Tag: Nuclear ban treaty

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 […]

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 […]

Cambridge Rally to Support the U.N. Nuclear Ban Treaty

January 20, 2023 Maryellen Kurkulos

(Cambridge) Today at 3:30 PM at Fresh Pond Shopping Center, Alewife Brook Parkway, residents of Greater Boston will hold a public standout to mark the second anniversary of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The protesters will call for the urgent elimination […]

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Envisioning a world without nuclear weapons

January 17, 2023 Patricia Hynes

by Pat Hynes This article was originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Jan. 22 marks the second anniversary of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a global lifeboat supported by 70% of the world’s countries. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Energy’s […]

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 […]

The Ongoing Fight for Nuclear Disarmament

May 20, 2021 Jerald Ross

by Jerald Ross, Sofia Wolman, & Steve Gallant While countless other life and death issues of peace and justice are of critical importance, nuclear weapons still remain an existential threat to peace and all life. After a near death experience under the Trump administration (no […]

Jan. 22, 2021 Actions in Massachusetts to welcome the Nuclear Ban Treaty. Clockwise from upper left: Northampton; State House; General Dynamics in Pittsfield; Park St Station, Boston; Raytheon BBN in Cambridge; Northampton; Fresh Pond Mall, Cambridge; young activists at State House.

Rallies Across State Celebrate Nuclear Ban Treaty’s Entry into Force

February 15, 2021 Maryellen Kurkulos

by Shaghayegh Christine Rostampour and Maryellen Kurkulos Nearly four years after 122 countries voted in its favor at the United Nations, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) became international law on Friday January 22, 2021. The treaty makes nuclear weapons illegal […]