Feb 6, 2014 | Miscellaneous, START
The United States has started the deployment of its missile defense ships in Europe. In response to the announcement the Russian Foreign Ministry’s top disarmament official warned Russian might withdraw from the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty if the US continues...
Feb 8, 2011 | Movement News, START
The Western States Legal Foundation has prepared an information brief entitled “START: One Small Step for Arms Control, One Giant Leap Backward for Disarmament?” The brief can be downloaded by clicking on this link: WSLF START Information Brief. Please...
May 30, 2010 | Commentaries, Energy, Fissile Materials, START
by Alice Slater While the world applauds the growing recognition that the abolition of nuclear weapons seems to be an idea whose time has finally come—from the calls by rusty cold warriors and former statesmen and generals to eliminate nuclear weapons—to the recent...
Apr 7, 2010 | Commentaries, Movement News, START
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...
Apr 14, 2009 | Commentaries, Movement News, START
Alice Slater | April 7, 2009 Editor: John Feffer Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org Committing the United States and Russia “to achieving a nuclear free world,” Presidents Obama and Medvedev issued a joint statement breathtaking in its positive tone. It...
Mar 10, 2009 | Commentaries, START
Despite the end of the Cold War in 1989, nearly 20 years ago, the US-Russian relationship has deteriorated dramatically. US promises were made to Gorbachev that if Russia did not object to the admission of a reunified Germany into NATO, after the fall of the Berlin...