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5/21/2023
Stronger Global Governance is the Only Way to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
by Lawrence Wittner
The war in Ukraine and escalating tensions between the PRC and Taiwan are just two examples of the resurgent danger of nuclear war. A revived movement for true international governance is needed to ensure that the unthinkable becomes impossible.
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9/4/2022
What I Learned About Governments from Researching Classified Documents
by Lawrence Wittner
Historians who have conducted research in classified materials understand how seriously governments take secrecy and how secrecy can conceal malfeasance or anti-democratic action.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/15/2022
Putin's Nuclear Threats a Reminder of the Urgency of Disarmament
by Uri Friedman
Nuclear deterrence depends on factors like the rationality of leaders, the integrity of command protocols, and accuracy of information that are far from guaranteed to work in a crisis.
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9/19/2021
We are All Becoming Cassandras: Leaders Must Heed the People on Climate, Disarmament, and Pandemic
by Lawrence Wittner
In classical myth, Cassandra was a lone prophet whose accurate predictions were ignored. Today, a growing share of humanity are playing the Cassandra role against a political and economic elite standing in the way of solutions to the threats of climate change, pandemic disease and nuclear annihilation.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
9/15/2021
On the Eve of Destruction: Breaking the Double-Bind of the Nuclear Arms Race
by Richard Rhodes
Politicians and defense contractors who wanted American nuclear supremacy won out over scientists seeking international effort to contain the extinction-level threat posed by thermonuclear weapons, even to the point of denying the planet-destroying power of the H-bomb.
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8/22/2021
The View from the New York City Hiroshima Peace Vigil
by Michael McQuillan
The march featured the testimony of antinuclear activists and rekindled a demand for New York's city council to divest the city budget from contractors who make nuclear weapons, but too much of the public seems willing to ignore the nuclear threat.
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4/25/2021
The Fateful Choice: Nuclear Arms Race or Nuclear Weapons-Free World
by Lawrence Wittner
Nuclear-armed nations face a choice: to push ahead with a wasteful course that raises the risk of nuclear war, or to lead toward a world without nuclear weapons.
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3/28/2021
Can Biden Fulfill JFK's Incomplete Promise of a Peace Presidency?
by Martin Halpern
Today's global problems require leadership from a "peace presidency" that prioritizes global public health, international cooperation, and human rights over militarism and arms.
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3/28/2021
Can Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Overcome the Opposition?
by Lawrence Wittner
People who want to end the nightmare of nuclear destruction that has haunted the world since 1945 should consider widening the popular appeal of nuclear weapons abolition by strengthening the UN’s ability to provide international security.
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SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal
2/15/2021
Will the Nuclear Powers Ever Be Willing to Forgo Their Nuclear Weapons?
by Lawrence Wittner
The collapse of the Soviet Union has paradoxically created a climate where the perceived danger of nuclear weapons has waned, taking energy from a growing movement toward arms control and disarmament.
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1/17/2021
The Great Evasion
by Lawrence Wittner
Joe Biden should reverse the nation's long dereliction of duty in leading the world toward nuclear disarmament and reducing the threat of nuclear war.
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8/9/2020
Honor a Hiroshima Survivor's Legacy: Ban Nuclear Testing and Move to Disarmament
by William Lambers
Miyoko Matsubara survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and became an advocate for abolishing nuclear weapons. The United States Senate can honor her and all victims and survivors of nuclear war by ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
8/6/2020
Witnessing Nuclear Carnage, Then Devoting Her Life to Peace
Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima 75 years ago this month, has used the power of her personal story to try to rid the world of nuclear weapons.