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Top General Calls For Deep Cuts In Nuclear Arsenal

2012-05-15T18:26:00Z

WASHINGTON -- A blue ribbon commission headed by a former commander of U.S. nuclear forces Tuesday called for an end to "Cold War thinking" and a shar...

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William Hartung: Posturing on Plutonium

2012-05-15T14:43:00Z

The last thing we should be doing at this point in our history is indulging Turner's "proliferation posse." At a time when our safety depends on reducing global nuclear arsenals, their ideas are dangerous, unnecessary and unaffordable.

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Dorian de Wind: Two Views of Ronald Reagan

2012-04-02T18:36:32Z

It has been interesting to hear just about every Republican presidential contender claim that he or she is the true Reagan heir.

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Obama Urges North Korea To 'Pursue Peace'

2012-03-26T04:54:08Z

SEOUL, South Korea — President Barack Obama said Tuesday the threat of nuclear weapons remains a potent challenge for the globe to confront, tel...

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William Rose: The Unfathomable Cost of the United States Nuclear Program

2012-02-29T14:27:53Z

If you're not terrified by the statistics of military error (and there are plenty of close encounters) you should be in awe of the fact that world leaders will spend $1 trillion in the next 10 years on nuclear weapons.

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Obama Administration Weighing Bold Step

2012-02-14T15:12:43Z

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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Robert Koehler: Predator Syndrome

2011-06-09T11:16:18Z

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.

Read more: Congress, War on Terror, National Defense Authorization Act, Nuclear Weapons, Peace, Start Treaty, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Modernization, New Start Treaty, Politics News

Lawrence Korb: Defense Authorization and New START

2011-05-27T13:55:58Z

Less than a month after Obama got Osama, House Republicans still don't trust the
president to safeguard U.S. national security.

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William Hartung: Strangelove Strikes Again

2011-05-23T21:32:04Z

If there is a problem with New START, it is that both sides will still have too many warheads, not too few. New START makes sense as a first step towards deeper reductions in nuclear arsenals, not as an end in itself.

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Joe Cirincione: Five Next Steps To Increase American Security

2011-05-04T14:23:16Z

There's one less threat to America this week, but there are 21,000 others waiting to explode. That's the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Russia.

Read more: Nuclear Weapons, SuPR Group, New Start, US Russia Relations, Igor Ivanov, Nuclear Arms, Start Treaty, Nuclear Proliferation, Madeleine Albright, World News

Potential GOP Presidential Contenders Line Up Against Major Obama Initiative

2010-12-09T09:53:43Z

WASHINGTON — Republicans weighing a White House bid fiercely oppose a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia and stand in stark contrast to two pre...

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START Nuclear Arms Treaty In Effect Between US And Russia

2011-02-05T14:02:35Z

MUNICH — A new U.S.-Russia nuclear arms control treaty went into effect Saturday, securing a key foreign policy goal of President Barack Obama and r...

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Joe Cirincione: Reagan the Abolitionist

2011-02-03T14:08:53Z

One of Ronald Reagan's most powerful and living legacies was his dream of a world free of nuclear weapons. It is worth remembering this upcoming sixth of February, the centennial of his birth.

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Obama: START Nuclear Treaty 'imperative' For National Security

2010-11-18T14:33:45Z

WASHINGTON — Insisting the nation's security could be in peril, President Barack Obama rallied former diplomatic and military chiefs from both p...

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Democrats Pushing For Nuclear Treaty Vote Despite Setback By GOP

2010-11-17T08:55:07Z

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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Hoyt Hilsman: Obama's Story

2011-01-07T14:01:50Z

Creative writers and artists who spend their lives crafting narratives have long understood that we do not so much create a story as discover it. As President Obama demonstrated over the last month, the narrative of politics is not very different.

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John Feffer: Negotiating With Evil

2011-01-04T19:17:09Z

Given the title of this essay, perhaps you expected a commentary on North Korea or another vilified U.S. adversary and violator of all human decency. Actually, I was referring to Jon Kyl.

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William Hartung: New START, Next Steps

2010-12-28T14:07:21Z

The New START agreement was a victory for Obama, key members of Congress, the arms control and disarmament movement, and ultimately, all of us. But that was then, and this is now.

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Ronnie Shows: Obama Can Win by Securing the Middle

2010-12-27T18:00:59Z

President Obama's move to the political middle, by extending Bush tax cuts and unemployment insurance for millions of out of work Americans, offers his best hope for re-election in 2012.

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Cenk Uygur: GOP Not Allowed to Talk About the "Will of the Public"

2010-12-27T11:43:31Z

You'll excuse me now if I'm not buying the sudden increased interest the GOP has in listening to the American people. They never for one second respected the results of the 2008 election.

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Robert Creamer: During the Holidays We Celebrate Progressive Values

2010-12-26T17:02:35Z

Progressive values that have always defined human progress are about hope, not fear. We must nurture them, fight for them, and celebrate them now during the holidays, and in all the battles we face in the coming year.

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Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup

2010-12-26T01:08:15Z

This week, the supposedly lame duck Congress and shellac-shocked president came together and produced a flurry of good legislation. The repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell is another step on our path towards a more perfect union. The START Treaty should have been a no-brainer (is there anyone outside of Tehran or Pyongyang in favor of more nukes?) but is nonetheless a solid national security success. And the passage of a diminished bill covering the health costs of 9/11 first responders is, literally, the least we could do for them. So the president has earned his vacation. But when he gets back from Hawaii, he needs to make sure that he puts job creation and the plight of the nearly 27 million Americans out of work or underemployed front and center, and doesn't get caught up in the political and financial establishment's focus on the deficit. Let's not rearrange the furniture while the economic house goes up in flames.

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Brian Ross: The Grinches (Who Tried) to Steal the Lame Duck

2010-12-25T07:33:57Z

The people of Whoville wanted leadership a lot,
But the Grinches who run the GOP did not.

Legislation in the Lame Duck? How could it be?!
They wanted...

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Miles Mogulescu: Holiday Cheers for DADT Repeal, 9/11 Healthcare, and START, But It's Still the Economy, Stupid

2010-12-24T15:23:53Z

DADT and passage of the 9/11 healthcare bill are second tier issues that will impact only a relatively small number of Americans. So yes, let's celebrate some wins this holiday season, but let's not let it blind us.

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Joe Peyronnin: The Persistent President

2010-12-23T11:11:05Z

In a few short weeks, the president has positioned himself as more bipartisan than the Republicans. If he stays the course, he will likely prevail in the 2012 presidential election.

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