Disarmament/Arms ControlArticle - Thursday, September 25, 2008
Why Asia should matter to Canadian voters
It is because Asia will intrude significantly on issues critical to Canada's welfare and security.
Article - Wednesday, August 20, 2008
The dictator walks
Pervez Musharraf is gone -- let's hope the era of tolerating and coddling Pakistani dictators is over as well
Article - Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Can Pakistan make fresh start?
In the end, for all his false bravado, the general walked. Validating Churchill's aphorism yet again, Washington finally did the right thing in casting him adrift, having first tried everything else.
Article - Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Getting a Non-Proliferation Payoff from India
When mainstream candidates for the U.S. presidency begin inserting calls for a world free of nuclear weapons into their stump speeches, you know nuclear disarmament is finally making it as a topic for polite company.
Article - Thursday, July 24, 2008
Decision time for India's nuclear exemption
So the on-again, off-again U.S.-India civilian nuclear co-operation deal is back on, although just barely.
Article - Monday, July 7, 2008
Iran closer to compromise on its uranium enrichment
The West preaches enrichment abstinence - not for all, of course, but for Iran.
Article - Thursday, November 22, 2007
No nukes, no proliferation
The rising anxieties about nuclear weapons are rooted in two major and parallel developments: a renaissance of nuclear power and a resurgence of old-fashioned national security threats that supposedly had ebbed with the end of the Cold War.
Article - Friday, October 26, 2007
Are we ready for the world going nuclear?
After more than a decade when virtually no new nuclear power plant was built, nuclear energy is making a comeback. Ontario and Alberta are not alone in giving it serious consideration. Dozens of new nuclear power plants are planned in Russia, China, the United States and India.
Article - Monday, October 1, 2007
Learning from the chemical weapons convention
The CWC has outlawed a class of weapons, instituted a comprehensive verification regime, established its own organisation responsible for implementing all provisions of the treaty, and placed its own restrictions on the export of dual-use technology.
Article - Wednesday, September 26, 2007
For an Arctic nuclear-free zone
As a non-native speaker of English, I have always been intrigued by the phrase "polar opposites." Fact is, nothing so resembles the North Pole as the South Pole.