arms

Massive Ordnance Problem: The Conventional Arms Control Challenge

Massive ordnance penetrator. Sounds powerful, right? This bomb is also known by its initials: MOP.

Posted in arms, nuclear weapons, proliferation

Arms Trade: A 'Booming' Business

President Barack Obama recently signed into law the 2010 military budget, saying that it takes the "necessary steps toward reshaping priorities of America's defense establishment and changing the way the Pentagon does business."

Posted in arms, military industrial complex

America: Arms Dealer to the Stars!

And then along comes one of those stories that makes you cringe down to your very core, that makes you see our semi-fine nation and the world around it through a bleak and unforgiving lens indeed. No matter how hard you try and how you spin the story and flip it around and try to forcibly shape it into something less slightly nauseating, all you can do is realize that sometimes ugliness and violence win the day, the year, the planet.

Posted in arms, defense spending, military industrial complex

Weapons: Our #1 Export?

The phrase "Obama has a lot on his plate" is the understatement of the year. The president has a to-do list a mile long, and every day a new crisis (like the coup in Honduras) gets added to the list. Can we really fault him if he sneaks the occasional smoke?

Posted in arms, military industrial complex, war economy

Arms Race in Space

The new arms race in space is shaping up to be the largest industrial project in Earth's history. To pay for this project, the aerospace industry has been lobbying Washington for a dedicated funding source. Budget allocations for missile defense - Star Wars - are only part of the huge sums of money redirected toward preparations for war in space.

Posted in arms, military industrial complex, missile defense

Wired for War: Exposing The Threat of Robotic War

I wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was in sixth grade. Fresh off my first viewing of Top Gun, I decided to serve my country by learning to fly an F-14. Fifteen years later, I'm a civilian with no flight experience whatsoever. This is hardly surprising. Childhood dreams don't always become adulthood realities.

Posted in arms, drone attacks, military industrial complex, war profits

Thousands of US Weapons Astray in Afghanistan: Auditors

WASHINGTON - Thousands of US weapons, including assault rifles and grenade launchers, may be in Taliban or Al-Qaeda hands in Afghanistan because of lax controls, congressional auditors warned on Thursday.

The Pentagon has failed to track an estimated 87,000 weapons given to Afghan security forces, one-third of the 242,000 shipped by the US government between December 2004 and June 2008, the Government Accountability Office said.

Posted in arms, War/Empire, Afghanistan

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 10, 2009
3:37 PM

CONTACT: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Travis Sharp
202.546.0795 ext. 2105
tsharp@armscontrolcenter.org

Early Talk on Arms Control Signals Strong Potential for Change

WASHINGTON - February 10 - In the first few weeks in office, both President Obama and Vice President Biden have made clear that their administration is committed to securing loose nuclear weapons, engaging with Iran, and working with Russia to reduce nuclear arsenals, an expert said today at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

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Founded in 1980, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation is a leading advocate for prudent measures to prevent the spread of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Visit the Center online: www.armscontrolcenter.org

Posted in arms, Militarism

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 3, 2009
1:41 PM

CONTACT: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Travis Sharp
202.546.0795 ext. 2105
tsharp@armscontrolcenter.org

Pentagon Budget Faces Uncertain Future During Economic Crisis

Momentum Accelerates for Reform; Budget Cuts Possible

WASHINGTON - February 3 - In a new report released today, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation analyzed the uncertain future facing the Pentagon budget now that the country is embroiled in an economic crisis and a new administration is in power.

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Posted in arms, Militarism

Alarm Spreads Over Use of Lethal New Weapons

$Medics wheel a wounded Palestinian youth into al-Shifa hospital following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City. Israel is responsible for \"large and indiscriminate human atrocities\" in Gaza, and the world medical establishment is a silent accomplice in the bloodshed, The Lancet charged on Wednesday. (AFP/Mehdi Fedouach)$

GAZA CITY - Eighteen-year-old Mona Al-Ashkar says she did not immediately know the first explosion at the United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahiya had blown her left leg off. There was smoke, then chaos, then the pain and disbelief set in once she realized it was gone - completely severed by the weapon that hit her.

Posted in airstrikes, arms, Israel/Palestine