NuclearBan.US urges Members of the US Congress to join their colleagues who have publicly declared their support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW or Nuclear Ban Treaty) and nuclear weapons abolition by co-sponsoring the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act and/or signing the ICAN Legislative Pledge. 1. The…
Lloyd Doggett supports H.Res.302, “embracing the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.” Photo: US Reps. Jim McGovern (3rd from left) and Barbara Lee (5th from right) with members of other peace organizations presenting the report, Warheads to Windmills: How to Pay for a Green New Deal, detailing how the elimination…
Jamie Raskin supports H.Res.302, “embracing the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.” Photo: US Reps. Jim McGovern (3rd from left) and Barbara Lee (5th from right) with members of other peace organizations presenting the report, Warheads to Windmills: How to Pay for a Green New Deal, detailing how the elimination…
Chellie Pingree already supports H.Res.54, calling for “reducing and eventually eliminating all nuclear weapons.” Let’s encourage her to take the next logical step! Photo: US Reps. Jim McGovern (3rd from left) and Barbara Lee (5th from right) with members of other peace organizations presenting the report, Warheads to Windmills: How to Pay for a Green New…
by Vicki Elson and Timmon Wallis Everything looks different through the lens of Covid-19. If we can suddenly mobilize trillions of dollars to prop up the economy, why can’t we mobilize trillions to provide better food, shelter, and health care for our children? If we can stop polluting China’s air and Venice’s canals during a…
Nuclear Ban’s Timmon Wallis shows US Representative Ro Khanna his new report, “Warheads to Windmills,” during Khanna’s visit to Northampton, Massachusetts in October. Photo by Vicki Elson. On October 24th, Representative Ro Khanna became the ninth current member of Congress to sign the ICAN Parliamentary/Legislative Pledge. Khanna was invited by Massachusetts Representative Jim…
At every level: The Warheads to Windmills campaign is about putting pressure on the companies that make nuclear weapons and drill for fossil fuels. These companies are complicit in creating the emergencies we now face. But they are also spending millions of dollars on lobbying and election campaigns to make sure our government does not do what…
Frances Crowe with David Narkewicz, Mayor of Northampton, showing her his Executive Order to align the city with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Quaker peace activist Frances Crowe (1919-2019) spent her whole life fighting for peace, justice and the environment, and of all the causes she fought for, the one she…
By Alice Slater, author and nuclear disarmament advocate. Alice Slater is a member of the Board of World Beyond War, UN NGO Representative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and a longtime member of CODEPINK. August 6 and 9 mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear…
Soviet inspectors and their American escorts stand among several dismantled Pershing II missiles as they view the destruction of other missile components. The missiles are being destroyed in accordance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. 14 January 1989. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / US Department of Defense / MSGT Jose Lopez Jr. President Trump…