Obama

The Obama administration’s long-delayed Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) was released today and, as expected, it’s a mixed bag. Outlining US nuclear weapons policy for the next 5-10 [...]

Our colleague John Isaacs had an interesting article on potential US Senate ratification of the New START agreement with Russia on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists website, it’s worth [...]

On Friday, the White House announced that negotiations with Russia on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) to cut both US and Russian deployed nuclear weapons stockpiles as well as [...]

–By Lisa Putkey, Scoville Peace Fellow, Peace Action Education Fund, and Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund 2010 is the year to set the roadmap [...]

When Willie Sutton, the famous bank robber, was asked why he robbed banks, he replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” President Obama is violating the “Willie Sutton [...]

Published on Thursday, December 17, 2009 by CommonDreams.org by Lisa Putkey and Kevin Martin NPR (also) stands for Nuclear Posture Review. The Obama administration is required by Congress to draw [...]

The generous view of President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is that it honored his stated intentions to promote international peace and was meant to spur him to significant achievement. [...]

By Kevin Martin, Executive Director On his first trip to Japan as president, Barack Obama appears to be backing off his previously and oft-stated commitment to seeking a world free of nuclear [...]

Two key committees in Congress have marked up Iran sanctions legislation, getting out in front of the Obama administration as it continues to pursue negotiations: Asked during a CNN interview [...]

President Obama’s being awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace has elicited all kinds of responses from peace activists, especially in the Peace Action family, which is great! We’ve gotten [...]