Jan 9, 2022 | Blogroll, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
In 1970, at the height of the Cold War, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) came into force. Under the Treaty, which today includes all but five UN member states, five states acknowledged to possess nuclear weapons, the United States, Russia, the United...
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...