Nuclear Weapons

There is a resurgence of opposition in Congress to the proposed nuclear deal with India that Peace Action West worked actively to stop in 2006.  While the deal passed Congress overwhelmingly [...]

The JASON Defense Advisory group recently issued a report saying that more work needs to be done on the Reliable Replacement Warhead in order to show that it is, in fact, reliable, short of [...]

Yesterday, Iranian President Mahmouhd Ahmenajad spoke at Columbia University.  His appearance was met with controversy and intrigue around our country.  Everyone was so upset that Columbia would [...]

Congressional Quarterly (subscription only) is reporting that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) will try to zero out funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead program, a dangerous and unnecessary [...]

The U.S. and Russia spent decades and billions of dollars building arsenals and fighting proxy wars to become THE hegemonic power of the world during the “Cold War”.   Finding Russia’s old and in [...]

The US Air Force is scrambling to explain how it mistakenly flew six nuclear warheads over the United States on August 30th.  We are still in the dark as to how the warheads were loaded on [...]

The Washington Post printed a Peace Action West letter in response to last week’s article about the “failure” of diplomacy with Iran: Room for Diplomacy on Iran Regarding the [...]

Earlier on this blog I commented on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s attack on Sen. Barrak Obama and his stance on nuclear weapons. Frankly, I believe (like many of you) that neither candidate has fully [...]

Barack Obama’s statement, last Thursday, that he would not use nuclear weapons “in any circumstance” to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan and drew criticism from chief [...]

Couple of things: The anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are August 6th and 9th respectively. I suggest if you cannot find an event in your area you take a moment [...]