11 Aug, 2020
Our Moral Awakening
“In May 2016, President Barack Obama became the first sitting United States president to visit Hiroshima, the city that suffered...
26 Sep, 2019
Hope and necessity this International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
“”Nuclear weapons present an unacceptable danger to humanity. The only real way to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons is...
6 Aug, 2019
Hiroshima and the new arms race – no winners
“Seventy-four years ago today the United States dropped the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima…” Author: Robert F....
22 Apr, 2019
Earth Day: Our planet in peril
“Today marks the 49th anniversary of the first Earth Day. This comes 50 years after the Santa Barbara oil spills...
15 Apr, 2019
Natural disasters, nuclear weapons and budget priorities
“April 15 is tax day. Each year, with the onset of spring and the renewal it brings, our nation funds...
29 Jan, 2019
Transforming the Dream into Reality
“This past week witnessed two significant and connected events. We remembered and celebrated the visionary champion of civil rights, social...
2 Sep, 2018
Preventing Nuclear War: A National Campaign Emerges
“A national collaborative grassroots coalition to abolish nuclear weapons is rapidly emerging in this country. The effort called “Back from...
6 Aug, 2018
Hibakusha and Hope in the Nuclear Age
“This week marks 73 years since the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, ultimately...
1 Jul, 2018
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50 – Awaiting Good Faith
“50 years ago on July 1, 1968 the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed. This landmark nuclear arms control treaty...
21 May, 2018
At the Brink of Nuclear War, Who Will Lead?
“Ignoring international partners, world public opinion and action, the U.S took additional steps these past weeks to renounce another international...
15 Apr, 2018
Taxes, Death and Nuclear Weapons
“We live in a world where as Benjamin Franklin said in 1789, “Nothing can be said to be certain, except...
19 Mar, 2018
Eliminate Nuclear Weapons by Divesting from Them
“We will not invest in our annihilation. Now we can avoid it.? Our world and everything we care about is...
4 Feb, 2018
Poor posture: Trump’s nuclear doctrine resumes Cold War
“While elected officials of our increasingly dysfunctional democracy debated “memogate,” the world became more dangerous as Trump’s Nuclear Posture…” Robert...
26 Jan, 2018
Approaching the Apocalypse, the Doomsday Clock Moves Forward
“The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has just moved their Doomsday Clock forward to two minutes till midnight. Midnight represents nuclear...
10 Dec, 2017
The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: Saving humanity from itself
“Since the beginning of the nuclear age and the dropping of the first atomic bombs, humankind has struggled with the...