Nuclear Weapons

Recently we sent you a request to contact President Barack Obama on further initiatives to reduce the danger of nuclear weapons, as he advocated in his Prague speech in 2009, and again less than [...]

Last Thursday, the Washington Post ran an op-ed from President Obama: How we can make our vision of a world without nuclear weapons a reality. The President is hosting a Nuclear Security Summit [...]

Peace Action national board member (and pre-eminent historian on the global nuclear disarmament movement) Larry Wittner on History News Network. The Trillion Dollar Question the Media Have [...]

  Washington, DC — February 10, 2016 — For the first time in nearly 25 years, Peace Action PAC, the political action committee of Peace Action (the largest peace group in the U.S.) has [...]

supporters By Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action & Jon Rainwater, Executive Director, Peace Action West After 15 years of war, the next president of the United States will inherit [...]

Peace Action Applauds Iran Agreement Success; Urges Similar Diplomatic Efforts with Syria and North Korea Washington, DC — January 16, 2016 — In response to today’s announcement that all [...]

It appears President Obama forgot something.  In his State of the Union message last night he touched on the need to confront one of the great existential dangers of our time – climate change – [...]

This is a guest post from Martin Hellman that was originally published yesterday on his the Defusing the Nuclear Threat blog. Tonight’s  PBS Newshour covered North Korea’s fourth nuclear [...]

National Peace Action board member Larry Wittner has a new column on History News Network commenting on the staggering death toll, of tens of thousands of people in this country, from U.S. [...]

Government funding runs out tomorrow and the Republican leadership is holding the budget hostage to try to pass poison pill riders on issues from blocking Syrian refugees to stopping the [...]