Nuclear apocalypse looms over humanity, yet it’s not even on the political radar. Let’s work to change that
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Join a nationwide GDAMS briefing call with Bill Hartung and Lindsay Koshbarian Tuesday March 27, 7 p.m. EDT
Lindsay Koshgarian and Bill Hartung will provide background on the Trump and Congressional budgets, U.S. military spending, and the alternative ways our tax dollars can and should be spent.
Read More »Parkland students: Our manifesto to change America’s gun laws | The Guardian
After the massacre at our high school, our lives have changed forever – so we’re proposing these changes to halt mass shootings
Read More »Weekend Read: Students of color need the March for Our Lives the most | Southern Poverty Law Center
Javon Davies is only 12, but he just finished writing his will.
Read More »And Take Away Guns from Most Cops, Too | Stanley Heller
Only 5 percent of police in Great Britain carry firearms.
Read More »With nuclear weapons, evacuation is not an option | TheHill
The draft Nuclear Posture Review should be scrapped and replaced with the commitment to take nuclear weapons off high alert status; implement No First Use; and achieve the only number that makes sense in a nuclear context: Zero.
Read More »Nuclear War: A Thousand Buttons | Dispatches from the Edge, Conn Hallinan
Unless we get serious about abolishing nuclear weapons—something 122 nations voted to do last July—some unnamed captain in a submarine could do the same.
Read More »Mexico’s Senate approved the prohibition of nuclear weapons | Vallarta News
With 80 votes in favor, zero against and zero abstentions, the plenary session approved the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons making Mexico the fourth country to join that mechanism.
Read More »Who’s Really Driving Nuclear-Weapons Production? | The Nation
Follow the money.
Read More »NUKE WAR, Part II: Today’s global nuclear weapons states and their arsenals | Compton Herald
Global nuclear weapons ... are at their highest level ever. This, in spite of treaties and agreements that aim to reduce the potential for such cataclysm.
Read More »Can the world come to its senses on nuclear weapons? | Greenpeace International
In July, a historic milestone was reached at the United Nations in New York when 122 countries voted in favour of a new treaty banning nuclear weapons. In September, the treaty will open for signature. Nuclear armed states and many of their allies have boycotted the treaty and have done all they could to try and derail the negotiation. They ...
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