Show your support for Mainstream Media Project by liking us on Facebook and following us on Twitter. Get regular updates about what we are working on and who you can interview to learn more.

Featured Guests

Craig Eisendrath
policy analyst
National intelligence; missile defense; national security and responses to threats; star wars as a policy response; intelligence failures prior to 9/11: where the failures happened, how the warnings should have been tracked, need for interagency cooperation, networks of field operatives, and increased language skills; what can be done to make intelligence agencies more efficient and effective; effects of war against terrorism on civil liberties and domestic priorities; (Department of) Homeland Security and whether the kind of security the U.S. wants is possible; substantive changes in foreign and domestic law, policy, and priorities since 9/11
Project for Nuclear Awareness
David Cortright
Board Chair and former President, Fourth Freedom Forum
US foreign policy, strategies against terrorism; Iraq and Iran; sanctions; nuclear disarmament, and nonviolent social change; nuclear issues in North Korea and Iran
Fourth Freedom Forum
Edward Aguilar
Founding Executive Director
SSS, U.S. nuclear weapons policy, potential for a future nuclear weapons abolition treaty
Project for Nuclear Awareness
Greg Mello
Executive Director
Nuclear proliferation, Stockpile Stewardship Management Program, SSMP, nuclear labs lobbying politicians and the Pentagon for new generations of nuclear weapons
Los Alamos Study Group
Heather Hurlburt
Primary Organization Title, National Security Network
Nuclear Nonproliferation
Heather Hurlburt
Ivan Oelrich
Vice President, currently Acting President, Federation of American Scientists
Focused on sizing military forces, appropriate military technology, and reducing nuclear weapons worldwide
Federation of American Scientists
Leonor Tomero
Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Nuclear weapons, nuclear processing, nuclear terrorism, nuclear waste, nonproliferation and disarmament, NPT and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Lorelei Kelly
Director of National Security Program
Security, international affairs and conflict resolution; peacekeeping to terrorism, cyberthreats to nuclear non- proliferation; women's involvement in arms control and disarmament in Europe; underground democracy movements in Eastern Europe; peace process; conflict prevention and supporting democracies abroad
American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation
Matthew Rojansky
Executive Director
Nuclear weapons, bipartisanship, cooperation for the greater good in America, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's), biological warfare, chemical warfare, nuclear non-proliferation
Partnership for a Secure America

Nonproliferation and Disarmament: First Pillar to Strengthen the US

President Obama works to get Test Ban Treaty Ratified
Issue Area:


Nonproliferation and Disarmament: First Pillar to Strengthen the US

“Today, let me put forward four pillars that I believe are fundamental to the future that we want for our children: nonproliferation and disarmament, the promotion of peace and security, the preservation of our planet and a global economy that advances opportunity for all people."

 

- President Barack Obama UN Conference 9/23/09

Today, in his first speech as president to the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama stressed the need for nuclear nonproliferation. Obama stated that America will work to ratify the Test Ban Treaty and that, “all nations have the right to peaceful nuclear energy; that nations with nuclear weapons have a responsibility to move towards disarmament and those without them have the responsibility to forsake them.…We will work with others to bring the Treaty into force so that nuclear testing is prohibited.”

President Obama went on to single out Iran and North Korea for their development of nuclear weapons.

Obama said, “In their actions to date the governments of North Korea and Iran threaten to take us down this dangerous slope… We respect their rights as members of the community of nations. I am committed to diplomacy that opens a path to greater prosperity and a more secure peace for both nations if they live up to their obligations.”

 

On Thursday, Sept. 24 Obama will lead a special session of the UN Security Council in regards to nuclear issues.

Will Iran and North Korea sign the CTBT? Is Iran really using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes? Was Obama wrong to single our Iran and North Korea? Will the US really ratify the Test Ban Treaty more than ten years after the document was signed?

 

This Media Alert appeared on the following Radio Stations: