#gif #healthcare #publictransport #housing #nonukes #war #ukraine #peace #politics

banner: “Don’t be a 'Destroyer of Worlds' — Stop the Columbia Sub.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/5/headlines/five_catholic_worker_activists_arrested_outside_general_dynamics_plant
#nonukes #CountdowntoZero #BackAwayfromtheBrink

Five Catholic Worker Activists Arrested Outside General Dynamics Plant

In Connecticut, five anti-nuclear activists connected to the Catholic Worker movement were arrested Monday for blocking the gates at a General Dynamics plant in New London, where the Columbia-class nuclear submarines are being designed and...

Saturday morning 14th Oct, online, starting 11am Central "Warheads to Windmills"

#NoNukes #DisarmamentActionItem #ClimateAction

The Golden Rule docked in Racine as part of its 11,000-mile voyage to raise awareness about threats of nuclear war

https://journaltimes.com/news/local/peace-nukes-golden-rule-veterans-condon-union-grove-racine/article_8314220a-4ceb-11ee-90db-bf2d427967d2.html
#NoNukes

Peace activists dock historic boat in Racine to deliver a message: Ban the bomb

The Golden Rule, a sailboat associated with peace activists for decades, visits the Racine area to deliver a message of banning nuclear weapons.

‘the Tomb’, a concrete-covered crater on Runit Island in the Pacific Ocean, where 90,000+ cubic metres of radioactive soil and nuclear waste is buried

Runit Dome is at risk of collapsing due to rising sea levels and ageing of concrete.

https://tinyurl.com/y5eceshk
#nonukes

Give up the nuclear umbrella; work for nuclear disarmament and peace instead, argues Nagasaki's mayor

The 2021 ban treaty prohibits nuclear weapons totally

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230809/p2g/00m/0na/006000c

#NPT #nonukes #CountdowntoZero

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kXS2GVLkOvs

#nonukes ?
#JRE
Joe Gets His Mind Blown By #Fake #Nuclear #Explosions

2023 World Conference against A and H Bombs, August 4th - Aug 9th

http://www.antiatom.org/english/index.html
#nonukes #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #Oppenheimer #Truman

The U.S. currently spends $157,000 per minute to perpetuate the problem of nuclear weapons

Contrast this with spending on human needs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Ko4fckg0o
#TTPNW #ICANW #nonukes

South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty: Vanuatu, Australia along with 11 other countries have signed

https://treaties.unoda.org/t/rarotonga
#nonukes #SouthPacific13 vs #USPacificProvingGrounds

New US Reactor in Idaho Violates Nonproliferation Policy, Say Ex-Officials

“DOE undermining a decades-old, bipartisan policy to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons,” said Alan Kuperman, UTexas

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-uranium-nuclear-idAFL1N37R225
#NPT #nonukes

UPDATE 1-US urged not to use bomb-grade uranium in nuclear power experiment

Former U.S. State Department and nuclear regulatory officials on Tuesday urged the U.S. Energy Department to reconsider a plan to use bomb-grade uranium in a nuclear power experiment, saying that its use could encourage such tests in other countries.

Activist or Academic? A Balancing Act and a Commitment to Peace.

Amitai Etzioni, age 89, looks back with hindsight over the arc of his life.
RIP 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhDOYeiAiIA
#HiroshimaMonAmour #peace #nonukes

10 drums containing uranium ore have gone missing

One of the scenarios in the 2010 documentary film #CountdowntoZero

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/16/un-nuclear-watchdog-iaea-uranium-missing-libya
#GlobalZero #nonukes

Nuclear Pits

Orwellian naming, the organization in charge of maintaining the nuclear bombs that can (are) killing the planet is named as if it were in charge of safely de-commissioning the bombs and their industry: "National Nuclear Safety Administration". It would be great if there was an organization in charge of getting rid of nuclear bombs and that it wasn't wasteful, abusive, and mismanaged....

NNSA is a semiautonomous branch of the Department of Energy tasked with maintaining the potency of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. NNSA is also described by the GAO as an agency “at high risk of fraud, financial waste, abuse, and mismanagement”.

Lost in all the nuclear equations, appropriations and performance scandals is the consideration that the U.S. is treaty bound by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 1968, to reduce and eventually eliminate its nuclear arsenal, as are the other nuclear armed signatories of the NPT.

Should President Biden and the 118th Congress decide to adhere to its nuclear treaty obligation to reduce nuclear weapons, save hundreds of billions of dollars and avoid the renewal of a nuclear arms race it has embarked upon, then defunding the NNSA’s plutonium pit bomb projects at #LosAlamos and #SavannahRiverSite is the perfect first step.

Plutonium Pit Bomb Plans Excoriated by General Accounting Office by Mark Muhich

#MarkMuhich #Plutonium #CounterPunchMagazine #NPT #NonProliferationTreaty #NoNukes #NNSA #NationalNuclearSafetyAdministration

Plutonium Pit Bomb Plans Excoriated by General Accounting Office

The independent General Accounting Office (GAO) issued a scathing report last week about the plan underway to refurbish plutonium pit triggers for nuclear

Talks resume for New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/11/9/headlines/us_and_russia_to_resume_new_start_talks_against_backdrop_of_ukraine_war
#nonukes #nucleardisarmament

U.S. and Russia to Resume New START Talks Against Backdrop of Ukraine War

The United States and Russia have agreed to resume talks under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START. The meetings have been on hold since before Russia invaded Ukraine in February. The only remaining nuclear treaty between the...

Anti-war groups including Peace Action and RootsAction organized picket lines at offices of U.S. senators and representatives in more than 40 cities across 20 states

Call for a ceasefire in Ukraine, revival of anti-nuclear treaties

https://dia.so/6e4
#nonukes #antiwar

Protests in 40+ US Cities Demand Deescalation as Poll Shows Surging Fear of Nuclear War

"The current crisis brings with it the opportunity to re-engage on nuclear disarmament issues at the grassroots level in order to show our government it needs to get serious about reducing, not exacerbating, the nuclear threat."

The Golden Rule sailboat on a mission of worldwide nuclear disarmament, now on the Mississippi River, travelling from Minnesota to Louisiana

boat’s progress on a map that updates every 10 minutes at https://share.garmin.com/goldenrule
#nonukes

“We have made it clear to (North Korean leader) Kim Jong-un we’re willing to sit down with no preconditions. We want to see the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula,” said US national security council spokesperson John Kirby.

https://dia.so/6dq
#nonukes #diplomacynotwar

An emergency alert for 5 million residents on the Japanese island of Hokkaido

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/4/headlines/north_korean_missile_test_triggers_air_raid_alerts_in_japan
#NorthKorea #nonukes

North Korean Missile Test Triggers Air Raid Alerts in Japan

Japan’s government has condemned North Korea’s military after it test-fired a ballistic missile over the Japanese island of Hokkaido, triggering an emergency alert for 5 million residents. The missile reportedly flew for nearly 3,000 miles before...

A nuclear-armed state like Russia makes it all the more clear that the world needs to abolish nuclear arsenals altogether. Ban the bomb!

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/26/un-chief-urges-end-to-era-of-nuclear-blackmail
#nonukes

UN chief calls for end to ‘era of nuclear blackmail’

Guterres renews call for abolition of nuclear weapons as concerns grow over Russia’s threat to use them in Ukraine.