ARMS CONTROL US, Russia to continue arms control cooperation AFP – March 12, 2014 With US-Russia ties being strained in recent weeks by the developing crisis in Ukraine, a US official has asserted that the two countries will continue to work together o…

A panel of experts to the U.N. Security Council reported that recent inspections have proven that North Korea is using deceptive techniques to go around international sanctions. Despite growing international vigorous sanctions against North Korea in an attempt to cripple the dictatorship’s capability to build and test WMDs, Pyongyang has defied these sanctions by not only continuing nuclear and ballistic missile programs but also by engaging in illegal arms trade.

Robert Musil, President and CEO of The Rachel Carson Council and a member of Council for a Livable World’s Board of Directors, has authored a new book: Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment.

IRAN Iran to address nuclear weapons development slowly but surely Laurence Norman, Wall Street Journal – March 10, 2014 Iran has urged the IAEA to take its inquiry into the “possible military dimension” of Iran’s nuclear program “one step at a time.” …

Professor Gerry Warburg has authored a new book: Dispatches from the Eastern Front: A Political Education from the Nixon Years to the Age of Obama.