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.

March 12, 2010
Confronting a Nuclear Tipping Point Council on Foreign Relations
Interviewee: George P. Shultz, Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman
The idea of nuclear disarmament is gaining support internationally, with the United States leading the charge and China and Russia expressing interest, says George P. Shultz, Ronald Reagan's secretary of state from 1982-89...

March 12, 2010
Extended deterrence and the tactical nuclear mirage Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
By Joshua Pollack
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the need to reassure allies has become, perhaps by default, one of the more important rationales for continuity in U.S. nuclear posture. In fact, a view frequently expressed by current and former U.S. officials holds that Washington still maintains the largest strategic nuclear arsenal in the world precisely to provide these assurances...

March 11, 2010
2010, the Year for Re-building the Movement for Nuclear Disarmament OpEdNews.Com
By Kevin Martin
2010 is the year to set the roadmap for nuclear disarmament as an international community, and the US is integral to progress...

March 10, 2010
Arms Control Advocates Call for Nuke-Free Arctic Zone Global Security Newswire
Amid growing military interest in the Arctic, a new report urges nations that border the North Pole region to declare it a nuclear weapon-free zone, the Canwest News Service reported today...

March 10, 2010
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty debated European Parliament
During the cold war the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was the cornerstone of international efforts to control the balance of nuclear bomb-making technology. In the complex post cold-war international environment, the spread of nuclear technology and fears it could fall into terrorist hands have become major concerns...

March 8, 2010
U.N. Head Calls For Productive Nuclear Treaty Meeting Global Security Newswire
The secretary general of the United Nations on Friday said he hoped for a productive Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference in May, Agence France-Presse reported...

March 7, 2010
The Last Train From Hiroshima--The Issue Is Our Future (3/2010) BASIL & SPICE
By Loyd E. Eskildson
Pellegrino's The Last Train From Hiroshima tells the personal stories of many Japanese citizens directly affected by our A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

March 5, 2010
New Zealand Celebrates 40 Years Of Nuclear Treaty Voxy.co.nz
Forty years after its entry into force on 5 March 1970, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) remains at the heart of the global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime, Disarmament Minister Georgina te Heuheu said today...

March 3, 2010
Japan Pledges Abstinence As U.S. Reviews Nuke Posture IDN InDepthNews
By Jaya Ramachandran
BERLIN (IDN) - As the only country having suffered nuclear bombings and intermittently rattled by atomic tremors from Pyongyang, Japan is not only anxiously looking forward to a new orientation of the role and mission of the U.S. nuclear forces in the next five to ten years, but also trying to influence Washington's decisions...

March 3, 2010
Will Eliminating Nuclear Weapons Make Peace More Likely? Antiwar.com
By Ivan Eland
President Barack Obama has committed to a world without nuclear weapons. Although deep cuts in the massive atomic stockpiles of the United States and Russia - with a combined total of 20,000 warheads - are possible and desirable, committing to eliminating nuclear weapons from the planet is good rhetoric but may actually be harmful to peace...

March 2, 2010
Nuclear Security Summit Participants to Include India and Pakistan Global Security Newswire
Delegates from rival nuclear states India and Pakistan are set to participate next month in U.S. President Barack Obama's Global Nuclear Security Summit, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday...

February 27, 2010
Norway - Joint disarmament initiative in NATO ISRIA Geopolitical and Diplomatic Intelligence
Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg have called on NATO to support efforts to achieve a world without nuclear weapons. "Our aim is to reduce the importance of nuclear weapons in NATO’s security policy," said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre...

February, 2010
Nonproliferation's Contribution Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
By George Perkovich, Deepti Choubey
The great destructive power of the first atomic bomb persuaded many leaders of the need to constrain that power...

February 25, 2010
What to do about tactical nuclear weapons Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
By Pavel Podvig
Since the United States and Russia might soon sign a new treaty that limits their strategic nuclear weapons, it's natural to wonder about Washington and Moscow's tactical nuclear weapons, which the treaty won't cover...

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...