Saving the INF Treaty – I

January 25th, 2019

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NATO and Nuclear Disarmament III – Understanding the Other, when the other is Russia

January 10th, 2019

It’s clear from Cold War arms control agreements that political harmony and broad strategic cooperation are not prerequisites for progress on nuclear disarmament. It is nevertheless hard to see the US and Russia launching new rounds of nuclear arms control talks without some serious efforts at building mutual trust and understanding within the Euro/Atlantic  political/security […]

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Arctic Security, Defence and Human Security, Nuclear Disarmament, Uncategorized

NATO and Nuclear Disarmament III – Understanding the Other, when the other is Russia

January 10th, 2019

It’s clear from Cold War arms control agreements that political harmony and broad strategic cooperation are not prerequisites for progress on nuclear disarmament. It is nevertheless hard to see the US and Russia launching new rounds of nuclear arms control talks without some serious efforts at building mutual trust and understanding within the Euro/Atlantic  political/security […]

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Cancelling the Saudi Arms Deal

December 20th, 2018

The following letter to the editor appeared in the Globe and Mail of December 20, 2018, written in response to the December 18 op-ed by Bessma Momani of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Centre for International Governance Innovation, “Cancelling Canada’s Saudi arms deal would merely be a feel-good measure.” Canada’s been selling […]

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Arms Trade, Defence and Human Security

Nuclear Submarines in the Arctic: Limiting Strategic Anti-Submarine Warfare

December 4th, 2018

The Arctic is the primary home of Russia’s nuclear ballistic missile submarine force. That fleet, like its American counterpart, is being “modernized,” the subs are patrolling more often, and, inevitably, American attack submarines are paying increasing attention. Four decades ago, in a climate of intense Cold War confrontation and nuclear dangers, when American and Soviet […]

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Arctic Security, Nuclear Disarmament

NATO and Nuclear Disarmament – II: It’s Time to End NATO Nuclear Sharing

November 12th, 2018

The ongoing forward deployment of non-strategic US nuclear weapons in Western Europe raises fundamental issues of strategic stability (including pre-emption, nuclear first-use, and war-fighting doctrines), public safety, and meeting Treaty obligations. American B61 nuclear gravity bombs are currently based in five European NATO member countries under NATO’s nuclear sharing policy, an arrangement that will come […]

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Nuclear Disarmament Action Priorities for Canada

November 9th, 2018

Two Canadian groups with a long history of engaging the Government of Canada on nuclear disarmament policy priorities – The Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (a project of the Canadian Pugwash Group) – have written to the Prime Minister, drawing attention to the escalating nuclear threat and […]

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Nuclear Disarmament

From Defending to Exercising Arctic Sovereignty

October 26th, 2018

Questions about sovereignty are a constant in Canadian discourse on the Arctic – a current iteration being a study of “Canada’s Sovereignty in the Arctic” by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE). As of Oct 22, the Committee had held four sessions, heard 15 witnesses, and received four written […]

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Saving the INF Treaty

October 25th, 2018

A letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland on President Donald Trump’s declared intention to pull the United States out of the  US-Russian Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. October 25, 2018 The Hon. Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs Global Affairs Canada 125 Sussex Drive Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0G2 Dear Minister Freeland, We write to […]

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