September 26th, 2018 There will be a signing ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in New York when more heads of state are expected to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. There are also actions and demonstrations at BNP Paribas bank locations around the globe. BNP Paribas is a pan-European bank that…
NuclearBan.US Campaign Coordinator, Lydia Wood delivered the following statement at The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice event “The World We Want: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Never Again” and The Grafton Peace Pagoda’s Hiroshima Nagasaki Day – 73rd Commemoration Ceremony. My name is Lydia and I am the Campaign Coordinator for NuclearBan.US, an organization committed to…
A few people were probably overexposed, but they couldn’t prove it and we couldn’t prove it so we just assumed we got away with it. ~ Dr. Louis Hempelmann (Manhattan Project Medical Director) Last week marked the seventy-third anniversary of the day the United States unleashed nuclear hell upon the world. On July 16th, 1945,…
Rep. McGovern joined by 14 Other Candidates in support of Nuclear Ban NORTHAMPTON, MA. July 14, 2018: U.S. Representative Jim McGovern signed two historic pledges that support the abolition of nuclear weapons. He is the first voting member of Congress to sign the ICAN Parliamentary / Congressional Pledge (Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington D.C.…
The Nuclear Age began – quite literally with a ‘bang’ like no other – on July 16th, 1945, with the first test explosion of a nuclear weapon in the Nevada desert. Within 3 weeks, this brand new super-weapon was being used to incinerate tens of thousands of human beings in Hiroshima, Japan – and…
By Alice Slater, World BEYOND War https://worldbeyondwar.org/watch-out-world-peace-may-be-breaking-out/ Less than a week or so before Donald Trump’s groundbreaking meeting planned with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, to take place after the NATO summit in mid-July, the new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons celebrated its first birthday on July 7 when 122 nations voted a year…
SUNDAY, JUNE 17: Northampton Friends Meeting (Quakers) today became the first faith community in the country to declare their compliance with the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (or Nuclear Ban Treaty). The Nuclear Ban Treaty, adopted by 122 nations at the United Nations last year, comprehensively prohibits, under international law, the development,…
JUNE 20: The Presbyterian Church (USA) has issued a call to all its members “to take all actions such as might be effective in requiring full US compliance with the obligation to achieve nuclear disarmament under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons…” The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is the largest…
MONDAY, 11 June: At a press conference in Singapore this morning, ahead of the historic meeting between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), unveiled a 5-Step ‘Roadmap’ for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. “Our roadmap answers the question at the heart of…
The issue of nuclear weapons is deeply connected to issues of imperialism, racial and gender inequality, and environmental justice. Part of what makes the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons a game changer is its emphasis on the humanitarian consequences of these weapons. This humanitarian focus has helped elucidate the connections between nuclear…
