weapons proliferation

Long-time scholar, author, professor and peace activist Larry Wittner, a member of the national Peace Action board of directors, has a new article on the state of public opinion and activism for [...]

Today’s Washington Post has an interesting article on the outcome of the month-long Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference (NPT RevCon) that Peace Action and allies from around [...]

Published on Thursday, April 29, 2010 by CommonDreams.org  by Judith LeBlanc and Kevin Martin Barack Obama is undoubtedly the U.S. president most committed to nuclear disarmament since Kennedy. [...]

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 [...]

–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 [...]

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. [...]

Nagasaki is a beautiful city with mountains, rivers, tidal canals, streetcars, a vibrant, funky Chinatown neighborhood, and much more. It always (it’s my third time here) reminds me bit of San [...]

As the nation’s largest peace organization, of course we commented on the announced agreements between Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev.   Kevin Martin, the group’s executive director, [...]

Who wouldn’t be interested in a campaign to stop the spread of nuclear weapons? Non-proliferation has always just seemed like a given to me. Still, I was never really informed about the various [...]