Nuclear Disarmament
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Week in Massachusetts 2021
August 2-9, 2021 • Events Calendar Why observe Hiroshima/Nagasaki Week? Read our call to action!
Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear Disarmament
No First Use: Decrease the Danger of Nuclear War
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 […]
Nuclear Disarmament
76 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A call to memory and hope
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. […]
Nuclear Disarmament
Every Nuke We Make
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 […]
Nuclear Disarmament
No First Use: Decrease the Danger of Nuclear War
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 […]
Nuclear Disarmament
76 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – a call in memory and hope
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 […]
Legislation and Policy
Testimony on MAPA’s State Divestment Bills – 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, […]