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…
June 13, 2024: US Presidential candidate Jill Stein today signed the NuclearBan.US “presidential candidates pledge.” The pledge is a promise that, if elected President, she will sign the Nuclear Ban Treaty, work with the other nuclear-armed nations to ensure the complete elimination of all nuclear weapons, and put all those wasted human and financial resources…
US Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson today took time out of her busy schedule ahead of Tuesday’s presidential primary election in New Hampshire to sign a pledge to abolish nuclear weapons. The pledge states that, “if elected President, I will sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons [TPNW, or Nuclear Ban Treaty]” and…
Activists at the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference, the COP 28 in Dubai, and the 2nd Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the 2MSP in New York met via zoom on November 30 to share experiences from the two big overlapping international meetings. The conversation included activists from the Warheads…
Sultan Al Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, who is currently presiding over the COP28 climate talks in Dubai (as well as presiding over the UAE’s state oil company, Adnoc) was quoted last week as saying “there is no science out there… that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C.” His remarks…
Elected representatives from 14 countries met on the sidelines of the second meeting of the Nuclear Ban Treaty (2MSP) at the UN in New York last week to discuss how to build support for the TPNW in their respective countries. They included parliamentarians from Canada, Japan, Germany, Scotland, Belgium, France, Italy, Australia, and Norway. These…
On Dec 1, 2023, the last day of the Nuclear Ban Treaty meeting in New York, the Ambassador of Malta to the UN, Vanessa Frazier, hosted a side event inside the UN building to share findings from Timmon’s new book about joining forces, facing facts, and taking effective action on the “twin threats” to our…
July 12-13, 2023 in Washington, DC: Lobby Members of Congress to support the Norton Bill, H.R.2775, the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and [Climate] Conversion bill. We will be hand-delivering copies of the newly updated Warheads to Windmills report to Members of Congress and encouraging them to co-sponsor the Norton Bill as a sign of their commitment…
A graphical, easy to read summary of the 2023 Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War report is out now! You can read and download it for free here and order multiple copies of the color printed version (US letter size booklet) here. To join in the discussion about addressing these twin existential…