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US Presidents cannot just go around creating their own ‘emergencies’ to get what they want. President Trump’s attempt to use emergency funding to build his wall will certainly be challenged in the US courts. But what about his withdrawal two weeks ago from one of the most important treaties ever signed and ratified into law…
DetailsA 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…
DetailsOn December 21st, 2018 Congresswoman Barbara Lee became the fifth 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 their…
DetailsIn 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…
DetailsBERKELEY, DECEMBER 11: Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin was presented yesterday with a certificate from NuclearBan.US, officially recognizing Berkeley’s “Alignment” with the 2017 U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Berkeley City Council passed a resolution on May 15, 2018, declaring itself ‘strongly supportive’ of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and proclaiming…
DetailsThis is part three of the NuclearBan.US blog series profiling the major nuclear weapons companies 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 the US, UK, and French nuclear weapons modernization…
DetailsOn November 7th, the seven Kings Bay Plowshares activists were back in court. The activists are charged with felony trespassing, conspiracy and destruction of property after breaking into the Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia to protest the U.S. nuclear weapons triad[1]. In an effort to dismiss or reduce the charges, a motion was…
DetailsThis is part two of the NuclearBan.US blog series profiling the major nuclear weapons companies contracted by governments to build and maintain nuclear weapons. Up next – AECOM. AECOM is one of those massive multinational corporations that you’ve probably never heard of – yet is touted as the largest design companyin the US.…
Details(NORTHAMPTON, MA) Last Wednesday September 26, at a ceremony on the steps of Northampton city hall, Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz issued an executive policy order establishing a city policy barring, to the extent practical and permitted by law, Northampton from investing and contracting with nuclear weapons companies. Under the executive policy order Mayor Narkewicz…
DetailsOver 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…
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