Just over twenty-five years ago the world’s two nuclear superpowers meet at Reykjavik , Iceland to discuss an agenda of limited nuclear arms reduction and human rights.  President Ronald Reagan of the United States of America, and President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and their respective staffs soon abandoned the proposed agenda and the talks transformed into a discussion of the total elimination of nuclear weapons.  For such a topic to be seriously considered by such leaders was unheard of in 1986.  Unfortunately, it is still twenty years after the end of the cold war.  What were Reagan and Gorbachev thinking for those brief hours at Reykjavik?  What was in their hearts and what were their dreams for a new world, a world without nuclear weapons?

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Mr. Les DeWitt joins the International Science Partnership Advisory Board. The International Science Partnership (ISP) brings together American scientists and engineers with counterparts in countries of security concern to the U.S. to build robust personal and institutional relationships and solve critical social and environmental issues.

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From: Mercury News

By James Goodby and Les DeWitt

History is made by individuals, and once in a while events come along to remind us of that.

An example is New START, a strategic arms reduction treaty that is critical to the future of humankind and now is before the U.S. Senate. It is a relatively modest treaty in terms of the reductions in strategic nuclear weapons it will require Russia and the United States to make. But it will reinstate a monitoring process in both countries that lapsed when a strategic arms reduction treaty negotiated during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush expired a year ago.

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The 2010 Review Conference of the Treaty on Nuclear Nonproliferation is currently taking place in New York. One of the main themes is of course nuclear disarmament, and other talks include establishment of Nuclear Weapon Free Zone in the Middle East, nuclear fuel banks and nuclear issues with Iran and North Korea.

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After a year of consultations and extensive negotiations, U.S. President Barak Obama and Russian President Dmirty Medvedev signed the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Prague on April 8, 2010.

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From the UN NPT Bulletin: The 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will be held in May 2010 at UN Headquarters in New York. The President-elect of the Review Conference is Ambassador Libran N. Cabactulan of the Philippines.

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Hosting Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. to speak
on nuclear non proliferation in Menlo Park, Califorina on January 28th 2009.
Listen to a 4 minute Q&A session with Les DeWitt and Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr.

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