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Media Release: First BASIC Trident Commission Paper Points To Worrying Trends in the World’s Nuclear Armed States
October 30, 2011
The BASIC Trident Commission publishes its first discussion paper Monday 31 October on recent worrying developments in the nuclear force structures...
Announcement on Finland hosting 2012 conference is "burying good news"
October 14, 2011
Today’s announcement that Finland will host and provide the facilitator for a 2012 conference on a WMD-free zone in the Middle East is a welcome...
Experts Urge NATO to Reduce Role of Nuclear Weapons and Open the Door for the Removal of U.S. Tactical Warheads
July 18, 2011
More than two dozen nuclear experts and former senior government officials (including Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Gen. Bernard Norlain of France) are...
An agenda for the P5 meeting in Paris: BASIC report
June 28, 2011
The world’s officially recognised nuclear powers, meeting in Paris today, should expand upon their existing commitments under the Nuclear Non-...
U.S. Senate approves New START nuclear treaty
December 22, 2010
“The ratification of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is a significant political victory for the global disarmament agenda and efforts...
Experts Call NATO Strategic Concept 'Missed Opportunity to Reduce Role of Obsolete Tactical Nukes from Europe'
November 19, 2010
U.S. and European nuclear arms control and security experts criticized NATO’s new “Strategic Concept” as a conservative, backward-looking...
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee sends nuclear weapons treaty to full Senate
September 15, 2010
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee today voted to refer the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) to the full Senate. If the treaty...
Time to reassess Trident options amid funding crisis: BASIC report
August 27, 2010
  It is time to reassess options for the replacement of the Trident nuclear missile submarines in the light of indications that the capital cost...
British last-minute contribution to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference
May 25, 2010
The new British government’s announcement today of a total limit of 225 nuclear warheads is to be welcomed...
NATO 'Experts Group' misses an opportunity for leadership on nuclear posture
May 16, 2010
BASIC and Arms Control Association Press Release (London/Berlin/Washington, D.C./New York) – U.S. and European nuclear arms control and...