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Playing politics with New START harms U.S. security(Comments Off)

December 5, 2010

By Sam Nunn 8:06 p.m. Monday, December 6, 2010 The list of national security challenges facing America today is daunting. A short list of key priorities must include: preventing nuclear weapons and materials from falling into the hands of terrorists; stopping and reversing North Korea and Iran’s drive to acquire nuclear weapons; assuring supply lines [...]

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Jay Bookman: GOP playing crass politics with nuclear treaty

GOP playing crass politics with nuclear treaty 7:55 am November 22, 2010, by Jay According to Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ratification of the New START treaty with Russia is “essential to our future security.” Every single member of the joint chiefs backs him in that conclusion. Republican foreign policy [...]

Ratify disarmament treaty this year

By Robert B. Farquhar 7:04 p.m. Tuesday, November 16, 2010As a 24-year veteran of the United States Air Force, I often find myself reflecting on the oath I took when joining the service as a young man. The oath, as every veteran knows, is to the defense of the nation and to the chain of [...]

Reprint: Letter to the Editor, Macon Telegraph

Nuclear weapons The 65th anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are coming up Aug. 6 and Aug. 9. Whether or not these bombings expedited the end of WWII can be debated, but the indiscriminate destruction, horror and long-term effects of nuclear weapons cannot. The Cold War between the U.S. and Russia ended [...]


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