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At their recent meeting, Biden and Putin agreed to set up discussions about controlling nuclear weapons.
Before looking at decisions the U.S. took in recent years that have increased the danger of nuclear war, it is useful to recall how the nuclear age began.
It was the U.S. that developed (...)
Photo Credit: (The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons/Google Images)
The most significant multilateral treaty for nuclear disarmament in fifty years came into force on January 22. The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has now been ratified by (...)
In 1945, United States scientists who worked on the first nuclear weapons (two were used against Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki) set up an organization to print The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which warned of the dangers of nuclear weapons. As the Soviet Union began to develop such (...)
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons founder describes weapons review as ‘a chilling document’ that echoes cold war era.
Australia’s Nobel peace laureate says America’s aggressive new nuclear policy is “a blueprint for nuclear war” that returns the world to a cold war mentality.
Tilman (...)
The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for the campaign’s “ground-breaking efforts” to secure a prohibition on such weapons.
In July, ICAN was at the forefront of international efforts to establish a global agreement against the (...)
Maybe you thought America’s nuclear arsenal, with its thousands of city-busting, potentially civilization-destroying thermonuclear warheads, was plenty big enough to deter any imaginable adversary from attacking the U.S. with nukes of their own. Well, it turns out you were wrong.
The Pentagon (...)
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a coalition of hundreds of NGOs from dozens of countries, puts in stark relief the irresponsibility of those states – including France – who base their security on dissuasion by terror. Mediapart’s (...)
Text of CNDP Statement following the Award of the Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN.
The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) with a deep sense of solidarity, warmly welcomes the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). By bestowing (...)
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, the Switzerland-based coalition of civil society groups that led successful efforts to approve a nuclear weapons ban treaty. The UN voted in favor of the treaty in July; it will take effect (...)
Dear friends:
In whatever part of the world you are in, surely you are faced by many challenges that hinder every human being from living lives of peace, security and prosperity. But among all issues, there is one that we should never forget and we should continue to fight for - the abolition (...)
Phil Hearse writes about Trump’s threat of genocide in North Korea, as US Secretary of Defence, General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis puts it: “Kim Jong-un risks the end of his regime and the destruction of his people.”
Donald Trump’s threats of ‘fire and fury’ against North Korea are an expression of a (...)
We are witnessing a striking shift in the global paradigm of how the world views nuclear weapons.
On July 7, 2017, at a UN Conference mandated by the UN General Assembly to negotiate a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons, the only weapons of mass destruction yet to be banned, 122 nations (...)
For more than seven decades, the international community has grappled with the threat of nuclear weapons. At the United Nations on Friday, July 7th, the vast majority of the world’s governments made clear their total rejection of these abhorrent devices, concluding a treaty to prohibit them, (...)
A treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons was adopted by an overwhelming vote and met with loud cheers this week at the United Nations. More than 70 years in the making, the treaty offers widely agreed principles, commitments, and mechanisms for ending the nuclear weapons age. Getting here (...)
Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima, but the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is in Asia to promote militarism and imperial rivalries, writes Khury Petersen-Smith.
MAYBE HISTORY will measure Barack Obama’s tenure as president not by the number of years that he spent in office, but by the number of (...)
CND’s Kate Hudson makes the case for investing in society not in Weapons of Mass Destruction. STOP TRIDENT DEMONSTRATION SAT 27 FEB 12:00PM MARBLE ARCH
Why does the government say there is no money for jobs, health, education, social services – but there is always money for nuclear weapons (...)
Khury Petersen-Smith punctures the mythology about the U.S. decision to use the atomic bomb at the end of the Second World War—and why the myths still endure.
IN THE spring of 2009, activists in Hiroshima, Japan, launched a project to persuade President Barack Obama to visit their city. (...)
TOKYO — This newspaper’s recent obituary for Theodore Van Kirk, the last living crew member of the Enola Gay — the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima — closed with a quote from a 1995 interview with Mr. Van Kirk. “It’s really hard to talk about morality and war in the same sentence,” he (...)
Four years ago in 2010, at the last nuclear summit of 47 countries in New York, President Barack Obama waxed eloquent on the extreme danger of fissile materials falling into the hands of groups like Al Qaeda which would then make and use a nuclear bomb. The then Prime Minister of India, Mr. (...)
Each August 6 in Hiroshima, speakers reiterate familiar statistics, such as how the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombs tragically slaughtered 140,000 people. Many evoke J. Robert Oppenheimer’s sense of dread which led him to quote the line from the Bhagavad-Gita: “I am become Death, the destroyer of (...)
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