Alice Slater is the New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and serves on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War.
On January 22, 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) became international law for the 122 states who signed the agreement in July 2017. The TPNW, as with most treaties, is summed up ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) Russia has declassified the video footage of the largest nuclear explosion of all time, the Arctic detonation of the so-called “Tsar Bomba” in 1961. The explosion was 1,500 times more powerful than those which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
“We must never allow this painful past to repeat itself.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The mayor of Hiroshima on Thursday warned of the ongoing dangers of nationalism and militarism on the 75th anniversary of ...
Iran is threatening to be only the second country – North Korea being the first – to withdraw from the landmark 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. On Monday, January 20, Iran’s Foreign Minister announced that they ...
The U.S. is building a new generation of nuclear weapons and dismantling nuclear arms control treaties, increasing the threat of nuclear war. The decade ends with two major threats to humanity: global warming leading to a ...
Saudi Arabia is moving forward with a uranium enrichment program, but can the U.S. embrace a nuclear Saudi Arabia after exiting the Iran Deal? While attending a conference in Abu Dhabi on Monday, Saudi Arabi’s ...
There are signs of a new tanker war in the Persian Gulf, with Britain joining a coalition that wants a war with Iran. The standoff between the U.S. and Iran is now developing into a ...
“There’s a massive shift in Australia’s strategic situation taking place.” A new book by a former top Australian Defence Department official and intelligence analyst urges Australia to consider developing a nuclear arsenal to counter China’s ...
Editor’s note: Iran has breached a limit on enriching uranium that was imposed in a 2015 agreement restricting its nuclear activities. Under the deal, the United States and five other world powers lifted economic sanctions ...
“What we’re doing today is a step and probably it’s a step in the right direction.” After attending the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to meet with North ...
“The new document is very much conceived as a war-fighting doctrine – not simply a deterrence doctrine, and that’s unsettling.” The total global quantity of nuclear warheads fell in a comparison of data from 2019 ...
“Yeah, let’s break this down. This is a message that has several different audiences.” North Korean President Kim Jong-Un reportedly supervised a “strike drill” for multiple rocket launchers in the East Sea, according to a ...
(RFE/RFL) Russian officials and politicians blasted the U.S. decision to suspend its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, with one lawmaker saying Washington had “taken another step toward its destruction.” “I congratulate the ...
New documents reveal how Isreal’s nuclear program came to be and details the history of the program’s development. Haaretz contributor and historian, Adam Raz disclosed that documents he received from a confidential source after a speaking ...
The US and Russia are on the verge of pulling out of a crucial treaty that ended the Cold War era arms race and kept missiles out of Europe. After a meeting in Geneva between ...
The peace sign has been a universal symbol used in activism for decades, but would you believe it was birthed from an anti-nuclear weapons protest? The peace symbol is one of few universally recognizable signs, ...
Why protest nuclear weapons? Because more than 70 years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, instead of disarming and banning nuclear weapons ...
On Friday, ABC Australia reported that the U.S. would launch a missile attack on Iran as early as next month. The report stemmed from President Donald Trump’s threatening tweet in response to Iranian President Hassan ...
North Korea called the meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “regrettable” which contrasted with the statement from the former C.I.A. boss that the talks were very productive. On Friday, Pompeo arrived in Pyongyang, ...
On June 12, 2018, people around the world turned their attention to a meeting many considered one of the most memorable in recent history. U.S. President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un ...
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accused Iran of telling lies about their nuclear weapons program. The Jewish state leader, who is under investigation for corruption-related charges in Israel, made a dramatic presentation using ...
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Pompeo Sees ‘Real Opportunity’ for Denuclearization During Friday’s summit, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told South Korea’s President Moon that he is willing to totally abandon nuclear weapons in return for an end to the ...
U.S. President Donald Trump has been busy over the past few days hosting an array of European state guests. On Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Washington to meet the billionaire president in a three-hour ...
Last week Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin used the Russian state of the nation address to announce that Russia has developed a nuclear underwater drone and nuclear missiles that can reach the U.S. and are invincible ...
Saudi Arabia nuclear power? The overture follows an intense and secretive lobbying push involving Michael Flynn, Tom Barrack, Rick Gates and even Iran-Contra figure Robert McFarlane. (ProPublica, by Isaac Arnsdorf) The Trump administration is holding talks on ...
The order hasn’t been given, but the Air Force is already preparing to put U.S. nuclear armed bombers on 24-hour alert. According to a Defense One article that cites Gen. David Goldfein, Air Force chief of ...
As we pass the anniversaries of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki we look at war tax resistance then and now. (By Ruth Benn, National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee) August ...
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