Nuclear Weapons

Congress has packed up and gone home for the year, leaving us with some good and bad news in next year’s budget.  This year has been a trying one for those of us who had high hopes that the [...]

Congress has been struggling the past few weeks to come up with a budget for 2008 that won’t fall victim to President Bush’s veto pen.  Having only passed the Defense spending bill, Congress [...]

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a project designed to test the US nuclear arsenal is beyond the halfway mark. The plan includes an array of lasers that mimic the blasts of hydrogen [...]

Under a fresh and catchy new name, “Complex Transformation”, (aka “Complex 2030), is the same old Bush administration attempt to revamp the US nuclear weapons stockpile, and build new nuclear [...]

Today the Democratic presidential candidates, campaign staff and countless media outlets will descend on Las Vegas for CNN’s presidential debate.  When they open the Las Vegas [...]

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was slated to give a speech at the Hoover Institution at an event featuring authors of a Wall Street Journal Op Ed calling for a nuclear-free world. While the [...]

Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA), chair of the Strategic Forces subcommittee of Armed Services, is an influential voice on nuclear nonproliferation, and has exhibited strong leadership in recent years [...]

As a self identified progressive and spiritual person I find myself constantly perplexed by the contradictions I see in the Christian neoconservative movement.  I understand that because our [...]

Back in 2005 when we were campaigning vigorously to defeat Bush’s nuclear bunker-buster, a weapon designed for battlefield use, it was difficult to imagine that a US policy that worked toward [...]

With tensions and saber-rattling increasing between the US and Iran, it is a key time for the US and the international community to see the potential of pragmatic, sustained diplomacy.  Such [...]