Last Thursday, the Obama administration sent the new START Treaty to the Senate for ratification. Now we can ask our Senators to vote in favor of this important first step to reduce the global nuclear threat, prevent the further spread…
Read more »The U.S. will be far better off if the new START treaty between the U.S. and Russia is ratified and goes into effect. That’s the position put forth in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Secretary of Defense Robert M….
Read more »May 19 program with Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller To participate, go to https://statedept.connectsolutions.com/start on at 9 a.m. EDT on May 19. Please join the U.S. chief negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, who will discuss the recent…
Read more »The Philippine Election Observer Team reports that there will be over 80 observers of the elections in the Philippines from over ten countries. Most of the observers come from the United Sates and Canada. Other countries include Australia, New Zealand,…
Read more »Indonesia announced today that it will seek ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, dropping its demand that it would only do so after United States had ratified the landmark agreement. The announcement marks the most significant non-proliferation commitment by…
Read more »President Obama of the United States and President Medvedev of Russia will meet in Prague, Czech Republic, today to sign a new strategic arms control agreement. In the United States, the treaty will go to the Senate which must ratify…
Read more »President Obama announced that the United States and Russia have agreed to a new treaty limiting each country “to significantly fewer strategic arms within seven years from the date the Treaty enters into force.” Plans are to sign the treaty…
Read more »Good news from the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World! The summit closed with more than 120 governments adopting the Cartagena Action Plan (read the plan in draft form [pdf], a detailed five-year plan of commitments on all areas of…
Read more »December 18, 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). A working group of the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality…
Read more »An article posted on the Times Online reports that President Obama plans to convene talks with Russia aimed at reducing each country’s nuclear weapons’ stockpile. And the reduction could be significant. The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation provides an opportunity to…
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