Nuclear weapons

Nuclear weapons

Could there really be a war against Iran?

February 2012
Phyllis Bennis

Although political brinksmanship with Iran is nothing new, escalating tensions do not bode well for the region.

Nuclear weapons are incompatible with international humanitarian law

April 2011
Peter Weiss

The Vancouver Declaration affirms the incompatibility of nuclear weapons with International Humanitarian Law.

Learning from Disaster? After Sendai

March 2011
Richard Falk

Despite a terrible history with nuclear technology, corporate and state actors try to disconnect these mega disasters from the energy industry in order to "normalise" that which continues threatens our very existance.

Video: In Depth with Phyllis Bennis

January 2011
Phyllis Bennis

Phyllis Bennis talks in depth about her life, career, and work.

Pernicious parallels

December 2010
Mariano Aguirre

The United States' protracted fight against insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have raised the spectre of the Vietnam war. A review on recent literature on US wartime policies from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan.

From apartheid South Africa to Palestine

October 2010
Patrick Bond

With settlement expansion and continuing human rights abuses against Palestinians, the lessons from the anti-apartheid movement continue to motivate the growing global opposition to the occupation.

Why the U.S. won't cut ties with Israel, no matter how extreme its government gets

August 2010
Phyllis Bennis

Israel's defence minister spends much more time in Washington than the nation's pro-"ethnic cleansing" foreign minister; no wonder when the US is committing hundreds of billions of US taxes to Israel's militarization.

Obama’s Nuclear Postures

July 2010
Zia Mian

The latest US government nuclear review shows that Obama's nuclear policy - rhetoric aside - is no different to previous administrations, seeking to retain nuclear weapons for the indefinite future and accepting scant constraint on how these weapons might be used.

Secret Israel–South Africa Nuclear Deal Exposed

June 2010
Praful Bidwai

Recently declassified 'top secret' documents show that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to South Africa’s white-racist apartheid regime in 1975.

A final document without finality: The NPT review outcome

June 2010

The 5-year review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ended with more of a whimper than a bang.