Nuclear States

In an article in the Washington Independent, leading nuclear weapons analysts -- all Ploughshares Fund grantees and president

"The Obama administration's decision announced today to cancel the deeply flawed antimissile systems in Eastern Europe is sound policy based on the best intelligence and technical assessments," writes Joe Cirincione in Foreign Policy.

As the saying goes, everything old is new again. And so it seems with nuclear weapons. Calls for abolishing nuclear weapons are as old as the Manhattan Project that created them. Since that time, there have been ebbs and flows of progress, public attention and political energy devoted to the goal. Today, we are seeing an impressive new momentum and urgency to achieving real and lasting reductions in the world's nuclear arsenals, with complete elimination as the ultimate goal. So, what's new? 

After the homecoming of American journalists from North Korea, an article for Herald de Paris discusses what the North Korean media said about the incident.  A