“The problem is not that General Milley deviated from policy; the problem is the policy.” The recent publication of “Peril” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa brought to light an incident involving General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the waning months of […]
Ever since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the danger of nuclear war has remained alarmingly high. Part of the problem is that the US has a dangerous and short-sighted policy of making nuclear threats to achieve foreign policy objectives. Daniel Ellsberg lists 25 explicit […]
Campaign Plan: No First Use: Decrease the Danger of Nuclear War Introduction: With the proposed upgrade of nuclear weapons, withdrawal from arms control treaties, and signs of a new Cold War with Russia and China, the danger of nuclear weapons use is increasing. This campaign […]
by Jerald Ross and Joseph Gerson This August marks the 76th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. Despite broad recognition today that these attacks created a humanitarian catastrophe, as would any future use of nuclear weapons, we […]
Daniel Ellsberg has done it again! 50 years after his courageous whistleblowing release of the Pentagon’s secret Vietnam War history, The Pentagon Papers, he has again shaken the nation and the world with a new revelation. It has critically important implications for the new Cold […]
by Jerald Ross, Sofia Wolman, & Steve Gallant While countless other life and death issues of peace and justice are of critical importance, nuclear weapons still remain an existential threat to peace and all life. After a near death experience under the Trump administration (no […]
A nuclear exchange between the US and Russia would incinerate hundreds of millions of people immediately, and lead to a Nuclear Winter which would slaughter an estimated 7 billion of the Earth’s 7.7 billion people, mostly through starvation. Building back civilization would require over 1,000 […]
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