On AlterNet: nuclear weapons
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "nuclear weapons"
Byard Duncan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. June 17, 2009.
Obama and South Korean president Lee Myung-bak met yesterday to discuss a multilateral approach to confronting North Korea.
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. June 17, 2009.
American conservatives and Iranian hard-liners need each other.
The Washington Post June 12, 2009.
The move follows the country's second nuclear test.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. June 9, 2009.
Call on the North Korean government to release the two American journalists sentenced to 12 years of hard labor.
Allison Kilkenny, AlterNet. April 10, 2009.
Obama says we must expand drone operations in Pakistan lest the Taliban get a nuclear weapon. Pakistani author Tariq Ali tells me this is a joke.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com. February 9, 2009.
President Obama supports a nuclear free world, but he faces a high noon showdown in the form of his own Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates.
Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. December 16, 2008.
There’s no way around it: nuclear weapons are scary. Will fear drive Americans away from Obama’s arms control agenda?
Tad Daley, LA City Beat. July 25, 2008.
Is there anything we can do to prevent the loss of a city?
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. July 17, 2008.
We can't let the nuclear power industry use global warming as an opportunity to sell its insanely expensive and dangerous power plants.
Tad Daley, AlterNet. May 15, 2008.
Non-nuclear weapon states shouldn't tolerate the nuclear double standard.
Ben Armbruster, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. March 21, 2008.
The experts have called Bush's claim is "troubling" and "as uninformed as McCain's statement that Iran is training al-Qaeda"
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. February 12, 2008.
While most Americans aren't paying attention, the US, France and Russia are selling nuclear technology to the highest bidders.
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. December 27, 2007.
No amount of intelligence is likely to get Bush to back off.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: Video. December 6, 2007.
Steve Benen: By Ken Starr's '98 standards, if a president is caught lying in response to a reporter's question. That's impeachable. Just sayin'.
Russ Wellen, Scholars and Rogues AlterNet: PEEK. December 6, 2007.
Russ Wellen: "Rather than adjusting policy on Iran in accordance to the reality-check provided by the NIE, the President moved the goal post on Iran."
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. December 6, 2007.
Faiz Shakir: Bush now says he continued to warn of "World War III" and a "nuclear holocaust" because nobody told him to stop.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: Video. December 5, 2007.
On the same program conservatives Scarborough and Pat Buchanan called for congressional subpoenas of Bush's advisors, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to determine when they knew about the latest NIE report.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. December 5, 2007.
Bush is either a liar or out to lunch on the most important issue he faces.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. December 4, 2007.
The New Yorker journalist's revelation provides evidence that the Bush administration is misleading about when it first learned that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. December 4, 2007.
"This [NIE] document essentially brands the word liar or fool on everybody who has asserted that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons."
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. December 3, 2007.
Amanda Terkel: This National Intelligence Estimate was reportedly completed a year ago but was blocked by the White House.
George Monbiot, Comment Is Free. December 1, 2007.
When will the US and the UK tell the truth about Israel's nuclear weapons?
Will Durst, AlterNet. November 20, 2007.
Whether or not Bush gives a country nukes boils down to this: its not enough for them to be like us, they also have to actually like us.
Tad Daley, AlterNet. November 9, 2007.
America's standard for saying which countries can go nuclear is simple: Countries we like can. Countries we dislike can't.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: PEEK. November 5, 2007.
Pam Spaulding: Hmmmm...Iran, no nukes, Pakistan, nukes and chaos. What do you think Bush will do about this "situation"?