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No First Use: Decrease the Danger of Nuclear War

July 31, 2021 Cole Harrison

Ever since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the danger of nuclear war has remained alarmingly high. Part of the problem is that the US has a dangerous and short-sighted policy of making nuclear threats to achieve foreign policy objectives. Daniel Ellsberg lists 25 explicit […]

76 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A call to memory and hope

July 21, 2021 Maryellen Kurkulos

by Maryellen Kurkulos As humanity grapples with multiple and intensifying existential crises, leaders of the nuclear powers spar as though in some alternate universe, oblivious to the reality that even a limited nuclear exchange would have disastrous, irreversible consequences for our environment and human survival. […]

Every Nuke We Make

July 20, 2021 Kathie Malley-Morrison

by Kathie Malley-Morrison Every nuke we make, every vow we break, every life at stake, they’ll be watching us. Be grateful for their attention because “they” are the United Nations Human Rights Council, and “we” are citizens of the country with the largest stock of […]

No First Use: Decrease the Danger of Nuclear War

July 20, 2021 Jonathan King

Campaign Plan: No First Use: Decrease the Danger of Nuclear War Introduction: With the proposed upgrade of nuclear weapons, withdrawal from arms control treaties, and signs of a new Cold War with Russia and China, the danger of nuclear weapons use is increasing. This campaign […]

76 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – a call in memory and hope

July 5, 2021 Jerald Ross

by Jerald Ross and Joseph Gerson This August marks the 76th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. Despite broad recognition today that these attacks created a humanitarian catastrophe, as would any future use of nuclear weapons, we […]

Testimony on MAPA’s State Divestment Bills – Cole Harrison

June 16, 2021 Cole Harrison

Testimony of Cole Harrison on H.2597 and S.1703 I am Cole Harrison, executive director of Massachusetts Peace Action. We are a peace advocacy organization with 1200 dues paying members throughout the Commonwealth and 17,000 supporters. I’m testifying for H.2597 and S.1703, divestment from nuclear weapons, […]

Testimony on MAPA’s State Divestment Bills – Ira Helfand

June 16, 2021 Alec Neilly

Thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony in support of S 1703 and H 2597 While we face many urgent problems today, two existential dangers—the climate crisis and the growing possibility of nuclear war—threaten the very survival of our civilization and possibly our species. […]