Nuclear Weapons

More Kingsbay Plowshares 7 Members Sentenced This Week

November 14, 2020 Kingsbay Plowshares 7. Resist! Kings Bay Plowshares, Legal System, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

Today two more of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 were sentenced by video conferencing with Judge Wood in the court in Brunswick, GA. They both received less time than was expected according to the sentencing guidelines prepared by the probation department. Carmen Trotta was sentenced to 14 months in the morning session. This was a downward departure based on the judge granting his objection that the seriousness of his criminal history was overstated by the probation report. He only has four misdemeanor convictions for demonstration related arrests.

Atomic Veteran Says The US Must Never Resume Nuclear Weapons Testing

November 12, 2020 Jim Dangerfield, Union of Concerned Scientists. Educate! health, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism, Weapons testing

I was an Army specialist fourth class in 1957 when I was bused to the Nevada Test Site with other servicemen for an operation we were told nothing about. We soon witnessed a series of nuclear bomb blasts that created such intense flashes of light that I could see the blood vessels and bones in my hands as I covered my closed eyes. Years later, I am still haunted by those excruciatingly bright bursts. We had unknowingly participated in Operation Plumbbob—a series of 29 experiments involving 16,000 servicemen to determine how soldiers would handle fighting on a nuclear battlefield.

Peace Organizations Win Fight For Records On Explosives At Naval Base

October 31, 2020 Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, Popular Resistance. Resist! Freedom of Information, Military bases, Nuclear Weapons, Washington

Washington - On August 31, 2020, Judge Ronald B. Leighton ordered the release of eleven records that the Navy had provided to Plaintiffs in 2012 in the course of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) lawsuit that were sealed later in 2012 in a secret court hearing. Judge Leighton also lifted a gag order imposed upon Plaintiffs over seven years ago. Following the ruling by Judge Leighton, on October 23, 2020, Judge Thomas S. Zilly in the U.S. District Court in Tacoma ordered the Navy to pay legal fees incurred by two peace...

America’s Still Strangelovian Schemes To ‘Win’ Nuclear Wars

October 30, 2020 Danny Sjursen, Antiwar.com. Educate! Dehumanization, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

A full 56 years after Peter Sellers roasted America’s nuclear absurdity in Stanley Kubrick’s dark comedy classic Dr. Strangelove, Pentagon planners remain dedicated to delusions. That old Pete’s three-role – in three nationalities – performative evisceration of the fantasy that nuclear wars can be won didn’t stick raises serious questions about human nature, and our species’s survival prospects. Don’t take my word for it: just six years ago Eric Schlosser, author of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, penned a piece in the New Yorker titled...

The Significance Of The Nuclear Ban Treaty

October 28, 2020 Mohamed Elmaazi, World Beyond War. Educate! New START Treaty, Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, United Nations

The NPT has been lived up to to a surprising extent by the non-nuclear powers. It is amazing that more countries have not gone the nuclear path. The world is fortunate that more haven’t made that leap at a time when, according to El Baradei, at least 40 countries have the technological capability of doing so. The ones who are guilty of violating it are the five original signatories–the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, and France. They have completely ignored Article 6, which requires the nations possessing nuclear arsenals to reduce and eliminate those arsenals.

UN Nuclear Ban Treaty One Ratification Shy Of Taking Effect

October 24, 2020 The Japan Times. Create! Denuclearization, Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, United Nations

Jamaica and Nauru are the latest countries to complete the ratification procedures, the United Nations said. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, adopted in 2017, will enter into force 90 days after it has been ratified by at least 50 countries and regions. Although the pact will not be able to legally require nuclear power states to get rid of their arsenals, the launch of the world’s first treaty banning nuclear weapons is likely to gain global momentum toward reducing stockpiles. According to an official with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), another country is expected to ratify the treaty in the near future.

Hopes Rise Of Extension Of New START Arms Control Treaty

October 22, 2020 People's Dispatch. Create! New START Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, Russia

The hope for the extension of the New Strategic Arms Control Treaty (START) was revived on Tuesday, October 20, after Russia offered freezing the number of its nuclear warheads in a statement, along with a one-year extension of the deal. The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that, “Russia offers to extend the New START by one year and is ready to take on a political commitment with the United States to freeze the number of nuclear warheads both sides have for this period.” The US state department immediately welcomed the offer and declared that negotiations to settle the details will start soon.

Priest Sentenced To 33 Months For Protesting Nuclear Weapons

October 16, 2020 Kings Bay Plowshares 7. Resist! Legal System, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

Fifteen supporters in a carefully Covid masked and distanced courtroom witnessed Father Steve Kelly receive a sentence of 33 months today. After a 20 minute delay to get the telephone conference line working and properly muted 160 people listened in to the proceedings on the audio link. Fr. Steve’s sentence falls in the middle of the proposed guidelines and will likely allow his release from the Glynn County Detention Center where he is presently being detained 30 months after the action.

UN Nuclear Ban Treaty Likely To Enter Force Early Next Year

October 5, 2020 Kyodo News. Create! Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, Wars and Militarism

New York -A U.N.-adopted nuclear ban treaty is likely to enter into force early next year as the number of signatories is anticipated to reach the needed threshold of 50 soon, possibly later this month, a diplomatic source said Friday. According to the source and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, 46 countries and regions have completed ratification procedures. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, adopted in 2017, will enter into force 90 days after it has been ratified by at least 50 countries and regions.

Round Midnight

October 1, 2020 Sean Reynolds, Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Resist! Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons

September 26th was the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. In Chicago, where Voices for Creative Nonviolence is based, activists held the third of three COVID-era “Car Caravans” for nuclear disarmament, travelling through the city from Voices’ own rapidly gentrifying Uptown neighborhood to the statue on Chicago’s South Side which marks the fateful site of Earth’s first sustained nuclear chain reaction. Cars bore banners reading “End U.S. Nukes Before They End Us,” “Still Here? Dumb Luck”

The Ecological Impact Of Militarism

September 25, 2020 John Scales Avery, Popular Resistance. Educate! abolish war, climate crisis, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

As we start the 21st century and the new millennium, our scientific and technological civilization seems to be entering a period of crisis. Today, for the first time in history, science has given to humans the possibility of a life of comfort, free from hunger and cold, and free from the constant threat of infectious disease. At the same time, science has given us the power to destroy civilization through thermonuclear war, as well as the power to make our planet uninhabitable through pollution and overpopulation.

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.

Kings Bay Plowshares Sentencing Delayed

August 29, 2020 Kings Bay Plowshares. Resist! Kings Bay Plowshares, Legal System, Nonviolent Action, Nuclear Weapons

The six remaining Kings Bay Plowshares defendants have had their sentencing dates moved from September to October 15 and 16. They had requested a continuance because they want to appear in open court in Georgia and the virus situation there is still too out of control to safely allow it. Steve Kelly has now served almost 29 months in county jails since the action in April 2018 so has already met the guidelines for his likely sentence. The court may not want to grant him further extensions. (You can send a postcard to Steve to let him know you're thinking of him. Directions on writing here.) The other defendants are not sure if they would prefer to seek more continuances or choose virtual appearances for sentencing in solidarity with Steve on those dates in October if it appears unsafe to travel to Georgia at that time.

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. . .

Remembering Hiroshima And Nagasaki By Shutting Down A Nuclear Base

August 12, 2020 Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. Resist! Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

At around 6:45 AM on Monday, demonstrators arrived at the Main Gate and formed a vigil line along the roadway. At around 7:05 AM, four “peacekeepers” entered the roadway and stopped traffic, while behind them, six demonstrators set themselves and their banners on the roadway. Three of the demonstrators carried a banner stating, “Hiroshima Nagasaki Never Again!” Two demonstrators held a blue painted banner stating, “No More Genocide in My Name.” One demonstrator carried a banner, “Peace Walk Nuclear-Free World, Black Lives Matter.”

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