Nuclear Disarmament

Former U.S. nuclear commander startles with proposal to cut weapons arsenal by 80%

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012

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The Center for Public Integrity

By R. Jeffrey SmithiWatch NewsThe chairman of a House subcommittee that helps shape the nation's nuclear arsenal, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), has bee...

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Two Bullets per Person: The Trillion Dollar Military Spending Club

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Israel, Greenpeace, Climate Change, Malnourishment, Politics News
Kumi Naidoo

With expenditure on military being one of the few areas not facing massive government cut backs we should ask: Is our world becoming a safer place?

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Dan Froomkin

Barack Obama's Broken Nuclear Promises Undermine Successes

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 03.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is in South Korea marking the significant amount of progress made in the past three years on his initiative to se...

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Try a Little Nuclear Sanity

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Ed Markey, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Arms Control, Missile Defense, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Peace, Deterrence, North Korea, World News
Lawrence Wittner

The real nuclear threat to the United States does not lie in the fact that it does not (or will not) possess enough nuclear weapons to deter a nuclear attack. Rather, it is that there is no guarantee that nuclear deterrence works.

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Obama Administration Weighing Bold Step

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 04.15.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is weighing options for sharp new cuts to the U.S. nuclear force, including a reduction of up to 80 percen...

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9 Countries In the Nuclear Weapons Club

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 03.10.2012

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Howard Steven Friedman

Many historians argue that the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a turning point in mankind's history, events that marked the beginning of humanity's ability to instantly self-annihilate.

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Washington Can Work: Celebrating Twenty Years With Zero Nuclear Terrorism

Graham Allison | Posted 02.28.2012

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Graham Allison

As Washington antics undermine our confidence in government, it is instructive to think back 20 years to challenges a President and Congress faced in December, 1991.

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Sanity in Exile

Robert Koehler | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Mitt Romney, Iran Sanctions, New York Times, Iran, IAEA Iran, Republican Party, Politics News
Robert Koehler

The consensus congeals: Our next war must be with Iran. War hysteria springs eternal. It certainly makes great fodder for a presidential campaign, as virtually all the GOP commander-in-chief wannabes are playing tough as nails on the issue.

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Dan Froomkin

Global Zero Nuclear Summit Aims To Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Worldwide

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.11.2011

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Nuclear weapons were once the ultimate symbol of super power. But in this era of terrorism and nuclear proliferation, they have come to signify exactl...

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Mohamed ElBaradei's The Age of Deception

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, International Security, UN Security Council, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iraq, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Iran Nuclear Weapons, North Korea, World News
Lawrence Wittner

Can international diplomacy cope with the nuclear dangers that now threaten global survival? In The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times, ElBaradei makes the case that it can.

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Kansas City Here It Comes: A New Nuclear Weapons Plant!

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 11.14.2011

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Lawrence Wittner

Should the U.S. government be building more nuclear weapons? Residents of Kansas City, Missouri don't appear to think so, for they are engaged in a bitter fight against the construction of a new nuclear weapons plant in their community.

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How to Save a Quarter of a Trillion Dollars

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 10.08.2011

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Lawrence Wittner

By scrapping plans for nuclear weapons "modernization" and for national missile defense, programs that are both useless and provocative, the United States would save $271 billion.

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Predator Syndrome

Robert Koehler | Posted 08.09.2011

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Robert Koehler

The Republican-controlled House is hell-bent on crafting the perfect predator state, one that can wage war without the least need to entertain doubt or acknowledge conscience.

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No Longer Number 1!

Alyn Ware | Posted 08.04.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Competition, Human Rights, Cooperation, Olympics, Military Spending, Violence Prevention, United Nations, Gun Control, Rugby, Peace, Peace Education, World News
Alyn Ware

As a New Zealander living part-time in the United States for nearly two decades, I have until now been perplexed by the American compulsion to have to...

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The Peace Movement Today

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Peace Movement, Peace Action, Nuclear Weapons, Antiwar Movement, Military Spending, Nuclear Abolition, United for Peace and Justice, Pacifism, Peace, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Lawrence Wittner

Recently, when commentators have bothered to notice the American peace movement, they have pronounced it dead. But this is far from the case. Adm...

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Building a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lawrence Wittner

Apocalypse Never , by Tad Daley, is a new book that deserves wide circulation, for it is a spirited, ringing call for nuclear weapons abolition.

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Democrats Pushing For Nuclear Treaty Vote Despite Setback By GOP

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama summoned a number of former defense secretaries and secretaries of state of both parties to the White House ...

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Where Does Nuclear Disarmament Go From Here?

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lawrence Wittner

Supporters of nuclear disarmament won an important victory with New Start. But the difficult battle to secure Senate ratification indicates that making further progress will not be easy.

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New START Is About More Than Russia

Craig Martin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Craig Martin

New START is about much more than relations with Russia. It is about reestablishing U.S. leadership in the global effort to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons in the world.

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Are Nonproliferation and Disarmament, Once Joined at the Hip, Headed for Divorce?

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Russ Wellen

Whether or not we disarm has no bearing on the plans of states that hope to acquire or develop nuclear weapons. Whether or not disarmament discourages proliferation is immaterial -- it's our only recourse.

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Jury for Tacoma Trident Peace Activists Still Out

Bill Quigley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Quigley

The federal criminal trial of five veteran peace activists facing several charges was recessed until Monday after their jury announced late Friday the...

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Security, Sin And Nuclear Weapons: A Christian Plea For The New START Treaty

Dr. David P. Gushee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. David P. Gushee

Nuclear weapons present one of the gravest threats to the human future that has ever existed. Treaties like New START represent an agonizingly slow human crawl-back from the ledge of our own destruction.

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Will Senate Republicans Produce Another International Disaster?

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lawrence Wittner

An important explanation for GOP opposition to the New START is that its implementation would be popular and, therefore, redound to Obama's political benefit.

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Nuclear Weapon Drivers Got Drunk During Transport Missions

AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Federal agents hired to transport nuclear weapons and components sometimes got drunk while on convoy missions, a government watchdo...

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North Korea Nuclear Facility Disclosed: Rogue State Shows Off Building To U.S. Nuke Scientist

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — North Korea secretly and with unusual speed has built a large new facility to enrich uranium, says an American nuclear scientist wh...

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