To read Council for a Livable World board member, Dr. Jim Walsh’s co-authored an op-ed in The Charlotte Observer, click here. Have you noticed? The nuclear agreement with Iran is no longer in the headlines. Not long ago, Iran’s nuclear program was the central issue in U.S. foreign policy. We talked about it all the […]

On Dec. 22, 2016, President-elect Trump tweeted: “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” Why would the U.S. need to strengthen its nuclear capabilities? Our current capacity is approximately 4,500 nuclear weapons, which includes 900 nuclear warheads on high […]

Read the full article in The Independent. James McKeon, a spokesman for the Washington-based Council for a Livable World, said the need to reduce such risks was pressing, regardless of who was commander-in-chief. “We don’t think such weapons should be on a high-trigger alert,” he said. Read the full article in The Independent.

Read the full piece here.  The Council for a Livable World’s board of directors recently named State Rep. Harold P. Naughton Jr. to its board of directors. Rep. Naughton, Jr. is the state representative for Massachusetts’ 12th district, and has been a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives since 1995. Rep. Naughton currently serves […]