Action Center
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Tell Presidential Candidates to Take the Nuclear Option Off the Table with Iran
Tell the Presidential candidates to use diplomacy with Iran, not preventive war or saber rattling. -
Tell President Bush to Not Veto the Iraq Bill
Tell the President to agree to a timeline for withdrawal of American combat forces from Iraq by signing the legislation sent to him by Congress. -
Prevent President Bush from attacking Iran without Congressional approval
Tell Congress to support efforts to prohibit President Bush from attacking Iran without Congressional approval. -
Stop the Reliable Replacement Warhead!
Tell Congress to oppose any funding for the development of new nuclear weapons such as the Reliable Replacement Warhead. It is both unnecessary and dangerous and should be terminated immediately. -
Tell Congress to support the Biden-Hagel-Levin-Snowe resolution
Tell Congress to support the Biden-Hagel-Levin-Snowe resolution. -
Tell Congress to block escalation in Iraq!
Tell Congress to co-sponsor the Kennedy or Markey bills and other legislation that blocks sending more troops to Iraq. -
Stop the Iraq War Escalation
Tell Congress to vigorously oppose any military escalation in Iraq. -
Strong Sanctions and Strong Diplomacy for North Korea
Tell the President that strong international sanctions are needed in response to North Korea’s nuclear test, but so is strong diplomacy. The United States needs to be willing to talk with both friends and enemies. -
Reprocessing Increases the Chances of Nuclear Terrorism
Reversing a thirty-year practice of not separating nuclear bomb-grade material from nuclear waste due to cost and proliferation concerns, the Bush Administration's effort to reprocess nuclear waste weakens nuclear non-proliferation efforts to stop other countries from engaging in this practice and would make available material to terrorists seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. -
The Failure of Missile Defense
Missile Defense doesn't protect the United States from a realistic threat. We should be using these wasted resources to fund more important initiatives like anti-terrorism programs or first responder training.
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U.S. Should Capitalize on Shared Interests to Engage Iran
This administration's saber-rattling against Iran is counter-productive. Instead, the U.S. should capitalize on shared interests with Tehran to achieve a stable Iraq and use it as the basis for opening direct, unconditional, and comprehensive talks with Iran on a broad range of issues. Use our talking points as a guide and write a letter to the editor today! -
Republican "Ultra-Liberal" attack ads misleading
The Republican party is rolling out a massive campaign of negative TV ads, starting in Ohio and Iowa, but if local citizens speak out against these ads, we can shut them down quickly. -
We Must Find a Viable Strategy for North Korean Nuclear Ambitions
Frustrated by North Korea’s refusal to rejoin the Six Party Talks and the recent missile tests, the United States is considering imposing additional sanctions on North Korea, but has not outlined a viable strategy to deal with North Korea’s growing nuclear weapons program. -
The Failure of Missile Defense
Despite the many tens of billions of dollars spent on missile defense and the flagrantly inaccurate claims by proponents of missile defense systems, after 50 years missile defense remains an experimental system that has provided the United States with very few tangible results. Moreover, despite Pentagon claims that solving missile defense problems is merely an “engineering” problem, defending against missile attacks of any range remains a complex and extremely challenging problem that the expenditure of well over $100 billion has not solved. -
Honor Our Troops: Out of Iraq
The U.S. invasion of Iraq was an unjustified use of military power to oust a brutal dictator, with the Bush Administration advancing as its primary justification the need to address Iraqi aspirations for nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. After no weapons of mass destruction were found after the 2003 invasion, it was clear that the Administration distorted intelligence information to justify the war. -
We Must Talk to Iran
Like President Nixon’s bold decision to go to China at a time when confrontation seemed to be intensifying, we know that creative, farsighted diplomacy can turn even the most difficult situation around. Iran does not pose an imminent threat to US security and we should exhaust every possible diplomatic means. As Military Leaders and Diplomats have urged, the situation must be resolved through diplomacy, not military action. -
Renegotiate the US-India Nuclear Deal
The proposed US-India nuclear deal poses great risks for the nuclear non-proliferation framework which has limited the spread of nuclear weapons over thirty-five years. The US-India nuclear deal set a dangerous precedent and rewards India despite its refusal to take on meaningful nuclear non-proliferation commitments as have done almost all other countries. -
Reprocessing Increases the Chances of Nuclear Terrorism
Reversing a thirty-year practice of not separating nuclear bomb-grade material from nuclear waste due to cost and proliferation concerns, the Bush Administration's effort to reprocess nuclear waste weakens nuclear non-proliferation efforts to stop other countries from engaging in this practice and would make available material to terrorists seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. -
Unnecessary: The Reliable Replacement Warhead
While the RRW program proposes to "trad[e] off features important in the Cold War, such as high yield and low weight, to gain features more valuable now, such as lower cost, greater ease of manufacture and certification, and increased long-term confidence in the stockpile," without creating new weapons or testing, the RRW program poses several considerable risks for nuclear non-proliferation efforts due to its vague objectives and because it represents a program to build new nuclear weapons.
CONTACT CONGRESS
Support the Warner Resolution
An overwhelming bi-partisan vote for the Warner resolution this week will be an important step in the process of extricating the U.S. from Iraq. Passage of the resolution would provide political momentum for later, tougher bills providing binding language that brings an end to the war.
