Nuclear War

Full Text Of Hiroshima Peace Declaration On 72nd A-bomb Anniversary

August 6, 2017 Kazumi Matsui, www.mainichi.jp Create! Hiroshima, Japan, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

By Kazumi Matsui for The Mainichi. Friends, 72 years ago today, on August 6, at 8:15 a.m., absolute evil was unleashed in the sky over Hiroshima. Let's imagine for a moment what happened under that roiling mushroom cloud. Pika -- the penetrating flash, extreme radiation and heat. Don -- the earth-shattering roar and blast. As the blackness lifts, the scenes emerging into view reveal countless scattered corpses charred beyond recognition even as man or woman. Stepping between the corpses, badly burned, nearly naked figures with blackened faces, singed hair, and tattered, dangling skin wander through spreading flames, looking for water. The rivers in front of you are filled with bodies; the riverbanks so crowded with burnt, half-naked victims you have no place to step. This is truly hell. Under that mushroom cloud, the absolutely evil atomic bomb brought gruesome death to vast numbers of innocent civilians . . .

On The Beach 2017. The Beckoning Of Nuclear War.

August 5, 2017 Staff, www.johnpilger.com Educate! Nuclear War, US Imperialism

By Staff of John Pilger - The US submarine captain says, "We've all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you're never ready, because you don't know when it's coming. Well, now we do know and there's nothing to be done about it." He says he will be dead by September. It will take about a week to die, though no one can be sure. Animals live the longest. The war was over in a month. The United States, Russia and China were the protagonists. It is not clear if it was started by accident or mistake. There was no victor. The northern hemisphere is contaminated and lifeless now. A curtain of radioactivity is moving south towards Australia and New Zealand, southern Africa and South America. By September, the last cities, towns and villages will succumb. As in the north, most buildings will remain untouched, some illuminated by the last flickers of electric light. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. These lines from T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men appear at the beginning of Nevil Shute's novel On the Beach, which left me close to tears. The endorsements on the cover said the same.

UN Must Face Scientifically Predicted Consequences Of Nuclear War

May 23, 2017 Steven Starr, www.thebulletin.org Educate! Nuclear War, Science, United Nations

By Steven Starr for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - The preamble of the treaty to ban nuclear weapons now under consideration at the UN will be greatly strengthened if it includes a summary of the long-term environmental consequences of nuclear war, as described by a series of peer-reviewed studies done by prominent scientists working at major US and Swiss Universities, as well as at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. These studies are considered to be the most authoritative type of scientific research—subjected to criticism by the international scientific community before final publication in scholarly journals—and the findings of these studies remain unchallenged. The research predicts that a nuclear war fought between emerging nuclear weapon states—with less than 1 percent of the explosive power contained in the global nuclear arsenals—can produce catastrophic long-term damage to global environment and weather. A war fought with 100 atomic bombs can result in the coldest average annual surface temperatures experienced in the last 1,000 years, and this prolonged cold (and drought) would last for several years before temperatures began to return to normal.

North Korea Says U.S. Bomber Flights Push Peninsula To Brink Of Nuclear War

May 3, 2017 Staff, www.thomsonreuters.com Educate! North Korea, Nuclear War, US Foreign Policy, US Imperialism

By Staff of Thomson Reuters - The U.S. air force said in a statement the bombers had flown from Guam to conduct training exercises with the South Korean and Japanese air forces. North Korea said the bombers conducted "a nuclear bomb dropping drill against major objects" in its territory at a time when Trump and "other U.S. warmongers are crying out for making a preemptive nuclear strike" on the North. "The reckless military provocation is pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula closer to the brink of nuclear war," the North's official KCNA news agency said on Tuesday. Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been high for weeks, driven by concerns that the North might conduct its sixth nuclear test in defiance of pressure from the United States and Pyongyang's sole major ally, China. The U.S. military's THAAD anti-missile defence system has reached initial operational capacity in South Korea, U.S. officials told Reuters, although they cautioned that it would not be fully operational for some months. China has repeatedly expressed its opposition to the system, whose powerful radar it fears could reach inside Chinese territory.

Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Appeals To President Trump For Peace Leadership

May 2, 2017 The Peace People, www.transcend.org Resist! Korea, Nuclear War, US Imperialism

By The Peace People for TRANSCEND Media Service - 1 May 2017 – Mairead Maguire, who visited the women’s peace movements of North and South Korea last year with 30 international women from around the world, made the following appeal to President Trump and the U.S. administration: “The people of North and South Korea want peace and they want a peace treaty. They do not want their country to be bombed or their government to bomb others. Having visited both North and South Korea last year and walked with thousands and thousands of Korean women, North and South, I am convinced that peace is possible and what is needed is the political will of all parties to the conflict to dialogue and for negotiations to move from a Korean armistice to a Korean Peace Treaty. “I therefore would like to appeal to President Trump and his administration not to carry out a military strike on North Korea, but to use the means of dialogue and diplomacy to reach a peace treaty for North Korea. Such peace leadership by President Trump will give hope to the people of Korea and all of humanity.

Peace Vigil Stands Near White House As A Warning To Nuclear War

April 13, 2017 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Nuclear War, Protests, Vigil, White House

By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Whenever the President looks out from the North Portico side of the White House, he can see his nearest neighbor seated in front of the white tent of the Peace Vigil. Its plastic canvas is silhouetted against the lawn of Lafayette Park, which is lined with tulip beds and stately elms. The tent is flanked by two large white signs standing over it like guards, displaying photographs of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bomb aftermaths. The black and white photos illustrate the graphic carnage of the end of WWII when the US nuclear bombings extinguished tens of thousands of lives in milliseconds and ushered the age of atomic warfare.

The Fantasy Of Winning A Nuclear War With Russia

March 14, 2017 Jonathan Marshall, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! Imperialism, Nuclear War, Russia

By Jonathan Marshall for Consurtium News - In 1961, senior Pentagon consultants drafted a 33-page blueprint for initiating — and winning — a nuclear war against the Soviet Union. It was based on top-secret intelligence that Soviet nuclear forces were few in number and poorly defended — making them an easy target for a U.S. preemptive strike. A U.S. government photograph of Operation Redwing’s Apache nuclear explosion on July 9, 1956. Convinced of U.S. superiority, the Joint Chiefs of Staff began advising President John F. Kennedy to risk nuclear war over Cuba and Vietnam — even though their own analysis conceded that if something went wrong, 75 percent of Americans might die. If JFK hadn’t rejected their advice, we might not be here today.

Has Russia Already Trumped US Nuclear Dominance Ambition?

January 1, 2017 Pepe Escobar, www.sputniknews.com Educate! China, Iran, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, United States, USSR

Pepe Escobar for Sputnik News. Putin already cut to the chase – when he spoke at the defense ministry's HQ in Moscow before the holiday season; "We can say with certainty: we are stronger now than any potential aggressor." And he added; "Anyone." This after Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stressed Russia "for the first time in its history" has fully protected the extensive Russian borders with early warning anti-missile systems. The Pentagon must be processing the information with extreme seriousness. That means, essentially, that before the S-500s were fully rolled out, Moscow could not but exercise extreme prudence. Now Russian air space seems to be effectively sealed. Putin could not actually admit on the record that Russia is the strongest military power in the world until the rollout of the S-500s is complete. All US offensive missiles and stealth aircraft as it stands are rendered useless. And that does no even take into account nuclear weaponized Russian silent submarines.

US Seeking Nuclear Domination, Increases Dangers Of Nuclear War

January 1, 2017 Jonathan Marshall, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Ronald Reagan, Russia, United States, Wars and Militarism

By Jonathan Marshall for Consortium News. “My bottom line is that the likelihood of a nuclear catastrophe today is greater than it was during the Cold War,” declares former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry. A nuclear test detonation carried out in Nevada on April 18, 1953. A nuclear test detonation carried out in Nevada on April 18, 1953. If a new Trump administration wants to peacefully reset relations with Russia, there’s no better way to start than by canceling the deployment of costly new ballistic missile defense systems in Eastern Europe. One such system went live in Romania this May; another is slated to go live in Poland in 2018. Few U.S. actions have riled President Putin as much as this threat to erode Russia’s nuclear deterrent. Only last month, at a meeting in Sochi with Russian military leaders to discuss advanced new weapons technology, Putin vowed, “We will continue to do all we need to ensure the strategic balance of forces."

40 Million Russians Set To Drill For World War III

October 11, 2016 Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com Educate! Nuclear War, Russia, US Foreign Policy

By Tyler Durden for Zero Hedge - I’ve been searching for ways to wake up America to the immediate danger of a Nuclear War, given the situation in the Middle East. Little to nothing has been said about WWIII in American mainstream media. If I bring the subject up in conversation with educated, intelligent Americans they look at me as though I’ve gone crazy, yet all indictors are that the Syrian situation is quickly going in this direction. If nothing else, this “preparedness event” of hopefully 40,000,000 Russians will put this discussion on the front burner here with American citizens, also European and other citizens across the world.

US Prepares For Nuclear War, Air Force Drops Two Faux Nukes

October 8, 2016 Marcus Weisgerber, www.defenseone.com Educate! Nuclear War, Russia, US Foreign Policy

By Marcus Weisgerber for Defense One - The tests in the Nevada desert come as tensions rise with Russia and the Pentagon seeks to replace its aging nuclear arsenal. A pair of U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers dropped two 700-pound faux nuclear bombs in the middle of the Nevada desert within the past few days. Now the Pentagon wants to tell you about it. Conducted “earlier this month,” according to an Oct. 6 press release, the test involved two dummy variants of the B61, a nuclear bomb that has been in the U.S. arsenal since the 1960s.

Pentagon Chief Outlines Preparations For Nuclear War With Russia

October 5, 2016 Bill Van Auken, www.wsws.org Educate! Nuclear War, Pentagon, Russia

By Bill Van Auken for WSWS - US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter delivered a speech to “missileers” at the Air Force Global Strike Command base in Minot, North Dakota Monday, defending the massive modernization of the US nuclear arsenal and issuing bellicose threats against Russia. Carter’s trip to Minot was the first he has taken to a nuclear missile base since becoming secretary of defense in February 2015. It coincided with the steady escalation of conflicts pitting the US against nuclear-armed Russia and China that threaten to ignite a new world war.

Veterans For Peace Golden Rule Project

June 4, 2016 Staff, www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org Organize! Nuclear War, Veterans for Peace

By Staff of Veterans For Peace Golden Rule Project - We aim to advance Veterans For Peace opposition to nuclear weapons and war, and to do so in a dramatic fashion. We have recovered and restored the original peace ship, the Golden Rule, that set sail in 1958 to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere, and which inspired the many peace makers and peace ships that followed. The reborn Golden Rule will voyage once more, to show that nuclear abolition is possible, and that bravery and tenacity can overcome militarism.

Trampling Science To Boost Nuclear Power

April 22, 2016 Jim Naureckas, www.fair.org Educate! Nuclear War

By Jim Naureckas for FAIR - When the Washington Post and New York Times are making the same corporate-friendly point, it’s safe to assume that some PR agency somewhere is earning its substantial fees. In this case, the subject is the need for nuclear power—and, for the Post editorial board (4/18/16), for fracking as well. Standing in the way of this in the Post’s version is favorite target Bernie Sanders, while the Times business columnist Eduardo Porter (4/19/16) blames the “scientific phobias and taboos” of “progressive environmentalists.”

Inevitability: Nuclear War Is Coming

April 18, 2016 Winslow Myers, www.commondreams.org Educate! Nuclear War

By Winslow Myers for Common Dreams - Nuclear war is coming. Our officials are currently increasing the chances of that. I only write ominous op-ed pieces like this in the spirit of hoping I’m an inaccurate prophet. But I’m unable to avoid the difficult conclusion that nuclear war, absent an immediate, fundamental, worldwide change in attitude, is an inevitable part of our future. It could be weeks, months, or years away. But it is coming. It could break out at any moment between India and Pakistan, the most likely scenario at present.

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