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Achieving a Future Free of Nuclear Weapons
In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal, former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, former Defense Secretary William J. Perry, former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and former Senator Sam Nunn call for nations to begin moving now toward a new, safer and more stable form of deterrence with decreasing nuclear risks and an increasing measure of assured security for all nations,
http://www.nti.org/c_press/Deterrence_in_the_Age_of_Nuclear_Proliferation.pdf.
Kennette Benedict, who is the Executive Director and Publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and who received at PhD in political science from Stanford University, recently wrote an article for the online journal Peace Policy of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame University. The article begins as follows:
"The end of the Cold War has made it possible to contemplate vast reductions in nuclear arsenals-and even their elimination. The United States and Russia already have reduced their nuclear weapons stocks from a high of nearly 70,000 in 1986 to fewer than 22,000 in 2011.
"With recent agreement on the New Start treaty, the two governments are poised to bring down those numbers further. A combination of new thinking, further government action, new technologies, and renewed political will is providing the practical basis for a radically different future-free of nuclear weapons."
The complete article may be read at http://peacepolicy.nd.edu/2011/03/04/achieving-a-future-free-of-nuclear-weapons/#more-940.
Further information is available at http://www.nti.org.
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