Category: Nuclear Disarmament

What is the US-Israeli War on Iran About? Hint: It’s Not Iran’s “Nuclear Weapons Program”

May 5, 2026 Jeff Klein

Trump and his administration have offered a grab-bag of justifications for the US-Israeli attack on Iran: “democracy” for Iranians, regime change, ending Iran’s supposed support for regional “terrorism,”and eliminating its missile capability that supposedly threatens the US (it doesn’t). Lately, the purpose has centered around […]

Can Prospects for Nuclear War Get Any Worse? Sure, We Can Put AI in Charge

April 14, 2026 Tom Valovic

How quickly is the Pentagon moving toward handing the nuclear keys over to AI systems and Big Tech? No one really knows. Can we possibly get away from AI’s ubiquitous presence in our lives? But as long as AI is now in our faces 24/7, […]

The Ukraine war must end and it must end now!

February 18, 2026 Paul Shannon

by Paul Shannon On February 24 we mourn the fourth anniversary of the Ukraine War. Several weeks earlier, on February 5, we also marked the expiration of the New Start Treaty – the last remaining nuclear weapons agreement. The conflict continues to take thousands of […]

Rabbi Greg Hersh’s Speech at the 80th Commemoration of the Hiroshima Bombing

August 20, 2025 Rabbi Greg Hersh

B’Siata Dishamaya Shalom everyone. I’m Rabbi Greg Hersh, a member of Rabbis4Ceasefire and Jewish Voice For Peace Rabbinical Council. This September, I’m launching a new community in Cambridge called V’ahavtah: A Judaism beyond Zionism Synagogue. We gather on this solemn 80th anniversary of the bombings of […]

The Original Child Bomb

August 13, 2025 Jeannie Connerney and Jeanne Trubek

by Jeannie Connerney and Jeanne Trubek Commemorating the original child bomb – and mobilizing against its successors. In 1912, Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City gave 3,000 cherry trees to Washington, D.C. to celebrate the growing friendship between the United States and Japan. Thirty-three years later, […]

A Day of Remembrance- The Commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 13, 2025 Addelyne Lilley

On Wednesday, August 6th, MAPA, the American Friends Service Committee, The Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Security, and other local and national peace organizations hosted a commemoration on the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The commemoration opened at noon with […]

Why Is the Media Normalizing Nuclear War and Its Effects on US Populations?

July 30, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic Originally published in Common Dreams. The meme-contour of recent articles seems to invite a casual shoulder shrug with respect to the dark road that we’re now heading down and to minimize the powder keg of conflict looming in the Middle East. As […]