Why isn’t anyone challenging the withdrawal? 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…
A 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…
No one country wants to give up all their existing nuclear weapons without knowing that the others will also give up theirs. This is what has held back the process of getting rid of these weapons for the last 73 years! We have to move beyond that kind of thinking. Someone has to take the…
Congratulations to California State Senate and Assembly Members who voted last week to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons! Congratulations to Assembly Member Monique Limón and her team, who introduced this bill into the State House. Congratulations to PSR and to its chapters in Los Angeles and San Francisco who led…
September 26th, 2018 There will be a signing ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in New York when more heads of state are expected to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. There are also actions and demonstrations at BNP Paribas bank locations around the globe. BNP Paribas is a pan-European bank that…
Rep. McGovern joined by 14 Other Candidates in support of Nuclear Ban NORTHAMPTON, MA. July 14, 2018: U.S. Representative Jim McGovern signed two historic pledges that support the abolition of nuclear weapons. He is the first voting member of Congress to sign the ICAN Parliamentary / Congressional Pledge (Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington D.C.…
The Nuclear Age began – quite literally with a ‘bang’ like no other – on July 16th, 1945, with the first test explosion of a nuclear weapon in the Nevada desert. Within 3 weeks, this brand new super-weapon was being used to incinerate tens of thousands of human beings in Hiroshima, Japan – and…
By Alice Slater, World BEYOND War https://worldbeyondwar.org/watch-out-world-peace-may-be-breaking-out/ Less than a week or so before Donald Trump’s groundbreaking meeting planned with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, to take place after the NATO summit in mid-July, the new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons celebrated its first birthday on July 7 when 122 nations voted a year…
JUNE 20: The Presbyterian Church (USA) has issued a call to all its members “to take all actions such as might be effective in requiring full US compliance with the obligation to achieve nuclear disarmament under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons…” The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is the largest…
MONDAY, 11 June: At a press conference in Singapore this morning, ahead of the historic meeting between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), unveiled a 5-Step ‘Roadmap’ for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. “Our roadmap answers the question at the heart of…
