Nuclear Weapons

New START And The China Diversion

May 17, 2020 Daniel Larison, The American Conservative. Educate! Arms Race, China, New START Treaty, Nuclear Weapons

The effort to bring China into an arms reduction treaty certainly is futile. Not only is China not going to participate in arms control negotiations with the U.S. anytime soon, but even if China were persuaded to participate the limits set by New START would allow China to increase its nuclear arsenal many times over while still remaining in compliance. It makes no sense to press another government to join an arms reduction treaty when that government currently possesses a fraction of the number of weapons that the treaty permits. There is no compelling reason to add China to an existing arms control agreement when their nuclear forces are much smaller than ours. One might as well insist that Pakistan or Israel join the treaty. It is obvious that the administration has never been serious about extending New START.

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.

Plowshares 7 Need Your Help As They Face Sentencing

May 1, 2020 By Nick Mottern, Popular Resistance Resist! Courts, Nuclear Weapons, Plowshare 7

URGENT: PLEASE WRITE LETTERS TO THESE JUDGES NOW. As the coronavirus kills and terrifies prisoners around the world, the Kings Bay 7 anti-nuclear protesters and two drone war whistleblowers – Brandon Bryant and Daniel Everett Hale - are facing prison time. These pending court actions can be seen as marking a moment in history when anti-drone war protesters join anti-nuclear war protesters in the group of Americans who remain inspired to actively oppose the creation and use of, particularly heinous weapons in the face of the wide acceptance of these weapons by the American public.

COVID-19 Time: Reduce Military And War Budget

April 30, 2020 the Resistance Center for Peace and Action and Mass Peace Action, Popular Resistance. Resist! COVID-19, Military Budget, Nuclear Weapons, Peace

The unprecedented scale of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic gives rise to many questions about the ways our society is organized and how our future society should be rebuilt. One issue that has an enormous impact on how our future society will be is how much public money we will spend on wars and militarism and how much money we will spend on human needs and the protection of our plants. Currently, the US spends an insane amount of money on the military and wars each year. The FY2020 military budget will cost taxpayers $738 billion, a $120 billion increase in the last three years. No country in the world comes close to dedicating this many of its resources to the military. In fact, the U.S. spends more on defense than the next ten countries combined and it has 800 bases in more than 90 countries while all other countries in the world, 11 of them, have 70 bases in foreign countries altogether.

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.

Now Isn’t The Time To Push For Nuclear Modernization

April 25, 2020 William D. Hartung, Defense News. Create! Health Care, Nuclear Weapons, Pentagon, Trump

If the new coronavirus pandemic has taught us one thing, it is that we need to rethink what we need to do to keep America safe. That’s why Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s recent tweet calling modernization of U.S. nuclear forces a “top priority ... to protect the American people and our allies” seemed so tone deaf. COVID-19 has already killed more Americans than died in the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq and Afghan wars combined, with projections of many more to come. The pandemic underscores the need for a systematic, sustainable, long-term investment in public health resources, from protective equipment, to ventilators and hospital beds, to research and planning resources needed to deal with future outbreaks of disease. As Kori Schake, the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, has noted: “We’re going to see enormous downward pressure on defense spending because of other urgent American national needs like health care.”

Will US’s Corruption End On A Ventilator Or In A Mushroom Cloud?

April 23, 2020 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Nation of Change. Educate! COVID-19, Doomsday Clock, Government, Nuclear Weapons

Little by little, Americans are understanding just how badly our government has let us down by its belated and disastrous response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and how thousands more people are dying as a result. But there are two other crises we face that our government is totally unprepared for and incapable of dealing with: the climate crisis and the danger of nuclear war. Since 1947, a group of scientists with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have warned us about the danger of nuclear war—using their Doomsday Clock to symbolize just how close we are to destroying human civilization on Earth. Over the years, the minute hand on the clock has gone back and forth, measuring the rising and falling risks. Unbeknownst to most Americans, in January 2020, just before the Covid-19 crisis broke...

Gorbachev Speaks Out On Military Spending And The Pandemic

April 19, 2020 RT. Create! military spending, Nuclear Weapons, Pandemic, Wars and Militarism

The Covid-19 pandemic shows that governments that think of security in mostly military terms are simply wasting money, Mikhail Gorbachev has said. Defence spending must be cut globally to fund things that humanity actually needs. The former Soviet leader called on the world to move away from hard power in international affairs. He remains especially worried about the kind of military brinkmanship that lately has almost led to a shooting war in the Middle East. "What we urgently need now is a rethinking of the entire concept of security," he wrote, in an op-ed published by TIME magazine. "Even after the end of the Cold War, it has been envisioned mostly in military terms. Over the past few years, all we've been hearing is talk about weapons, missiles and airstrikes."

National Security Or Human Security?

April 9, 2020 Leonard Eiger, Popular Resistance. Create! health, National Security, Nuclear Weapons, Pandemic

Crazy times! As we move through this time of health and economic crisis I find myself reflecting on the importance and power of language. Trump recently said of the fight to deal with COVID19 that it is “our big war... It's a medical war. We have to win this war. It's very important.” And yet, this sort of rhetoric is nothing new. Presidents have long declared wars – J Edgar Hoover on crime, Lyndon Johnson on poverty, Richard Nixon on drugs, and now Trump's war on a virus. We know how well how those previous “wars” have gone. And now we face a crisis that is harming people and devastating our economy, while we would have been far better prepared to protect lives had we invested proactively in public health programs.

Uncertainty Haunts The Future Of Non-Proliferation Treaty And Disarmament

March 21, 2020 Tariq Rauf, Nuclearabolition.info Educate! Japan, Nuclear Weapons, Treaty

Up until now, Hiroshima and Nagasaki mercifully remain the only instances in which nuclear weapons have been used in war; however, it has been the hope that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki serves as a constant reminder why preventing the further use and proliferation of such weapons – and why nuclear disarmament leading eventually to a nuclear-weapon-free world – is of utmost importance for the survival of humankind and planet Earth.

The Virus Of Nuclear Proliferation

March 9, 2020 Alice Slater, Indepthnews.net Educate! Coronavirus, COVID-19, disarmament, Nuclear Weapons

NEW YORK (IDN) — In an avalanche of reporting we are now assaulted with information about how the world is urgently attempting to batten down the hatches to avoid the possibility of deathly consequences from the broadly publicized outbreak of the coronavirus...

Thirteen Disarmament Activists Blockade Trident Nuclear Submarine Base

March 4, 2020 By Felice & Jack Cohen-Joppa, the Nuclear Resister. Resist! Military bases, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

Washington state - Thirteen nuclear abolitionists blocked traffic leading into Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Washington on March 2, as part of a public protest of the United States’ Trident nuclear-missile launching submarines based there. The direct action came at the conclusion of the annual gathering of the Pacific Life Community, a network of spiritually motivated activists from the Pacific Coast and other western states committed to nonviolent action for a nuclear-free future. Washington state police arrested nine people for obstructing traffic after they carried banners that stretched across the roadway just outside the base main gate. Their banners read “Trident Threatens All Life on Earth” and “Abolish Nuclear Weapons”.

US defense secretary launches simulated nuclear attack against Russia in Pentagon war game

February 25, 2020 Andre Damon, Wsws.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Nuclear Weapons

As more than 20,000 US troops and 20,000 military vehicles began to arrive in Europe for the massive “Defender 2020” exercise targeting Russia, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper took part in a war game at US Strategic Command headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska involving the simulated use of nuclear weapons against Russian troops.

Expiration Of New START Means Nuclear Chaos

February 12, 2020 Global Zero, Transcend.org. Educate! Arms Race, Cold War, Nuclear Weapons, Treaty

On February 5, 2021, just one year from today, the last remaining nuclear pact between the United States and Russia will expire – ending more than a half century of arms control between the two most nuclear-armed nations on the planet. A simple signature by Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin would extend the treaty through 2026. The 2010 New START agreement is the last remaining restraint on both nations’ strategic nuclear arsenals. The treaty limits each country to no more than 1,550 strategic, offensively deployed nuclear weapons, and verifies compliance through robust on-site inspections and data exchanges. Russia has twice offered to extend the agreement.

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