It began when Truman turned down Stalin’s proposal to turn the bomb over to United Nations, which was formed “to end the scourge of war” with its first resolution calling for nuclear disarmament. #WorldBEYONDWar
Late Tuesday night, February 18, a group of seven peace activists gathered at the front gate of Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara county California. #WorldBEYONDWar
A president can demand that governments spend vastly more on wars and propose cutting war spending in half. But you cannot actually take enlarging and shrinking military spending at face value and proclaim them both right. #WorldBEYONDWar
Santita Jackson speaks with Medea Benjamin, Mike Ferner, and David Swanson about people who don’t want nuclear disarmament if Trump is involved in it. #WorldBEYONDWar
We are heartened to learn that the U.S. government is communicating with the Russian government, and are only sorry that such a basic step seemingly required a presidential election, when a glance at the Doomsday Clock ought to have been sufficient. #WorldBEYONDWar
The nuclear energy and weapons industries rise or fall together. And they fall or we do. #WorldBEYONDWar
By understanding these dynamics, we not only recognize the suffering endured but also highlight the resilience, dignity, and agency of the Palestinian people. #WorldBEYONDWar
But Kennedy went further than that in this speech. He proposed something so amazing that most readers and listeners to his speech cannot believe it is there and so do not believe it is there. #WorldBEYONDWar
“A repository is an admission that you cannot do anything about radioactive waste—cesium, tritium, carbon-14, strontium-90, plutonium and other radioactive materials are not things that existed before 1945.” #WorldBEYONDWar
