Does the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty move us any closer to a world free of nuclear weapons?
Original article: Yes Magazine
by Alice Slater

Following the first START agreement, the United States destroyed hundreds of B52 bombers and displayed them for view by Russian satellites. Both nations have destroyed Cold War weapons, ranging from nuclear warheads to [...]

by Dave Robinson
Executive Director, Pax Christi USA
Original article at www.paxchristiusa.org
Scripture tells us: “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Pro. 29:18). One must also say that where there is no courage, the vision perishes. In his Prague speech, President Obama offered a courageous vision of a world released from the Cold War bondage of [...]

Original Article: Counterpunch, July 14th, 2009
By ALICE SLATER
Although Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged to work for a nuclear weapons free world this spring, they failed to take meaningful steps at their July summit to put the world on the proper path to nuclear abolition. Disappointingly, they only agreed to minor cuts in [...]

A paper for the session on “What’s the connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons? “ at the No Nukes Teach-In, Earth Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 14 March 2009.
Presented again at Voice of Women’s Conference 25 April 2009, Friends House, Lowther Avenue, Toronto

Following the ‘Four Former Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ in the USA led by Henry Kissinger, and similar initiatives in Europe, the Australian ‘group of 6′ has been published recently in Australia’s largest two daily broadsheets.
Led by former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, the opinion pieces were both published with accompanying articles in the papers.