Nuclear Weapons

The inimitable Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies that is. Way more Phyllis than me (which is a very good thing!). Here is our take, including policy, political and movement [...]

Peace Action Statement on Senate Passage of New START pact December 22, 2010 For Immediate Release, Contact Kevin Martin [email protected] or 301-537-8244 Silver Spring, Maryland — [...]

It was touch and go until the end. But just moments ago, the Senate voted to ratify the New START treaty, taking a major step towards a world safe from the threat of nuclear weapons! I am not [...]

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 [...]