2010 NPT Review Conference
The 2010 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference will convene from 3-28 May 2010 in New York. Check out these RCW resources:
• Calendar of Events
• Information for NGOs
• and more

Conference on Disarmament 2010
The CD will begin its 2010 session in Geneva on 18 January. RCW will post all statements, papers, and press releases from the Conference and will cover all plenary meetings with the CD Report - subscribe now! Also stayed tuned for an updated version of RCW's Guide to the CD.

Recent Writing, Speaking, and Analysis from RCW
• “Reaching Critical Will for Disarmament,” Stockholm, 8 November 2009
• “Accomplishments and remaining tasks: Lessons from the NPT’s 13 Steps and the Blix Commission,” Stockholm, 8 November 2009
• “Operationalising the vision of a nuclear weapon free world,” 23 October 2009

Critical Issues
Background information and up-to-date news on a wide variety of disarmament-related topics, including:
• Gender and Disarmament;
• Iran and North Korea’s nuclear programmes;
• outer space security and missile defence (and the PAROS Working Group);
• military spending and Article 26 of the UN Charter; and
• much more.

Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security?
A civil society analysis of the current disarmament regime and response to the WMD Commission Report released by the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy, Western States Legal Foundation, and Reaching Critical Will of WILPF. Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security can now be fully accessed online in PDF format.

• The Obama administration's FY2011 budget request calls for increased nuclear weapon spending.
  See the RCW blog for analysis. Also read Greg Mello's article on "Obama's disarmament paradox" and Darwin BondGraham et al's article on the four horsemen, which provide context for this seemingly surprising turn of events.
• The Conference on Disarmament opened its 2010 session on 19 January
  Read (and subscribe to) Reaching Critical Will's CD Report for details. Find all statements and other information online.
• Happy new year to all friends and colleagues!
  The time has never been riper to push for nuclear disarmament. New opportunities for concrete action on this issue have been created by the crises we collectively face: climate, energy, economy, food, water, poverty, education, housing, justice. It is up to us to not just connect the dots and link the issues but to push forward an agenda for change.

• President Obama's Nuclear "Surge"
  by Darwin BondGraham
  The Obama administration released its budget for FY 2011 today. The centerpiece of the budget's National Nuclear Security Administration section is a "surge."
• More spending for more disarmament?
  by Ray Acheson
  In a third op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, the “four horsemen”—Schultz, Perry, Kissinger, and Nunn (SPKN)—advocate for increased spending on nuclear weapons. Surprised? You shouldn’t be.
• Nuclear Newspeak
  by Darwin BondGraham
  "Orwellian" was a popular description of the Bush administration's tendency to name policies in ways diametrically opposite to their results. It seems that the Obama White House subscribes to a similar political philosophy - say one thing, do the other.

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