April 18, 2013

Former Secretary of Defense William Perry and Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter highlighted nuclear risks and warned against slipping backward on the nuclear threat reduction agenda.  Speaking about nuclear security, Carter told Bay Area women leaders, "You can never ever take your eye off this because it's the single most consequential security problem we face as humankind."

March 30, 2013

The PIR Center invited university professors and research institute staff from Russia and the former Soviet states to learn more about and discuss key events and trends in nonproliferation, arms control, peaceful nuclear energy and nuclear security, global Internet governance, and global information security with leading experts in the field.

March 26, 2013

Ramesh Thakur highlights a new report from Australia National University called "Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play” in a Japan Times op-ed.  The report assesses the progress made through 2012 on  more than 200 commitments and recommendations of the 2010 NPT Review Conference, the 2010 and 2012 Nuclear Security Summits, and the 2009 ICNND report, noting that commitments on disarmament are falling through the cracks.

March 15, 2013

Ahead of the next round of U.S.-Russia arms control talks, Poland can play a leading role in preparing NATO's position on confidence-building and transparency measures around non-strategic nuclear weapons, writes Łukasz Kulesa in a new bulletin from the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM).

March 13, 2013

In an op-ed in AffairInternazionali, an Italian political strategy magazine, Federica Mogherini profiles the most recent op-ed by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn and lays out an updated and urgent nuclear agenda for Italy's new government to support.