by Andrew Mack July 6, 2009 Behind the modest progress in arms-reduction agreed by Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev is a larger trend towards a world without nuclear weapons, says Andrew Mack.

By Lawrence S. Wittner June 22, 2009 With President Barack Obama and other world leaders now talking about building a nuclear-free world, it is time to consider whether that would be a good idea. Six reasons for supporting nuclear abolition are particularly cogent. The first is that nuclear weapons are morally abhorrent.  After all, they are instruments of widespread, [...]

•US accounts for more than half total increase to $1.4tn •China now second biggest spender in world league table Richard Norton-Taylor June 8, 2009 Worldwide spending on weapons has reached record levels amounting to well over $1tn last year, a leading research organisation reported today.

Por Fareed Zakaria 23 de mayo, 2009 Todo lo que sabes sobre Irán está equivocado, o por lo menos es más complicado de lo que piensas. Por ejemplo, toma la bomba. El régimen quiere ser una potencia nuclear, pero es perfectamente posible que le baste un programa nuclear civil (lo que podría significar que representa un desafío [...]