Nuclear Ban Treaty

One Hundred Seconds Till The Apocalypse

September 24, 2020 Nick Turse, Tom Dispatch. Educate! Cold War, Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has adjusted its Doomsday Clock to provide humanity with an expert estimate of just how close all of us are to an apocalyptic “midnight” -- that is, nuclear annihilation. A century ago, there was, of course, no need for such a measure. Back then, the largest explosion ever caused by humans had likely occurred in Halifax, Canada, in 1917, when a munitions ship collided with another vessel, in that city’s harbor. That tragic blast killed nearly 2,000, wounded another 9,000, and left 6,000 homeless, but it didn’t imperil the planet.

Trump’s War On Arms Control And Disarmament

August 17, 2020 Melvin Goodman, Counterpunch. Educate! Arms Control, Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

Trump’s hostile and counterproductive acts have undermined the arms control regime that U.S. presidents have developed over the past seven decades. Every president from Eisenhower to Obama contributed to improving the verification and monitoring of strategic arms; reducing the numbers of strategic weapons; eliminating intermediate-range missiles, and/or trying to avoid accidental confrontation. During the presidential campaign in 2016, ten former nuclear control officers anticipated the worst and organized a letter stating that, if elected, Trump should not be given the nuclear codes. For the past two years, Trump has taken steps to thoroughly weaken the arms control regime. In 2018, Trump scuttled the Iran nuclear accord, which had brought a measure of predictability to the volatile Middle East. The Trump administration then scuttled the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), which was responsible for the destruction of more missiles than any treaty in history. More recently, the Trump administration walked away from the Open Skies Treaty, which was negotiated by President George H.W. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker in 1992, but has a history that dates to the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s. . .

The Human Cost Of Nuclear Tests

July 19, 2020 John Letman, The Diplomat. Educate! health, Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, United States

July 16 - Seventy-five years ago today, the United States conducted the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. In the ensuing years, the U.S. ultimately conducted more than 1,000 nuclear tests, half of all known tests conducted by the world’s nine nuclear nations since 1945. Now, on the 75th anniversary of the nuclear age, the United States is contemplating the resumption of live testing for the first time in nearly three decades. A nuclear test, the Washington Post reported in May, could be used as leverage in negotiations with China and Russia. The news provoked widespread criticism, not only from the Chinese government, but also Nevada’s congressional delegation (the state where a future test would presumably be conducted).

A Universal Appeal For Humanity To End Militarism And Stop War

May 16, 2020 By Abdallah El Harif and Vijay Prashad, Peoples Dispatch. Create! Global Ceasefire, Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, United States, Wars and Militarism

On March 15, 1950, the World Peace Council sent out the Stockholm Appeal, a short text that called for a ban on nuclear weapons and that would eventually be signed by almost 2 million people. The appeal was made up of three elegant sentences: -We demand the outlawing of atomic weapons as instruments of intimidation and mass murder of peoples. We demand strict international control to enforce this measure. -We believe that any government which first uses atomic weapons against any other country whatsoever will be committing a crime against humanity and should be dealt with as a war criminal. -We call on all men and women of good will throughout the world to sign this appeal. Now, 70 years later, the nuclear arsenal is far more lethal, and the conventional weapons themselves dwarf the atom bomb that was dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

How Many Intensive Care Beds Will A Nuclear Weapon Explosion Require?

April 29, 2020 By Tom Sauer and Ramesh Thakur, The Bulletin. Educate! health, Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons

A novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China late last year, hopping in one way or another from other animals to humans. Initially the rest of the world thought this outbreak was a local problem and then was shocked at the brutality of the lockdown that the Chinese authorities clamped on Wuhan to quarantine the infection cluster. Despite China’s efforts at containment, soon the virus rode the highways and byways of globalization to quickly circle the world. Other countries realized their hospital systems could be overwhelmed unless they drastically slowed the surge of new infections. No country had the number of beds in its intensive care units (ICUs) to manage patient loads under worst-case scenarios of letting this new coronavirus spread through the community to acquire herd immunity.

Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty Nearly Two-Thirds Of Way To Entry Into Force

October 8, 2019 By Tim Wright and Seth Shelden, Humanitariandisarmament.org Create! Nuclear Ban Treaty, United Nations

At the United Nations last month, the prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, alerted world leaders to a growing risk of nuclear war in Kashmir. “We are heading for a potential disaster of proportions that no one here realises,” he said. Tensions in the disputed region escalated this February to the point that conflict between India and Pakistan seemed distinctly possible. Other nuclear-armed nations also have descended to new lows this year, making casual threats to unleash the destructive force of their nuclear arsenals against each other and even against nations without nuclear weapons.

On The Enduring Significance Of Hiroshima

August 8, 2019 Canadian Peace Congress, Popular Resistance. Educate! Hiroshima, Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons

On August 6 and 9, 1945, the U.S. military bombed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. Over 200,000 people, mostly civilians, died instantly or later succumbed to burns, malnutrition, and radiation-related illnesses. Many of their descendants carry the affected genes and pass them onto their children. Those acts will forever be remembered in infamy as the first time the devastating impact of nuclear warfare was unleashed. There was absolutely no justification for this wanton attack – the worst crime against humanity in history (paralleled only by the Holocaust). Unclassified documents have confirmed there was no truth to the constructed ‘myth’ that the atomic attack was necessary to spare the lives of U.S. servicemen and end the war.

Risk Of Nuclear War Highest Since WWII

May 26, 2019 Tom Miles, Reuters. Educate! Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, Wars and Militarism

GENEVA - The risk of nuclear weapons being used is at its highest since World War Two, a senior U.N. security expert said on Tuesday, calling it an “urgent” issue that the world should take more seriously. Renata Dwan, director of the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), said all states with nuclear weapons have nuclear modernization programs underway and the arms control landscape is changing, partly due to strategic competition between China and the United States. Traditional arms control arrangements are also being eroded by the emergence of new types of war, with increasing prevalence of armed groups and private sector forces and new technologies that blurred the line between offense and defense, she told reporters in Geneva.

Bus Ad Informs Residents Of Local Stockpiled Nuclear Weapons

July 6, 2018 Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, Popular Resistance. Resist! Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

Seattle, Washington - On July 9, and continuing for four weeks, up to 39 Metro downtown buses will display the following paid advertisement: Puget Sound: Home to one-third of deployed U.S. nuclear weapons… Accept Responsibility. Included in the advertisement is a map showing the proximity of Seattle to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, home port for 8 of the Navy’s 14 Trident nuclear-powered submarines, and a U.S. Navy photo of the Trident submarine, USS Nebraska, taken on June 2, 2017 near Elliott Bay.

More Than 40 Nations Sign Nuclear Ban Treaty in First Hour

September 20, 2017 Staff, www.accuracy.org Create! Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, United Nations

By The Institute for Public Accuracy. Reuters reports today: "Dozens of countries signed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons on Wednesdayamid tensions over North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, although the United States, Britain, France and others boycotted the event at the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders. "The treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons will enter into force 90 days after 50 countries have ratified it. ... "'There remain some fifteen thousand nuclear weapons in existence. We cannot allow these doomsday weapons to endanger our world and our children’s future,' U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said as he opened the treaty for signing.

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