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Environmental Review Begins of Massive Project to Produce Plutonium Cores of Nuclear Weapons
By John Burroughs, Senior Analyst, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, and Board Member, Western States Legal Foundation The United States is now planning to establish an infrastructure capable of producing at least 80 plutonium pits for nuclear weapons per year. The...
“No more Hiroshimas. No more Nagasakis. No more war. No more hibakusha”
by Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation; National Co-convener, United for Peace & Justice; Mayors for Peace North American Coordinator photo: the Nagasaki Peace Statue August 6th and 9th marked the 80th anniversaries of the U.S....
#HumanRaceNotArmsRace
As we approach the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, authoritarian nationalists now hold state power in seven of the nine nuclear-armed states. Even limited progress towards arms control and disarmament has...
First They Bombed New Mexico
August 6 and 9, 2025 will mark the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But before the U.S. bombed Hiroshima, on July 16, 1945, it bombed New Mexico, conducting the very first test explosion of a nuclear weapon at the White Sands...
9/11 Case at Guantanamo is Again Without a Presiding Judge—but the Judge who Retired Issued a Momentous Ruling Before His Departure
On June 1, Air Force Colonel Matthew McCall, the fourth judge to preside over the 9/11 Military Commission pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo retired, as he had long ago announced he would. His final significant ruling in the hearings, which in May entered their 13th...
Abolition 2000 at the NPT PrepCom – Lighting the Way to Peace!
Photo credit: Alyn Ware From April 28 – May 9, 2025, states parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) met at United Nations headquarters in New York City for the third Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) meeting for the 2026 NPT Review Conference. The NPT...
MLK’s “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” – Now More Than Ever
Photo: Oakland, CA Beyond Vietnam readers; photo credit: Sandy Thacker In his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” delivered on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his tragic and untimely assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared:...
Abolition 2000 – Live From the NPT PrepCom
From April 28 – May 9, States parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) will meet at the United Nations in New York for the third Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) meeting for the 2026 NPT Review Conference. The NPT represents the only binding commitment to...
The Role of Cities in the Promotion of Nuclear Disarmament
Photo credit: Back from the Brink L – R: Takehiro Kagawa, Secretary General, Mayors for Peace; Mayor Belit Onay, Hannover, Germany; Mayor Malik Evans, Rochester, New York; Alderwoman Maria Hadden, Chicago City Council, Illinois Mayors for Peace was pleased to...
This April 4: Organize a Public Reading of Dr. King’s “Beyond Vietnam: Speech in Your Community
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his tragic assassination, in his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on...
U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Protested at Vandenberg Space Force Base
by MacGregor Eddy February 18, 2025, late at night, a group of seven peace activists gathered at the front gate of Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara county California. They were there both to protest against the test launch of an intercontinental ballistic...
Trump Administration Deports Venezuelan Migrants from U.S. Territory to Guantánamo Only to Then Return Them to Venezuela
As abruptly as Trump Administration officials had begun deporting migrants from the U.S, to the Naval Station Guantánamo Bay (NSGB), it changed course and transported all 178 individuals who had been brought to the Guantánamo; 177 were repatriated to Venezuela via a...