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 […]

Read the full piece in Medium.  President-elect Donald Trump has long bragged about his ability to negotiate good deals. The opening line of his 1987 book claims: “Deals are my art form.” A good test of that facility will come when he is dealing leader-to-leader with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Read the full piece […]

Read the full piece in Medium. Looking at United States and world nuclear stockpiles, it is easy to see why there are widely divergent views about where we are more than 70 years into the nuclear bomb era. American use of atomic bombs to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 remains controversial. One camp, representing the […]