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One step closer. On June 27, Senator Feinstein’s subcommittee cut the B61’s budget by over 30%. You made this happen with the messages you have been sending to your senators all year urging them [...]

Today, a key House subcommittee will likely discuss the future of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter — one of the biggest boondoggles in Pentagon history. Our OpEd ran today in the Orange County [...]

Yesterday, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) was joined by 44 other members of Congress on a letter to leaders in both the House and the Senate insisting that billions of dollars in cuts to nuclear weapons [...]

Jon Rainwater and Rev. Rick Schlosser co-authored an OpEd that ran this week in the San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times. The time is now to craft a sane nuclear policy [...]

With Peace Action West and the Peace Education Fund’s help, Retired Major General Roger R Blunt’s anti-nuclear OpEd ran in 13 newspapers around the country last week. In it, he told [...]

Jon just had an OpEd go up on The Hill — one of Capitol Hill’s leading papers, and widely read among policymakers. It’s great timing, given next week’s presidential [...]

50 years ago today, the people of the world had no idea that the first steps of the Cuban Missile Crisis had begun, and the planet was about to be the closest that we have ever been to a global [...]

Thanks to you, the White House got a clear message about the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons. On May 7, 2012, members of the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World coordinating [...]

The House of Representatives just can’t make up its mind. They have passed two pieces of legislation recently that directly conflict with each other regarding spending levels for certain [...]

In my last post, I discussed the intelligence work that shows there is no proof to support widespread claims that Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapons program. Since that post, the [...]