anti-nuclear movement

–By Lisa Putkey, Scoville Peace Fellow, Peace Action Education Fund, and Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund 2010 is the year to set the roadmap [...]

by Peace Action historian Lawrence Wittner Recently, when a battered, 30-foot sailboat, the Golden Rule, came to rest in a small shipyard in northern California, the event did not inspire [...]

By Kevin Martin, Executive Director On his first trip to Japan as president, Barack Obama appears to be backing off his previously and oft-stated commitment to seeking a world free of nuclear [...]

The UN NGO Conference on Disarmament is currently being held in Mexico City. Peace Action is chairing the conference. Staff members Kevin Martin, Paul Kawika Martin and Lisa Putkey have traveled [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action The fact that Hiroshima bills itself, and takes that billing seriously, as a City of Peace speaks volumes about the human capacity for [...]

As the nation’s largest peace organization, of course we commented on the announced agreements between Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev.   Kevin Martin, the group’s executive director, [...]

Who wouldn’t be interested in a campaign to stop the spread of nuclear weapons? Non-proliferation has always just seemed like a given to me. Still, I was never really informed about the various [...]

From the US — “Today’s nuclear weapon states will not eliminate their nuclear weapons without the assurance that additional states will not obtain such weapons tomorrow.” [...]

…which of course continues through May 14 so there may be more news to come, but Paul and I are back in DC, and most of the other non-New York CIty Peace Actionistas have left the PrepCom. [...]

NPT Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) May 4, 2009 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called the 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference represented a “disarmament depression”, [...]