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…
Over 80 prominent global leaders, including former Prime Ministers, retired Generals, and medical journal editors, call on the leaders of all nine nuclear armed states to “negotiate a timetable for the elimination of their nuclear arsenals, to establish the necessary verification and enforcement provisions and to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons…”…
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…
Wednesday, September 4 @ 8pm EDT Planet in Peril! A National Actionar NO to Nuclear Weapons andNO to Fossil Fuels! Why we should be talking about nuclear weapons and fossil fuels – and what you can do about them. Learn about the September Days of Action for a nuclear weapons and fossil fuel free world.…
We are less than a month away from Warheads to Windmills: Two Weeks to Pressure the Profiteers Campaign, September 16th-29th. We will be taking on the Nuclear Weapons and Fossil Fuel industries with our partners and networks around the globe. This is a national campaign with actions set up across the states already, we need…
Image: Members of the Warheads to Windmills met with Ambassador H.E. Mrs. Vanessa Frazier (3rd from right) of the Malta Mission to the United Nations in New York First a country’s President or Prime Minister must sign a treaty. Then a country’s parliament or congress must ratify the treaty. The final step is to implement…
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,…
Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario, Transworld, London, 2024. “Nuclear war is insane,” writes Annie Jacobsen in her best-selling non-fiction thriller, Nuclear War: A Scenario. Jacobson interviewed more than 40 retired military officers and civilian professionals directly involved in planning and preparations for nuclear war, including a former Secretary of Defense. “Every person I interviewed…
“Signing” a treaty is simply making a commitment to follow through with ratification. “Ratifying” a treaty means that its terms become legally binding in the ratifying country. “Joining” a treaty may imply signing and/or ratifying, while “embracing” a treaty implies a form of support that falls short of signing or ratifying it. When it comes…