Nuclear Weapons

So I admit that headline could cover a lot of ground, but I’ll just touch on a few ludicrous developments of the nuclear weapons enterprise in this post, and a few good news antidotes to [...]

Yesterday, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) was joined by 44 other members of Congress on a letter to leaders in both the House and the Senate insisting that billions of dollars in cuts to nuclear weapons [...]

Thursday, November 29, 2012 BY MADELYN HOFFMAN GUEST COLUMNIST Bloomfield Life As the calendar propels us toward the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013, there is no issue the U.S. Congress and [...]

–Kevin Martin I was asked by our colleagues at the French Peace Movement (Mouvement de la Paix) to write an article a couple of weeks ago for their excellent magazine Planete Paix on the [...]

  Veterans Day, also Remembrance Day and Armistice Day, is this Sunday, with the Monday holiday observance. The mainstream message we usually hear is thanks to veterans and to troops serving [...]

Jon Rainwater and Rev. Rick Schlosser co-authored an OpEd that ran this week in the San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times. The time is now to craft a sane nuclear policy [...]

With Peace Action West and the Peace Education Fund’s help, Retired Major General Roger R Blunt’s anti-nuclear OpEd ran in 13 newspapers around the country last week. In it, he told [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director For me, the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis has a very personal angle. On this day fifty years ago, I was still in my mother’s womb, and [...]

Mitt Romney sure mentioned the word “peace” an awful lot in the last presidential debate Monday night. While my take is that he did so in a pretty cynical way, trying to make folks [...]

50 years ago today, the people of the world had no idea that the first steps of the Cuban Missile Crisis had begun, and the planet was about to be the closest that we have ever been to a global [...]