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Canada, Sign the Nuclear Ban Treaty!2017-08-30
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
The Security Council met on August 29th to consider the heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Janis Alton*, Co-Chair of VOW, sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging Canada to to ...
Countdown to Zero Gets Thumbs Up From Canadians Working for Nuclear Disarmament2010-07-26
Members of several Canadian groups working towards nuclear disarmament enthusiastically recommend Lucy Walker#s documentary Countdown to Zero, which opens on July 30th. The film outlines the nuclear ...
Experts urge Canadian leadership to ban nuclear weapons2011-04-18
The Canadian government should join a new international effort to construct a global legal ban on all nuclear weapons, concluded disarmament experts meeting in Ottawa.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration in Toronto August 6th, 20152015-06-25
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Toronto's Hiroshima Day Coalition presents "Ground Zero to Global Zero: Hope After 70 Years" to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Thu August 6, 2015 ...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration in Toronto August 6th, 20152015-07-02
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Day Coalition
Toronto's Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Day Coalition presents "Ground Zero to Global Zero: Hope After 70 Years" to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Thursday A...
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Commemorations in Toronto2012-07-30
Hiroshima Day Coalition
Toronto's commemoration for the 67th Anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. 'TORONTO FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPONS-FREE WORLD' on August 9, 2012, 6:15 PM at the Church of the Holy Trinit...
It’s Time to Ban the Bomb 2017-09-06
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace Asks Where is Canada? On July 7, 2017, 122 countries voted to adopt the historic Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons-- a landmark international agreement th...
Peace Groups Hold Vigil at Chrystia Freeland's Toronto Constituency Office2017-06-14
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Peace Groups will hold a Ban the Bomb Vigil at the constituency office of Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, 344 Bloor Street West, on Saturday June 17 from 12 to 1 pm. The groups are pro...
Peace Groups Issue an Emergency Appeal to Mayor John Tory to Examine the Dangers of Nuclear Weapons2017-07-19
Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coaltion
Peace Groups Issue an Emergency Appeal to Mayor John Tory to Examine the Dangers of Nuclear Weapons
July 19, 2017 (Toronto) Two weeks after the UN ratified a treaty banning nuclear weapons that was ...
Peggy Nash on NDP Policy on Nuclear Weapons Abolition2012-07-31
Hiroshima Day Coalition
MP Peggy Nash to outline NDP policy on nuclear weapons abolition in Toronto during the Hiroshima/ Nagasaki commemoration ceremony August 9, 2012 (Nagasaki Day) at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Tor...
Sources welcomes Canadian Voice of Women for Peace2012-09-28
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, a non-partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nati...
Sources welcomes Hiroshima Day Coalition2012-09-05
Hiroshima Day Coalition
Sources welcomes a new member: The Hiroshima Day Coalition, a coalition of community and peace groups commemorating the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while promoting nuc...
Toronto Will Not Wait Until 3 Minutes to Midnight2015-08-04
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
On Thursday August 6, 2015 at the Church of the Holy Trinity (10 Trinity Square, behind the Eaton Centre), Torontonians and their international guests will join to say "Not This City, Not Any City". ...
U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time2015-12-23
U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time. According to 1956 Plan, H-Bombs were to be Used Against Priority 'Air Power' Targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe. Maj...
Sources Select Resources
Files linking Britain to Israel's nuclear weapons go missing from National ArchivesArticle
2016
Official documents on Britain's relationship with Israel, including papers on "military and nuclear collaboration" in the 1970s, have disappeared from the National Archives in the last four years.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Fictions and FactsLaforge, John
Article
2018
CounterPunch
The New York Times reported that year, “Many historians believe the bombings [of] Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, which together took the lives of more than 200,000 people, saved lives on balance, since ...
History and Hypocrisy: Why the Korean War Matters in the Age of TrumpRead, Daniel
Article
2017
CounterPunch
The DPRK's recent missile test is a "provocation" according to US state sources. A provocation indeed. Firing things into the air that go bang is clearly not a nice thing to do. People really should e...
How the Obama Administration Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombUS nuclear policy is undermining our safety and national security
Postol, Theodore A.
Article
2014
The Nation
When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he famously pledged to place nuclear disarmament at the center of his national-security strategy. Why, then, we must ask, is the Obama administ...
The Illusion of DebateConsensus for the People that Matter
Hirthler, Jason
Article
2014
CounterPunch
A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in b...
In 1983 'war scare', Soviet leadership feared nuclear surprise attack by U.S.Hoffman, David E.
Article
2015
The Washington Post
A nuclear weapons command exercise by NATO in November 1983 prompted fear in the leadership of the Soviet Union that the maneuvers were a cover for a nuclear surprise attack by the United States, trig...
It's Time to Put an End to Israel's "Don't ask-don't tell" Nuclear PolicyBenjamin, Medea and Pam Bailey
Article
2013
Dissident Voices
Israel and its allies in the U.S. Congress continue to lobby against a deal that would meet Iran in the middle, insisting on a “zero-enrichment” policy that is a deal-breaker for Iran.
Jeremy Corbyn is right to reject TridentGreen, Commander Robert
Article
2015
Ecologist
Jeremy Corbyn has come under attack yesterday for his refusal to countenance the use of nuclear weapons. But his stance is honourable and both legally and strategically correct - especially with his o...
Lurching to WarIntroduction to the October 15, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2016
Connexions
Capitalism hates competition, and the U.S., the world's dominant capitalist power, has never tolerated competitors, rivals, or leaders who dare to put their own country ahead of U.S. interests.
A Marxist History of the World part 91: The Cold WarFaulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.
Mossad contradicted Netanyahu on Iran nuclear programmeJordan,Will;Radhakrishnan,Rahul
Article
2015
Al Jazeera
Spy cables reveal that Mossad concluded that Iran was not producing nuclear weapons, even though Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told the UN the opposite.
Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief ComparisonMedia Lense
Article
2017
Media Lens
A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone r...
Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World" Falcone, Dan
Article
2017
Truth Out
Nuclear proliferation and climate change are subjects of acute concern in the current moment, driven into an all-out state of emergency by the new Trump administration. In this interview, Noam Chomsk...
Nuclear physicsSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Nuclear War And Corbyn - The Fury And The FarceArticle
2015
Medialens
The British media is outraged that La bour leader Jeremy Corbyn won't press the nuclear button under any circumstances.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016Lurching to War
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pu...
Russell-Einstein ManifestoRussell, Bertrand; Einstein, Albert
Article
1955
We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the que...
SAC Nuclear Planning for 1959U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
Burr, William
Article
2015
The National Security Archive - George Washington University
The SAC [Strategic Air Command] Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956, published December 22, 2015. According to the Plan, H-Bombs were to be used against priority "Air Pow...
This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste - and it's leaking Coleen, Jose; Wall, Kim; Hinzel, Jan H.
Article
2015
The Guardian
The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cub...
The U.S. Army Lost Track of 27 Ballistic MissilesMilitary didn't know old Lance rockets were in storage igloos in Alabama
Axe, David
Article
2015
War Is Boring
For 30 years starting in 1962, the U.S. Army deployed Lance ballistic missiles in Europe. Twenty feet long and weighing a ton and a half, an atomic-tipped Lance could zoom 75 miles at Mach 3 and explo...
U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First TimeSources News Release
Article
2015
U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time. According to 1956 Plan, H-Bombs were to be Used Against Priority 'Air Power' Targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe. Maj...
What Was Missing From Coverage of Netanyahu's SpeechNaureckas, Jim
Article
2015
FAIR
Reading the lead stories on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress about Iran in five prominent US papers – the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal a...
Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the PressDocuments Show NYT and Washington Post Shilling for US Government on Iran Missile "Threat"
Porter, Gareth
Article
2010
CounterPunch
A key Wikileaks document which should have resulted in stories calling into question the thrust of the Obama administration's ballistic missile defense policy in Europe based on an alleged Iranian mis...
A World War has Begun: Break the SilencePilger, John
Article
2016
CounterPunch
How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missi...
Sources Bookshelf
Press for Conversion #39December 1999
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1999
This issue provides an overview of the global threat of nuclear weapons as well as providing dozens of articles highlighting various organisations, campaigns and resources focused on abolishing them.
War, Peace and the MediaZwicker, Barrie
Book
1983
Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
Press for ConversionTo oppose Canadian military exports and promote conversion of military industries and bases. Projects: anti-war toys, nuclear weapons research, links with Third World NGOs, opposing weapons bazaars.
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