When UN Secretary-General António Guterres congratulated States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on the successful conclusion of their first meeting in Vienna, his warning was dead on target.
On 24 December of last year, we learned from Okinawa’s newspapers that our islands are again threatened by war.
Laurel Thompson recently attended Canada’s largest defense industry trade show CANSEC. What she saw left her with questions for those who work in the industry.
Let’s say that we are participants in a popular democratic socialist human-rights-loving movement and successful and fairly-elected national government, and we’re invaded and overthrown by a rightwing military, foreign or domestic, with horrific violence. What should we do?
Forty years ago, one million people gathered in Central Park to demand an end to the nuclear arms race. The threat of nuclear catastrophe persists to this day, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
I saw “Top Gun: Maverick” yesterday. It was absolutely horrible. The film sets a new standard for state-orchestrated, pro-military, mass indoctrination.
Aisha Jumaan is the Founder and President of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation.
Bruce Kent was inspirational – both by example, and with his knack of encouraging people to be involved, and to achieve more than they thought they could.
The nuclear deterrence theory depends on threatening and seeming to mean it without meaning it, which challenges the mental abilities of many believers in nuclear deterrence theory.
