On Thursday, January 25th, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the ‘doomsday clock’ forward by 30 seconds, to two minutes to midnight. The last time – and only time – the clock has been this close to midnight was in 1953. That was at a time when both the US and the Soviet Union had exploded…
DetailsNorthampton Friends Meeting 43 Center Street Northampton MA 01060 www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/northampton-friends-meeting January 28, 2018 Darius Adamczyk, CE0 Honeywell International 101 Columbia Road Morristown, NJ 07960 Dear Darius Adamczyk: We write to you as Honeywell consumers and owners of Honeywell thermostats. The Northampton Friends Meeting is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), one of…
DetailsMinute from 10 December: 2017-97 Northampton Friends Meeting strongly reaffirms its October 2017 minute in support of the 2017 United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and asserts its intention to examine the ways in which it is complicit in the nuclear weapons industry, including the funding of those activities through our investments,…
DetailsNorthampton Friends, 7 October: 2017-78 Consistent with Friends long-standing peace testimony, Northampton Friends Meeting calls on Friends to support the treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons just signed by many and supported by a majority of nations at the United Nations to take action to prevent nuclear war – not just now but for…
DetailsAgenda Item #11 – Future of Life Institute Professor Max Tegmark and Lucas Perry represented the Future of Life Institute. Tegmark reminded the Board that the Cambridge City Council had voted to encourage the Board to divest from firms involved in producing or upgrading nuclear weapons. He stated that he hoped to assist the Board…
DetailsTEXT OF ORDERS – Cambridge City Council Order-1 Mar 21, 2016 MAYOR SIMMONS WHEREAS: Nations across the globe still maintain over 15,000 nuclear weapons, some of which are hundreds of times more powerful than those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and detonation of even a small fraction of these weapons could create a decade-long nuclear…
DetailsIn the City Council, November 16th, in the Year Two Thousand and Seventeen Upon the recommendation of Councilor William H. Dwight and Councilor Alisa F. Klein R- A RESOLUTION Calling for the United States to “Pull Back from the Brink” and Prevent Nuclear War WHEREAS, since the height of the Cold War, the United States…
DetailsHiroshima, August 6, 1945 In case you are wondering what a ‘low yield’ nuclear weapon looks like, these are the effects of a single 15 KT bomb landing on the city of Hiroshima in 1945: 70,000 dead instantly, including 90% of the doctors and 93% of the nurses All hospitals destroyed or badly damaged…
DetailsHiroshima, August 6, 1945 In case you are wondering what a ‘low yield’ nuclear weapon looks like, these are the effects of a single 15 KT bomb landing on the city of Hiroshima in 1945: 70,000 dead instantly, including 90% of the doctors and 93% of the nurses All hospitals destroyed or badly damaged…
DetailsThe largest Dutch pension fund, the civil servants fund ABP, has decided to end its investments in producers of nuclear weapons. ABP has “finally made the right decision”, says PAX campaigner Krista van Velzen. “After years of campaigning by PAX against the unacceptable investments by the ABP in nuclear weapon producers, the pension fund has…
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