Arms and Security Initiative: Press

US Arms Sales Hit Record in 2009 | Ottawa Citizen

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:47:00 -0500

William Hartung of the New America Foundation, a Washington-based research group focused on US defense and foreign policy issues, said Obama should pay more ...

UN to Pursue Conventional Arms Trade Treaty | IPS

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:41:00 -0400

William D. Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, told IPS the commitment by the majority of the world's ...

Obama Deserves the Nobel | Globe and Mail

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:36:00 -0400

... of the urgency of this mission,” said William Hartung, director of the New York based Arms and Security Initiative and a leading arms-control authority. ...

Obama (and Everyone Else) "Surprised" by Nobel | Inter Press Service

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:41:00 -0400

William D. Hartung, director of the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative, thinks that Obama's initiative for a "world without nuclear weapons" was a major contributory factor in the Nobel Peace Prize. ...

Barack Obama Wants Deal on Nuclear Weapons | The Telegraph (U.K.)

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:24:00 -0400

William Hartung, director of the arms and security initiative at the New America Foundation, said: "The fact that the President of the United States has ...

Arms Control | NPR

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:12:00 -0400

But William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, says he doesn't think any efforts at the UN this week will ... and more »

Missile Defense Winners and Losers | Politico

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:31:00 -0400

Moreover, said William Hartung, director of the arms and security initiative at the New America Foundation, “If the decision ends up putting Patriot ... and more »

Obama to Bolster Nuclear Disarmament at UN | Inter Press Service

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:06:00 -0400

Frida Berrigan, senior associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, says President Obama, in his historic Apr. 2009 speech ... and more »

A Roundtable Discussion on Disarmament | Democracy Now

Erin Drankoski — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:22:00 -0400

New America's Frida Berrigan interviewed with Democracy Now.

Despite Splits, US Still Arms Israel | United Press International

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:20:00 -0400

According to Frida Berrigan of the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative, sales in the first half of 2009 reached $27 billion and could hit ...

In Cyber War, Pentagon May Victimize Privacy | Press TV

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:00:00 -0400

"If the Pentagon and the military services see cyberspace as a battlefield domain, then the lines protecting privacy and our civil liberties get blurred very, very quickly," peace activist Frida Berrigan - the daughter of renowned Vietnam War protester ...

Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:03:00 -0400

Frida Berrigan, a longtime peace activist who is a senior program associate at the New America Foundation’s arms and security initiative, expressed concerns about whether the Obama administration would be able to balance its promise to respect privacy in cyberspace even as it appeared to be militarizing cybersecurity.

Cyberscares About Cyberwars Equal Cybermoney | Middle East Online

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:06:00 -0400

Pentagon sees cyberspace as another battlefield terrain no different from the mountains of Afghanistan or the cities of Iraq (except that maybe on virtual battlefields we can actually win), notes Frida Berrigan. As though we don't have enough to be ...

UN Big Powers World's Top Military Spenders | Inter Press Service

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:20:00 -0400

"The only winners from increases in global military spending are (US) weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman," says Frida Berrigan, senior programme associate with the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative...

Underreported: Ungrades to US Nuclear Weapons Facilities | WNYC - The Leonard Lopate Show

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:10:00 -0400

Despite President Obama's recent pledge to seek a world free of nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration is proposing a major upgrade to the nation's nuclear weapons complex, including the construction of new facilities that could produce thousands of new warheads over time. Bill Hartung is Director of Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. Link to audio

Pork in the Sky | Hartford Advocate

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:06:00 -0400

But it's a lousy way to guide foreign policy, says Frida Berrigan, a military expert with the New America Foundation. "Not to say the Connecticut jobs aren't important, but we can't base our foreign policy on 2000 jobs in Connecticut and 6000 jobs in ...

Retired Military Officers Urge Ending Cuba Travel Ban

Communications — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:23:00 -0400

Washington, D.C. - On Monday, April 13, 2009, a group of 12 former senior U.S. military officials sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to support and sign pending Congressional legislation that would repeal the travel ban for all Americans who wish to visit Cuba.

Click here for text of the letter.

New Budget, Not Quite a Fundamental Shift | Inter Press Service

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:08:00 -0400

"I would give the budget a B to B-minus," said William Hartung of the New America Foundation. "They did a little less than half of what I’d hope they’d do. But under Bush they would have done nothing or gone in the other direction. ...

Defense Chief's Military 'Overhaul' Might Affect Maryland | Baltimore Sun

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:35:00 -0400

"It's a very expensive way to create jobs - pretty much any other kind of government spending will create more jobs," said William Hartung, a defense budget expert at the nonpartisan New America Foundation in Washington. At a Pentagon briefing, ...

William Hartung Testimony Before House Armed Services Committee

Communications — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:09:00 -0400

William D. Hartung, director of The New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative, will testify before the House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capability tomorrow, Thursday, April 2, 2009.