Nuclear Weapons

On Friday, the White House announced that negotiations with Russia on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) to cut both US and Russian deployed nuclear weapons stockpiles as well as [...]

By: Judith Le Blanc, Field Organizer Nationally, PA is spearheading the organizing of an international conference on April 30- May1 at Riverside Church and a march, rally and peace and music [...]

The nuclear weapons hawks are at it again and it’s up to us to stop them. Through their intense lobbying campaign, hawks in Congress and the nuclear weapons labs got a whopping $7 billion for [...]

–By Lisa Putkey, Scoville Peace Fellow, Peace Action Education Fund, and Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund 2010 is the year to set the roadmap [...]

Those of you in the Bay Area should check out one of the following talks on nuclear weapons being given by Tad Daley, author and Writing Fellow with International Physicians for the Prevention of [...]

The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), already postponed until today, has been delayed again as the Obama administration works to come to a final position on key issues. Now expected at the end of [...]

The Washington Post has a very moving series of photos today highlighting the human suffering in Kazakhstan as a result of the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons tests there from 1949 to 1989. [...]

Vice President Biden gave a major policy speech today on nuclear weapons (full text here), discussing the administration’s nuclear weapons agenda, their funding request for nuclear weapons, and [...]

For Immediate Release:  February 18, 2010 Largest Peace Group:  Biden Speech Right Direction on Nukes, But Funding Weapon Upgrades Wrong Washington, DC — In response to today’s speech on nuclear [...]

The nuts and bolts of the treaties don’t always lend themselves to sound bite summaries, but each provides an opportunity for the US to lead the world towards nuclear abolition through its [...]