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Fraudulent Iranian Election Results
Daisy
Alliance has acquired a copy of a letter from Iranian Minister of
Interior Sadegh Mahsouli to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei,
which is posted on our blog.
This letter states that the Supreme Leader's wish was that Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad remain president - even though the acutal vote totals
show Mir Hossein Mousavi as the winner by a landslide.
Promoting
democracy is a tricky undertaking in the best of
circumstances. With two recent failures at exporting democracy to
the Middle East, the U.S. should certainly give careful consideration
to its official position and any action that may be taken. Daisy Alliance invites you to share your opinions on our blog about the
election itself, what, if anything, the U.S. should do about
the illegitimate Iranian election, and whether the international
community has a responsibility to ensure democracy throughout the
world.
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Sign the Global Zero Declaration
Launched
in December 2008 in Paris, Global Zero is a consortium of 100 world
leaders committed to a nuclear weapons free world through the phased
and verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons, beginning with deep
reductions in U.S. and Russian arsenals, followed by multilateral
agreements by all nuclear weapons states to eliminate nuclear weapons
for good. Show your support for this effort by signing the Global Zero Declaration.
This declaration expresses a commitment to work towards an
international, legally binding, verifiable agreement to eliminate all
nuclear weapons by a certain date.
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Interviews with People Who Make a Difference in Arms Crontrol
Martin E. Hellman
Dr. Martin Hellman is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering
at Stanford University and has received the highest awards his
profession can bestow for his invention of public key
cryptography. This technology is used to secure your
Internet credit card purchases, and has enabled the explosive growth of
Internet commerce. Thirty years ago, Sandia National Laboratories
proposed using it to overcome a seemingly insurmountable barrier
separating the Soviet and American positions on a Comprehensive Test
Ban Treaty.
Marty's current interest in nuclear arms control focuses on
applying risk analysis to our traditional approach to preventing
the use of nuclear weapons, known both as Mutually Assured Destruction
(MAD) and nuclear deterrence. Defenders of this strategy routinely
reject even minor changes, such as the CTBT, as too risky, even though
the risk of deterrence failing was totally unknown until he published
his paper, "Risk Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence." This paper indicates
that the risk we face from our reliance on nuclear weapons is
comparable to having your home surrounded by literally thousands of
nuclear power plants. More than just discussing the dire nature of this
looming nightmare, he proposes simple, practical, and
effective steps that anyone can take to help avert
a nuclear catastrophe. Listen to the Podcast |
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Featured Articles
"Soaring, Cryptography, and Nuclear Weapons"
 How
could three such seemingly disparate topics be related?
Nuclear weapons are the elephant in the room that almost no one wants
to talk about. Martin Hellman (see above) approaches
the nuclear weapons issue by weaving together powerful connections
between this critical issue and his other two, less
threatening, passions of soaring and cryptography.Read the Entire Article
"Disarmament Lessons From the Chemical Weapons Convention"
This
article by Mikhail Gorbachev and Rogelio Pfirter discusses how the
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is a great example of
multilateralism in combating the global problem of weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) and should serve as a framework for nuclear weapons
disarmament negotiations. This unique international regime
eliminiates an entire class of WMD, provides for a strict inspections
regime to ensure compliance, and offers member states additional
benefits. As Gorbachev and Pfirter put it, "the international
community should seize the moment and move decisively to rid the world
of all weapons of mass destruction." Read the Entire Article
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