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Ronald Reagan

An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race

By Frank von Hippel, Thomas B. Cochran, Richard L. Garwin, Roald Sagdeev | Nuclear Weapons

After a meeting in New York, President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev pose with the World Trade Center in the background.

Memories of Mikhail Gorbachev—and a unique time in Russian history

By Rose Gottemoeller | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Assessing the impact of Mikhail Gorbachev’s leadership on his country and the world

By Graham Allison | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Psychedelics: The newest tool in nuclear negotiations?

By Robert K. Elder | Nuclear Risk

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

George P. Shultz: A Cold Warrior on a warming planet

By | Interviews

The legacy of Reykjavik and the future of nuclear disarmament

By Paul F. Walker, Jonathan R. Hunt | Uncategorized