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Nuclear Weapons
There Can be No Winners in a Nuclear War
A nuclear war fought with the US and/or Russian strategic nuclear arsenal means the end of human history.
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Nuclear Crisis: Can the Sane Prevail in Time?
Tragically, in our corporate culture, the psychopaths have a home in organizations which embrace their own values.
Daniel Ellsberg: United States Nearly Used Nukes During Vietnam War
At the annual meeting of Stanford's anti-Vietnam War group, Daniel Ellsberg emphasized the continued relevance of that war's distorted cultural memory.
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Ukraine, NATO and the World at Turning Points: Talk Prepared for Sarajevo Peace Event, June 7, 2014
It is long past time to learn the lessons of World Wars I and II and of global warming which, more gradually than nuclear weapons, threatens the human and …
Leading Alarmist on Iran Ignored What He Knew Was True
David Albright, the primary nonofficial source in reporting that Iran presents a nuclear weapons threat, has acted more like a functionary in a political apparatus than as an independent …
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New Campaign for a Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons Gains Momentum
Achieving a ban treaty negotiated without the nuclear weapons states would give us a cudgel to hold them to their bargain to negotiate for the total elimination of nuclear …
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Global Climate Change and Nuclear Abolition: One Urgent Issue
The Marshall Islands are filing lawsuits against the nine nuclear powers to get them to step up to their obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to negotiate total nuclear …
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Jeju Island: A Pivot on the Peace Island
Since 2007, activists have risked arrests, imprisonment, heavy fines and wildly excessive use of police force to resist the desecration caused as mega-corporations like Samsung and Daelim to build …
We Must End the Madness of Nuclear Weapons
The Republic of the Marshall Islands has courageously taken the nine nuclear weapons-wielding countries to the International Court of Justice.
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The Militarized Pacific: An Anniversary Without End
The Pacific remains a region scarred by militarism, colonialism and an ongoing legacy of racism and war without end.