Monthly Archives: March 2010
Presidents Obama and Medvedev Announce a New START Treaty
Also published here. After nearly a year of very difficult negotiations, the White House and the Kremlin have announced a new strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty, also known as New START, which they will sign in Prague on April 8, 2010. The first START treaty was signed by Presidents George H. W. Bush and Mikhail [...]
The Environmental Legacy of the Cold War: Progress, Problems, and the Big Picture
Also published here. “I was a 28-year-old kid and I didn’t stop to ruminate about it. I didn’t think, ‘My God, we’ve changed the history of the world!’”. – Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Prize winner and Manhattan Project Scientist, from a 1947 interview, on his discovery of plutonium six years earlier. I believe that the [...]
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Getting A New START On The Road To Nuclear Arms Reductions