by UFPJ web | Jul 22, 2023 | Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
The much-hyped Hollywood blockbuster film, “Oppenheimer,” a biographical drama about the “father” of the atomic bomb, directed by Christopher Nolan, opened July 21. The film focuses on the story of Oppenheimer’s leadership of the team that developed and tested the...
by UFPJ web | Feb 24, 2023 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story, Webinars
Photo credit: Jamie Christiani, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists On January 24, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist moved the hands of its iconic Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The...
by UFPJ web | Sep 24, 2022 | Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story, Webinars
We are living in a time of extraordinary nuclear dangers. With Russia’s illegal war of aggression on Ukraine, which could eventually draw the militaries of the U.S., its NATO allies and Russia into direct conflict, Russia’s repeated threats to use nuclear weapons, and...
by UFPJ web | Jul 26, 2022 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
August 6 and 9 will mark the 77th anniversary of the U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the aging Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb survivors (hibakusha) continue to passionately appeal for a world without nuclear weapons based on their conviction that “no...
by UFPJ web | Jun 25, 2022 | Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
John Burroughs, Senior Analyst, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy Threats to use nuclear weapons made this year by the Russian government have surfaced a reality long suppressed in the media and public sphere: the incredible peril posed by ongoing reliance of...
by UFPJ web | Jun 25, 2022 | Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
By Matt De Vlieger, former UFPJ National Coordinator, reporting from Vienna From June 21-23 the First Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was held at the United Nations in Vienna, with friends, allies, and members of...
