Dear Friends of a world free of the threat of nuclear annihilation, President Biden stated the obvious this past week: “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Indeed we have not (although we certainly had far too many near misses)! And in yet another speech last week President Putin, in addition to saying he would use “all available means” to defend Russian territory (oh my!!!), reminded the world that the atomic bombs the United States dropped on Japan in 1945 had “created a precedent.” Hmmm… he does have a point there!!! All of this […]
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Ground Zero’s Annual Appeal
December 2, 2020 Dear Friends, This is our annual appeal for funds for Ground Zero. We hope this finds you well, in body and in spirit. Thank you for your financial contributions and for keeping us in your thoughts during these challenging times. Ground Zero is funded mostly by small donations, which in many cases represent significant sacrifices by the donor. We are grateful for our donors and of the many sacrifices made for Ground Zero as we continue our work. Ground Zero activities in 2020 began with our vigil at the Main Gate entrance to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor on […]
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RESIST, RESIST, RESIST!
“Voting is civic hygiene – both essential and insufficient. And voting alone has never been enough to protect anything – least of all the vote itself.” – (Ta-Nehisi Coates) Dear Friends, I first saw the photo above in an article by our colleague Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space; it is an image I have never forgotten. I can only hope that this boat, and all the refugees onboard, found a safe shore on which to land. Humanity, of course, does not have any lifeboats – no magic escape pods. There is no […]
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Turning Swords into Plowshares: Resistance and Action in the New Year
Oh, what a year it’s been! As we move into a new year, nearly three-quarters of a century into the Nuclear Age, it is sobering to know that the threat of nuclear war looms as large as ever thanks to the hubris of the nuclear high priests who refuse to recognize the folly of their reliance on nuclear weapons as the ultimate source of power. The United States and Russia are poised to fall into the abyss of a renewed nuclear arms race that raises a new specter of nuclear holocaust. And the other nuclear-armed nations are following their lead […]
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Another War? Not in Our Name!
Dear Friends of a world free of nuclear weapons, It has been nearly three-quarters of a century since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet the nuclear armed nations continue to threaten humanity with extinction, and according to a number of experts we are in the midst of a new, and more dangerous, nuclear arms race. Nuclear weapons, of course, do not exist in a vacuum; and we will never abolish them without confronting, and bringing to heel, the fundamental militarism that puts them front and center in our nation’s (and other nations’) foreign policy and promotes countless wars […]
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