Nuclear Weapons

Washington, D.C. — December 4, 2018 — In response to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement that the U.S. will formally announce its intention to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range [...]

(Photo: Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service / Jeon Han) This article was originally published on Common Dreams. Today is the International Day of Peace, an unfortunately lightly [...]

Washington, D.C. — September 18, 2018 — In response to Reps. Adam Smith (D-WA) and Ted Lieu (D-CA) John Garamendi (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) introducing bicameral [...]

Pictured above, the Licorne test, 1971, French Polynesia. Photo: The Official CTBTO Photostream On 2 December 2009, United Nations General Assembly declared 29 August the International Day [...]

Washington, D.C. — August 24, 2018 — In response to President Trump’s decision to cancel Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s planned trip to North Korea, Paul Kawika Martin, Senior Director for [...]

This article was originally published in Common Dreams. By Emilie Clark Last year, I joined a small group of activists in Staten Island, NY to march in remembrance of the nuclear bombings of [...]

Washington, D.C. — August 6, 2018 — Seventy-three years ago, on August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first nuclear bomb ever used in war on the city of Hiroshima, killing an estimated 80,000 [...]

In light of ongoing efforts to secure lasting peace and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, civil society groups and leaders from the Korea Peace Network sent this letter to President Trump [...]

This article was originally published on Common Dreams. So it turns out U.S. President Donald Trump is inept at international diplomacy. Who knew? Well, pretty much everybody knew, or at least [...]

Washington, D.C. — June 12, 2018 — On the news of a successful first meeting between sitting leaders of the U.S. and North Korea at the summit in Singapore, with a statement in which the [...]