The INF issue
The climax of the Cold War was reached when the former American President Carter and European leaders Callaghan, Giscard and Schmidt decided in 1979 the deployment of nuclear warhead missiles…
Unnecessary, destabilising and expensive
The pursuit of nuclear-armed submarines reflects a security assessment that is becoming increasingly irrelevant On November 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India’s first indigenous ballistic-missile armed nuclear submarine…
Daniel Ellsberg: US Refuses to Adopt a Nuclear Weapon No First Use Pledge
https://youtu.be/Mr-uRKzYTv0 We’re continuing our discussions with Daniel Ellsberg about his book The Doomsday Machine: The Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. As I said in Part 1, I think this…
The Vanishing Nuclear Taboo? How Disarmament Fell Apart
(MENAFN - SomTribune) On April 5, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama stood before a massive crowd in Prague and gave a soaring speech announcing his commitment to 'a world without…
The crumbling architecture of arms control
At a political rally on Saturday 20 October President Trump announced that the US will withdraw from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987. This confirms what has steadily unfolded over…