Our nuclear-weapons strategy enables one man, the president, to kill and maim an unthinkable number of people in a single afternoon. EDITOR’S NOTE: These remarks were first delivered at the conference “Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons: Is it Legal? Is it Constitutional? Is it Just?” […]
On Saturday, over 200 of us assembled at Harvard to hear an extraordinary array of experts dissect the doctrine of Presidential First Use of US nuclear weapons — and to develop strategies to undo it. Harvard Prof. Elaine Scarry opened the conference by reviewing the disaster that awaits the […]
A “new story” for the Faith Communities Network Group “You cannot simultaneously prepare for war and peace”. (Albert Einstein) However, this is what the United States government has practically done ever since the invention of nuclear weapons. Since 1945 70,000 nuclear weapons have been produced[1] […]
In her pointedly hard-hearted statement on September 19, 2017, about the ethnic cleansing perpetrated on its Rohingya population, Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi stated that her country is not “afraid of international scrutiny.” What Suu Kyi, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace […]
Last Sunday, we celebrated Peace Action’s 60th Anniversary with 200 of our closest friends, allies and accomplices at Christ Church in Cambridge – in the same room where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Dr. Benjamin Spock, a leader of our predecessor organization SANE, spoke […]
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