Nuclear Weapons

It’s been awhile. This week, Sec. of State Clinton lead the US delegation as we attended our first conference in 10 years on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. And the international [...]

The US-drafted UN Resolution 1887 on non-proliferation and disarmament passed unanimously today at the Security Council meeting chaired by President Obama. In attendance were the heads-of-state [...]

I’m looking forward to major speeches and lots of news on nuclear weapons this week with both President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton at the U.N. Check out the schedule: 9/23: [...]

Secretary of Defense Gates is still pushing for new nuclear weapons. At an Air Force Association conference this Wednesday, Gates: previewed findings of the ongoing Nuclear Posture Review by [...]

On September 24, President Obama will be the first US president ever to chair a special meeting of the UN Security Council, which will focus on nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear disarmament. [...]

The UN NGO Conference on Disarmament is currently being held in Mexico City. Peace Action is chairing the conference. Staff members Kevin Martin, Paul Kawika Martin and Lisa Putkey have traveled [...]

The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to ban nuclear explosions and finally end US testing has a number of merits. Ratification by the Senate would help contribute to preventing nuclear-armed states [...]

Secretary of Defense Gates just can’t take no for an answer when it comes to new nuclear weapons. A Global Security Newswire article today shows a behind the scenes, high stakes battle [...]

A number of Peace Action West supporters participated in remembering the victims of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki earlier this month. Robert Kalayjian emailed to let us know [...]

Yesterday, the African Nuclear Weapons Free Treaty (a.k.a. Treaty of Pelindaba) went into full effect.  Burundi was the necessary twenty-eighth signatory to the Treaty which was opened for [...]