The magazine published monthly from March to December 1985; bimonthly from January–February 1986 to May–June 1999; and quarterly since July–September 1999.
Its website has been online since 1997, includes a full set of archives from 1983 to the end of the preceding calendar year.
[1] The magazine has had a strong editorial emphasis on democracy, human rights, and the technical aspects of disarmament.
Its writers are roughly equally distributed between activists and academics, with considerable overlap between these two spheres.
The editor is retired sociologist and peace activist Metta Spencer.