Nuclear Weapons

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 [...]

This article was syndicated by Peace Voice, and originally published on Counterpunch. John Bolton and Mike Pence must have known what they were doing. President Trump’s national security adviser [...]

Syndicated by Peace Voice, this piece was originally published on Antiwar.com. It was also published in the Bainbridge Island Review. The developments regarding Korea this week are astonishing. [...]

Washington, D.C. — March 8, 2018 — In response to South Korea’s announcement at the White House that President Trump has accepted Kim Jong-un’s invitation to meet in person, Kevin Martin, [...]