Center Chief and Baker Spring to Debate Nuclear Reductions Tonight
Kingston Reif | Feb 16, 2010 |
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Call it the Debate to End All Debates. Or Isa-ageddon. Or John 3:16. It's John Isaacs vs. Baker Spring, live tonight. Event information is below, as if you didn't already have it on your calendars.
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PONI Debates the Issues: Nuclear Reductions
Resolved: further reductions in the nuclear arsenal are in the national security interest of the United States.
Date: Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1800 K Street, NW, Washington DC, 20006 CSIS B1 Conference Center
The CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) will host the sixth event in a series of live debates that bring together top nuclear experts to debate key nuclear topics.
The debate will feature John Isaacs, Executive Director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Baker Spring, F.M. Kirby Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
To RSVP, contact Chris Jones via e-mail <mailto:cjones@csis.org> or by phone at (202) 775-3234
Center Executive Director John Isaacs Discusses START on Russia Today
Katie | Jan 29, 2010 | 0 
Last night, Center Executive Director John Isaacs was interviewed on the Russia Today news program on START.
Watch the video to see John's views on the impact of the December 5th expiration of START and the timeline for finalizing its successor.
Read the brief excerpt below, and then watch the video on our YouTube channel.
Here we are, almost 20 years after the Cold War ended, and both the US and Russia still have huge [numbers of] – many tens of thousands – nuclear weapons. There are about 23,000 nuclear weapons across the globe, and Russia and the US have over 90% of them. And this treaty is designed to begin the reduction process, which then has to go much further beyond this treaty. The US Senate takes a long time to deal with this treaty, so even if the two presidents of Russia and the United States signed an agreement let’s say the next month, by February, it still will take several months, maybe many months, before the US Senate ratifies.
John Isaacs and Tom Schelling on a Nuke-Free World
Kingston Reif | Jan 07, 2010 | 0 Yesterday Center Executive Director John Isaacs joined LA Times reporter Paul Richter and Nobel Prize winner Tom Schelling to discuss New START and a world free of nuclear weapons on Seattle's NPR affiliate. The audio can be found here. The discussion on nuclear weapons begins at the 14:10 mark and John's comments start at the 26: 18 mark.
Speaking of Schelling, his piece "A World Without Nuclear Weapons?" in the Fall 2009 edition of Daedalus was profiled in the New York Times' "Idea of the Day" blog on Tuesday.
NoH was on top of Schelling's article last November and December with a two-part response by friend of NoH Alex Bollfrass. If you can stomach the reference's to the Cal-Stanford football rivalry (apparently Alex and Tom share a common alma mater), it's a great discussion of the desirability and feasibility of abolition (and even has a great picture of disgraced Congressman William Jefferson's freezer!).
