In the immediate aftermath of a very disturbing election, US Representative Jim McGovern hosted a “special order hour” on November 13, 2024, at which he and nine colleagues gave impassioned speeches on the floor of the House about the need to stem the rising danger of nuclear war. While many of the remarks were focused…
Featured Image: (Left) Activists standing out at a Raytheon Facility in Tuscon, Arizona to protest Nuclear Weapons as part of an event coordinated by The Nuclear Resister. (Right) 350 Milwaukee activists standout at a BP station to protest fossil fuels. Weeks of Action Our Warheads to Windmills “Two Weeks to Pressure the Profiteers” has come…
There are only 10 days left until the launch of our Weeks of Action to Pressure the Profiteers! What are you doing to take part in the campaign? Between September 16th-29th people, groups, and organizations around the country and around the world are taking action on Nuclear Weapons and Fossil Fuels. We are taking a…
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…
Members and supporters of the Warheads to Windmills Coalition gathered in Washington DC from July 8-10th to meet with members of Congress about the importance of getting rid of nuclear weapons and addressing the climate crisis. Approximately 20 people joined the lobbying teams over the course of the three days from organizations such as CodePink,…
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…
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC-At Large) spoke in a subcommittee hearing on nuclear energy about her bill H.R.2775, the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Conversion Act which calls on the US to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The nuclear weapons and nuclear energy industries are inseparable. The Congresswoman speaks from 1:19:22 to…
Today’s threat of attack by nuclear weapons has never been more serious. The U.S. and nuclear powers must reverse direction, get back to negotiations and move towards joining the Treaty on the Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons. pic.twitter.com/0uOFF3Nb7M — Rep. Jim McGovern (@RepMcGovern) January 17, 2024 Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA-2) gave a speech on the house…
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…
Elected representatives from 14 countries met on the sidelines of the second meeting of the Nuclear Ban Treaty (2MSP) at the UN in New York last week to discuss how to build support for the TPNW in their respective countries. They included parliamentarians from Canada, Japan, Germany, Scotland, Belgium, France, Italy, Australia, and Norway. These…
On October 14th from 12-2 pm the Warheads to Windmills Coalition hosted a successful online forum through Massachusetts Peace Action, with many great speakers on climate solutions, nuclear solutions, and how we can bring these two powerful movements together. We had 150 people participating from around the globe, eager to build a mass movement around…
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…
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…
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…
Sunday, January 22, 2023, Washington, DC: A letter* delivered today to President Biden and signed by over 100 national, state and local organizations calls on the President to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW or “Nuclear Ban Treaty”). The Nuclear Ban Treaty prohibits everything to do with nuclear weapons. It entered…
1:30pm, Sunday, January 22, 2023 Lafayette statue, White House, Washington, DC 2nd anniversary of the Nuclear Ban Treaty entry into force Join us! Letter to President Biden is here: Press release here: Op-Ed/short version of the Biden letter here:
October 5, 2022: US Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois has today become the 15th Member of Congress to co-sponsor the Norton Bill, H.R. 2850, calling on the US to sign and ratify the Nuclear Ban Treaty (TPNW) and eliminate its nuclear arsenal, along with the nuclear arsenals of the other 8 nuclear-armed nations. Three additional…
US Representative Chellie Pingree, of Maine’s First Congressional District, has again added her name to H.Res. 1185, calling for the US to “embrace the goals and provisions” of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). H.Res. 1185 was introduced by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) in June of this…
Left to right: NuclearBan.US Creative Director Vicki Elson, Reps. Ilhan Omar, Jim McGovern, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Don Beyer. PHOTO: Matthew Bonaccorsi Washington, D.C.- On June 22, five members of Congress gathered at a press conference in front of the Capitol. Each called on the United States government to sign and ratify the Treaty on the…
PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons Washington, DC: On Friday, June 3, U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY-17) co-sponsored the Norton Bill, making him the seventeenth Congressional leader in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This bill would abolish everything to do with nuclear weapons and use the saved money to fight the climate crisis…
PHOTO: Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ 3rd District) has added his name to the list of co-sponsors to the Norton Bill, H.R.2850. He had co-sponsored previous version of the Norton Bill, but not the current one which calls on the US to sign and ratify the Treaty on…
PHOTO: Franmarie Metzler; U.S. House Office of Photography, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, DC: U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY14) has joined a list of co-sponsors of a bill that would abolish all nuclear weapons and use the money to address climate change and other pressing social needs. The Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and…
PHOTO: Joe Mabel Washington, DC: U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-7) has added her name to the list of co-sponsors of a bill that would abolish all nuclear weapons and use the money to address climate change and other pressing social needs. Jayapal is the current chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and has been a…
Listen to Representative Rashida Tlaib talk about why it is crucial to support the ban treaty and ICAN pledge to eliminate nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Ban’s Timmon Wallis shows US Representative Ro Khanna his new report, “Warheads to Windmills,” during Khanna’s visit to Northampton, Massachusetts in October. Photo by Vicki Elson. On October 24th, Representative Ro Khanna became the ninth current member of Congress to sign the ICAN Parliamentary/Legislative Pledge. Khanna was invited by Massachusetts Representative Jim…
On Friday, October 11, Representative Pramila Jayapal became the eighth current member of the United States Congress to sign the ICAN Parliamentary/Legislative Pledge, committing herself to forwarding the work of the UN’s groundbreaking Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was adopted in July of 2017. Jayapal is the representative for Washington’s 7th District…
September 23, 2019: A NuclearBan.US poll, conducted on its behalf this week[1] by YouGov, reveals that 49% of Americans think that the US should work with the other nuclear armed countries to eliminate all nuclear weapons from all countries, in line with the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (“Nuclear Ban Treaty”). Only 32% think that the US should continue…
On December 21st, 2018 Congresswoman Barbara Lee became the fifth current member of Congress to sign the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge. Congresswoman Lee represents CA’s 13th district and has served in Congress since 1998. By signing, Congresswoman Lee joins nearly 1,000 parliamentarians from 30 countries who have pledged to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (Nuclear Ban Treaty) in…
In particular, SBTB is working to get PNC bank, the seventh largest bank in the US, to divest from the companies involved in the production of nuclear weapons. PNC has over 600,000,000 dollars invested in six of the companies contracted to make and maintain the US nuclear triad. Their task is clear – divest all…