Nuclear Weapons

The first ever Nuclear Security Summit to address preventing nuclear terrorism wrapped up today. Initiated by President Obama, the summit gathered 47 world leaders in DC to commit to achieving [...]

After a year of negotiations, the President Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed a new treaty today to reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles in both countries and make the world that much [...]

Listen to Kevin Martin give the low-down on the New START Treaty in an hour-long interview with KPFT Pacifica Radio in Houston, Texas. Check back later for highlights from the interview.

For Immediate Release:  April 7, 2010 Contact:   Paul Kawika Martin, Peace Action, 951-217-7285, [email protected] Kevin Martin, Peace Action, 301-565-4050 x307, [email protected] [...]

From Democracy NOW! The Obama administration has formally unveiled its new policy on nuclear weapons that maintains the right to use nukes in launching attacks on other nations. Anti-nuclear [...]

The Obama administration’s long-delayed Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) was released today and, as expected, it’s a mixed bag. Outlining US nuclear weapons policy for the next 5-10 [...]

Check out John Nichols latest blog post in The Nation about nuclear disarmament and the Obama presidency. Peace Action, the nation’s largest grassroots peace and disarmament network, is [...]

Now that President Obama and Russian President Medvedev are planning to sign the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) in Prague on April 8, our campaign to press the Senate to ratify [...]

After the historic 2008 election, we had a new political landscape before us full of possibility for real foreign policy change. Did your representatives in Congress help move that vision [...]

Our colleague John Isaacs had an interesting article on potential US Senate ratification of the New START agreement with Russia on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists website, it’s worth [...]