Publications

Towards a mutually reinforcing future : opportunities to integrate nuclear weapons stewardship and arms control objectives

Sanders, Lani M.; Deland, Sharon M.; Pregenzer, Arian L.

2010 NPR and President Obama's 2009 Prague Speech highlighted two key objectives with an inherent underlying tension: (1) Moving towards a world free of nuclear weapons; and (2) Sustaining a safe, secure, and effective nuclear arsenal. Objective 1 depends, inter alia, upon reductions in stockpiles at home and abroad and maintaining stability. Objective 2 depends upon needed investments in modernization and life extension. Objectives being pursued predominantly in parallel by largely separate communities.