Soviet inspectors and their American escorts stand among several dismantled Pershing II missiles as they view the destruction of other missile components. The missiles are being destroyed in accordance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. 14 January 1989. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / US Department of Defense / MSGT Jose Lopez Jr. President Trump…
An open letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren: Dear Elizabeth, At the Presidential Candidates Debate last night (July 30, 2019), you looked shocked and incredulous when Governor Steve Bullock said he wasn’t willing to take America’s option to start a nuclear war “off the table.” But when he went on to describe “all those crazy…
Left to right: Danny Hall of Soka Gokkai International, Paki Wieland of CodePink, Rep. Jim McGovern, Timmon Wallis, NuclearBan.US, Vicki Elson of NuclearBan.US, Rep. Barbara Lee, Anthony Donovan, Sister Carol Gilbert, Medea Benjamin of CodePink, Sister Ardeth Platte. Photo: Diala Jadalla Warheads to Windmills: How to Pay for a Green New Deal was officially launched in Congress…
Left to right: Anthony Donovan, William Hartung, Professor Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Martha Hennessey, Father Timothy Graff, Maura Keaney and Brendan Fay Delegates to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) meetings taking place last month at the UN in New York were given a unique opportunity to hear some voices rarely heard inside those hallowed walls. The Pax…
At their annual town meeting on April 27, 2019, the residents of Leverett, Massachusetts, voted unanimously to adopt article 43 of the town warrant, “A Resolution Calling for the US to Join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.” The resolution calls on the federal government to sign the Treaty and to encourage the…
ICAN Director Beatrice Fihn, with the Nobel Peace Prize, and Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, with H.R. 2419, are flanked by Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson, of NuclearBan.US. Photo: Jack Miller April 30, 2019: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act…
Nuclear weapons cost billions of dollars, just to be maintained. The US plans to spend billions more upgrading and ‘modernizing’ them. Over the next 30 years, the total cost of US nuclear weapons will be more than $3 trillion. Unless we decide to use that money instead to address climate change. A Green New Deal will…
This felt great and it only took a minute to write to the Boeing CEO. Feel free to copy and paste and make it your own. Click here for more details about what, exactly, Boeing is doing to destroy the world (hint: it’s even worse than those terrible 737 Max planes). To: [email protected] Dear Mr.…
Hundreds of people marched down the main street of Northampton, Mass., on Saturday, March 16, to mark the 100th birthday of legendary peace and anti-nuclear activist, Frances Crowe. She asked people to make homemade signs and banners about all the different issues they care about, and these are now on display as a…
A Personal Account I spent most of the 1980s campaigning against an American nuclear missile base in England. I watched this base being built from the ground up. I watched them finally bring in the nuclear missiles and lock them up in underground bunkers covered with several feet of concrete and sealed behind huge steel…