nuclear security summit

  • Reaching Zero

    As the Obama Administration prepares to release its overdue Nuclear Posture Review next week,  Jonathan Schell writes that "it will give the administration's answer to the key questions: What nuclear forces should the United States deploy? Why? What, if anything, does the United States propose to do with them?"

    April 2, 2010 - By Deborah Bain

  • Obama's Nuclear Offensive

    Huffington Post

    President Obama's new nuclear security agenda has had to weather a brutal political environment, cynics inside and outside the administration, and Cold War politics in both Russia and the U.S. Senate. But one year after his historic speech in Prague, Obama has forged internal administration consensus, lined up his initiatives, and and won congressional supporters.
    April 2, 2010 - By Joe Cirincione

  • Obama intervened often in START negotiations

     “Dmitry, we agreed,” advisers quoted a frustrated President Obama saying in a February phone call with Russian President Medvedev about the latter's stance on missile defense. “We can’t do this.

    March 29, 2010 - By Deborah Bain