NEW DATE: A Special Order Hour on nuclear weapons will take place on November 13, 2024 in the US House of Representatives. Rep. Jim McGovern of MA will lead off a discussion about the need to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons from all countries, in line with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons…
PHOTO: A few of the Hiroshima survivors who took part in the negotiations for the TPNW at the United Nations in New York in 2017. OCTOBER 11, 2024: The Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 was awarded today to Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organization of A and H bomb survivors, known as hibakusha. Nihon Hidankyo played…
Over 80 prominent global leaders, including former Prime Ministers, retired Generals, and medical journal editors, call on the leaders of all nine nuclear armed states to “negotiate a timetable for the elimination of their nuclear arsenals, to establish the necessary verification and enforcement provisions and to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons…”…
Sept. 4, 2024: US Rep. Chellie Pingree (ME-1) is the latest Member of Congress to co-sponsor the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and [Climate] Conversion Act (or “Norton Bill”), H.R. 2775. There are now thirteen Members of Congress supporting this bill, which calls on the US to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (or…
Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario, Transworld, London, 2024. “Nuclear war is insane,” writes Annie Jacobsen in her best-selling non-fiction thriller, Nuclear War: A Scenario. Jacobson interviewed more than 40 retired military officers and civilian professionals directly involved in planning and preparations for nuclear war, including a former Secretary of Defense. “Every person I interviewed…
“Signing” a treaty is simply making a commitment to follow through with ratification. “Ratifying” a treaty means that its terms become legally binding in the ratifying country. “Joining” a treaty may imply signing and/or ratifying, while “embracing” a treaty implies a form of support that falls short of signing or ratifying it. When it comes…
June 13, 2024: US Presidential candidate Jill Stein today signed the NuclearBan.US “presidential candidates pledge.” The pledge is a promise that, if elected President, she will sign the Nuclear Ban Treaty, work with the other nuclear-armed nations to ensure the complete elimination of all nuclear weapons, and put all those wasted human and financial resources…
US Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson today took time out of her busy schedule ahead of Tuesday’s presidential primary election in New Hampshire to sign a pledge to abolish nuclear weapons. The pledge states that, “if elected President, I will sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons [TPNW, or Nuclear Ban Treaty]” and…
Activists at the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference, the COP 28 in Dubai, and the 2nd Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the 2MSP in New York met via zoom on November 30 to share experiences from the two big overlapping international meetings. The conversation included activists from the Warheads…
Sultan Al Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, who is currently presiding over the COP28 climate talks in Dubai (as well as presiding over the UAE’s state oil company, Adnoc) was quoted last week as saying “there is no science out there… that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C.” His remarks…