Time to Disband NATO: A Rogue Alliance

Alice Slater, writing on the Abolition 2000 website, states: “When the Cold War ended, many believed there would be a peace dividend, nuclear disarmament, and dismantling of the war machine with industrial conversion to peaceful technology. Instead, we’ve witnessed the aggressive expansion of NATO, to include the former Soviet Republics, right up to the Russian [...]

Non-strategic — that is tactical — nuclear weapons.

Alexei Arbatov, a scholar-in-residence at the Moscow Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in summary of a report Gambit or End Game? The New State of Arms Control (March 2011) had this to say about non-strategic – that is, tactical — nuclear weapons: ”During the Cold War, the United States and Europe relied on tactical [...]

NATO Ministerial

Paul Ingram, Executive Director of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), writes about this week’s NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels (Oct. 5 and 6) and advises allies to take full advantage of the Deterrence and Defense Posture Review. Read the brief article here: http://www.basicint.org/news/2011/week-nato-ministerial

NATO, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control

In a paper on NATO, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Steven Pifer of the Brookings Institution indicates: “The United States and NATO are currently weighing what to do about non-strategic nuclear weapons in the context of a major Alliance deterrence and defense policy review and the possibility of future U.S.-Russian nuclear arms reduction talks. This [...]

Straight Talk on “Missile Defense” aka Star Wars

As budgetary realities tighten, one of the best long-term savings the U.S. could realize would be to scrap Star Wars “Missile Defense.” Nuclear physicist Yousaf Butt, a consultant to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), goes so far to call missile defense a “delusion” (I concur!) in a New York Times/International Herald Tribune op-ed that, [...]