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After a year of negotiations, the President Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed a new treaty today to reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles in both countries and make the world that much [...]

The Obama administration’s long-delayed Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) was released today and, as expected, it’s a mixed bag. Outlining US nuclear weapons policy for the next 5-10 [...]

Now that President Obama and Russian President Medvedev are planning to sign the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) in Prague on April 8, our campaign to press the Senate to ratify [...]

On Friday, the White House announced that negotiations with Russia on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) to cut both US and Russian deployed nuclear weapons stockpiles as well as [...]

The nuclear weapons hawks are at it again and it’s up to us to stop them. Through their intense lobbying campaign, hawks in Congress and the nuclear weapons labs got a whopping $7 billion for [...]

Those of you in the Bay Area should check out one of the following talks on nuclear weapons being given by Tad Daley, author and Writing Fellow with International Physicians for the Prevention of [...]

A prominent narrative relating to the offensive in Marja has been the military’s emphasis on reducing civilian casualties. For example, the Brookings Institution notes that unlike past [...]

The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), already postponed until today, has been delayed again as the Obama administration works to come to a final position on key issues. Now expected at the end of [...]

The Washington Post has a very moving series of photos today highlighting the human suffering in Kazakhstan as a result of the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons tests there from 1949 to 1989. [...]

Vice President Biden gave a major policy speech today on nuclear weapons (full text here), discussing the administration’s nuclear weapons agenda, their funding request for nuclear weapons, and [...]