Nuclear Weapons

Thousands Attend London Protest Against Nuclear Weapons

March 2, 2016 Robert Stevens, www.wsws.org Resist! Nuclear Weapons, Protests, United Kingdom (UK)

By Robert Stevens for World Socialist Web Site - Several tens of thousands demonstrated in London Saturday in opposition to the planned renewal of the UK Trident nuclear missile system. The protest was called by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). A parliamentary vote on renewing Trident, which is housed on four submarines located in Scotland, is to be held later this year. Demonstrators assembled in Marble Arch, then marched to Trafalgar Square. The keynote speaker on the platform was Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. But he was joined by Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon, Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales) leader Leanne Wood and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas.

Marshall Islands Sue Over Nuclear Weapons

February 1, 2016 Staff, www.theguardian.com Resist! Asian Pacific, International Law, Nuclear Weapons

By Staff of The Guardian - The tiny Marshall Islands will seek to persuade the UN’s highest court to take up a lawsuit against India, Pakistan and Britain, which it accuses of failing to halt the nuclear arms race. The international court of justice – founded in 1945 to rule on legal disputes between nations – announced late on Friday dates for separate hearings for the three cases between March 7 and March 16. In the cases brought against India and Pakistan, the court will examine whether the tribunal based in The Hague is competent to hear the lawsuits.

Native Americans: ‘We Are The Miner’s Canary’

January 23, 2016 Klee Benally, www.cleanupthemines.org Organize! Environment, health, Indigenous Rights, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

By Klee Benally for Clean Up The Mines. Washington, DC — From January 25-28, 2016 Indigenous representatives from the Northern Great Plains & Southwest will be in the District of Columbia (DC) to raise awareness about radioactive pollution, an invisible national crisis. Millions of people in the United States are being exposed as Nuclear Radiation Victims on a daily basis. Exposure to radioactive pollution has been linked to cancer, genetic defects, Navajo Neuropathy, and increases in mortality. The delegation will speak about the impacts they are experiencing in their communities, which are also affecting other communities throughout the US.

On North Korea’s Nuclear Test

January 9, 2016 Alice Slater, www.popularresistance.org Educate! North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

By Alice Slater for Popular Resistance. This latest terrifying and dreadful underground nuclear test by North Korea should be a warning to the United States and the other nuclear weapons states, that the longer we continue to modernize and cling to our nuclear arsenals and promote a nuclear deterrence policy which promise catastrophic threats of nuclear retaliation if attacked, the more additional countries will be seeking to get their own "deterrent", just as North Korea has done creating ever greater threats of accidental or deliberate nuclear disaster.. It is telling that at the same time we made the deal with Iran to rein in their "peaceful" nuclear power program and secure their enriched uranium in Russia, we promised "peaceful" nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Turkey so they too will have their bomb in the basement.

Crusading Former Pentagon Chief Says Nuke Danger Is Growing

December 31, 2015 Robert Burns, www.hosted.ap.org Resist! Nuclear Weapons, Pentagon

By Robert Burns for The Associated Press - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Late in a life lived unnervingly near the nuclear abyss, William J. Perry is on a mission to warn of a "real and growing danger" of nuclear doom. The 88-year-old former defense secretary is troubled by the risks of catastrophe from the very weapons he helped develop. Atop his list: a nuclear terror attack in a major U.S. city or a shooting war with Russia that, through miscalculation, turns nuclear. A terrorist attack using a nuclear bomb or improvised nuclear device could happen "any time now - next year or the year after," he said in an interview with reporters earlier this month.

Pope Francis At The United Nations

September 27, 2015 RT Staff, www.rt.com Educate! climate crisis, Nuclear Weapons, Pope, Poverty

By Staff of Russia Today. New York, NY - Saving the planet is part of helping the poor and the excluded, Pope Francis told a UN summit. The pontiff called for a ban on nuclear weapons and chastised international finance and ‘ideological colonization’ for making the world worse. Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Summit on Friday, the head of the Roman Catholic Church made a nod to the importance of the UN, now that technology has enabled humanity to overcome distance and frontiers and “all natural limits to the exercise of power.” “Technological power, in the hands of nationalistic or falsely universalist ideologies, is capable of perpetrating tremendous atrocities,” the Pope said, praising the achievements of the UN in containing that potential as “lights which help to dispel the darkness of the disorder caused by unrestrained ambitions and collective forms of selfishness.”

Let Us Again Be Inspired To Ban Nuclear Weapons

September 26, 2015 Alice Slater, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Nuclear Weapons, Pope Francis, United Nations, Wars and Militarism

By Alice Slater in Common Dreams - The stirring condemnation of nuclear weapons by Pope Francis today at the United Nations and his call for their prohibition and complete elimination in compliance with promises made in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), signed by the U.S. in 1970, 45 years ago, should give new momentum to the current campaign to start negotiations on a ban treaty. This initiative endorsed by 117 non-nuclear weapons states to sign the Humanitarian Pledge being circulated initially by Austria, to "fill the legal gap" for nuclear disarmament and ban the bomb just as the world has banned chemical and biological weapons would create a new legal norm, which was not established in the NPT which provided that the five nuclear weapons states (US, Russia, UK, France, China) would make "good faith" efforts for nuclear disarmament, but didn’t prohibit their possession, in return for a promise from all the other nations not to acquire nuclear weapons.

Iran Deal: Diplomacy Defeats War

September 10, 2015 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Peace, Wars and Militarism

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance - In a major victory for diplomacy, peace the Senate by a vote of 58-42 blocked efforts to derail the nuclear agreement between Iran, the United States and five other nations. Democratic and independent senators who supported the deal prevented the Republicans from reaching the 60-vote threshold to advance H.J.Res. 61, a resolution of disapproval on the Iran deal. While the Republicans are scheduling additional votes there is no doubt there are sufficient votes to ensure the landmark nuclear deal, which will prevent a nuclear weapons program in Iran for at least a decade and lift economic sanctions on Iran, will take effect. While rhetoric among bi-partisans in Washington, DC painted a picture of Iran pursuing nuclear weapons, that was a false picture as even US intelligence agencies have acknowledged there is no nuclear weapons program in Iran. In the end the diplomacy won.

Hundreds Of Protests Call For No War With Iran

August 26, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Peace

By Staff for Popular Resistance - As the Senate moves within five votes to ensure the Iran nuclear agreement becomes reality, hundreds of protests were held across the country calling on elected officials to support the Iran nuclear deal rallying for no war with Iran. The coordinated mobilizations come at a key moment as Congress nears the end of the August recess. Tens of thousands of petitions were also submitted to members of Congress. Lawmakers will vote on the pact—potentially as soon as September 9. You can take action now to call your elected representatives to urge them to choose the path to peace by supporting the nuclear agreement reached between Iran and world powers. Take action here. The war hawks are spending millions of dollars to generate opposition to the agreement but the people are out organizing and are getting very close to victory. So, take action today.

Join The Picnic For Peace At The White House

August 15, 2015 Staff, www.codepink.org Resist! Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism, White House

CODE PINK - Popular Resistance will be hosting a table at the Picnic for Peace on August 30th. Please let us know if you would like to join us at our table by writing info@PopularResistance.org. By September 17, Congress has to vote on the Iran nuclear deal and we are working hard to ensure that they vote in favor of this historic agreement. We've organized a Picnic For Peace with Iran event to bring together different sectors of the community who care about peace and to have an action that is fun and visible to the press. The picnic will be on August 30, 2015 at 4pm - 6pm at Lafayette Park across the street from the White House at 16th St & Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC , DC 20006. United States

Twelve Arrests At Trident Nuclear Submarine Base

August 12, 2015 Leonard Eiger, www.gzcenter.org Resist! Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

By Leonard Eiger for Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent action - Fourteen peace activists risked arrest at a West Coast nuclear weapons base early Monday morning in a nonviolent protest against the continued deployment and modernization of the Trident nuclear weapons system. The Trident submarine base at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, just 20 miles from Seattle, Washington, contains the largest concentration of operational nuclear weapons in the US arsenal. Each of the 8 Trident submarines at Bangor carries as many as 24 Trident II(D-5) missiles, each loaded with up to 8 independently targetable thermonuclear warheads. Each warhead has an explosive yield up to 32 times the yield of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Trident nuclear protest Aug 2015 2The activists were among a larger group with Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action.

New Mexico Thrives On Nuclear Bomb, Despite Pledge

August 9, 2015 Len Ackland and Burt Hubbard, www.revealnews.org Educate! Military Industrial Complex, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Wars and Militarism

By Len Ackland and Burt Hubbard in Reveal News. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Standing next to a 12-foot nuclear bomb that looks more like a trim missile than a weapon of mass destruction, engineer Phil Hoover exudes pride. “I feel a real sense of accomplishment,” he said. But as Hoover knows, looks can be deceiving. He and fellow engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have spent the past few years designing, building and testing the top-secret electronic and mechanical innards of the sophisticated B61-12. Later, when nuclear explosives are added at the federal Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas, the bomb will have a maximum explosive force equivalent to 50,000 tons of TNT – more than three times more powerful than the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, 70 years ago this August that killed more than 130,000 people.

Hiroshima And the Persistence Of Nuclear Weapons

August 9, 2015 Alice Slater, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

By Alice Slater for Counterpunch - The rest of the world is appalled, not only at the lack of progress to fulfill promises for nuclear disarmament, but the constant modernization and “improvement” of nuclear arsenals with the US announcing a plan to spend one trillion dollars over the next 30 years for two new bomb factories, delivery systems and warheads, having just tested a dummy nuclear bunker-buster warhead last month in Nevada, its B-61-12 nuclear gravity bomb! At this last NPT Review Conference in May, which broke up when the US, UK, and Canada refused to agree to an Egyptian proposal for a conference on a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone, made to fulfill a 1995 promise as part of the commitments from the nuclear weapons states for an indefinite extension of the 25 year old NPT, the non- nuclear weapons states took a bold step. South Africa expressed its outrage at the unacceptable nuclear apartheid apparent in the current “security” system of nuclear haves and have nots—a system holding the whole world hostage to the security doctrine of the few

Newsletter – Remembering Through Action

August 8, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Black Lives Matter (BLM), Ferguson, Iran, Mike Brown, Nuclear Weapons, TPP, Wars and Militarism

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance - This week, memorials were held to mark the one year anniversary of the murder of Mike Brown which sparked the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This weekend there are events in Ferguson to mark the anniversary of the deaths of Mike Brown, Kajieme Powell and others. . . The US and its allies recently negotiated an agreement with Iran concerning its nuclear program. This agreement has been hailed as an historic step for diplomacy rather than war. The agreement with Iran is under attack by members of Congress who are beholden to AIPAC. . . This week the American Psychological Association decided to no longer allow psychologists to participate in tortrue. There seemed to be considerable division over the recent findings of the APA’s complicity with torture but in the end six dissidents who urged an end to participation in torutre won near unanimous decision.

Iran: Supporters Of Diplomacy Over War Must Speak Up

August 7, 2015 Kevin Martin and Phyllis Bennis, www.otherwords.org Resist! Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

By Kevin Martin and Phyllis Bennis for Other Words - The deal negotiated with Iran by the U.S. and other permanent UN Security Council members, plus Germany and the European Union, is very strong. It cuts off all paths for Iran to build a nuclear weapon (if indeed Tehran ever decided it wanted to, a decision all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies agree it has not made). Supporters of diplomacy over war must make our voices heard over the din of nay-saying interest groups with deep pockets. The pro-Israel lobby AIPAC recently set aside $20 million to saturate newspapers and the airwaves with calls to kill the deal.

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