Media Release En français 12 December 2017 The Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR), Amnesty International (AI) and the Canadian Council of Churches (CCC) welcomed the order made yesterday by the …
Under Stress: Space Security in 2017
The annual assessment of the security of outer space released at the United Nations last week warns of mounting stress from a combination of rapid technology change and geopolitical tensions. …
Russian arms sold to U.S. for Afghan Army
UPDATE: Pentagon cancels contract As the result of bipartisan U.S. Congressional opposition, the Pentagon has cancelled the latest order of Russian Mi-17 helicopters for Afghanistan. Many members of Congress objected to …
Obama, drones and Just War
By Karina Sangha U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech on counterterrorism delivered this past Thursday has drawn both praise and criticism from domestic and international commentators. While the speech touched on …
Obama’s second chance at nuclear disarmament
Author Cesar Jaramillo The Ploughshares Monitor Volume 34 Issue 1 Spring 2013 Achieving complete and irreversible nuclear disarmament has been an unequivocal aspiration of the international community since the Nuclear …
Obama’s second chance at nuclear disarmament
Author Cesar Jaramillo Published in the Waterloo Region Record References to nuclear disarmament were nowhere to be found last week in U.S. President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address. But in April 2009, …
Arms control beyond Earth? Talks related to space weaponization and the prevention of an arms race in outer space are not gaining traction
Author Cesar Jaramillo The Ploughshares Monitor Volume 33 Issue 3 The nature of outer space activities has changed dramatically in the more than five decades since the dawn of the …
Preoccupation with Aggression: The Latest U.S. National Security Space Strategy
Author Cesar Jaramillo The Ploughshares Monitor Spring 2011 Volume 32 Issue 1 The unclassified summary of the National Security Space Strategy (NSSS), newly released by the US Department of Defense …
Pentagon Orders with General Dynamics in Canada Exceed $1-Billion
Author Kenneth Epps The Ploughshares Monitor Summer 2010 Volume 31 Issue 2 Following recent major Canadian military industry acquisitions, US corporation General Dynamics has emerged as the dominant recipient of Pentagon …
U.S. Policy and the Arms Trade Treaty
Author Rachel Stohl Working Paper 10-1 Unlike their nuclear counterparts, conventional weapons have been relatively unregulated in international forums. Because the global trade in conventional arms is a necessary and …