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Mallika Rao

Armless Artist Applies For UK Visa...Absurdity Ensues

HuffingtonPost.com | Mallika Rao | Posted 05.08.2013 | Arts

A Kazakh artist born without arms, who was reportedly denied entry into the UK this spring for the surreal official reason that his fingerprints were ...

Obama proposes shifting funds from nuclear nonproliferation to nuclear weapons

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics
The Center for Public Integrity

By R. Jeffrey Smith and Douglas Birch April 9, 2013 This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, which is a nonprofit, no...

Norway Calls on the World to Ban Nuclear Weapons

John Dear | Posted 05.12.2013 | World
John Dear

Last week, an extraordinary, historic event occurred. The government of Norway invited all the nations of the world to a two-day conference to discuss the humanitarian effects of nuclear war and to begin the process to ban all nuclear weapons.

Practical Proposals for a Real Change in North Korea

Jonathan Granoff | Posted 05.11.2013 | World
Jonathan Granoff

Following the latest heightened, bellicose threats from North Korea, the UN Security Council unanimously passed a new round of sanctions, aimed primarily at starving their growing missile program. But increased sanctions are unlikely to create a positive change in North Korean conduct.

Is the Obama Administration Abandoning Its Commitment to a Nuclear-free World?

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 02.05.2013 | Politics
Lawrence Wittner

Has there been a change in Obama Administration policy over the past four years? There are certainly indications that this might be the case.

Richard Falk and David Krieger's 'The Path to Zero'

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 11.13.2012 | Books
Lawrence Wittner

Faced with the disastrous indifference of national governments to the fate of the earth, the people of the world would do well to study The Path to Zero, an extended conversation on the nuclear dilemma by two of its most brilliant analysts.

Rape, Patriarchy and the Bomb

Robert Koehler | Posted 10.23.2012 | Politics
Robert Koehler

A patriarchal, dominance-obsessed sexuality permeates the most deeply entrenched institutions of American society. The changes over the last 50 years have been largely on the surface.

Thirty Years Ago Today, at the Nuclear Freeze Rally in Central Park, We Saved Ourselves From Ourselves

Tad Daley | Posted 08.12.2012 | Politics
Tad Daley

It is hardly hyperbole to say that 30 years ago today, we, peaceful demonstrators, citizen agitators, members of the human race, played an incalculably important role in saving ourselves from ourselves.

Do Nuclear Weapons Really Deter Aggression?

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 08.06.2012 | World
Lawrence Wittner

The fact is that, today, there is no safety from war to be found in nuclear weaponry, any more than there was safety in the past produced by fighter planes, battleships, bombers, poison gas, and other devastating weapons.

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

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 07.18.2012 | Politics
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...

Two Bullets per Person: The Trillion Dollar Military Spending Club

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 06.17.2012 | Politics
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?

Dan Froomkin

Barack Obama's Broken Nuclear Promises Undermine Successes

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 03.27.2012 | Politics

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...

Try a Little Nuclear Sanity

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.26.2012 | World
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.

Obama Administration Weighing Bold Step

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 04.15.2012 | Politics

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...

9 Countries In the Nuclear Weapons Club

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 03.10.2012 | World
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.

Washington Can Work: Celebrating Twenty Years With Zero Nuclear Terrorism

Graham Allison | Posted 02.28.2012 | Politics
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.

Sanity in Exile

Robert Koehler | Posted 01.17.2012 | Politics
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.

Dan Froomkin

Global Zero Nuclear Summit Aims To Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Worldwide

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.11.2011 | World

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...

Mohamed ElBaradei's The Age of Deception

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 11.29.2011 | World
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.

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

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 11.14.2011 | Green
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.

How to Save a Quarter of a Trillion Dollars

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 10.08.2011 | Politics
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.

Predator Syndrome

Robert Koehler | Posted 08.09.2011 | Politics
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.

No Longer Number 1!

Alyn Ware | Posted 08.04.2011 | World
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...

The Peace Movement Today

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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...

Building a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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.