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...

Substantial cuts can be made without endangering our safety and that this would increase the moral authority of the United States while diminishing the threat of proliferation.

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

As 2010 turns to 2011, many progressives find themselves disappointed, defeated at the ballot box and with few options for the immediate future. Fortunately, things can change quickly in American politics.

For now let us all raise a glass in solidarity with our DC colleagues: here's to the START of renewed momentum on the Road to Prague.

It is amazing what a deadline can do to focus the hearts and minds of our government, but the real test of bipartisanship lies in the ability of our political system to address the most pressing of all problems, the national debt.

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday ratified an arms control treaty with Russia that reins in the nuclear weapons that could plunge the world i...

The vote, which was 67 to 28, was major break in party unity for the GOP, which has successfully blocked several bills before the November elections a...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama tried to sway reluctant Republican senators on Monday to back a new arms control treaty with Russia as GOP a...

Republican senators say privately they expect the Senate to ratify the New START treaty this week, which would hand President Obama his third major vi...

WASHINGTON — U.S. military leaders dismissed Republican claims that a new arms treaty with Russia would hamper America's missile defense efforts...

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.

WASHINGTON — Pushing a top foreign policy priority, President Barack Obama expressed confidence Wednesday the Senate would quickly ratify a U.S....

Failing to ratify START will have serious ramifications for other U.S. priorities around the world. Yet nuclear terrorism and reduced leverage on Iran are risks Republicans seem blithely willing to tolerate.

Everyone in Washington has a few busy weeks ahead, until the 111th Congress wraps up business and heads off into the sunset, but President Obama will be at the center of this whirlwind.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) accused Republicans over the weekend of "hiding behind the skirts" of GOP Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) in what she characteriz...

You know Senator Kyl -- he is out to kill START 'Cause the GOP thinks it would be really smart For Obama to lose once again. No success for the Pres! ...

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I thought that was a pretty good week for Democrats. Maybe it's just the subject matter I've been tackling t...

If Kyl really believes that the nuclear weapons complex needs a fresh infusion of cash, he should jump at the deal being offered by the Obama administration.