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Paper cranes in the Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima.

Approaching 80th Anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki

July 22, 2025 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Over many years, I have had the extraordinary privilege of working with Japanese atomic and hydrogen bomb survivors. These are people who have endured and transformed the worst imaginable physical and emotional traumas into the most influential force for nuclear weapons abolition. […]

Book Review: Nuclear Abolition, A Scenario

July 3, 2025 Jeanne Trubek

By Jeanne Trubek Many of us have been concerned about nuclear weapons for a long time. Reading Annie Jacobson’s 2024 book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, changed “concerned” to “terrified” and recent events upped it to “panicked”. At each stage we wonder, “is there anything we […]

Trump’s Iran Attack Showcases Why Nuclear Apartheid Must End

June 30, 2025 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson This piece was originally published in Common Dreams. War is Not the Answer Ever since Senator Kennedy’s campaign to transform Boston into a nuclear weapons base was defeated 40 years ago, I have had the extraordinary privilege of working with Japanese and […]

Advocates rallied for divestment from WMD and fossil fuels, Massachusetts State House, May 20, 2025. Photo: Fran Jeffries/ MAPA

A Day of Action for Divestment

May 21, 2025 Grace Cowell

In collaboration with Warheads to Windmills, the Coalition for Responsible Investment, and Jewish Voice for Peace Boston, MAPA held a lobby day at the State House on Tuesday, May 21. Over 30 advocates gathered in teams to lobby members of the state legislature on two […]

Maximum Pressure, Minimum Strategy: Trump’s Path to Iranian Nuclear Escalation

April 28, 2025 Zoe Curtaz

by Zoe Curtaz “As long as I am President of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.” On January 8th, 2020, Donald Trump began his remarks detailing the recent U.S. military action in Iran with these words, reiterating an […]

Nuclear Ban Week 2025

March 26, 2025 Olivia Bouscaud

by Olivia Bouscaud During the week of March 3rd, representatives of states and civil society organizations gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the Third Meeting of State Parties (3MSP) to the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Massachusetts participants included […]

Compensation, Not Modernization

February 27, 2025 Zoe Curtaz

by Zoe Curtaz In 2024, the U.S. began its Nuclear Modernization program to update its nuclear strategic forces, an endeavor that will cost $1.5 trillion over its lifetime. Yet even as the nation is set to move forward, the mistakes of the past remain unresolved, […]