Non-Proliferation Treaty – Massachusetts Peace Action

Figures depicting Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump breaking the INF Treaty during the Rosenmontag (Rose Monday) parade in Dusseldorf, Germany, on March 4, 2019. (Reuters / Wolfgang Rattay)

The Nuclear Disarmament Agenda: Movements Preparing the Way to the NPT Review

February 23, 2021 Cole

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/2021/02/18/webinar-the-international-nuclear–disarmament–agenda-civil-society-perspectives-from-seven-key-states/ With the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock set at 100 seconds to midnight, and the world’s nuclear powers upgrading their nuclear arsenals and dangerously engaging in provocative military “exercises”, activists and advocates around the world are working to prevent nuclear war and build a nuclear weapons free world. In the runup to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference scheduled for this August at the United Nations, the international […]

The Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50: A Mid-Life Crisis?

November 10, 2020 Cole

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10: Paul Meyer, Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament Register: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Hl4CHzXRbqoMYzeLUjzrw Info on the NPT: https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt/ PLEASE NOTE: This program will have a unique registration link TBD. Part of a semester-long series on Global Peace and Insecurity. Organized and moderated by […]

The Future of the Iran Nuclear Deal and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

October 1, 2020 Cole

Critical NPT Issues Webinar Series Click Here to Register The Trump administration’s unilateral withdrawal from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action has led Iran to retaliate by exceeding key nuclear limits set by the deal. The U.S. strategy has hobbled but not unraveled the […]

Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Hypocrisy

September 10, 2016 Jeff Klein

The apparent new testing of a nuclear weapon by North Korea is certainly bad news for nuclear proliferation. But the “outrage” expressed by the US – the only nation to have actually used nuclear weapons and which is evading its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty […]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Week in Massachusetts

August 5, 2016 Remy Pontes

Massachusetts Remembers Hiroshima and Nagasaki Stop the $1 Trillion Nuclear Weapons Escalation Now! 71 years have passed since the the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 46 years since the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) took effect, and yet the five original […]

People’s Call to President Obama

September 30, 2015 Cole

Lead us to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons! As you stated in Prague in April of 2009, “The existence of thousands of nuclear weapons is the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War.” Now, please take action to save the world from nuclear […]

Getting things straight about the Iran deal

September 21, 2015 Paul Shannon

Cambridge Chronicle, September 18, 2015 Lately debate on the Iran agreement has been reverberating in Washington and the national media. A few basic questions about the deal may help clarify just what’s at stake. First, what is the alternative? Clearly the alternative to this agreement […]