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Events

Springtime for Disarmament: How Wide a Window for Nuclear Rollback?
The Century Foundation & Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - 3/29/2010

A Year of Crises: Opportunities for Change
The Century Foundation & The UNA-USA Southern New York State Division - 2/19/2010

Windows of Opportunity? Prospects and Challenges for Reversing Weapons Threats
Featuring Hans Bilx and Graham Allison
4/10/08 The Century Foundation

Weapons Threats and International Security: Rebuilding an Unraveled Consensus
The Century Foundation
2/26/2007 Millennium U.N. Plaza Hotel

Key Publications
Breaking the Nuclear Impasse: New Prospects for Security against Weapons Threats
Jeffrey Laurenti, Carl Robichaud, Century Foundation Press, 9/5/2007
Curbing nuclear weapons has never been a more urgent priority for nations both great and small, but the global system of nuclear controls seems paralyzed. Have the instruments that once worked so well lost their efficacy? What can be done to clear the obstructions and break this impasse?
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View chapter 4, "Nuclear Pessimism Is Not the Answer" by Michael Krepon.
View chapter 6, "Remembering Nonproliferation Principles" by William C. Potter
Reversing the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
Carl Robichaud, The Century Foundation, 8/29/2006
America’s most acute national security threat is a catastrophic attack with nuclear weapons. Yet the United States has lacked a coherent and vigorous strategy to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to states and terrorist groups.
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Ultimate Security: Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction
Janne Nolan, Brian D. Finlay, Bernard I. Finel, Century Foundation Press, 11/1/2004
Eight prominent scholars and practitioners examine how the U.S. government has organized to contend with the WMD proliferation phenomenon in the post-cold war environment.
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Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement
Selig Harrison, Princeton University Press, 4/15/2002
Journalist Selig Harrison explores the critical challenges that Korea will present to U.S. policymakers in the coming decade.
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Commentary
Testimony on North Korea
Morton Abramowitz, The Century Foundation, 7/20/2006
Senior Fellow Morton Abramowitz analyzes current relations with North Korea and other Asian partners in light of recent missile tests, and suggests diplomatic strategies for the U.S.
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A New Grand Bargain for Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Morton H. Halperin, The Century Foundation, 1/18/2006
With Iran and North Korea both continuing to defy American efforts to get them to abandon nuclear programs, we need to consider whether we are on the right track in our attempts to halt nuclear proliferation. 
A Shot in the Arm
Carl Robichaud, The Century Foundation, 10/7/2005
The spread of nuclear weapons poses the greatest threat to U.S. and world security—and we'd better step up our efforts to address it.
A Misstep with India
Carl Robichaud, The Century Foundation, 7/22/2005
Pulling India into a parallel nuclear regime is not a bad idea per se, but could have been pursued in a way that promotes U.S. interests much more effectively.
The Ad Hoc Approach to Nukes
Carl Robichaud, The Century Foundation, 6/2/2005
How U.S. policies are undermining the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
A Nuclear Conference that We Can’t Let Fail
Jeffrey Laurenti, The Century Foundation, 5/2/2005
Both Washington and American news media have all given short shrift to the five-year review conference of the 187 countries subscribing to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Modest Progress, Missed Opportunities
Carl Robichaud, The Century Foundation, 2/25/2005
President Bush's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his trip to Europe produced a threat reduction plan that can best be described as modest progress—with major missed opportunities.
The Six Parties Must Act Together
Morton Abramowitz, Stephen Bosworth, Financial Times, 2/22/2005
The North Korean nuclear problem may be rapidly approaching the point at which the US will have to develop a concerted policy, not just a posture.
What the 9/11 Commission Forgot
Carl Robichaud, The Century Foundation, 8/4/2004
Little attention is being paid to an important flaw in our anti-terror capabilities: inadequate and uncoordinated efforts to secure loose chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear materials.


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