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Indiscriminate Weapons, Especially Cluster Munitions: Grading the Obama...
By Jeff Abramson The Obama administration started off well when on Jan. 21, 2009 it deposited ratifications to three protocols and an amendment to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW),...
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Update: Cluster Munitions, Obama Administration, Global Activities
By Jeff Abramson As the year progresses, we’ll revisit the mid-term grades given the Obama administration on their conventional weapons policies. For the moment, the D grade on cluster munitions...
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Arab Spring: A Wake Up Call on U.S. Arms Policy
By Jeff Abramson As President Obama openly ponders whether to arm rebels in Libya and the media is reporting that the CIA is already on the ground to potentially support that cause, attention is now...
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Obama’s Prague Agenda Two Years On
President Obama in 2009 at Hradčany Square Prague, Czech Republic (Image Source Christian Science Monitor) By Daryl G. Kimball In a stirring speech delivered two years ago in Prague’s Hradčany Square,...
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Bad Betting Advice on Iran from The Washington Post
The Washington Post’s editors are reinforcing the Iranian government’s narrative with respect to Tehran’s nuclear program. Last November, the editors criticized Defense Secretary Gates for “talking...
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It’s Official: Russia Below New START Limits
President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia sign the New START Treaty during a ceremony at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, April 8, 2010. (Official White House Photo by...
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Summit Successes Over Seoul-ed?
President Barack Obama (2nd R) speaks during the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit on March 27, 2012 in Seoul, South Korea. World leaders from 53 nations gathered to address the issues of nuclear...
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Is All Hope LOST for the Law of the Sea Treaty?
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) at a hearing on the Law of the Sea Treaty. By Lauren Weiss Despite the United States’ vital role in crafting the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in the 1970s...
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Sanctions Squeeze Too Tight?
An Iranian Bank designated as a proliferation financing risk by the U.S. Treasury DepartmentPhoto Credit: Getty Images By Kelsey Davenport The Administration and Congress are increasing the pressure...
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Marking the International Day Against Nuclear Tests
By Daryl G. Kimball, with research support from Daria Medvedev and Wanda Archy Today is the official International Day Against Nuclear Tests, established in 2009 on the anniversary of the closure of...
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How to Read the North Korean Nuclear Missile Threat
By Greg Thielmann North Korea parades a KN-08 in April 2012. Experts believe it is a mock-up. Enduring the continuous barrage of nuclear missile threats coming out of North Korea in recent days is not...
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Nuke Subs Sinking Navy Budget
Ohio class ballistic missile submarine USS West Virginia (SSBN 736) transits the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway as it returns to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga. from a patrol mission. (U.S. Navy...
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Friday’s Missile Defense Test: What Will It Mean?
Missile interceptor test lights up the night sky By Tom Z. Collina In its own multi-million dollar display of fireworks, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will conduct an intercept test of the...
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