nuclear weapons

By Jan Oberg

TFF director Jan Oberg comments on the important, positive commitment of the EU foreign policy chief on the JPCOA with Iran.

Exclusive: By ratcheting up tensions with Russia, U.S. national security is raising risks of accidental nuclear war with missiles still on hair-trigger alert — despite President Obama’s promises, writes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall With little more than a week…Read more →

[Prefatory Note: The text below is an Open Letter to the next American president urging complete nuclear disarmament as an urgent priority. The letter was prepared under the auspices of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and its current list of signatories are listed below. It is hoped that concerns with nuclear weapons policy will rise to the top of the global policy agenda and will engage people everywhere. It is our view that the elimination of nuclear weaponry is a matter of upholding the human interest of all peoples, as well as promoting the national interest of each country.]

An Open Letter to Myself on New Year’s Day 2017
 
Forebodings
 

Exclusive: The mainstream U.S. media’s relentless Russia-bashing has obscured Moscow’s legitimate fears about Washington’s provocative nuclear-missile strategies, which could lead to Armageddon, explains Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall The conflicts between Washington and Moscow keep on growing: Ukraine and Syria,…Read more →

21st Century Wire says…
While politicians and news media alike are accusing Trump of pushing an “arms race”  in his December 22nd Tweet about strengthening America’s nuclear capability, the Obama administration made a landmark change to the policies governing space based weapons under the guise of missile defense.

Merry Christmas, the crackpot who somehow slipped into the presidency, wants to reverse the trend away from the nuclear arms race. How do we know?

Where was this outrage before?

Some of President-elect Trump’s national security appointees are part of Official Washington’s “we-hate-Iran” group think, raising concerns about another Mideast war, notes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R. Pillar The direct stakes in whether the Trump administration adheres…Read more →