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Washington, DC — September 23, 2016 — Peace Action, the nation’s largest peace organization, made the following statement in response to today’s first-ever CTBT resolution (number 2310) passed by [...]

On September 24, 1996, President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which would ban any signatory nation from exploding nuclear weapons. The problem is that 15 years later, the [...]

On August 7th Mark O. Hatfield, former Senator from Oregon, passed away at the age of 89. Exactly 66 years and 1 day earlier, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Hatfield was stationed [...]

By Yeabu Conteh CTBT– The Next Sensible Step Toward Nuclear Abolition Long part of Peace Action’s strategy for a nuclear-free world, we are renewing our efforts to secure Senate ratification of [...]

Indonesia is setting a fine example that the US Senate should follow. At the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, Indonesia announced it plans to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban [...]

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 [...]

Update: The White House has the full joint statement available at this link. President Obama has touched down in Japan. While some groups have been calling for Obama to become the first American [...]

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion editorial by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) entitled “Why We Need to Test Nuclear Weapons.” If the title makes you grind your teeth, just [...]

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has a good primer video on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty explaining what the treaty is and how US ratification of the treaty would enhance our [...]