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U.S. and Russian arms-control negotiators have reached an "agreement in principle" on the first nuclear arms reduction treaty in nearly two decades, administration and arms control officials said Tuesday.
"In the time it takes to read this piece, the troop escalation in Afghanistan will have cost $171,000," writes Peace Action West Executive Director Jon Rainwater in a
In a statement read at the Global Zero summit in Paris today, President Obama repeated his commitment to the ambitious nonproliferation goals he set out in his
As part of a record $3.8 trillion budget proposal, the Obama Administration is asking Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $7 billion over the next five years.
In the State of the Union Address, President Obama declared nuclear weapons the "greatest threat to the American people" and reiterated his commitment to follow in the footsteps
"Now, even as we prosecute two wars, we're also confronting perhaps the greatest danger to the American people—the threat of nuclear weapons. I've embraced the vision of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan through a strategy that reverses the spread of these weapons and seeks a world without them.
Nuclear blogger Max Bergmann, writing for the Center for American Progress' Wonk Room, corrected Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Frank Gaffney’s assertion that last week’s
The Pentagon-led Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), expected to be released in March, will establish policies for the U.S. nuclear deterrent over the next five to ten years.