Japanese survivors of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II stage a demostration to send a letter including messages from two atomic bomb victims for US President Barack Obama in front of the US embassy on November 13, 2009. ( ...
As Washington plots its course for Afghanistan, it would do well to test alternatives against America's 20th-century chronicle of victories, defeats, stalemates and what-ifs. The record suggests that should a U.S. retreat produce a "negative watershed" ...
This month marks the 60th anniversary of Moscow's entry into the nuclear club. At first blush a historic footnote, the roots of the Soviet achievement demand far more attention because they explain why President Obama will find it so difficult to ...
LOS ANGELES: While the world focused on Israel's invasion of Gaza, some thousands of miles to the east, in Sri Lanka, another inter-ethnic conflict was raging. Though many more lives were reportedly lost, Sri Lanka generated only a muted response: no ...
If Pyongyang eliminates its plutonium production enterprise, as it promised in exchange for being removed from the U.S. State Department's terrorism-sponsor list, it will be one for the history books. It also will be the Bush administration's ...
Forty years ago this month, more than 50 nations gathered in the East Room of the White House to sign the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In his memoirs, US President Lyndon B. Johnson called it "the most significant step we ...
Forty years ago this month, more than 50 nations gathered in the east room of the White House to sign the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. In his memoirs, Lyndon B Johnson called it "the most significant step we had yet taken to ...
For months Washington officials remained silent. They would not discuss Israel's Sept. 6, 2007 strike on Syria's suspect nuclear site. Then, on April 29, following secret congressional intelligence briefings, President George W. Bush spoke out at a ...
The failure of Presidents Bush and Putin to move "beyond past strategic principles, which focused on the prospect of mutual annihilation" is unacceptable. ...
The approval of fresh sanctions on Iran marks the third time that the United Nations Security Council has been galvanized to stem the Islamic Republic's feared uranium enrichment efforts. Unfortunately, the new sanctions are unlikely to be any more ...
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