1. Organizations
Center for
Arms Control and Non-Proliferation -- Good online
materials on many security issues
including U.S.
defense budgeting.
Crisis Group -- Timely
reports on the world’s key crisis zones—full
texts available on the Web and in print.
Federation of American Scientists -- Broad info
resources on WMDs, here.
Also check their great Strategic Security Blog, here.
Friends Committee on National Legislation
-- Quaker-based
FCNL lobbies Congress on war and
peace issues; providing many good resources especially on peaceful
prevention
of violent conflict.
Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute -- Publishes an
important yearbook on war and
peace. Its Web-based resources are good but do not include the yearbook.
United for Peace and Justice
-- The largest
nationwide coalition of antiwar
organizations. Its info resources are activism focused.
2. Web-based information resources
Most U.S. government agencies, including the White House,
the departments of State and Defense, and the Senate and House
committees on Armed
Services and Foreign Relations, have good websites offering important
primary source
material. The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has a
very
informative site, here. Many UN
websites are informative, including, on nuclear proliferation issues,
that of
the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) . There are many
sites expressing vigorous views for and against Washington’s current wars. The
following
sites offer notably useful and solid information.
Anup Shah,
“Geopolitics” section
of his Global
Issues website. Shah’s site is
informative, with many helpful links. It also has big sections on the
topics of
the other chapters here, and is worth exploring.
Council on
Foreign Relations, “Dirty bombs,”
info sheet. Check out the rest of CFR’s
website, too.
International
Committee of the Red Cross, The
People on
War Report (PDF file of full text, 2000). A great grassroots
view of
war, presenting the attitudes and experiences of people from twelve
war-torn
countries.
Juan Cole, Informed Comment,
is mainly about Iraq.
The associated group blog, Informed
Comment: Global Affairs, has good writers on Afghanistan and Iran.
Project on
Defense Alternatives. This
site has well-informed analysis on defense issues and helpful links to
other
sources. Check out particularly the buttons for “War Report” (news and
analysis
on Iraq and Afghanistan),
“Chinese Military Power,” and “Occupation Distress.”
Sam Nunn, “The
Mountaintop: A
World Free of Nuclear Weapons.” Text of a speech given at the
Council on
Foreign Relations, June
14, 2007.
UN
Commission on Human Security, Final
Report of the Commission on Human Security (2003), in seven
languages.
War
Resisters League, Where Your Income Tax
Dollars Really Go, pie chart published annually to show
distribution of U.S.
governmental spending, at .