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Global Zero roles forward
The Global Zero Commission announced an “Action Plan,” a “step-by-step process to achieve total elimination of nuclear weapons,” today in press conference at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, D.C....
View ArticleGlobal Zero Seeks Young Leaders
Parsa Bastani at Global Zero forwards the following opportunity for undergrads:On July 22, we're launching the Global Zero Student Summer - a 3-week program for students in Washington, DC to meet...
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Is the bomb boring you?
James MacPherson of the AP reported yesterday that:"The Air Force discharged three North Dakota ballistic missile crew members who fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices, the military...
View ArticleImagining Iran
Like millions around the world, we are moved by the reports and images of Iranian citizens demanding effective democracy and resisting violent oppression. We are reminded of earlier instances when...
View ArticleNew video from the Two Futures Project
We recoomend the following 2 minnutes video with gratitude to Joe Cirincione for passing it along:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgsL7L-2MKc&feature=channel
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Renew Article IV with Renewables
Forty-two years since the conclusion of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the world has changed substantially. Nuclear power generation has provided enormous quantities of...
View ArticleNuclear Umbrella: Pick 40
Defense News recently ran an editorial arguing that the United States should build new nuclear weapons or run the risk of losing the skills necessary to build these weapons, and:“That's simply...
View ArticleNewsweek misrepresents nuclear weapons scholarship
Jonathan Tepperman’s thesis in his September 7th Newsweek article “Why Obama should Learn to Love the Bomb” that “a growing and compelling body of research suggests that nuclear weapons may not, in...
View ArticleLT in the FT
Leonor is quoted in Wednesday’s Financial Timesstory“Split on the atom” by Ed Crooks and James Blitz:"The world will be a much more dangerous place if more countries acquire enrichment and reprocessing...
View ArticleGlobal Zero World Summit -- student opportunities
The following is posted at the request of Claire Morelon from Global Zero. If you are a GW student, of course, I'm also interested in knowing if you're planning to apply.Seeking Student Representatives...
View ArticleThe Contribution of the Global South to Nuclear Nonproliferation
A talk I gave at a FLACSO Conference on “The Nuclear Challenge” Santiago, Chile on September 4, 2008:I would like to begin by thanking FLACSO and the organizers of this conference for the opportunity...
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T family values
Undersecretary of State for International Security and Arms Control Ellen O. Tauscher shared her perspectives on her current tasks and her career with students and faculty of the Elliott School of...
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Ambassador Max Kampelman on Nuclear Disarmament
Ambassador Max Kampelman, the Democrat who became President Ronald Reagan’s arms control negotiator and who is argued to have initiated the new political momentum behind nuclear disarmament, addressed...
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What Richard Perle and Andrew Marshall think you should know about nuclear...
Stuck at home in a blizzard, I'm catching up with my DVR and found the following gem of an exchange that took place at the Hudson Institute on February 23, 2009 and was aired on C-Span 2's Book TV at...
View ArticleEverybody's Bomb: Urgency, Inclusion, and Hope in Response to Nuclear Weapons
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery byDouglas B. Shaw on March 16, 2010At a Woodstock Theological Center Forum on "God and the Bomb: Deterrence, Disarmament and Human Security" at Georgetown UniversityIn...
View ArticleFaculty Goals and Resource Needs for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Safeguards...
Remarks Delivered byDouglas B. Shawat the U.S. Department of Energy’sNext Generation Safeguards Initiative Human Capital Development Conferencehosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory in cooperation...
View ArticleHigher Education and the Nuclear Summit
Menachem Wecker recently interviewed me about the Nuclear Security Summit and how it relates to higher education; the interview is available at The George Washington University homepage at...
View ArticleThe Bomb: A New History (first of three reactions)
Reading Stephen M. Younger’s The Bomb:A New History over the weekend, I had three strong reactions, the first of which I summarize below. This is an interesting and important book and my students can...
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A Walk the Senate should take
Last night's Washington opening of theAmerican Ensemble Theaterproduction ofA Walk in the Woodscould not be more timely.Lee Blessing's Pulitzer-nominated play casts two people with the awesome...
View ArticleTeaching Nonproliferation: Hands on, Online, and Followed on
Last month I attended a terrific meeting on the topic of “Nuclear Security Education: The Intersection of Policy, Science, and Technology” hosted by the University of Tennessee Howard H. Baker, Jr....
View ArticleA Dangerous Gap in Nuclear Education
Neglect of the study of nuclear weapons in higher education has resulted in a gap in the specialized knowledge needed today.In 2009 remarks at the ElliottSchool, Sir Lawrence Freedman observed a...
View ArticleDraft outline of my spring course on Nuclear Proliferation and Nonproliferation
Substantive comments welcomed.1: Technical requirements of nuclear proliferationPART I:Nuclear Proliferation2: Assessing nuclear proliferation3.Explaining and predicting nuclear proliferation, part...
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Introductory remarks at Global Security Engagement Conference
Good morning, my name is Doug Shaw and I am an associate dean here at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.It is an honor and a pleasure to welcome you to our...
View ArticleWelcome Remarks at Workshop on Teaching the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Good morning, and welcome to The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. I’m Doug Shaw, as associate dean here at GW’s Elliott School, and I am grateful for your...
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