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One influential Republican in Congress is not too happy that we won our campaign to zero out funding for a new nuclear bomb factory. And rumor has it he is scheming to turn back the clock to the [...]

The frantic and conflicting rhetoric being thrown around these days makes it difficult to tell if we are on the brink of an arms race in the middle east, a handshake at the negotiating table, [...]

How many billions are outdated weapons worth? It’s the 21st century, yet we are spending more and more money on a Cold War nuclear arsenal every single year. Current plans will have the US [...]

Today, the Obama administration released their budget request for 2013. Here’s a look at the multi-billion dollar early Valentine’s Day gift to the nuclear weapons complex squirreled [...]

“We need more nuclear weapons programs like Lady Gaga needs another outfit.” That’s what Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) said yesterday, as he introduced a bill that would put a huge dent [...]

We have an urgent opportunity to move closer to a nuclear weapons free world. Every president gets one chance to revise and update US nuclear weapons strategy. That chance is coming in just a few [...]

Yesterday the Pentagon described their plans to grow defense spending over the next five years, (see the Pentagon’s factsheet here) but ingeniously packaged that growth as [...]

The LA Times ran a great OpEd yesterday highlighting that, as much as the Pentagon would like to convince you otherwise, assessing “progress” in Afghanistan is up to interpretation [...]

by Peter Deccy, Peace Action President Obama’s third State of the Union message began and ended in homily honoring our men and women in uniform.  The President referred to them as the one [...]

by Paul Kawika Martin, Peace Action On the heels of nearly all U.S. troops leaving Iraq, thanks to your pressure and others in the peace movement, troops are slowly coming out of Afghanistan.  In [...]