Nuclear Disarmament

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…

Foreign secretary Harsh Shringla said India’s approach to nuclear disarmament was encapsulated in its working ...Read MoreNEW DELHI: India reiterated on Saturday its long-standing and unwavering commitment to “universal, verifiable and non-discriminatory” nuclear disarmament leading to the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, in line with the final document of the…

While Hillary Clinton lost her 2016 bid to become the first woman to lead the U.S., there have been onscreen trailblazers who’ve occupied the Oval Office Thom Geier | October 1, 2020 @ 12:08 PM Last Updated: October 1, 2020 @ 12:25 PM Polly Bergen, "Kisses for My President" (1964) …

On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is imperative not to historicize the suffering of those who died, but to situate the memory of them in the present struggle against the threat of nuclear militarism. More than 210,000 people killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years…

Key Point: There were a few folks who went through this bad experience. Mr. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was one of those people and here is his story. Nearly seventy-five years ago in August 1945, at least 150,000 people may have been killed in Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city.…

A cold beer always tastes best when drunk with friends after work on a summer’s day. As most of Europe continues to emerge from the deprivations of lockdown, this pillar of basic human happiness is returning to the social calendar. Restaurants and cafes are also slowly re-opening, to be joined…