When Barack Obama was elected president, he hoped to eliminate nuclear weapons.  His hope (expressed in his visit to Hiroshima) is still to eliminate such weapons.  But that elimination never happens.  Almost a decade ago, four powerful retired politicians – Sam Nunn,...

President Obama is considering a visit to Hiroshima during the G-7 economic summit in Japan later this month. Hiroshima is an impressively rebuilt, thriving city of a million people. The city was obliterated by the first atomic bomb, dropped by the United States on...

There is growing agreement among antiwar activists that the Bush administration's two main political vulnerabilities on Iraq are personnel issues and the cost of the war. To the extent that we agree on this, we need to devise strategies and tactics that aim at those...