Nuclear Weapons

In response to hypothetical questions about attacking Pakistan or facing a nuclear attack on the US, the leading four Democratic candidates for president discussed various ideas for curbing [...]

The 2008 elections will bring about opportunities the likes of which we haven’t seen in decades. If played well, we will be able to dramatically change the American conversation around nuclear [...]

Every year, Peace Action’s Japanese sister organization, Gensuiken, invites a Peace Action staff person to attend Japan’s annual World Conference on Nuclear Weapons, a commemoration of the [...]

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 [...]