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Debate: On the Right Nuclear Weapons Track

Mar 8th 2010 – 6:17AM
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(March 8) -- President Barack Obama has resumed a vital post-Cold War chore interrupted by his predecessor -- reducing America's nuclear arsenal. The White House reportedly is putting the final touches on its Nuclear Posture Review, which aims to reinforce the world's nonproliferation regime without undercutting...

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William Hartung: Posturing on Plutonium

By William Hartung May 15th 2012 - 02:49PM

There have been so many bad proposals on defense issues thrown around in the House of Representatives lately it's hard to know where to start.

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Lugar's Loss and Jesse's Ghost

By Jeffrey Laurenti May 09th 2012 - 08:55PM

What's a conservative Republican not to like in a veteran senator who voted against President Obama's economic recovery "stimulus," against his health care overhaul, against his tightened regulation of Wall Street, and against "cap-and-trade" controls on global warming?

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Arms and the Super Committee

By William Hartung Nov 18th 2011 - 05:43PM

As the Congressional super committee moves towards its deadline for developing a deficit reduction plan, we need to make sure that its decisions reflect the national interest, not special interests.

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Strangelove Strikes Again

By William Hartung May 23rd 2011 - 09:37PM

One of the messages of Stanley Kubrick's anti-nuclear classic Dr. Strangelove is that policy makers can become addicted to the bomb and the various fear-driven rationales for keeping it.

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Obama Squeezing GOP on Arms Treaty: 'Our Security' is at Stake

By Tom Diemer Nov 20th 2010 - 12:04PM

Pushing hard for the START treaty, President Obama kept up his full court press on reluctant Republicans Saturday, warning that failure to ratify the nuclear arms deal with Russia "would be a dangerous gamble with America's national security."

Background on arms reduction

Arms control is a term for restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction.

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