Agenda Item #11 – Future of Life Institute Professor Max Tegmark and Lucas Perry represented the Future of Life Institute. Tegmark reminded the Board that the Cambridge City Council had voted to encourage the Board to divest from firms involved in producing or upgrading nuclear weapons. He stated that he hoped to assist the Board…
TEXT OF ORDERS – Cambridge City Council Order-1 Mar 21, 2016 MAYOR SIMMONS WHEREAS: Nations across the globe still maintain over 15,000 nuclear weapons, some of which are hundreds of times more powerful than those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and detonation of even a small fraction of these weapons could create a decade-long nuclear…
In the City Council, November 16th, in the Year Two Thousand and Seventeen Upon the recommendation of Councilor William H. Dwight and Councilor Alisa F. Klein R- A RESOLUTION Calling for the United States to “Pull Back from the Brink” and Prevent Nuclear War WHEREAS, since the height of the Cold War, the United States…
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 In case you are wondering what a ‘low yield’ nuclear weapon looks like, these are the effects of a single 15 KT bomb landing on the city of Hiroshima in 1945: 70,000 dead instantly, including 90% of the doctors and 93% of the nurses All hospitals destroyed or badly damaged…
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 In case you are wondering what a ‘low yield’ nuclear weapon looks like, these are the effects of a single 15 KT bomb landing on the city of Hiroshima in 1945: 70,000 dead instantly, including 90% of the doctors and 93% of the nurses All hospitals destroyed or badly damaged…
The largest Dutch pension fund, the civil servants fund ABP, has decided to end its investments in producers of nuclear weapons. ABP has “finally made the right decision”, says PAX campaigner Krista van Velzen. “After years of campaigning by PAX against the unacceptable investments by the ABP in nuclear weapon producers, the pension fund has…
