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No more Hiroshimas: Let’s end nuclear threat
GUEST VIEWPOINT: No more Hiroshimas: Let’s end nuclear threat By Michael Carrigan and Susan Cundiff Published: August 8, 2012 by The Register-Guard This month marks the 67th anniversary of the only time nuclear weapons were used in warfare. The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945. [...]
WiLL Vice President in JTA
Op-Ed: On Tisha b’Av, let’s usher out the nuclear era By Sandy Pappas Published: July 25, 2012 by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency OPINION MINNEAPOLIS (JTA) — As July ends and we wind down the Three Weeks before Tisha b’Av, we mourn the destruction of both Holy Temples. Unfortunately, this is not the only destruction that [...]
International Day Against Nuclear Testing
By Annie Jennings, WAND Nuclear Security Research Fellow In 2009, August 29th was declared the International Day Against Nuclear Testing. This year, August 29th also marks the 20th anniversary of the shutdown of the former Soviet Union’s largest and most destructive nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan. Over its 40 year history, the Semipalatinsk site [...]
July 16th: The anniversary of the first nuclear test and an op ed asking for action
Saturday, July 16 marks the 66th anniversary of the first nuclear weapons test explosion. The United States’ test, code-named “Trinity,” was exploded in the desert of New Mexico and ignited the nuclear age. Nuclear testing has fueled the arms race, enabling varied and ever more deadly nuclear arsenals to grow. Along the way, nuclear testing [...]
Women Leaders on Next Steps to Reduce Nuclear Threat
The Arms Control Association hosted their annual meeting on Tuesday, May 10th 2011. The theme of this year’s event was “Reducing the Nuclear Danger: Next Steps on the Test Ban Treaty and Nuclear Arms Reductions.” Ellen Tauscher, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security was one of the guest speakers. You can hear [...]
Commemorating President Obama’s Landmark Prague Speech
Two years ago, President Obama delivered a landmark speech in Prague, Czech Republic. The Prague Agenda, delivered on April 5, 2009 outlined the steps needed to move toward a safer world, one without nuclear weapons. “So today, I state clearly and with conviction America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world [...]
WAND’s thoughts on the disaster in Japan
WAND is looking at the disaster in Japan with both heartbreak and nerve-wracking worry. Days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, the crises are continuing to mount. Of particular concern are the nuclear reactor explosions, fires and radioactive releases, all coming on top of earthquake aftershocks. Our hearts go out to the Japanese people in their desperate [...]
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