Nuclear Weapons Resources

 

NATO Watch launches independent information website

 
 

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Website


Posted On: Mar 09, 2010


 

www.natowatch.orgJournalists and researchers writing about NATO need to be able to quickly find accurate and reliable information at their fingertips. Congressmen and women and members of the public need to keep up to date with developments in an Alliance that impacts on over 890 million citizens within the 28 Member States - a number that increases to 20 per cent of the global population when Partner ...

 
 

NATO Watch Observatory No.5 - January 2010

 
 

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Posted On: Jan 11, 2010


 

Monthly newsletter focusing on NATO policy-making and operational activities. The clips are drawn from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals worldwide

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Remarks by Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn before the Connect U.S. Fund, Washington, DC

 
 

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Posted On: Jan 06, 2010


 

DATE:  MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2009 MR. LYNN:  Thanks very much, Nancy. Nancy had a way of working with Senator Kennedy.  As you know, he had an unforgettable speaking style.  Face reddened and fist pounding-that Boston Brahmin accent.  You might think that all came naturally, and usually it did.  But occasionally, on one topic or another, he might lag a bit.  And Nancy would anticipate that.  You have to remember, on the Senate floor, there's nobody there, so there's no excitement.  So...

 
 

Edward Rawson Government Relations Fellow, Citizens for Global Solutions

 
 

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Job


Posted On: Jan 05, 2010


 

Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) is seeking to appoint an Edward Rawson Government Relations Fellow to work out of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Citizens for Global Solutions embraces a vision of a world in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation alone can solve. To this end, Citizens for Global Solutions educates Americans about our global interdependence, communicates global concerns to...

 
 

Kim's Atom Project

 
 

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Report-Paper


Posted On: Dec 14, 2009


 

 by Doug BandowDoug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. A former special assistant to President Reagan, he is the author of Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World (Cato Institute) and co-author of The Korean Conundrum: America's Troubled Relations with North and South Korea (Palgrave/Macmillan).Special envoy Stephen Bosworth has returned from Pyongyang after what he called "exploratory talks, not negotiations" over North Korea's nuclear program. Before that t...

 
 

NATO Watch Observatory No.4

 
 

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Other


Posted On: Dec 08, 2009


 

The fourth edition of NATO Watch’s bi-monthly Observatory newsletter. Our focus is on NATO policy-making and operational activities and the clips are drawn from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals worldwide.

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Talking about Nuclear Weapons with the Persuadable Middle: A New Report from U.S. in the World

 
 

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Tool


Posted On: Nov 24, 2009


 

U.S. in the World released a new report this month about addressing nuclear weapons issues with the mainstream American public. The report presents messaging guidance based on research conducted by the Topos Partnership on behalf of the Union of Concerned Scientists, American Environics, and Greenberg, Quinlan and Rosner.

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Program Officer, Stanley Foundation

 
 

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Job


Posted On: Nov 19, 2009


 

The Stanley Foundation seeks a program officer for its Policy and Outreach Department. The chosen candidate will conceptualize, design, and implement programming that focuses on strengthening multilateral approaches to peace and security and building support for multilateralism, especially in the United States. Foundation programming in this area relies heavily on expert dialogues (dialogues include US and foreign officials, influential scholars, journalists, and NGO leaders). It also include...

 
 

Research Intern, The Ploughshares Fund

 
 

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Job


Posted On: Nov 16, 2009


 

Ploughshares Fund is seeking an intern for the Spring Semester.  Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, conducting research on arms control and international security for articles, books and testimonies, as well as aiding in the daily operations of the Ploughshares Washington office.  The intern will report directly to the Project Manager. Responsibilities- Provide research support to the President and Project Manager - Carry out web-based research on arms control and...

 
 

NATO Watch Observatory No.3

 
 

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Posted On: Nov 09, 2009


 

NATO Watch bi-monthly Observatory with a focus on NATO policy-making and operational activities. The clips are drawn from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals world.

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Policy Staff Openings, National Security Network

 
 

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Job


Posted On: Nov 05, 2009


 

 The National Security Network (NSN), the political voice of the progressive national security community, is filling two positions for its policy team.  Our policy unit comprises 3-4 individuals who report to the Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer and who work as a team to advance progressive national security policies with Administration policy makers, Members of Congress and their aides, political campaigns, the think tank and advocacy communities, and the media.  Team members will ...

 
 

NATO Watch Observatory No.2

 
 

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Other


Posted On: Oct 16, 2009


 

Bi-monthly newsletter that focuses on NATO policy and operations, drawing its clips from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals worldwide.

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Manager of Security Programs, Physicians for Social Responsibility

 
 

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Job


Posted On: Oct 15, 2009


 

 Job Announcement Manager of Security Programs Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) seeks an articulate, creative, and experienced professional to join PSR as the Manager of its Security Programs.  The goal of the Security Program is to assert a strong medical voice for the prevention of nuclear war, against the development and use of nuclear weapons, and for a reduction in the role of armed force in US foreign and security policy, emphasizing alternative strategies for conflic...

 
 

Letter to the President on the Nuclear Posture Review

 
 

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Blog


Posted On: Oct 14, 2009


 

Organizations across the country joined together to send a letter to President Obama thanking him for his leadership on nuclear weapons issues and making recommendations for how the Nuclear Posture Review can best achieve the vision he laid out in his speech from Prague.The Obama administration is working on its Nuclear Posture Review, which will set U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the next 5-10 years. This review is an opportunity to reject outdated Cold War thinking and create a transformat...

 
 

NATO Watch Observatory

 
 

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Other


Posted On: Oct 02, 2009


 

Bi-monthly newsletter with NATO news and opinion clips

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Sign on Letter on Nuclear Posture Review (Oct 5 Deadline)

 
 

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Blog


Posted On: Oct 01, 2009


 

The Obama administration's Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is a major, official assessment that will set U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the next 5-10 years and could put us on a path toward eliminating nuclear weapons. However, there is strong opposition to a major shift in policy. According to an article on Secretary of Defense Gates' remarks at an Air Force Association conference recently: "Gates previewed findings of the ongoing Nuclear Posture Review by endorsing the need to sustain an...

 
 

Chief Development Officer, Ploughshares Fund

 
 

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Job


Posted On: Sep 23, 2009


 

Rare opportunity to lead fundraising at Ploughshares Fund, the leading international public grantmaking and operating foundation working to reduce and ultimately eliminate nuclear weapons.  Combining high-level advocacy, an enhanced grantmaking capacity and our own expertise, Ploughshares Fund is helping to fundamentally change nuclear weapons policy.Ploughshares Fund is headquartered in San Francisco where the development department is based, with policy experts located in Washington, DC.Th...

 
 

President Obama's remarks before the UN General Assembly

 
 

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Posted On: Sep 23, 2009


 

President Barack Obama delivered the attached remarks before the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Sept. 23.

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Fall 2009 World Policy Journal: "Armageddon's Shadow: Learning to Live with the Bomb"

 
 

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Posted On: Sep 18, 2009


 

In the fall issue of World Policy Journal, from inside the Iranian power elite, Kayhan Barzegar, a senior research fellow at the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran, offers the unique perspective of the determination of Iran's leadership to develop a "nuclear capability." In a Q&A with the editors, Hans Blix, the veteran International Atomic Energy Agency monitor and strategic thinker, answers some hard questions about whether a move toward a world without nuclear weaponsÂ...

 
 

Recommended UN Security Council Actions to Advance Nuclear Disarmament

 
 

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Report-Paper


Posted On: Sep 18, 2009


 

The Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy has published this action paper by Dr. John Burroughs, describing steps the UN Security Council should take to promote disarmament.

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