Monthly Archives: March 2010

Getting A New START On The Road To Nuclear Arms Reductions

Also published here. As most of you know, this past week, Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitri Medvedev announced something that those of us interested in arms control had been anticipating for almost a year: a new strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty, or New START. Since it will be signed on April 8, 2010 in Prague, [...]
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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 [...]
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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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