All of us disarmament advocates should be happy about the just-agreed reductions in the arsenals of the world’s two biggest nuclear powers. But it’s not reason enough to break out the champagne. The U.S.-Russia agreement is certainly a big deal. Within seven years, both sides will slash their stockpiles of strategic warheads to roughly 1,500, [...]

On Dec. 5, 2009, the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) between the United States and Russia expired. This treaty limited how many nuclear warheads and other nuclear equipment each country could have. The two countries — which together hold 95 percent of the world’s nuclear warheads — have been in negotiations over a [...]

Scott Bates, who just returned to Connecticut after several weeks in the two war-torn nations, will discuss the conflicts’ implications for Connecticut and the region’s business community at the weekly meeting of the Milford Rotary, Thursday, March 11, at noon at Aldario’s Restaurant, 240 Naugatuck Ave. Bates is vice president of the Washington-based Center for [...]

On Wednesday, April 21, monks from the Leverett Peace Pagoda will be walking through Hartford as part of a campaign to raise awareness about the abolition of nuclear weapons. They and supporters are walking to inform and rally people for forthcoming Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty (NPT) Review taking place in New York City in May, as [...]

If there were a prize for worst headline of the week, even the month, it would surely go to a Feb. 23, 2010, article in the New York Times headlined online:  “Gates Calls European Mood a Danger to Peace.”  The bellicose “mood,” so undermining of global peace that our secretary of defense had to go after [...]