By Glen Milner & Leonard Eiger The man who saved the world from thermonuclear annihilation in 1962 was born on January 30, 1926. At a time when the probability of nuclear war is as nearly as high as it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, it is crucial that we recall the story of Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet submarine officer who prevented a Soviet nuclear strike against U.S. surface warships during that very crisis in 1962. An attack by a single Soviet submarine using just one nuclear-armed weapon would have caused a major global thermonuclear response. In the fall […]
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President Biden: Sign the Nuclear Ban Treaty!
Peace campaigners were at the White House at 1:30pm on Sunday, January 22, 2023 to deliver a letter to President Biden on the 2nd anniversary of the Entry into Force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW or “Nuclear Ban Treaty”). The Biden letter, signed by over one hundred national, state and local organizations, including Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, provides the President with six compelling reasons why he can – and should – sign this treaty now. National organizations signing the letter include Peace Action, Veterans for Peace, CodePink, World Beyond War, Pax Christi USA, […]
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Testifying for Nuclear Sanity!
On August 8, 2022 thirteen activists blocked traffic entering Naval Abase Kitsap-Bangor in Washington State. Eleven of the activists were removed and cited by the Washington State Patrol, while the other two who crossed onto the Naval base were detained and cited by the Navy. Bangor is the U.S. Navy’s West Coast ballistic missile submarine base and nuclear weapons storage depot (known as Strategic Weapons Facility, Pacific or SWFPAC), and represents the largest operational concentration of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal. So far, five defendants have appeared in Kitsap County District Court to present their testimonies explaining the actions they […]
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Still Blessing the Bombs: An Unholy Trinity
By Leonard Eiger (on the 77th anniversary of the Trinity Test) Trinity, understood by most of Christianity as the union of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in one God, was co-opted on July 16, 1945 when the United States government exploded the first nuclear weapon over the desert sands of New Mexico in what scientists called the Trinity test. Thus (officially) began the atomic age, and this unholy Trinity was its ungodly offspring. It was 5:29:45 AM at the Alamogordo Test Range, on the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) desert, in the test named Trinity, in which the […]
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Tipping Point – A Father’s Day Meditation
Editor’s Note: Doug Milholland wrote this meditation that he will read in front of the gate leading into the U.S. Navy’s Weapons Transfer Depot on Indian Island during a Quaker style Father’s Day gathering on Sunday, June 19th. Click here to read the original document with footnotes. Tipping Point – A Father’s Day Meditation Douglas Milholland 6/15/2022 Martin Luther King, Gandhi, led people to freedom, enjoining non-violent fearless hearts, doing the impossible – Being Peace, connecting with the Innate Worth of all concerned, inviting “the Better Angels of our Nature” to dwell amongst us, helping us mature from power over […]
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