Articles, news, campaigns and events about nuclear weapons
Jul 13, 2011, 8:51am
Ethan Vesely-Flad
Apr 8, 2011, 10:51am
Ethan Vesely-Flad
Members and allies of the Fellowship of Reconciliation are leading peace walks throughout the continent in the coming weeks. This Sunday, FOR Executive Director Mark Johnson will join the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist order (Grafton Peace Pagoda) at...
Jan 28, 2011, 3:45pm
Jim Haber
January 27 marked 60 years since the first atomic bomb test in Nevada. Codenamed “Able” it was tiny for a nuclear weapon: the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT, about 1/15 the size of the bomb that killed upwards of 130,000 people in...
Dec 22, 2010, 3:52pm
Bill Winston
Thanks to your hard work, I’m pleased to report that the Senate has just approved the New START treaty, reducing the number of allowable nuclear warheads in the United States and Russia by thousands.The result of your hard workAll...
Dec 16, 2010, 7:40pm
Bill Winston
Twelve members of the US Senate held a news conference yesterday to say that the New START treaty was in trouble and its ratification should be held up.The senators included the Minority Whip Senator Kyl (R-AZ) and Senators Bond from MO, Hatch...
Dec 9, 2010, 2:26pm
Shauen V. T. Pearce
Do you remember those posters and bumper stickers that read, “Support the troops”? Maybe you have one of your own. Well, December 16th is the time to get your stickers, signs and banners together and join the largest veteran led-civil...
Nov 18, 2010, 1:43pm
FOR
by Catherine LutzMuch about our current world is unparalleled in human history: holes in the ozone layer, the commercial patenting of life forms, degrading poverty on a massive scale, and, more hopefully, the rise of concepts of global...
Nov 11, 2010, 4:00pm
Bill Winston
More than six months ago, on April 8, 2010, the United States and Russia agreed to further reduce their nuclear arsenals with the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). The U.S. Senate has so far failed to ratify this treaty negotiated by...
Nov 3, 2010, 9:04pm
Mark Johnson
This is not the official version of American history, but that it very nearly sums it up can scarcely be doubted by anyone with the courage to look into the faces one encounters all over this land: who listens to the voices, hearing incessantly the...
Oct 30, 2010, 2:52pm
Mark Johnson
The Voice of America carried a story this week that began: “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the United States has no problem with Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor because the power plant’s Russian uranium fuel...
