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On April 8, sitting beside each other in Prague Castle, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). Just two days earlier, the Obama administration had issued its Nuclear Posture Review, only the third such comprehensive assessment of the United States' nuclear strategy. And in May, as a gesture of openness at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York, the U.S. government took the remarkable step of making public the size of its nuclear stockpile, which as of September 2009 totaled 5,113 warheads.

For proponents of eliminating nuclear weapons, these events elicited both a nod and a sigh. On the one hand, they represented renewed engagement by Washington and Moscow on arms control, a step toward, as the treaty put it, "the historic goal of freeing humanity from the nuclear threat." On the other hand, they stopped short of fundamentally changing the Cold War face of deterrence.

interview with dr. Zoltán Fehér
Fraternity Magazine
By Kathy A. Megyeri
Summer 2010.

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One of our newest, youngest, best-looking and most talented HRFA members travels regularly betweenBudapest and Washington, DC. In 2005-2009, he served at the Hungarian Embassy for four years as Political Officer and Press Attaché. In 2006, he was appointed the Embassy’s Chief Creative Offi cer and in this capacity, he developed creative diplomacy. This young diplomat designed a new approach to public diplomacy that integrates popular culture, the entertainment media and the Internet-based new media to promote his native Hungary. He was the Coordinator of Hungarian October, the series of events in Washington, DC commemorating the
50th Anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the fall of 2006.
Last summer, he returned to Hungary where he has been working as the Senior U.S. Desk Officer and EU-Americas Coordinator at the Foreign Ministry’s Department for the Americas. He has reorganized the Young Diplomats Club of the Ministry and is currently the Club’s leader. In Budapest, he has also been teaching European integration to American and European students at the joint program of Pázmány Catholic University and the University of San Francisco.

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Am 2. August 2010 konnte ein wertvolles Ergebnis dieser wissenschaftlichen Archivarbeit in Form eines Findbuches (Repertorium) vom Vorsitzenden der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, Staatsminister a.D. Hans Zehetmair, an den CSU-Parteivorsitzenden Horst Seehofer übergeben werden. Es verzeichnet die Auftritte aller Parteitagsredner von 1946 bis ins Jahr 2000. Der Inhalt des 600-seitigen Findbuches ist durch ein Personen-, Orts- und Sachregister erschlossen.