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Trump’s Threats To Annihilate Iran And The Global Apocalypse

October 16, 2026 Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Of all of the things that Donald Trump has said publicly since returning to the White House, his threats to annihilate Iran are arguably the worst. This is not only because the repeated statements are deeply immoral and illegal–deliberate killing of civilians is a war crime–but because they represent the kind of irresponsible rhetoric that will lead us into a global apocalypse and collapse of not just the Persian nation but human civilization as a whole. It is not possible to excuse, justify, or condone this kind of rhetoric. The only question is what to do about it.

The Unconcluded War

October 8, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. , , ,
As I argued in a 2025 article, “Peace is a Haunting Specter of War,” the 1951 Japanese Peace Treaty should be understood as the foundation of a U.S.-Japan postwar alliance. It departed from the territorial framework the Allies established during the war and produced no regional settlement comparable to the one established for Germany at Potsdam. Read against the documents of that peace process, Kavanagh’s report describes the cost of maintaining an unconcluded war. Bertrand presents its conclusion as a strategic withdrawal, closer to a modern-day Dunkirk, in which an untenable forward position is abandoned while the military perimeter is preserved farther east.

Bike For Peace Global Tour Makes A Stop In Honolulu

October 5, 2026 Bike for Peace, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Bike for peace is a Norwegian-based peace organization that works to organize peace rides on bicycles all over the world. We collaborate with various peace organizations, schools and universities to promote and focus on the education of peace, non-violence, conflict resolution and the fight against nuclear weapons. Our ambition is to empower the young people of today to work more actively for peace, and to be motivated by non-violent measures to achieve their goals! We also have a goal that the world should get rid of all nuclear weapons before 2045, which will be the 100th anniversary of the nuclear bombs used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki

I Am Making Up For The Years In A Government That Did Harm

September 30, 2026 Erik Berge, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Honolulu, 29 September. When Bike for Peace landed in Hawaiʻi on Tuesday, retired Colonel Ann Wright was  waiting at the airport with leis. Over dinner the same evening, Tore Nærland put her in the interview chair.  Ann Wright served as an officer in the United States Army and then for sixteen years as a diplomat in the  State Department. In March 2003 she was one of three American diplomats who resigned in protest before the  Iraq war began.  “I thought the pending war in Iraq was one of the stupidest things that I ever heard of. It had nothing to do  with 9/11. They didn’t have weapons of mass destruction,” she said.

Secret Pentagon Plan Will Provide More Ways To Start Nuclear War

September 16, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , , ,
A top nuclear weapons analyst in Chicago, where the Atomic Age was born, is warning of a Donald Trump War Department nuclear missile and warhead development plan which will produce an explosion in the number of so-called small “theater” nuclear weapons.  In War Department thinking, that would give the president more incentive to threaten or even begin a nuclear war by supposedly removing the possibility of full-scale Armageddon, which would destroy the whole world. The possible U.S. start would, in turn, deter enemies, specifically China and Russia, from opening a nuclear war with the U.S. 

President Trump Is A Threat to Humanity: Time For Action

September 5, 2026 Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. , , ,
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action is vehemently opposed to the ongoing immoral and illegal acts of war being waged against the sovereign state of Iran by the United States military, ordered by President Donald J. Trump. The continuing acts of war by the United States against Iran have targeted not only military assets, but also civilians and civilian infrastructure, a clear violation of international humanitarian law. A February 28th missile strike destroyed the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, killing at least 150 people, most of them children and school staff. Strikes on civilian infrastructure have included electrical power grid, water facilities, ports, and bridges.

Nuclear Watchdog Sues For Plutonium Pit Production ‘Special Study’

August 7, 2026 Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Santa Fe, NM – Nuclear Watch New Mexico has sued the Department of Energy under the Freedom of Information Act for its Special Study of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Leadership and Management of the Plutonium Pit Production Mission. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within DOE. Plutonium “pits” are the radioactive cores or “triggers” of nuclear weapons. Their expanded manufacturing has been the chokepoint of resumed industrial-scale nuclear weapons production by the U.S.

Hiroshima 81: The Looming Risk Of Nuclear Disaster

August 6, 2026 Peter Kuznick, Consortium News. , , ,
On June 10, 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, who was then U.S. Director of National Intelligence, released a brief but poignant video that began with devastating scenes of atomic-bombed Hiroshima. She stressed, however, that the bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were primitive compared to the weapons we have today. She then warned that we were “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before.”  Sadly, we are even closer to nuclear annihilation now than we were when she made that chilling statement a year ago — much closer.

The Collapse Of Nuclear Arms Control Puts The World In Peril

August 6, 2026 Lawrence S. Wittner, LA Progressive. , , ,
Although 81 years have passed since the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the rulers of major nations continue their reckless march toward a nuclear holocaust. The nine nuclear powers (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea), possessing some 12,100 nuclear warheads, are all busily upgrading and expanding their nuclear weapons arsenals at an accelerating pace. Nuclear weapons spending rose to an all-time high of $119 billion in 2025?a 19 percent increase over the preceding year. The U.S. government alone, which accounted for more than half of this spending, is embarked on a $1.7 trillion, decades-long nuclear weapons buildup.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

June 28, 2026 Emma Claire Foley, Progressive Hub. , , ,
On Friday, May 22, the Review Conference for the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) concluded in New York City. After nearly a month of negotiations, participants were unable to reach agreement on a final document on the current status of the treaty. The NPT has long been justly criticized for locking in a two-tier system of nuclear privilege. It designates five states, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, and France, as nuclear-weapons states under the treaty (never mind that the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons has grown to include India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea since the treaty went into force in 1970).

US Navy Announces Public Review Period For Nuclear-Powered, Nuclear-Armed Submarine Program

June 3, 2026 Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, Popular Resistance. , , ,
U.S. Navy announces a 30-day public review period for its approximately $60 billion nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed, Columbia-class submarine program. The submarines will be stationed at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor for about 50 years.  The Columbia-class nuclear-powered ballistic missiles submarines (SSBN) are the planned replacement submarines for the Ohio-class SSBN submarines that first arrived at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in 1982.  The twelve proposed Columbia-class submarines are expected to cost $126.4 billion according to the Navy’s FY 2025 budget submission.  Half of the twelve new submarines are expected to be deployed at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, approximately 20 miles from Seattle. 

Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Organize Peoples Tribunal For Justice

May 4, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , , , , ,
In 1945, tens of thousands of occupied Koreans were forced to live in Japan, primarily as impoverished workers. When the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 70,000 Koreans were impacted. Though they and their succeeding generations have been severely harmed by the exposure to radiation, they still have not received recognition, an apology or compensation for their suffering. A delegation of atomic bomb victims just completed a tour of the United States and testified before the United Nations. Clearing the FOG speaks with Shim Jin-tae, Han Jeongsun and a representative of Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea (SPARK) about their experiences and their struggle for a nuclear-free world. Translation provided by Hyunsook Elizabeth "Echo" Cho.

As Nuclear Arms Race Returns, Is Non-Proliferation Treaty Still Relevant?

May 2, 2026 Amiad Horowitz, People's World. , , ,
The 11th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons opened Monday at United Nations headquarters in New York. For 25 days, representatives of 191 states-parties will negotiate over the future of a treaty that has served as the cornerstone of global nuclear order since 1970. The stakes could not be higher, and the system has never looked more fragile. For the first time in decades, the number of nuclear warheads in the world is rising. Global military spending soared to $2.7 trillion last year, which is thirteen times the total amount of global development assistance, roughly equivalent to Africa’s entire GDP. Two consecutive review conferences, in 2015 and again in 2022, collapsed without producing a consensus final document.

A Brief History Of The Israeli Nuclear Program

April 5, 2026 Anna Illing, Mondoweiss. , , ,
The current U.S.-Israeli war is the second war in less than a year declared by Israel and the USA, allegedly on the grounds of dismantling Iran’s nuclear capabilities.  While there is no documented evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapon or is close to developing one, there is another state in the Middle East whose nuclear arsenal exists as an open secret. That state is, of course, Israel, and its nuclear arsenal, although not officially recognized or confirmed, stands as one of the leading drivers of unrest throughout the region. Israel’s history with nuclear weapons unfolded between secrecy, public tacit knowledge, and support, both materially and diplomatically, from the West, creating a playbook of strategic ambiguity around it still in place today.

Will Trump Break The Nuclear Taboo?

March 20, 2026 Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolic Hughes, Consortium News. , , , ,
President Donald Trump has been on quite a roll. Since just the beginning of the year, he has kidnapped the Venezuela president, threatened to invade Greenland and Colombia and has dragged the U.S. – and seemingly much of the Middle East — into a new war by joining with Israel to attack Iran, something that even the biggest hawks among recent U.S. presidents have managed to avoid. That’s on top of bombing seven countries in 2025.  The 2024 campaign promises of a peace president who will end the forever wars have evaporated, only to be replaced by unrestrained use of military force and a seeming disdain for diplomacy.
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