Obama Administration

This article from Congressional Quarterly accurately depicts the challenges the Administration will have getting a new arms reduction treaty with Russia, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, or [...]

By Tom Hayden Robert McNamara died the other day as seven American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan.   It wasn’t the deaths on the same day that made me remember McNamara’s folly.   It was the [...]

As the nation’s largest peace organization, of course we commented on the announced agreements between Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev.   Kevin Martin, the group’s executive director, [...]

From the US — “Today’s nuclear weapon states will not eliminate their nuclear weapons without the assurance that additional states will not obtain such weapons tomorrow.” [...]

I’m at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee meeting at the UN in New York City listening to the mayor of Hiroshima, Tad Akiba. Below is a post from a colleague at [...]

“Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch [...]