Around the terrible anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, call on Prime Minister Trudeau to urgently meet with nuclear disarmament campaigner and Hiroshima nuclear bomb survivor Setsuko Thurlow.
Liberal Party adopts progressive resolution calling for a Canadian leadership role in the push towards global nuclear disarmament.
Five years after affirming his support for a nuclear-weapon-free world, President Barack Obama has approved a secret ten-year extension of the U.S. nuclear cooperation agreement with the United Kingdom.
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a time when the world was on the brink of nuclear war. Has the threat of nuclear war diminished since 1962?
Over the past twelve months, the world has seen a drop in the number of active nuclear weapons as countries retire aged or obsolete weapons. China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States possess in total approximately 19,000 nuclear weapons.
Earlier this week, another Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated in a bomb attack (Ali Akbar Dareini, “Bombs kill another nuclear scientist in Iran,” Globe and Mail, 11 January 2012): Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and […]