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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 [...]

For the past two years, I’ve been blogging on nuclear weapons news, from our success in defeating the Bush administration’s push for new nuclear weapons to the New START treaty to cut [...]