Nuclear Weapons

According to the Washington Post, NPR and other sources, it looks like we have the 67 Senate votes needed to ratify New START, but calling your Senators this morning is still worthwhile. [...]

As Josh Rogin writes in Foreign Policy this morning: Everyone here on Capitol Hill is beginning to see the ratification of New START as increasingly inevitable…. On Monday, Senator Brown [...]

A front-page article in this morning’s Washington Post paints a pretty good picture of the prospects for ratifying the New START nuclear arms reduction pact this week, but it’s not a [...]

Two excellent articles from national Peace Action board members: The story of the “Golden Rule,” an original “peace boat” that sailed into the Pacific nuclear test zone of [...]

This afternoon the Senate voted 66-32 to take up begin debating the New START Treaty on the floor! This is a major step toward getting a ratification vote before the end of the year. Nine [...]

We flipped two more! This morning both Republican Senators from Maine–Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins–issued statements announcing that they intend to vote for ratification of New [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director While far from a certainty, there is reason for cautious optimism that the U.S. Senate will vote on New START ratification next week. This modest but [...]

Republican Senator John Kyl (R- AZ) laid his cards on the table regarding the START Treaty this week.  Republicans have been following his lead on the treaty, and he states he will continue to [...]

The current “lame duck” session of Congress will at least partially be defined by a high-stakes game of political chicken (sorry to use two fowl metaphors in one sentence!) over New [...]

Who will triumph in one of the last big political battles of 2010? The Republicans, Democrats, security experts, military officials and 73% of the American public who support ratifying New START? [...]