By Greg Thielmann
President Barack Obama speaks Dec. 3, 2012 at the National Defense University along with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, fmr. Sen. Sam Nunn, and Sen. Dick Lugar.
By Daryl G. Kimball
By Greg Thielmann
By Tom Z. Collina
The FY 2013 Defense Authorization Bill is on the Senate floor this week, and Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) is planning to offer an amendment that would promote the construction of a missile defense site on the East Coast. This was a bad idea when the House proposed it this summer, and it's a bad idea now.
By Kelsey Davenport, Daryl G. Kimball, and Greg Thielmann
IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano, left, with Iran's Ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, in May 2012 (photo credit: Adel Pazzyar/IRNA/AP)
President Obama at his 2009 Inaugural Address. Weeks later, he pledged to "immediately and aggressively pursue U.S. ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty." (Image Source: New York Magazine)
By Daryl G. Kimball
Iraq's Ambassador to the IAEA, Surood Rashid Hajib, submits to IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano a letter announcing Iraq's ratification and entry into force of the Additional Protocol in Vienna, Austria on October 23, 2012.
By Greg Thielmann
By Greg Thielmann
By Greg Thielmann
The 800 kilometer range arc for missiles from Seoul. Credit: Al Jazzera
By Greg Thielmann
The Department of State released today the latest data exchange for the systems limited by the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). Under the provisions of the treaty, the two parties are obligated to exchange data in three categories of strategic forces every six months. The fact of the data exchange reflects well on the parties and on the treaty, but the contents tell a different story.
