Over the next few months NuclearBan.US will be writing a series of blog posts profiling each of the major nuclear weapons producers contracted by governments to build and maintain nuclear weapons. Many of these private companies you’ve probably never heard of, but they are all making huge profits producing and managing nuclear weapons for…
DetailsPlease join us September 26, 2018 for a demonstration as part of the global day of action against BNP Paribas, a French bank that profits from the production of nuclear weapons. BNP Paribas is a global bank, operating in 74 countries with almost 200,000 employees and over €2 trillion in assets. Since January 2014, BNP Paribas has…
DetailsNo one country wants to give up all their existing nuclear weapons without knowing that the others will also give up theirs. This is what has held back the process of getting rid of these weapons for the last 73 years! We have to move beyond that kind of thinking. Someone has to take the…
DetailsCongratulations to California State Senate and Assembly Members who voted last week to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons! Congratulations to Assembly Member Monique Limón and her team, who introduced this bill into the State House. Congratulations to PSR and to its chapters in Los Angeles and San Francisco who led…
DetailsSeptember 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…
DetailsNuclearBan.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…
DetailsA 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,…
DetailsRep. 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.…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsBy 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…
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