Nuclear Weapons

–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 [...]

So I have to admit that when I heard it last night during the presidential debate, I thought this was a clever zinger by Mitt Romney (or his speech writers more likely): “What things will I cut [...]

Did you know today is celebrated as the International Day of Peace? No? Don’t be embarrassed, it’s not a real big deal in the U.S., maybe because our country is nearly always making [...]

Yep, hard to believe, but the Washington Post editorial board got it right again this morning with Exploding Costs, an editorial questioning the wisdom of devoting up to $10 billion of our tax [...]

Salt Lake City Tribune By Christine Meecham And Deb Sawyer Published August 9, 2012 1:01 am   For much of this year, the prospect of Iran becoming a nuclear weapons state has been a major [...]

Thanks to you, the White House got a clear message about the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons. On May 7, 2012, members of the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World coordinating [...]

Published on Monday, August 6, 2012 by Common Dreams Ban the Bomb, Don’t Bank on It! by Jennifer Nordstrom and Kevin Martin August 6th and 9th mark the 67th anniversaries of the atomic bombings [...]

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