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  • Release Date: 
    04-05-2010

    Oakland, CA – On the one year anniversary of President Obama’s speech from Prague in which he called for a “world without nuclear weapons,” and as he signs the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, a broad coalition of more than 100 faith, peace, and arms control groups from across the country is sending a letter to the president urging him to plan the next step to advance progress toward disarmament.

  • Release Date: 
    10-15-2009
    OAKLAND, CA – As President Obama prepares his Nuclear Posture Review, pressure to water down his vision of American leadership to reduce the threat from nuclear weapons builds within his administration. 179 national, regional, and local organizations from across the country are responding with a letter to the president asking him to continue his leadership on nuclear weapons issues. The letter outlines how the Nuclear Posture Review can best achieve the vision the president laid out in his speech in Prague.  
  • Release Date: 
    04-05-2009

    Oakland, CA – In a major speech made from Prague today, President Obama placed a commitment by the US to achieve a “world without nuclear weapons” at the center of US nuclear policy, outlining the need for arms control agreements and a series of steps to address the threat posed by nuclear weapons.

  • Release Date: 
    04-01-2009

    Oakland, CA - Today, as President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev met for the first time, the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World applauded their embrace of arms control measures and pragmatic steps for nuclear arms reductions.

  • Release Date: 
    03-11-2009

    National Citizens’ Coalition Calls On President Obama to Take Immediate Steps Toward a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
    Deliver Petition Endorsed by More Than 70,000; Former Reagan Arms Control Advisor Issues Statement on Nuclear Threat

    For Immediate Release: March 11, 2009

    Contacts: Reva Patwardhan, Peace Action West (510) 830-3600 ext. 112, rpatwardhan [at] peaceactionwest [dot] org
    David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (805) 450-4083

  • Release Date: 
    August 28, 2008