Nuclear Disarmament

UNITED NATIONS

U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arsenals Cling to Bygone Era

In the late 19^th century, Russian playwright Anton Chekhov famously touted one golden rule for dramatic productions: if you show your audience a loaded gun in the first act, that gun must go off by the last.

U.N. Accused of Playing Down Nuke Disarmament Conference

By Thalif Deen

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is one of the most vociferous advocates of a world free of nuclear weapons.

Rate of U.S., Russian Nuclear Disarmament “Slowing”

By Carey L. Biron

Although the United States and Russia have massively reduced their collective number of nuclear weapons since the heyday of the Cold War, the rate of that reduction is slowing, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) warned Monday.

Will Austerity Prompt Nuclear Disarmament?

By Julio Godoy

The changing international political order and a dramatic budgetary situation at home are forcing France to consider giving up the extremely expensive nuclear arsenal the country has maintained since the late 1950s.