Nuclear Weapons

Last week, the Bush administration bullied 45 countries into lifting a 30-year ban on nuclear trade with India — a ban put into place because of India’s history of illicit nuclear weapons [...]

Peace Action West has been working against the proposed civilian nuclear deal with India since 2006.  While the deal does not allow trade in weapons technology, it undermines the nuclear [...]

Last weekend, I attended “Looking Back: Remembering the Victims of Nuclear Weapons – Looking Forward: Towards a Nuclear Free Future,” an event Peace Action West cosponsored to commemorate the [...]

[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7093926877582230143] Here’s an interesting ad by True Majority on the number of US nuclear weapons showing why the Progressive Majority [...]

Peace lanterns commemorate Hiroshima Day August 6th marks the 63rd anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima. On Saturday, we’ll remember Nagasaki Day. In remembrance of all the victims [...]

Last week, the India Nuclear Deal inched forward when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted a plan for inspecting India’s nuclear reactors. "The safeguards agreement with the [...]

An Air Force vehicle containing a Minuteman III rocket booster tipped over on the side of a road.  It is only the latest in a series of errors regarding US nuclear technology. From [...]

Good news! Tuesday morning, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development dealt Bush’s request for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) another defeat as it cut the $10 [...]

It is encouraging to see that the presidential candidates have both correctly determined that our nuclear weapons policy deserves significant attention. Both candidates have spent time [...]

On Tuesday, the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee continued the push back against the Bush administration’s drive for new nuclear weapons by refusing to fund the Reliable [...]