Harvard Political Review - A Brave New World? by Mikhail Gorbachev
As the last leader of the Soviet Union, President Mikhail Gorbachev presided over a peaceful end to the Cold War and liberated the former Eastern Bloc from totalitarianism’s iron grip. In a roundtable discussion with a group of journalists held on December 4, 2007 at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gorbachev, who won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, discussed nuclear proliferation, the results of the Russian elections, and other domestic and foreign policy issues Russia faces in the future. Questions asked by the HPR, which was present at the event, are denoted as such.
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Bush Makes Last Desperate Attempt to Derail Progress on Global Warming
WASHINGTON (April 16, 2008) — This afternoon, President George W. Bush is expected to announce a new proposal to halt growth in U.S. global warming pollution by 2025. His proposal is inadequate and falls far short of pollution reduction goals in domestic legislation and international treaties, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). This summer, the U.S. Senate is expected to consider a bill that would drastically reduce global warming pollution by 2020. Internationally, other industralized countries have pledged to reduce global warming pollution 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
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Scientists Call on Next President to Take Unilateral Steps to Reduce Nuclear Weapons Threat, Set World On Path Toward Prohibition
WASHINGTON (April 17, 2008) – Ninety-five prominent scientists today called on the next president to reform our country's nuclear weapons policy to reflect post-Cold War realities. They recommended a number of practical, unilateral steps that the White House could take to enhance national security and lay the groundwork for a world without nuclear weapons.
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Scientists urge cutbacks in U.S. nuclear arsenal - Los Angeles Times
A proposal to sharply cut the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and renounce first use of the bombs was offered Thursday by 95 members of the National Academy of Sciences. The group, mostly physicists at major U.S. universities who have collectively won 23 Nobel Prizes, said that the existing U.S. weapons program was undermining the nation's security.
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Aldermaston protest recalls the birth of CND - Home News, UK - The Independent
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More than 80 people arrested at annual protest at Livermore lab - San Jose Mercury News
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BBC NEWS | Europe | France to reduce nuclear warheads
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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | World's best-known protest symbol turns 50
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The State | 03/11/2008 | 50 years after being A-bombed by accident, a small S.C. community has made peace with history
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We shall (not) overcome... Nuclear protest survived six Tory governments. But not New Labour - Home News, UK - Independent.co.uk
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Atlantic Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - The Seventh Decade – The New Shape of Nuclear Danger. Book Review by Jim Miles
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New Report Recommends Unilateral Steps for the Next U.S. President to Reduce Threat of Nuclear Weapons, Lead World to Eventual Ban
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Comment is free: A world without nuclear weapons
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