Japan Under the US Nuclear Umbrella

Hans Kristensen Introduction and Summary The Early Years The Battle over Okinawa  The “Secret” Agreement Nuclear War Planning in Japan About the Author     Introduction And Summary   During the Cold War, rumors concerning U.S. deployments of nuclear weapons to Japan were both numerous and widely reported. Such rumors were consistently met with adamant […]

Intuit – Nonprofit User Profile

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development 125 University Avenue Berkeley, CA 94710-1616 Phone: (510) 204-9296 Fax: (510) 204-9228 Web site: www.nautilus.org Co-directors Peter Hayes and Lyuba Zarsky founded the Nautilus Institute in 1981 to address their concern over nuclear weapons buildup in the Asia-Pacific region. The Institute initially provided research to others opposing the […]

Fact Sheet on US Sanctions against DPRK

The following document is a fact sheet from the US Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control, detailing the economic sanctions that apply to the DPRK under US law, and how those sanctions can be revised or repealed. NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS Category Description Repeal/Revise [Legal Citation] 1. Diplomatic Relations.[U.S. Constitution Note: For a good, general […]

APEC, Citizen Groups and the Environment

Lyuba Zarsky CoDirector Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development I. Introduction The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) has emerged as the overarching institution in the Asia-Pacific region. APEC’s eighteen members span East Asia, Australasia and the Western Hemisphere and include the world’s fastest growing economies.1 The heart of APEC’s diplomatic agenda is the creation […]