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Senior Fellow Raed Jarrar’s latest Op-Ed “The Iraq Withdrawal: Obama vs. the Pentagon” below: “This Monday, Army Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, asked [...]

The Washington Post has a very moving series of photos today highlighting the human suffering in Kazakhstan as a result of the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons tests there from 1949 to 1989. [...]

One of the major underlying concerns with US strategy in Afghanistan that is not examined nearly enough is whether it is realistic. Since General McChrystal took over as commander in Afghanistan, [...]

by Peace Action historian Lawrence Wittner Recently, when a battered, 30-foot sailboat, the Golden Rule, came to rest in a small shipyard in northern California, the event did not inspire [...]

Vice President Biden gave a major policy speech today on nuclear weapons (full text here), discussing the administration’s nuclear weapons agenda, their funding request for nuclear weapons, and [...]

For Immediate Release:  February 18, 2010 Largest Peace Group:  Biden Speech Right Direction on Nukes, But Funding Weapon Upgrades Wrong Washington, DC — In response to today’s speech on nuclear [...]

When President Obama said in his State of the Union message “So tonight, we set a new goal:  We will double our exports over the next five years…” we wondered aloud if that meant what we thought [...]

The nuts and bolts of the treaties don’t always lend themselves to sound bite summaries, but each provides an opportunity for the US to lead the world towards nuclear abolition through its [...]

1. President Obama proposes money for new nuclear weapons production facilities 2. Obama also proposes loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants 3. Nuclear Posture Review on the way 4. Vice [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRR10LpYN0c] “Several Baath party members were banned from Iraqi elections however the US is pushing to get the ban lifted. Iraqi officials strongly [...]