Atomwaffen

In the early 1980s, American and Russian scientists working togetheroutlined a stark vision of the Cold War future. In a battle between the twosuperpowers, smoke from fires ignited by nuclear explosions would be so densethat it would block out the sun, turning the earth cold, dark and dry, killingplants and preventing agriculture for at least […]

by Lawrence Wittner, http://peaceandhealthblog.com A fight now underway over newly-designed US nuclear weapons highlights how far the Obama administration has strayed from its commitment to build a nuclear-free world. The fight, as a recent New York Times article indicates, concerns a variety of nuclear weapons that the US military is currently in the process of

by Ira Helfand (CNN) http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/31/opinions/helfand-hiroshima-anniversary/index.html

Reductions in nuclear weapons are not the same as nuclear disarmament By Xanthe Hall, 19.5.2015, http://peaceandhealthblog.com On the plane over here, I read an essay in the Financial Times in which the author asks whether there is such a thing as an Obama Doctrine in foreign policy. The criticism of the US President is that he

Speech given by Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, to the diplomatic community in Geneva. This year is the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – events that have left an indelible mark on humanity’s conscience and consciousness. I was in Hiroshima last week. I visited the Peace Memorial Museums and

Der Konflikt in der Ukraine werde sowohl von Russland als auch von den USA genutzt, um eine Modernisierung der eigenen Atomwaffenarsenale zu rechtfertigen, schreibt Julio Godoy…. lesenswerter Artikel auf www.eurasiareview.co

9 December 2014, Vienna I am speaking on behalf of the International Campaign toAbolish Nuclear Weapons, a coalition of over 360 organisations in more than 90countries. We are a global campaign determined to achieve the prohibition andelimination of nuclear weapons. We organised the weekend forum for over 600people on the courage to ban nuclear weapons.

December 7, 2014  www.icanw.org This weekend, more than 600 campaigners gathered in Vienna in the largest ever civil society meeting on the abolition of nuclear weapons. The campaigners came from over 70 countries, representing more than 100 different organisations. The Civil Society Forum took place directly before the third international Conference on the Humanitarian Impact

Astana Declaration IPPNW 21st World Congress 30 August 2014 For more than 50 years, physicians concerned with the medical, environmental and humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons have documented the extreme and unacceptable consequences of their use. The evidence accumulated over the decades since the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has convinced us that