Abolition 2000 – Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons

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Watch Out World: Peace May be Breaking Out!!

Watch Out World: Peace May be Breaking Out!!

8 Jul 2018

By Alice Slater for World BEYOND War.  Less than a week or so before Donald Trump’s groundbreaking meeting planned with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, to take place after the NATO summit in mid-July, the new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons celebrated its...

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The Cold War ended more than two decades ago, but there are still 16,000 nuclear weapons on the planet. Most of them belong to the United States and Russia. The United Kingdom, China, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, and now, North Korea, collectively have fewer than 1000. Abolition 2000 is a global network committed to ridding the world of nuclear weapons, and the terrible danger they pose for life on our fragile planet.
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Abolition 2000 shared a link.Thursday, August 16th, 2018 at 9:47am
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Did bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki save lives?
Ward Wilson argues it did not, but it mythologized the political power of the Bomb
beyondnuclearinternational.org
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Abolition 2000 shared Pressenza in English's post.Thursday, August 9th, 2018 at 6:55pm
"The foundations of peace are most certainly formed in civil society. Let us use the power of the civil society to spread throughout the world a culture of peace instead of one of war."
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Pressenza in English
As on the 6th of August we published the Hiroshima Peace Declaration, today is the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing and we publish the Nagasaki Peace Declaration calling on Japan and all other nations to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
It was on this day 73...
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Abolition 2000 shared a link.Tuesday, August 7th, 2018 at 10:58pm
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Dawn of a new Armageddon - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
A personal essay on the meaning of a ballistic missile alert issued in Hawaii in January 2018, at the height of nuclear tensions between the United States and North Korea.
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Abolition 2000Monday, August 6th, 2018 at 10:13pm
"Today, with more than 14,000 nuclear warheads remaining, the likelihood is growing that what we saw in Hiroshima after the explosion that day will return, by intent or accident, plunging people into agony."
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City of Hiroshima peace declaration - Pressenza
Today marks the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, which with the bombing of Nagasaki 3 days later, caused the immediate deaths of over 200,000 people, and the subsequent deaths of tens of thousands more. Every year, the City of Hiroshima commemorates the victims and calls for peace and t...
pressenza.com
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Abolition 2000Saturday, August 4th, 2018 at 9:21am
On Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days, sign the Avaaz petition 'United Nations: Step up for nuclear abolition.'
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United Nations: Step up for nuclear abolition
The risk of a nuclear war by accident, miscalculation or intent has risen due to unstable leaders and unresolved tensions. According to the ‘Doomsday Clock’ the world is just ‘2 Minutes to Midnight’, the closest we have been to nuclear war since the height of the Cold War. In 2017 the United...
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