August 04, 2009
The Road to Zero
President Barack Obama has set an ambitious agenda for arms control and nonproliferation, making a START follow-on agreement with Russia and strengthening the NPT top priorities. But critics argue there are more promising ways to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. WPR examines The Road to Zero.
Feature articles in this theme:
By Richard Weitz
04 Aug 2009 |
World Politics Review
Since taking office, President Barack Obama has made the pursuit of Russian-American strategic arms control negotiations a priority. But challenges to concluding a START follow-on treaty by year's end remain, as does the question of whether both sides' desire to stabilize their nuclear relationship will outweigh their concerns over their regional security goals.
By Miles A. Pomper
04 Aug 2009 |
World Politics Review
To a significant degree, the Obama administration's posture to date on
a variety of nonproliferation issues has been calibrated to position
the United States to gain desired concessions at the upcoming NPT review
conference. Nonetheless, it is not clear that President Barack Obama's new approach will yield markedly better results than those of his predecessor.
By James Carafano
04 Aug 2009 |
World Politics Review
There is a problem with President Barack Obama's plan to run down
the "road to zero" -- namely, that we've been down that road before, and
it did not get us very far. The White House is resurrecting the
traditional instruments of nuclear nonproliferation and arms control
that, by and large, proved a failure at ever eliminating one nuclear
weapon or a single missile.