This section provides a general overview of nuclear related issues. The following articles are obtained from external news sources for whose content SGI takes no responsibility.

February 23, 2010
United States to Retire Nuclear-Armed Tomahawk Missiles Union of Concerned Scientists
WASHINGTON (February 23, 2010) - The Japanese press reported yesterday that the United States will retire its nuclear-armed Tomahawk cruise missiles, signifying the end of an ongoing debate within the Obama administration over the future of these weapons...

February 19, 2010
Five NATO States Want U.S. Nukes Out of Europe, Report Says Global Security Newswire
Five European nations are set to call on the United States to remove all nuclear weapons from the continent, Agence France-Presse reported today...

February 19, 2010
People's Pressure Vital For A Nuclear-Weapons Free World IDN InDepthNews
By Taro Ichikawa
TOKYO (IDN) - 'Cities and citizens of the world, unite! Unite for a world without nuclear weapons!' This is the clarion call Dr. Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of the City of Hiroshima, would like to hear resonate in the remotest corners of the globe...

February 18, 2010
Biden to Push Test-Ban Treaty WSJ.com
By Jonathan Weisman
WASHINGTON-Vice President Joseph Biden will begin the first push for congressional ratification of the United Nations nuclear test-ban treaty since the Clinton presidency, with a speech Thursday saying the Obama administration's large funding request for monitoring will make tests obsolete...

February 18, 2010
Nuclear Disarmament Science: How to Be Dumb Enough to Be Smart Science/AAAS
By Eli Kintisch
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA-As underscored by today's announcement by Vice President Joe Biden, the Obama Administration has undertaken a historic effort to cut its nuclear arsenal...

February 16, 2010
Multilateral disarmament treaties can provide uniform rules for all, Petrishenko says The national legal Internet portal of the Republic of Belarus
MINSK, 16 February (BelTA) - Universal multilateral disarmament treaties are the only tools that are able to provide uniform rules of the game for all the states, said First Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus Igor Petrishenko as he addressed a plenary session of the Conference on Disarmament, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus...

February 16, 2010
Indo-Pak Rivalry Jeopardises Disarmament Conference IDN InDepthNews
By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN (IDN) - Will the persistent distrust between Pakistan and India continue to litter the bumpy road to nuclear disarmament with shrapnel and spikes and bring to naught the multilateral conference in Geneva?

February 15, 2010
MU professor tries to bring nuclear disarmament through new book Columbia Missourian
By Ally Anderson
COLUMBIA - Almost 48 years ago, Bill Wickersham, adjunct professor of peace studies at MU, took on a task that would come to dominate his life: trying to bring about global nuclear disarmament...

February 14, 2010
Gorbachev receives Dresden award for nuclear disarmament The Local
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the inaugural Dresden Prize on Sunday in recognition of his role in bringing the Cold War to a peaceful end...

February 13, 2010
New color footage of Nagasaki A-bomb devastation shows need for greater research resources The Mainichi Daily News
By Yuichi Nishigori
NAGASAKI -- Color footage of Nagasaki filmed soon after the atomic bomb was dropped on the city has been found at the National Archives in Washington D.C. by a Canadian researcher...

February 12, 2010
Banning nukes is easier than you think Morning Star
By Jody Williams
Recent years have seen leaders lining up to make resounding speeches calling for a nuclear-free world - but when it comes to action, so far they seem to be running in the opposite direction...

February 11, 2010
UN official decries disarmament forum for lack of progress UN News Centre
11 February 2010 – The Conference on Disarmament, the world’s sole multilateral disarmament negotiating forum, faces becoming irrelevant to international relations given its recent lack of progress, a senior United Nations official warned today...

February 9, 2010
COMMENTARY: Preserving the Golden Rule as a Piece of Anti-Nuclear History Huntingtonnews.net
By Lawrence S. Wittner
The Golden Rule is in danger. No, not the famed ethical code -- though proponents of selfishness certainly have ignored it -- but a thirty-foot sailing ship of the same name that rose to prominence about half a century ago...

February 9, 2010
We Each Have a Nuclear Story of Our Own The Huffington Post
By Russ Wellen
THE DEPROLIFERATOR -- "Nuclear war must be the most carefully avoided topic of general significance in the contemporary world. People are not curious about the details... almost everyone seems to feel adequately informed by reading one book about nuclear war." -- Paul Brians, chronicler of nuclear imagery in literature and pop culture...

February 7, 2010
The Road To 'Global Zero': An Interview With Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan Daily Kos
By Plutonium Page
Last week, a rather extraordinary summit took place in Paris. Over 200 leaders and experts in the field of nuclear arms control and national security gathered to discuss the threat of nuclear proliferation and terrorism, and a plan to...