EDITOR’S INTRODUCTORY NOTE: Philosopher Bertrand Russell and physicist issued this manifesto in London on July 9, 1955 to warn the world about the dire consequences of a nuclear war. They urged peaceful resolution to international conflict to avoid “universal death.” As we enter into a new year in which the danger of a civilization-ending nuclear war continues to grow, we must heed their call; it is at least as relevant today as it was then. The Manifesto laid the foundations for the modern Peace Movement, particularly the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. As […]
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A Model for the Horror… a reflection
Editor’s Introduction: This reflection, written by Stephen Kobasa, was written shortly after September 11, 2001. In his response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York, Stephen imagined ground zero, “for all its horror,” as a “miniature of destruction, a fragment of the apocalypse” that would be caused by “the use of a single 475 kiloton [thermonuclear] warhead.” He spoke clearly, powerfully and directly to the true essence of “terror” in which we all exist, living at the end of time; the sheer madness of Trident is laid bare. There is so much to unpack […]
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Golden Rule protests USS Nimitz, Indian Island Weapons Depot, and Trident Nuclear Sub Base
NEWS FLASH FROM THE GOLDEN RULE Veterans For Peace’s Golden Rule peace boat joined an on-the-water protest outside the Indian Island Weapons Depot near Port Townsend, Washington on Thursday, September 5. As it happened, the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier was being loaded up with weapons at the time. Will it be headed back for the Middle East? This was part of with the Week of Action for Solidarity with the Palestinian People – coordinated protests by Veterans For Peace chapters in over 25 US cities. One day earlier, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, the Golden Rule protested outside the Bangor Trident […]
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Billboards quote Pope Francis: “The Use… and Possession of Nuclear Weapons is Immoral.”
Billboards inform Puget Sound residents of Moral and Physical Dangers of Nuclear Weapons in Our Back Yard Pax Christi USA has joined with Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action to purchase five billboards that begin on August 19 for four weeks with a message from Pope Francis, declaring that the use and possession of nuclear weapons is immoral. The sign, designed by Pax Christi in the Pacific Northwest, also reminds us of the huge nuclear arsenal in the Puget Sound region and the imperative to abolish nuclear weapons. Naval Base Kitsap- Bangor is homeport to the largest concentration of deployed […]
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A prison comic: “Why is my Grandma in Prison?”
Some of you reading this will remember Susan Crane as a longtime peacemaker and nuclear resister, and member of the Disarm Now Plowshares action in 2009. On that fateful day she and four other activists entered the high security nuclear warhead storage area at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Washington in the early morning hours of November 2nd, All Souls Day, to call attention to the illegality and immorality of the existence of the first strike Trident weapons system. Crane and her comrades were given significant prison sentences for their nonviolent action for a world free of the threat of nuclear omnicide. […]
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