Nuclear Disarmament

Send us a letter, email, or tweet, or post on our Facebook page. Weapons of Mass Dysfunction In “The Case for Nuclear Disarmament” (July/August 2022), Paul Webster makes a compelling argument for Canada to do more on nuclear disarmament. However, for Canada to be seen as an honest actor, it…

Updated Sat 1:20 PM UKRAINE AND RUSSIA have traded fresh accusations of shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as its operator warned of a radioactive leak risk at the atomic facility. The Zaporizhzhia plant in southern Ukraine has been occupied by Russian troops since the opening of the invasion.…

New Zealand is deeply disappointed the 10th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has failed, with the adoption of the final text blocked by Russia, says Minister for Disarmament and Control Phil Twyford. “This is an act of diplomatic sabotage at the very time the world needs cooperation…

Australia has reaffirmed its commitment to nuclear disarmament at an international non-proliferation conference amid concerns about its submarine plans. Australia has doubled down on its plan to acquire nuclear powered submarines from either the United States or Britain. Assistant trade minister Tim Ayres has told an international nuclear non-proliferation conference…

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called for nuclear disarmament and criticised China for its human rights abuses in her speech at the NATO summit in Madrid. “This crossroads that the world finds itself at should be the basis for us to put a halt in the production of…

When I traveled to Japan in 2017 for a vacation with two bishop friends, I was not prepared for what I witnessed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I heard the stories of survivors of the nuclear blasts and stood at the charred remnants of the Genbaku Dome at the Hiroshima Peace…

On 22 January 2021, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (the Ban Treaty) entered into force. Under the Ban Treaty, states are prohibited from ‘developing, testing, producing, manufacturing, acquiring, possessing, or stockpiling nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices’. The Ban Treaty is a culmination of decades-long…

It is very likely that no work of popular history has ever informed an American president’s actions in a crisis as much as The Guns of August did in the fall of 1962. Published that spring, Barbara W. Tuchman’s account of the outbreak of World War I made a lasting impression…

Free film 5/4 and award presentation 5/5 6:30PM CT CHICAGO — DePaul University has established the Berrigan-McAlister Award, to be given annually to a person or organization whose active Christian nonviolence-—like that practiced by Fr. Daniel Berrigan, SJ, Phillip Berrigan, and Elizabeth McAlister—resists injustice, transforms conflict, fosters reconciliation, and seeks…

Despite stating that it is 'committed' to nuclear disarmament, Canada's federal government refuses to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), write Setsuko Thurlow and Bianca Mugyenyi. A decommissioned U.S. Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is seen at the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Ariz. The Treaty on…