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Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger.

Henry Kissinger supported wars and coups. He also played a little-known role in eliminating bioweapons

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

The US silence on Israeli nuclear weapons and the right-wing Israeli government

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Weapons

Shultz (front left) and the author (left rear) at a 1987 National Security Council meeting on missile defense and arms control. Other participants, from left to right: Energy Secretary John Herrington, Science Advisor William Graham, Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director Robert Linhard, National Security Advisor Frank Carlucci, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director Kenneth Adelman, CIA Deputy Director Robert Gates, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Robert Herres, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. (White House photo.)

An appreciation of George Shultz, a statesman, a gentleman, and a gentle man

By William Tobey | Nuclear Risk

Moment of the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nucler Weapons, July 7, 2017. (Photo: Clare Conboy/ICAN)

Why the United States should support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

By William J. Perry | Nuclear Weapons