Views from the Global Council
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“Prime Minster Kishida: Your Field of Vision on Nuclear Disarmament Is Out of Focus” – article by Hiromichi Umebayashi
Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida published a book entitled Toward Nuclear Weapon-Free World: ACourageous Will of a Peaceful Nation (Nikkei BP) in October 2022 just in time for the election for the President of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan. In his policy ...
UNCONSCIONABLE! – article by Aaron Tovish
Every decent person knows full well, in their heart of hearts, that bringing nuclear war down upon humanity would be utterly unconscionable. It would plunge our imperfect civilized world into unbridled barbarism. There is no need to go into the details of the risks...
The Dismal State of Nuclear Disarmament
Photo: Jacqueline Cabasso presenting at the NPT Review Conference, United Nations, August 2022. Viewpoint by Jacqueline Cabasso. Reprinted from InDepthNews. The writer is the Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation. The year 2022 has been a...
North Korea, Perpetual Victim of the US Military-Industrial Complex
It seems hard to believe that in these possible end times in the midst of a global pandemic with an endless succession of catastrophic climate disasters and thousands of nuclear weapons poised and pointed in the US and Russia, ready to destroy life on earth, we are...
Common Security Approaches to Resolve the Ukraine and European Crises
By Joseph Gerson* We have been bombarded by news reports and announcements from President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent. On January 18, as he prepared to leave for Kyiv, Berlin and Geneva, Secretary of State...
Loitering at the brink of doom?
As the likelihood of war between Russia and Ukraine grows so does the likelihood of nuclear war. https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ The Doomsday clock-hands have been stuck, seemingly, at 100 seconds to Midnight since 2020, nearer to the metaphorical...
For Nuclear Disarmament, the Long Run Is Here*
From Andrew Lichterman** Twenty-five years ago this month, the International Court of Justice issued its Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat and Use of Nuclear Weapons. In a closely divided ruling, the Court found that the threat or use of nuclear weapons...
Nuclear Weapons Have Always Been Illegal; It’s Long Past Time to Abolish Them*
“History is written by the victors. Thus, the heinous massacre that was Hiroshima has been handed down to us as a perfectly justified act of war…. It is clear that the use of nuclear weapons, which cause indiscriminate mass murder that leaves survivors to suffer for...
Boris Johnson Steps in It
The government of the United Kingdom (UK) has come under a fully-justified barrage of criticism for its recent announcement regarding changes to its nuclear weapons stance. In what follows, we will place this policy shift in context, so as to underscore the need not...
Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to tell the truth about US relations with Russia and finally ban the bomb
August 6th and 9th mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear bomb dropped on each city caused the deaths of up to 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 people in Nagasaki. Today, with the US decision to walk away from...