The United States has declared its involvement in the war in Iraq over (Thom Shanker & Michael S. Schmidt, “U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially …
Nuclear weapons
Over 1 million signatures for a nuclear weapon-free world
Gensuikyo , the Japan Council against A and H Bombs, recently sent a 16-member delegation to New York to submit a 1,029,031-signature petition calling for …
Mayors for Peace reaches 5,000 members
Mayors for Peace, a Japan-based NGO that seeks the abolition of nuclear weapons worldwide through disarmament, passed a membership milestone earlier this month. More …
Hiroshima day, 2011
Today, August 6th, is the 66th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time a nuclear weapon was used …
Canada makes the wrong move at Conference on Disarmament
Cesar Jaramillo, program officer at Project Ploughshares, argues against the recent decision to boycott the UN Conference on Disarmament (Cesar Jaramillo, “Canada’s disarmament conference boycott …
June 25th: Nuclear Abolition Day
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is coordinating ‘Nuclear Abolition Day’ to mobilize for a treaty to outlaw and eliminate all nuclear weapons. …