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Overcoming Nuclear Dangers
In January 2007 the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the hands of its famous Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight . . .
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In January 2007 the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the hands of its famous Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight, in recognition of the growing danger from nuclear weapons. While nuclear dangers and East-West rivalries are on the rise, recent months have brought glimmers of hope for a denuclearized future. Perhaps the most remarkable sign of hope came in January 2007, when former Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger joined with former Senator Sam Nunn and former Secretary of Defense William Perry in issuing a statement, published in The Wall Street Journal, calling for "a world free of nuclear weapons." This paper, published in a policy brief in November 2007 by the Stanley Foundationis a contribution to that discussion.
November 2007
By David Cortright
To read the paper in pdf, please go to Overcoming Nuclear Dangers
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David Cortright is chair of the Board and Senior Fellow of the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana and codirector of its Sanctions and Security Research Program. He is also director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as consultant or advisor to various agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Along with George A. Lopez he has provided research and consulting services to the Foreign Ministry of Sweden, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and the Foreign Ministry of Germany. He has written widely on nuclear disarmament, nonviolent social change, and the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international peacemaking.
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