Nuclear Weapons

It appears President Obama forgot something.  In his State of the Union message last night he touched on the need to confront one of the great existential dangers of our time – climate change – [...]

This is a guest post from Martin Hellman that was originally published yesterday on his the Defusing the Nuclear Threat blog. Tonight’s  PBS Newshour covered North Korea’s fourth nuclear [...]

National Peace Action board member Larry Wittner has a new column on History News Network commenting on the staggering death toll, of tens of thousands of people in this country, from U.S. [...]

Government funding runs out tomorrow and the Republican leadership is holding the budget hostage to try to pass poison pill riders on issues from blocking Syrian refugees to stopping the [...]

After years of gridlock and partisan rancor, the budget impasse may finally be broken. The President won increases in ‘non-defense’ spending as part of the deal, but the Pentagon will still [...]

Did you know that nuclear weapons are the only weapons of mass destruction not prohibited under international law?  We trace Peace Action’s efforts to delegitimize nuclear weapons to the [...]

All Souls Church, a Unitarian church in Northwest Washington that has long promoted peace and social justice action in the Adams Morgan/Mount Pleasant/Columbia Heights community and in the world, [...]

“Think Nuclear-Free” Symposium, Thursday, October 29, 11AM-5PM, Goethe Institute, 812 7th Street NW, with the Nuclear-Free Future Laureates including Austrian Amb. Alexander Kmentt, [...]

by Madelyn Hoffman, Executive Director, New Jersey Peace Action originally published by The Socialist On the International Day of Peace 2015 (September 21), I spoke at the First Presbyterian [...]

Peace Action board member Larry Wittner on History News Network By Lawrence S. Wittner Dr. Lawrence Wittner (http://lawrenceswittner.com) is Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany. His [...]