Tag: Danger of Nuclear War

UKRAINE WAR: Negotiate, Don’t Escalate and Risk WWIII

November 18, 2025 Maryellen Kurkulos

Retired Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatowski of the Eisenhower Media Network will discuss the critical stage that the Ukraine War has reached, and the urgent need to end it with painful but realistic concessions now before Ukraine loses far more soldiers and territory in the near […]

Is Ukraine Headed for Peace or Nuclear War?

September 29, 2025 Maryellen Kurkulos

The proxy war being waged in Ukraine carries the ever-present danger of escalating into a nuclear conflict. Russia is winning the war on the battlefield. Ukraine’s army is decimated, its economy gutted, and its environment devastated. Hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded. Either […]

Nuclear Abolition: A Scenario

July 1, 2025 Maryellen Kurkulos

Timmon Wallis will discuss his new book Nuclear Abolition: A Scenario. While Annie Jacobsen based her 2024 bestseller, Nuclear War: A Scenario on numerous interviews with generals, Pentagon war planners and other nuclear weapons experts, Wallis bases his scenario on interviews with peace activists and campaigners from across the country and […]

Rev. Vernon Walker addresses Ukraine peace rally, Feb. 24, Boston. Photo: Jackie King/ MAPA

Protesters Decry War Escalation, Demand Peace Talks

February 24, 2023 Maryellen Kurkulos

(Boston) — About 50 peace protesters organized by Massachusetts Peace Action gathered in freezing weather at noon today at Downtown Crossing to call for a negotiated settlement of the Ukraine war. They denounced the Russian invasion of Ukraine but also criticized US/NATO expansion which provoked […]

College students from Japan march in Vienna on June 20 with a banner to mark the first meeting of states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. (Asahi Shimbun/Tabito Fukutomi)

Being Civil Society

September 19, 2022 Frances Jeffries

by Frances Jeffries A very traditional question in September is: How was your summer? or What did you do on your vacation? My summer was one of seeing new as well as familiar things through new eyes, of thinking about new approaches to seemingly intractable […]

Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

September 19, 2022 Richard Krushnic

by Richard Krushnic Raytheon Technologies’ Paveway guided bomb has been the primary weapon used by the Saudis in Yemen since the expansion of the war early in 2015. With the targeting and refueling assistance of the US, the Raytheon bombs hit fields, flocks, irrigation pumps, […]

Twin Existential Threats

January 19, 2022 Ira Helfand

By Ira Helfand and Asha Asokan Today, the world lives in the shadow of two grave and deeply related existential threats. There is a growing awareness of the danger posed by the climate crisis and the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit […]