Technologies that defend against enemy missiles (nuclear ICBMs, etc.) have had a fraught history throughout the Cold War period and up until the present day. While many may view offensive weapons as belligerent and immoral, ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems are often viewed as protective [...]
Virtual Conference, Saturday September 9, 2023, 3 – 6 pm (Eastern) The annual Congressional Discretionary Budget is the clearest expression of our nation’s policies. The development of diagnostics, therapies, and vaccines needed to protect our health depends primarily on the work of the federal [...]
Peace with Oppenheimer: context is everything. The film, the person, the US Government, atomic energy, "The Bomb," progressive politics, communism, international relations and peace. 13 September, 2023: 7 pm EDT Participants Moderator: Marcus Breen (MAPA/No Cold War) Norman Markowitz: history of US Communist Party, peace, atomic [...]
Rally in support of the U.N. International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on Tuesday, September 26 Tuesday, September 26 @ noon EDT Rally along Fresh Pond Parkway at the Fresh Pond Shopping Center, Cambridge Massachusetts-based Raytheon Technologies is a major producer of [...]
The State Legislature's Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security will hear testimony on two bills related to nuclear disarmament, (S.1487 and S.1488). The Back from the Brink resolution (S.1487) would put the Legislature on record as embracing the five-step Back from the Brink [...]
Online Forum by Warheads to Windmills Following a webinar on May 7th which brought together leading organizations and activists working on the two crucially important issues of climate change and nuclear war, this forum will allow for more in depth discussion on how we the [...]
Join the Peace and Common Security working group of Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment to discuss the state of nuclear weapons, the danger they pose, and the idea that we can guarantee that a limited nuclear exchange can be controlled. Most importantly [...]
ICAN has declared this Sunday, November 26th, as a Global Day of Action to spotlight the world’s countries and states which are gathering at the United Nations to work further on the elimination of nuclear weapons. Join our local stand out Sunday in front of City [...]
Newton Dialogues on Peace and War, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and Massachusetts Peace Action are organizing a local demonstration on November 26, joining with other world wide demonstrations supporting the Global Day Of Action Against Nuclear Weapons that day. The risk of nuclear [...]
The Treaty for Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is a critically important vehicle in the struggle to prevent nuclear war and to create a nuclear weapons-free world. But it’s not enough! With the tectonic geopolitical changes and intensifying confrontations between great and lesser nuclear powers and proliferation pressures from Seoul to [...]
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb at the Coolidge Theatre in Brookline Join MAPA's Climate Action and Nuclear Disarmament United team to hand out flyers and enjoy Stanley Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire. We will be passing out flyers [...]
We are in a period of unusual danger and difficulty: The Russia/Ukraine conflict has sharply increased the danger of nuclear war; The tragic Israel/Gaza Conflict threatens to expand; The Pentagon budget is higher than ever and still going up; Cold Warriors in high places are [...]
Join us for a workshop to explore the artistic resistance being implemented in support of a free and liberated Palestine! We will be meeting in the Harter Room inside of First Church in Cambridge, MA from 1-3 PM. Attendees will also have the opportunity to [...]
“Building a World Without Nuclear Weapons: An Urgent Imperative” is the topic of an online forum on Saturday, January 27, 2-4 pm ET. Its focus will be the increasing threat of nuclear war and what ordinary citizens can do to prevent it. The speakers are: [...]
Oppenheimer: Sins of Omission Nuclear Industry Fallout and Indigenous and Chicana/o Resistance in the Southwest Thu, March 14, 2024 | 7PM - 8:15PM EST (Sponsored by MAPA Indigenous Solidarity and Nuclear Disarmament Working Groups) Mushroom cloud of 'Gadget' over Trinity, seconds after detonation [...]
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