Ray Acheson with Reaching Critical Will and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom released four daily rundowns of the events happening at the Nuclear Ban Week running from the 18th-23rd of June 2022, in Vienna. You can read and download these dailies here:
Russia’s continued invasion into Ukraine has brought the conversation regarding nuclear disarmament into the public consciousness once again. As Putin’s unhindered invasion has proven that nuclear weapons do not serve as a deterrent for war, and instead serve as a deterrent for counter-actions, people are more willing to reconsider their perspectives on the value that…
The nature of disarmament diplomacy is one that is intrinsically tied to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in 1945 and the establishment of Mutually Assured Destruction that heightened nuclear panic throughout the Cold War. It follows, then, that the majority of nuclear disarmament activists are those who have personal experiences with the nuclear panic of…