Photo: Oppenheimer author Kai Bird, creative commons New York (August 16, 2023) – Kai Bird, co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on which Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer movie is based, issued the following statement endorsing a bill by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the Nuclear Abolition…
We can safely abolish all nuclear weapons Been hearing about the Oppenheimer movie? Oscar buzz! Barbenheimer! Cillian Murphy’s alarmingly blue eyeballs! In all the hoo-hah, two crucial things are missing. 1. We have to fully grasp the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons: The movie offers only the tiniest hint about what happened to hundreds…
July 12-13, 2023 in Washington, DC: Lobby Members of Congress to support the Norton Bill, H.R.2775, the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and [Climate] Conversion bill. We will be hand-delivering copies of the newly updated Warheads to Windmills report to Members of Congress and encouraging them to co-sponsor the Norton Bill as a sign of their commitment…
A graphical, easy to read summary of the 2023 Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War report is out now! You can read and download it for free here and order multiple copies of the color printed version (US letter size booklet) here. To join in the discussion about addressing these twin existential…
*for the complete list of co-sponsors, see below! Warheads to Windmills webinar: May 7, 4pm EDT Climate catastrophe and nuclear war are two existential threats that could end human civilization as we know it. Both of these threats have been exacerbated by the ongoing war in Ukraine, but nuclear war could happen at any moment,…
April 20, 2023, Washington, DC: Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Conversion Act of 2023. Norton has introduced a version of the bill in every session of Congress since 1994. This version would encourage the United States to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons…
Andrea Salinas, new Member of Congress for Oregon’s 6th District, brings the number of ICAN pledgers in the US Congress back up to 11, after pledger Carolyn Maloney lost her New York seat due to re-districting. The ICAN Pledge is a commitment by elected officials around the world to work for the signature and ratification…
Neville Chamberlain waves his agreement with Hitler, September 1938. PHOTO: public domain, national archives of Poland On September 30th, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to London from a meeting in Munich with Adolf Hitler. He proudly waved a piece of paper with Hitler’s signature on it in front of the crowds awaiting his…
March 9-10, 2023 in Oslo, Norway: The global movement against nuclear weapons is stronger than ever. States, cities, parliamentarians, civil society, survivors and people everywhere are being heard: nuclear weapons must be eliminated! Nuclear weapons are the most destructive, inhumane and indiscriminate weapons ever created, for which there is no humanitarian response. The unacceptable risk…
“We are faced by a gathering storm of existential level consequences and time is running out. We need bold, ethical leadership and frankly, we are not seeing it.” Mary Robinson, Chair of The Elders and former President of the Republic of Ireland Mary Robinson made these comments at the unveiling, on January 24th, of the…