By Lawrence S. Wittner [Dr. Lawrence S. Wittner (https://www.lawrenceswittner.com/ ) is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press).] Late January of this year will mark the first anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This momentous international agreement, the result of a lengthy struggle by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and by many non-nuclear nations, bans developing, testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, and threatening to use nuclear weapons. Adopted by an overwhelming vote of the official representatives of […]
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End US-UK Nuclear Collusion
By Leonard Eiger On March 16th the United Kingdom announced (in its Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Foreign Policy and Development titled Global Britain in a Competitive Age) that it will increase the limit on its nuclear arsenal for the first time in decades. Instead of maintaining a cap of 180 warheads (as it had previously stated), the UK will increase its stockpile cap to 260 warheads – a 40% increase. The review also broadens the role of nuclear weapons to include the possible use of nuclear weapons to address emerging technologies (cyber attacks). This is shocking and unacceptable! Indeed, […]
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We Face Bigger Challenges Than North Korea
Editor’s Note: The following commentary, written by Dr. David Hall, was originally published Saturday, July 8, 2017 in the Everett Herald, heraldnet.com. Dr. Hall is an active member of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. President Trump is getting tough. His budget calls for a $56 billion increase in military spending, to be funded by major cuts ranging from environmental protections to community block grants, on top of the already planned trillion dollar rebuild of the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal. Our president wants to freeze North Korea’s nuclear weapons program by threatening all-out war without starting a nuclear war. Everett […]
READ MORE“Being Arrested for Peace is an Honor”
Editor’s Note: Doug Mulholland, one of the participants in Ground Zero’s August blockade of the Bangor Trident submarine base, wrote the following report on his August experience, the subsequent court hearing and his thoughts on nonviolent civil resistance. With great thanks to all of the resisters willing to take an extra step (out into the road) for peace. *********************** Tuesday Oct 27th Brenda McMillan, Mack Johnson, Michael Siptroth and I went to Port Orchard and paid $25 traffic tickets for being pedestrians in the roadway at the Trident Base Trigger gate on August 10th. We did this act of […]
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