Nuclear Weapons

This weekend, the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between the US and Russia expired, but negotiators for both countries are working hard to finalize a new treaty, or “New START,” on [...]

The findings in a new report out today by the JASONs, a group of independent, expert scientists, call into question the need for new nuclear weapons. Tasked by the House Armed Services Committee [...]

By Kevin Martin, Executive Director On his first trip to Japan as president, Barack Obama appears to be backing off his previously and oft-stated commitment to seeking a world free of nuclear [...]

Update: The White House has the full joint statement available at this link. President Obama has touched down in Japan. While some groups have been calling for Obama to become the first American [...]

Sec. of State Clinton delivered a speech yesterday at the United States Institute of Peace that reinforced the president’s agenda to address the threat posed by nuclear weapons. She gets to the [...]

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion editorial by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) entitled “Why We Need to Test Nuclear Weapons.” If the title makes you grind your teeth, just [...]

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has a good primer video on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty explaining what the treaty is and how US ratification of the treaty would enhance our [...]

Peace Action West joined a broad coalition of faith, environmental, arms control, and peace and security organizations in sending a letter to President Obama thanking him for his leadership on [...]

President Obama’s being awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace has elicited all kinds of responses from peace activists, especially in the Peace Action family, which is great! We’ve gotten [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7bHkH779qg] President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and [...]