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President Obama took to the podium this morning at the daily White House press briefing to announce the completion of a new START treaty with Russia. The treaty, Obama explained, will significantly reduce the number of deployed warheads and launchers in the arsenals of both the U.S.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a new report that low-yield tactical nuclear warheads would be one way for the Israelis to destroy Iranian uranium enrichment plants in remote, dug-in fortifications. But other independe
Japan won't consider developing a nuclear arsenal if the United States adopts a "no first use" policy for such weapons, according to new report by the Ploughshares-funded Union of Concerned Scientists, titled
More than you think, says National Security Network Director Heather Hurlburt. She describes how the safe passage of the health care legislative package through the Congress will provide an int
The U.S. and Russia reached a breakthrough agreement Wednesday for a historic treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the former Cold War rivals, reports the Associated Press, calling the treaty "the most significant pact in a generation and an important milestone in the decades-long quest to lower the risk of global nuclear war."
The Senate unanimously approved the Norooz Resolution (S.Res.463), granting official recognition for Norooz, the Iranian New Year, celebrating Iran's rich cultural traditions, expressing appreciation to Iranian Americans for their contributions to society, and wishing Iranian Americans and the Ir
Anne Penketh, of BASIC, a Ploughshares Fund grantee, looks at why one NATO country after another is calling for the US to remove short-range nuclear weapons from their soil.
As troops amassed on his border near the start of the Persian Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein weighed the purchase of a $150 million nuclear “package” deal that included not only weapons designs but also production plants and foreign experts to supervise the building of a nuc
A series of Pakistani army offensives against domestic militants and a string of arrests of senior Afghan Taliban members signal a new understanding between Pakistan and the United States. In an interview on NPR,