OneWorld.net (U.S.)

OneWorld has an extensive library of articles on nucear weapons. Some recent highlights are offered below.

• Citizens for Global Solutions has a helpful fact sheet on the NPT, with a particular focus on the U.S., India, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, and North Korea

• Week one of the NPT review conference ends in deadlock while U.N. officials and disarmament advocates warn that nuclear weapons are spreading and could spin regional conflicts out of control.

• Retired U.S. newscaster Walter Cronkite faults the news media for largely ignoring the U.S. role in evading responsibility for the growing nuclear threat.

• UN agency reports on Iran have produced no recent evidence of development of nuclear weapons and recommends that the U.S. join the European strategy of diplomatic engagement.

• The Cold War may have ended, but its relics remain scattered across the European continent in the form of U.S. nuclear weapons—nearly 500 of them, according to a recent report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

• A global network of over 2,000 organizations has called on all nations to come to May’s NPT summit with a plan for phasing out all nuclear weapons by 2020.

• The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency offers a seven-point plan to be taken up at May’s nuclear non-proliferation summit in New York.

• A news article from The Hindu reviews progress made by India and Pakistan on nuclear talks.

• In December 2004, the U.S. Congress dealt a major setback to the Bush Administration’s ambitions for building new weapons.

• In June 2004, U.S. officials presented a two-phase proposal in which North Korea would receive fuel oil if it agrees to freeze and dismantle its nuclear programs.

• A OneWorld report from South Asia reviews the increasing amounts of money being spent by the developing world on defense.

• In this briefing note, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation suggests how the U.S. and other nations can and must exert greater control over the “nuclear underground.”