control Farce
TACOctober 22, 2020
The administration’s habit of demanding everything while offering little to nothing will never succeed.
DW: US and Russia ready to freeze number of nuclear warheads
DWOctober 22, 2020
Washington and Moscow seemed poised for a breakthrough on limiting nuclear weapons with time running out on the 2011 New START treaty. Russia is now ready to freeze the number of nuclear warheads if the US does the same.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Extend arms control for a safer future
BOASOctober 22, 2020
There is one remaining nuclear treaty forestalling a nuclear arms race between the United States and Russia. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), signed in 2010, is scheduled to expire on February 5, 2021.
Daniel DePetris: Trump vs. Biden: 3 National Security Questions for the Next Presidential Debate
TNIOctober 22, 2020
The American people need to know what Trump and Biden see as priorities.
Al Jazeera: Nagorno-Karabakh: Fresh shelling; rivals ‘head to US’ for talks
AJ October 22, 2020
Armenia, Azerbaijan allege further attacks while reports say foreign ministers to hold talks with Mike Pompeo in separate meetings.
Chas Freeman: Why the Struggle with China is not a replay of the Cold War
RSOctober 21, 2020
I find it, writes Chas Freeman, noteworthy that the most belligerently anti-Chinese members of the U.S. Senate are also its youngest. They came to adulthood after the end of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War and have no experience of its anxieties…
Ted Galen Carpenter: What Would Achieving a Real Reset in U.S.-Russia Relations Take?
TNIOctober 20, 2020
There are abundant reasons for the United States and Russia to restore a cooperative relationship, but that approach means adopting more realistic positions and objectives.
Dr. Alan Robock: Dear President-Elect Biden, please start with the easiest problem to solve
NJ.comOctober 20, 2020
Dr. Alan Robock was one of the scientists who helped to discover in the 1980s that a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union smoke from fires ignited by nuclear explosions would block out the Sun, turning the Earth cold, dark and dry, killing plants and preventing agriculture for at least a year, producing global famine. The Doomsday Clock is now 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been.