Leaked documents and the case for nuclear control in a modern age

There is an urgent need to place the issue of nuclear weapons at the top of the international agenda.

Leaked documents reveal U.S. military pressured then-President Dwight Eisenhower, pictured, to consider the possibility of the United States using first strike nuclear weapons against China during the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1958. There is a new crisis over Taiwan, and today the dynamics in the region are different but some of the key ones have not changed or have become more pronounced, writes Gar Pardy. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GAR PARDY

June 10, 2021

Three weeks ago, Daniel Ellsberg, of Pentagon Papers fame, released another sequestered paper...

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