Ukraine, Russia, Nuclear Fears

PHOTO: Canva Why Talk About Nuclear Disarmament Now? As we watch the horrors in Ukraine unfold, many of us have nuclear war on our minds, and rightly so. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? What if Putin, backed into a corner, unleashes the most dangerous weapon ever invented, and the US…

Nuclear Weapons and Massachusetts

Register here to join zoom event in support of State Bill H.3688/S.1555 Speakers: State Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa, Dr. Ira Helfand, Dr. Elaine Scarry, Prof. Jonathan King, Emma Pike, Joseph Gerson, a representative from the Mass Nurses Association H.3688/S.1555 is a bill in the MA State House that would establish a Citizens’ Commission to research and recommend to the state…

Yellow Roses to the TPNW Embassies

Yellow roses symbolize friendship. Last year in New York, the ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) group distributed yellow roses to the United Nations consulates of countries that had ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This year “Prevent Nuclear War – Maryland” decided to do the same in Washington, DC. On…

Boston Council Acts to Support Nuclear Ban Treaty

The Boston city council has called on the United States to ratify the United Nations’ “Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.” The resolution calls on federal leaders to make nuclear disarmament “the centerpiece of our national security policy”. It notes that the U.S. “maintains several hundred nuclear missiles in underground silos on hair-trigger alert,…