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Twin Existential Threats

January 19, 2022 Ira Helfand

By Ira Helfand and Asha Asokan Today, the world lives in the shadow of two grave and deeply related existential threats. There is a growing awareness of the danger posed by the climate crisis and the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit […]

The W76-2 warhead, deployed during the Trump administration, will be launched aboard Trident II D5 missiles. Their guidance system was developed by Draper Labs of Cambridge, MA. (Ronald Gutridge/U.S. Navy)

The Nuclear Posture Review and the New P5 Statement

January 11, 2022 Steve Gallant

by Steve Gallant Possibly as early as this month, we will see the results of the Biden Administrations Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), which sets nuclear strategic policy for the US. Deliberations are behind closed doors. Bad signs so far include the removal of a presumed […]

Garrett Connelly of Greenfield and Nan Davies of Amherst held a sign in remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August on the Greenfield Commons, calling for a ban on nuclear weapons. Greenfield Recorder/ Ella Adams photo

High Time To Change The World’s Course

December 23, 2021 Peter Kakos

by Rev. Peter Kakos Originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette Among the most endearing aspects of the story of Christmas- and a favorite image on holiday-cards- is the appearance of an angel to shepherds on the lower plains of Bethlehem, “watching their sheep by […]

Boston Passed a Back from the Brink resolution!

Boston City Council calls on US Government to Pursue Nuclear Disarmament

December 10, 2021 Cole Harrison

The Boston City Council has passed a resolution urging our federal leaders to make nuclear disarmament the centerpiece of national security policy. It was introduced by Liz Breadon, district councilor from Allston-Brighton. In the photo, Councilor Breadon holds up a petition signed by 300 Boston […]

Making Another World Possible with the Nuclear Ban Treaty

November 8, 2021 Sofia Rose Wolman

As planetary dynamics interact with the COVID-19 pandemic, social, political, economic, internal, and relational dynamics have been laid bare and found wanting. We have collectively witnessed and experienced glaring inequities and precarities in the institutions and structures that govern, shape, and claim authority over our […]

Anti-nuclear weapons protest at Bath Iron Works (l to r): Suzanne Hedrick, Maureen Kehoe Ostensen, Mark Roman and Lisa Savage, Mary Beth Sullivan, Cynthia Howard, and Mary Ellen Quinn. Photo: C.R. Spicer/MAPA

A Shift-Change Call to Conversion at Bath Iron Works

October 30, 2021 Cole Harrison

In the week of October 2-9, dozens of cities held actions coordinated to mark “Keep Space for Peace Week.” “They (the actions) were about the entire project to move the arms race into space,” according to Bruce Gagnon, a member of Veterans for Peace and […]

How to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons

October 17, 2021 Peter Metz

By Peter Metz and Ira Helfand Originally published in the Boston Globe, September 30, 2021 Sunday was the eighth annual International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, established by the UN General Assembly You probably weren’t aware of it. After all, the possibility […]