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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 […]

Nuclear Resister Megan Rice

October 12, 2021 C. R. Spicer

by C. R. Spicer Sr. Megan Rice, a visionary and steadfast anti-nuclear resister who painted peace slogans on the Y-12 nuclear bomb factory in Oak Ridge, TN, in 2012, died October 10. I remember my drive with Sr. Megan, Michael Walli, and Greg Bourtje-Obed in […]

Cambridge supports Back from the Brink

September 22, 2021 Elaine Scarry

by Elaine Scarry On the evening of September 20, Cambridge City Council unanimously passed a resolution to “Urge the U.S. Congress to fulfill its obligation to prevent nuclear war as outlined in the Back from the Brink Campaign.” The resolution asks the federal government to […]

Biden’s Nuclear Weapons Commitments: Dangerous Continuities

September 21, 2021 Joseph Gerson

Originally published in Common Dreams by Joseph Gerson In the dangerous Trump era, the Pentagon pronounced that “There is no higher priority for national defense” than to “replace [the country’s] strategic nuclear triad and sustain the warheads it carries.” The estimated cost for upgrading the […]

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Week 2021 – Recap in Photos

August 18, 2021 Jack Trapanick

In solidarity with the global grassroots “Peace Wave” initiated by Gensuikyo and as a testament to the growing demand for nuclear disarmament, peace activists across the Commonwealth and in Rhode Island held some two dozen events marking the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombings of […]

Joseph Gerson spoke at Watertown's Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration, Aug 8, 2021. Virginia Pratt photo

Nuclear Disarmament is More Urgent than Ever

August 9, 2021 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Remarks delivered at the Watertown Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration, August 8, 2021 (August 9 in Nagasaki) Friends, The A-bombings , 76 years ago, were crimes humanity. They were indiscriminate, unnecessary, and ushered in an era in which human survival is constantly threated by accident, […]

Paper Lanterns and Peace Cranes

August 3, 2021 Maryellen Kurkulos

by Gail Tipton In May 2018, I saw a documentary film called Paper Lanterns. It tells the story of Shigeaki Mori’s research to identify and honor 12 American soldiers who had died when the first atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, Japan at 8:15 a.m., August 6, […]