nuclear weapons
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UK Activists Challenge Return of U.S. Nuclear Weapons with Two-Week Encampment at Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath
In anticipation of U.S. nuclear weapons returning to UK soil after their removal 18 years ago, activists from around the world gathered at the Lakenheath Peace Camp from April 14 to 25, 2025, with a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week vigil at the main entrance to the Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath base. Continue reading
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1960 Intelligence Report Said Israeli Nuclear Site Was for Weapons
“We Are Not a Satellite of America”: Ben-Gurion’s Angry Response to U.S. Questions about the Dimona Reactor Declassified Reports on U.S. Inspections of Dimona in 1965, 1966 and 1967 1967 Intelligence Report: Was Israel Producing Weapons-Grade Plutonium and Deceiving the U.S.? Years Later, Moscow Asked: Does Israel Have the Bomb? Continue reading
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The “Globemaster” brings us his nuclear bombs
When it was the only hyper-power and the world revolved around it, the United States named their best transport planes the “Globemasters”. Today they use them to plant nuclear bomb stockpiles around the world, in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Continue reading
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Nuclear Bomb Connection in United States Fusion Breakthrough
The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory’s advance in achieving fusion energy using lasers has been splashed as a huge success worldwide. So what is the success all about? The joint press release of the United States Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration says this experiment “will pave the way for advancements in national defence and the future of clean… Continue reading
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The U.S, is leading the World into the Abyss
A few years after WW I, the poet T.S. Eliot opened his famous poem “The Wasteland” with these words: “April is the cruelest month … “ I think he may be wrong, for this October may be the cruelest month of all, followed by November. Unprecedented. You can hear the clicking and grating of spades… Continue reading
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Nuclear Russian Roulette in Ukraine
NATO is a beaten docket, whose race has run and whose chips have all been lost, Declan Hayes writes. Continue reading
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Vienna talks on Iran at crossroads
The fate of the NPT may now hinge on the US response. For, if the Biden administration rides the high horse, that will almost certainly be a deal-breaker for the current negotiations at Vienna on the US’ return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA). Continue reading
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Ukraine & Nukes
The New York Times recently published an article by David Sanger entitled “Putin spins a conspiracy theory that Ukraine is on a path to produce nuclear weapons.” Unfortunately, it is Sanger who puts so much spin in his reporting that he leaves his readers with a grossly distorted version of the what the presidents of Russia and Ukraine… Continue reading
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Russia calls on U.S. to withdraw nuclear weapons from Europe, cease joint nuclear drills with non-nuclear allies
This is a serious issue, perhaps the most serious of issues in Europe, but coming as it does immediately on the heels of Russia’s prior list of demands being resolutely rejected by the U.S. and NATO yesterday, the prospects of Washington and Brussels positively responding to this one either don’t appear good. Continue reading
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Johnson takes Britain into dangerous new cold war against China
For Britain to spend billions of pounds on a military build-up against China is a criminal waste of resources and is directly against the economic interests of the British people, says FIONA EDWARDS Continue reading
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Britain’s Nuke Increase Is In Breach Of Its NPT Obligations
Less than a month ago the British government chided Iran to ‘come back into compliance’ with the nuclear deal. In fact it is the U.S. and its European proxies, including Britain, which are not in compliance with the JCPOA. Iran has exceeded some technical limits of the nuclear deal. But it is allowed to do… Continue reading
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Take local action to support the Nuclear Ban Treaty!
Join us in taking action to encourage your local council to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, by joining the ICAN Cities Appeal Continue reading
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Nuclear Violence is Why We Are Living in the Anthropocene Age
[Prefatory Note: The short essay below is my contribution to the latest thematic Forum of the Great Transition Initiative. It responds to a beautifully crafted paper by the Founder of GTI under the auspices of the Tellus Institute, Paul Raskin. Paul’s initial paper and a series of fascinating responses can be found at https://greattransition.org/gti-forum/interrogating-the-anthropocene. GTI has… Continue reading
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History in the making – Nuclear Ban imminent
I am really excited to be able to let you know that last night, Honduras became the 50th state to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). This means that in 90 days time, the Treaty becomes international law ─ banning all use, possession and development of nuclear weapons. Continue reading
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Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments
RootsAction.org is joining with a rapidly growing list of organizations and individuals from around the world to send an urgent appeal to the presidents, prime ministers, and legislatures of nine nuclear nations: China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Continue reading
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Hiroshima ─ 75 years on
Today ─ 6th August ─ marks the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of the city of Hiroshima, in 1945. It is estimated that the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the ensuing radioactive fallout claimed the lives of up to a quarter of a million Japanese people ─ to this day they provide a… Continue reading
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ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 75: The Illegality of Nuclear Weapons
The human race stands on the verge of nuclear self-extinction as a species, and with it will die most, if not all, forms of intelligent life on the planet earth. Any attempt to dispel the ideology of nuclearism and its attendant myth propounding the legality of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence must directly come to… Continue reading
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ANOTHER HIROSHIMA IS COMING… UNLESS WE STOP IT NOW
In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from five ‘ground zeros’ for nuclear weapons – from Hiroshima to Bikini, Nevada to Polynesia and Australia. He warns that unless we take action now, China is next. Continue reading
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Nuclear Lunacy: The Ugly, the Good and the Bad
No nation that possesses nuclear arsenals or those aspiring to nuclear technology for peaceful purposes has been subjected to the kinds of rigorous inspection and verification regimes — some bordering on humiliation and hijacking the country’s sovereignty — than Iran. Continue reading
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The U.S. Nuclear Presence in Western Europe, 1954-1962
Declassified Records Reflect Debates over Nuclear Weapons Stockpile, Use Decisions, and Independent Nuclear Capabilities Continue reading
The New Dark Age 