Council for a Livable World

Political action to reduce nuclear threats

Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons: Is it Legal? Is it Constitutional? Is it Just?

The Council is proud to co-sponsor the event, “Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons: Is It Legal? Is It Constitutional? Is It Just?” held Nov. 4 in Cambridge, Mass.  Nuclear weapons strategy in the United States is designed around “presidential first use,” an arrangement that enables one man, the president, to kill and maim many […]

Democratizing the Decision to Use Nuclear Weapons

James Comey, Stephen King and George Will walk into a bar . . . It could be a lead-in to a joke, but unfortunately, it is not. All three gentlemen share a concern about our President’s increasingly erratic and irrational behavior. That concern should rightly increase exponentially when considering that President Donald Trump presently has […]

Analysis of House FY 2017 Defense Appropriations Bill

The House Appropriations Committee approved the Fiscal Year 2017 Defense Appropriations Bill on May 17, 2016. Amendments under a structured rule – the Rules Committee will decide which amendments are permitted — are expected on the House floor on Wednesday, June 15.   Total funding: $576.3 billion, including $58.6 billion for the Oversea Contingency Operations, […]

Major amendments in the Senate to S.2943 Fiscal Year 2017 Defense Authorization Bill

Major amendments in the Senate to S.2943 Fiscal Year 2017 Defense Authorization Bill   The Senate failed to reach cloture on two amendments yesterday: Sen. McCain’s amendment to increase defense spending by $18 billion and Sen. Reed’s & Sen. Mikulski’s amendment to Sen. McCain’s amendment, which would increase non-defense spending by a similar $18 billion.  The […]

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