Monday
Jan152018
Nuclear Weapons
Beyond Nuclear advocates for the elimination of all nuclear weapons and argues that removing them can only make us safer, not more vulnerable. The expansion of commercial nuclear power across the globe only increases the chance that more nuclear weapons will be built and is counterproductive to disarmament. We also cover nuclear weapons issues on our international site, Beyond Nuclear International.
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January 15, 2018Sunday
Jan072018
Beatrice Fihn op-ed in Financial Times: "Time to step off the nuclear tightrope"
Re: nuclear proliferation, Beatrice Fihn published this op-ed in the Financial Times.
Beatrice Fihn is executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Saturday
Jan062018
Washington Post editorial: Russia and the United States are wrecking a landmark treaty
The Washington Post Editorial Board has published an opinion, calling for the preservation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and U.S.S.R. Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 8, 1987. The Washington Post editorial asserts that the U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin administration's recent actions are putting this foundational treaty at risk, which could significantly worsen an already deteriorating nuclear weapons tension even more.
Friday
Jan052018
NYT op-ed: The Perils of Mixing Masculinity and Missiles
An op-ed published in the New York Times, written by Carol Cohn.
Carol Cohn is the director of the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
"The Perils of Mixing Masculinity and Missiles" is reminiscent of Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War, the great title of seminal book written by Helen Caldicott in the 1980s.
Helen Caldicott is the founding president of Beyond Nuclear.
Wednesday
Jan032018
Markey, Lieu Push No ‘First Strike’ Bill After Trump Taunts North Korea's Kim
As reported by John T. Bennett in The Hill.
U.S. Senator Ed Markey (Democrat-MA) and U.S. Representative Ted Lieu's (Democrat-CA) companion bills, H.R. 669 in the U.S. House, and S. 200 in the U.S. Senate, are entitled the "Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017."
Please urge your U.S. Rep. to support H.R. 669. You can phone your U.S. Rep.'s D.C. office via the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 225-3121. And you can look up your U.S. Rep.'s direct contact info. here, by entering your zip code, clicking the FIND YOUR REP BY ZIP button, and following the links.
Please urge both your U.S. Senators to support S. 200. You can phone your U.S. Sens.' D.C. offices via the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. And you can look up your U.S. Sens.' direct contact info. here, by clicking on your state in the scroll down menu labeled "Find Your Senators" in the upper left hand side of the screen.