Nuclear Weapons

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 [...]

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 [...]