Nuclear Weapons

Lawsuit Claims Aid To Nuclear Israel Illegal Under Symington Glenn Amendments

August 13, 2016 Editor, www.corporatecrimereporter.com Educate! Israel, Lawsuit, Nuclear Weapons

By Editor of Corporate Crime Report - A lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. claims that United States aid to Israel is illegal under a law passed in the 1970s that prohibits aid to nuclear powers that don’t sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The lawsuit was filed by Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy (IRMEP). The lawsuit comes as the Obama administration is pushing to finalize a ten-year memorandum of understanding which will reportedly boost aid to Israel to $4 billion per year.

Peace Flotilla Nonviolent Direct Action Protest Trident Nuclear Submarines

August 12, 2016 Leonard Eiger, www.gzcenter.org Resist! Nonviolent Action, Nuclear Weapons, Protests

By Leonard Eiger for GZ Center - Silverdale, Washington: Local peace activists staged a water-based nonviolent protest and witness for peace in Hood Canal at the Trident nuclear submarine base on August 9th marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The activists travelled along the Bangor waterfront where nuclear warheads and Trident missiles are loaded onto submarines and where submarines are resupplied for ballistic missile patrols in the Pacific Ocean. On August 8th activists staged a vigil and nonviolent direct action in which some activists blocked the entrance gate to the same Naval base.

Massive Deployment Of US WMD Spotlighted By Peace Group

August 7, 2016 Martha Baskin, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism, WMD

By Martha Baskin for Counterpunch. The ad pierces your consciousness and catches you by surprise. Plastered on the side of Seattle’s King County Metro it hurls you momentarily back in time, to a time when nuclear weapons were an imminent threat to our survival. Or did the era never end? The ad — sponsored by local Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action — reads: “20 miles west of Seattle is the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the U.S.” Behind this text is a map, depicting the proximity of Seattle to Naval Base Kitsap, located on the eastern shore of Hood Canal, one of the four main basins in Washington state’s Puget Sound. The base is home port for eight of the US Navy’s 14 Trident ballistic missile submarines as well as an underground nuclear weapons storage complex. Together they’re believed to store more than 1,300 nuclear warheads.

Puget Sound Is Home To Biggest Nuclear Stockpile In The World

August 4, 2016 Martha Baskin, www.crosscut.com Resist! Nuclear Weapons

By Martha Baskin for Crosscut - The ad pierces your consciousness and catches you by surprise. Plastered on the side of Seattle's King County Metro it hurls you momentarily back in time, to a time when nuclear weapons were an imminent threat to our survival. Or did the era never end? The ad -- sponsored by activists from the Poulsbo-based Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action -- reads: "20 miles west of Seattle is the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the US."

Democrats Divide Over Massive Expenditure To Upgrade Nuclear Weapons

July 26, 2016 Jason Ditz, www.truthdig.com Resist! Democratic Party, Nuclear Weapons

By Jason Ditz for Anti War - A potentially massive expense which rarely gets a lot of debate, the question of America’s nuclear weapons “modernization” scheme is the subject of a pair of rival letters from Congressmen to the White House, advocating different approaches. The first letter, signed by a bipartisan group of senators including Tim Kaine (D – VA), argues for massive expenditures to ensure the “interlocking triad” of US nuclear capabilities remains in place for decades to come, irrespective of the cost.

Are Nuclear Weapons A Greater Risk Now?

July 24, 2016 Conn M. Hallinan, www.dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.wordpress.com Educate! Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

By Conn M. Hallinan for Dispatches from the Edge. What has made today’s world more dangerous, however, is not just advances in the destructive power of nuclear weapons, but a series of actions by the last three U.S. administrations. First was the decision by President Bill Clinton to abrogate a 1990 agreement with the Soviet Union not to push NATO further east after the reunification of Germany or to recruit former members of the defunct Warsaw Pact. NATO has also reneged on a 1997 pledge not to install “permanent” and “significant” military forces in former Warsaw Pact countries. This month NATO decided to deploy four battalions on, or near, the Russian border, arguing that since the units will be rotated they are not “permanent” and are not large enough to be “significant.” It is a linguistic slight of hand that does not amuse Moscow. Second was the 1999 U.S.-NATO intervention in the Yugoslav civil war and the forcible dismemberment of Serbia. It is somewhat ironic that Russia is currently accused of using force to “redraw borders in Europe” by annexing the Crimea, which is exactly what NATO did to create Kosovo. The U.S. subsequently built Camp Bond Steel, Washington’s largest base in the Balkans. Third was President George W, Bush’s unilateral withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the decision by the Obama administration to deploy anti-missile systems in Romania and Poland, as well as Japan and South Korea.

Why Go To Russia?

June 19, 2016 Kathy Kelly, www.antiwar.com Create! Nuclear Weapons, Peace, Russia, Wars and Militarism

By Kathy Kelly for AntiWar.com. Since 1983, Sharon Tennison has worked to develop ordinary citizens’ capacities to avert international crises, focusing on relations between the U.S. and Russia. Now, amid a rising crisis in relations between the US and Russia, she has organized a delegation which assembled in Moscow yesterday for a two week visit. I joined the group yesterday, and happened to finish reading Sharon Tennison’s book, The Power of Impossible Ideas, when I landed in Moscow. An entry in her book, dated November 9, 1989, describes the excitement over the Berlin Wall coming down and notes that “Prior to the Wall’s removal, President George H.W. Bush assured Secretary General Gorbachev that if he would support bringing down the Wall separating East and West Berlin, NATO would not move ‘a finger’s width’ closer to Russia than East Germany’s border.

Why I Am Going To Russia

June 19, 2016 David Hartsough, www.popularresistance.org Create! Nuclear Weapons, Peace, Russia, Wars and Militarism

By David Hartsough. The US and Russian governments are pursuing dangerous policies of nuclear brinkmanship. Many people believe we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuba missile crisis in 1962. Thirty-one thousand troops from the US and NATO countries are engaged in military maneuvers on the Russian border in Poland - together with tanks, military planes and missiles. The US has just activated an anti-ballistic missile site in Romania which the Russians see as part of an American first strike policy. Now the US can fire missiles with nuclear weapons at Russia, and then the anti-ballistic missiles could shoot down Russian missiles shot toward the west in response, the assumption being only the Russians would suffer from nuclear war.. A former NATO general has said he believes there will be nuclear war in Europe within a year.

The Doomsday Clock Is About To Strike 12

June 14, 2016 Noam Chomsky, www.tomdispatch.com Educate! Climate Change, Future, Nuclear Weapons

By Noam Chomsky for Tom Dispatch - In January 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its famous Doomsday Clock to three minutes before midnight, a threat level that had not been reached for 30 years. The Bulletin’s statement explaining this advance toward catastrophe invoked the two major threats to survival: nuclear weapons and “unchecked climate change.” The call condemned world leaders, who “have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe,”

Dorothy Day Refuses To Duck-And-Cover

June 13, 2016 Rivera Sun, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Nonviolent Action, Nuclear Weapons

By Rivera Sun for Counter Punch - On June 15th, 1955, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day joined a group of pacifists in refusing to participate in the civilian defense drills scheduled on that day. These drills were to prepare the citizenry in the event of a nuclear attack, and involved evacuations of city centers, taking shelter in subway tunnels, and, for schoolchildren, “duck-and-cover” to hide under their school desks. Such actions would be futile if a nuclear attack were underway, but the drills were part of a government propaganda program to convince Americans that nuclear weapons were a necessary part of the US arsenal, and that it would be possible to survive a nuclear war.

Honeywell Executives Confronted At Annual Meeting

June 3, 2016 Nick Mottern, www.truth-out.org Resist! Drones, Nuclear Weapons, War crimes

By Nick Mottern for Truthout - The 2016 Honeywell shareholder's meeting was held on a bright, sunny morning in a large auditorium in the firm's new global headquarters, housed in a stark glass and steel structure on a 40-acre plot in Morris Plains, New Jersey. The building opened in November 2015 with the help of a $40 million gift from New Jersey taxpayers, courtesy of Gov. Chris Christie and the New Jersey legislature. At 10:30 am, on April 25, 2016, Honeywell Chairman and CEO David E. Cote appeared at the podium

Another Divestment Campaign Against Nuclear Gets Its First Victory

April 20, 2016 Martin Fleck, www.psr.org Resist! Divestment, Nuclear Weapons

By Martin Fleck for PSR - Mayor Denise Simmons of Cambridge, Massachusetts announced on April 2 that by unanimous City Council vote, Cambridge will divest its $1 billion pension fund from "any entities that are involved in or support the production or upgrading of nuclear weapons systems." Mayor Simmons announced divestment at an MIT symposium, Reducing the Dangers of Nuclear War, organized by The Future of Life Institute, where PSR Board Member and IPPNW Co-president Ira Helfand, MD delivered a plenary talk on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons.

Global Zero Protests The Nuclear Security Summit

April 3, 2016 Liz Merrow, www.globalzero.org Resist! disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Peace, Wars and Militarism

By Liz Merrow for Global Zero. Washington, DC - Global Zero activists from all over the United States gathered in Washington, DC to protest at the Nuclear Security Summit. What happened next was nothing short of the Best. Day. Ever. Convened by President Obama, this summit of world leaders aims to secure nuclear materials all over the globe -- which is a great idea in principle, until you find out that nuclear weapons aren’t even on the agenda. And as long as there are 15,000 nuclear weapons in existence, nuclear security is impossible. Participants from Global Zero’s 2016 Action Lab organizer training joined us in downtown DC to call on Summit participants to address the threat posed by nukes and to see our lifesize inflatable nuclear missile. Over a hundred activists turned out to send a clear message: 15,000 does not equal security.

Rally For Zero At Nuclear Summit

March 30, 2016 Staff, www.globalzero.org Petitions and Online Actions disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Peace, Wars and Militarism

By Global Zero. Washington, DC - On March 31, world leaders will gather for the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C. to take steps to prevent an act of nuclear terrorism. Their approach is focused solely on securing nuclear material. The world's 15,000 nuclear weapons -- which pose far greater risk of catastrophe -- aren’t even on the agenda. There can be no such thing as "nuclear security" so long as nuclear weapons exist. If we're serious about preventing a nuclear catastrophe, what we need now is a Nuclear Weapons Summit that brings the key countries together to discuss real, time-bound, actionable plans to eliminate nuclear weapons. Join us as we tell these leaders it’s time to put this at the top of the international agenda!

Risk Assessment Of Nuclear Technology On 4th World Territories

March 28, 2016 Rudolph C. Rÿser, Yvonne Sherwood and Janna Lafferty, www.intercontinentalcry.org Educate! Indigenous Peoples, Nuclear Weapons

By Rudolph C. Rÿser, Yvonne Sherwood and Janna Lafferty for IC - Millions of indigenous peoples living in Fourth World territories around the world have been and continue to be exposed to nuclear radiation and toxic chemicals. The United States of America, France, Britain, Russia, China, Israel, Britain, Pakistan, India, and North Korea produce these toxic materials. Other countries with electricity-producing nuclear reactors also contribute to radioactive waste. Nuclear bomb detonations, radioactive waste storage sites and toxic chemical dumps have contaminated the soils, water, air, plants, animals and people for more than 70 years.

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