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In a Perilous Time: Nuclear Dangers, Politics, and the New Cold War

July 30, 2024 Joseph Gerson

Originally published in Pressenza by Joseph Gerson UN Secretary-General Guterres warns that “Humanity is on a knife’s edge. The risk of nuclear weapons being used has reached heights not seen since the Cold War.” New Cold War bloc systems have reemerged with the “lattice-like” network […]

May 22 Boston Day of Action Report

May 28, 2024 Rowan Sporte Ehn

by Rowan Sporte Ehn and Grace Sanford In collaboration with the Warheads to Windmills Coalition, MAPA, along with accompanying lobbyists, went to the Massachusetts State House to push for the Nuclear and Climate Commission Bill (H.783/S.1488), the Back from the Brink Resolution (S.1487), and the […]

Biden Is Quietly Funding Nuclear Weapons Upgrades That Could Imperil the Planet

April 10, 2024 Jonathan King and Richard Krushnic

By Jonathan King & Richard Krushnic This article was originally published in Truthout. President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech failed to discuss a critical matter — the administration’s funding for the upgrading of all three legs of the nuclear weapons triad: Intercontinental Ballistic […]

Oppenheimer: Sins of Omission

April 2, 2024 Craig Simpson

by Craig Simpson Three days after the Oscar sweep of the Oppenheimer bio movie, Massachusetts Peace Action held a webinar with another side of the story. Oppenheimer the film is not an anti-nuclear weapons film. It is a film about a White male scientist who, […]

Finding Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Oppenheimer Film

March 12, 2024 Joseph Gerson

By Joseph Gerson This article was originally published in Common Dreams. Since the first reviews of the Oppenheimer film appeared, a question has been floating in the ether: Why don’t we see substantial images of the destruction and victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-Bombs? […]

States Parties to the Nuclear Ban Treaty Gather at UN

January 22, 2024 Susan Mirsky

States Parties to the Nuclear Ban Treaty Gather at UN, Pushing Movement Forward Activists Strategize and Make Crucial Connections by Susan Mirsky & Kathie Malley-Morrison For many of us, participation in the Second Meeting of States Parties (2MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of […]

Claire Schaeffer-Duffy addressed the Hiroshima memorial event in Worcester, August 6, 2023. Photo: Sam Bishop

Peace Activists Statewide Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Demand Nuclear Ban

August 21, 2023 Cole Harrison

Edited by Cole Harrison Peace activists in 14 locations across Massachusetts held commemorative events August 6-9 to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed 220,000 people, nearly all civilians, in 1945. The activists also demanded the United […]