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The Obama administration plans to reduce the size of the US nuclear arsenal by 30-40% in the next two decades . But there’s a dark side to the good news: the plan includes overall cost [...]

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s comments last week at a fundraiser in Connecticut about the war in Afghanistan received a lot of criticism from both parties, with [...]

In a Washington Post op-ed, former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney attacks the New START treaty and not-so-subtly takes aim at the Obama administration’s national security credentials. He [...]

Last week’s votes on the amendments to the Afghanistan war funding bill gave us an idea about the strength of the growing opposition to the war in Afghanistan.  Although the $33 billion for [...]

It’s a throwback to the Bush style of campaigning, for election or for war. If you repeat a lie enough times, the public will eventually believe you. The ticking time bomb rhetoric that an [...]

Iran’s nuclear swap deal, dismissed by the US just weeks ago, may be coming back on the table. The swap deal involves Iran sending a portion of its uranium stockpile to Turkey in exchange [...]

Rep. Mike Honda along with Reps. John Conyers, Alan Grayson and Raúl Grijalva issued a statement yesterday challenging the conservatives in the House to be fiscally responsible by opposing the [...]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will try to pass the supplemental war spending bill before the July 4th recess. Last week, thirty House members sent a letter to the Speaker, urging for a [...]

Last week both the Senate and the House approved of the sanctions “package,” or the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (H.R.2194), against Iran, and it goes [...]

In response to misplaced concern about the long-term reliability of the nuclear arsenal, the Obama administration sent Congress a budget request for the nuclear weapons complex bigger than [...]