Debate Tour speaker William Hartung commentary on "A Nonstarter on Arms Control" by Ariel Cohen (Views, 9-10- January, NY Times). See More >>

"I m glad to see that Ariel Cohen and Baker Spring of the Heritage Foundation took the time to read my recent post A New START on Arms Control] on the security benefits of a follow-on to the U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). My piece was a rebuttal of Mr. Cohen's recent New York Times op-ed on the issue, so I welcome their rebuttal of my rebuttal. Perhaps this can be the start of a beautiful friendship.." See More >>

"Ariel Cohen's essay on the Obama administration's approach to nuclear arms reductions ("A Nonstarter on Arms Control," New York Times, January 8th) is both alarmist and misleading. It is alarmist because it suggests that even relatively small steps towards reducing the world's arsenal of over 20,000 strategic nuclear warheads could somehow put us in danger. . . . " See More >>

This backgrounder makes the case for a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between the United States and Russia, and rebuts the key arguments from critics of the agreement. This report has been chosen because it is representative of the key arguments being made by New START critics. See More >>

Debate Tour speaker William Hartung commentary on an article by Joe Cirincione in the 18 October 2009 issue of the Washington Post. See More >>

President Obama's decision to chair a special session of the UN Security Council focused on nuclear disarmament is an historic step, but you wouldn't know it from earding and watching some of the media coverage that has come out in advance of this Thursday's meeting. See More >>

It has been over six decades since the first nuclear weapons were used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing and disfiguring hundreds of thousands of human beings in the process. While at the moment it may not be the stuff of dinner table conversation, it's long past time that we had a national dialogue about eliminating these weapons of mass terror once and for all. See More >>

The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to undertake an extensive, multi-billion dollar investment in new nuclear weapons facilities and new nuclear warhead designs. The initiative, knows as "Complex Transformation," is unnecessary on strategic and technical grounds, not to mention exorbitantly expensive. See More >>

This policy brief grew out of discussions with a team of former national security and foreign policy officials held at the Washington office of the Fourth Freedom Forum in the Summer of 2003. The staff of the Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame wrote the original report and also updated the report in 2007 to reflect current policy considerations.