News Sources: Talking about Nuclear Weapons

Democrat Hillary Clinton recently chastised presidential rival Barack Obama for ruling out the use of nuclear weapons in the war on terror. Reporters subsequently found that Clinton had declared that nuclear weapons were "off the table" in an interview about Iran a year earlier. Should the use of nuclear weapons ever be put "off the table?" Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Andrew A. Latham - Associate Professor of Political Science, Macalester College - Latham specializes in international conflict and security issues and is an expert on arms production and the proliferation of arms, including weapons of mass destruction. He has researched nuclear weapons in India and recently completed a report for the Canadian government on India's nuclear policy. Latham is knowledgeable about the changing nature of war, Iraq and the Persian Gulf War as well as the conflict in Northern Ireland.

Michael T. Klare - Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College - Klare is the author of Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws and American Arms Supermarket. He is the Director of the Five College (Hampshire, Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke Colleges and the University of Massachusetts) Program in Peace and World Security Studies. An expert on world security, Klare testifies regularly on arms issues before international organizations, including the United Nations. He is on the Committee on International Security Studies at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Scott Plous - Professor of Psychology, Wesleyan University - Plous is the author of The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making, and has conducted research on the psychology of the nuclear arms race.