Editor’s Note: This is a Letter to the Editor from a Ground Zero member. It was published on May 27, 2022 in the Kitsap Sun newspaper. ***************** Nuclear weapons aren’t an investment ‘New subs will bring new investments'( Kitsap Sun, May 24) seems like a deal with the devil. An investment in instruments of mass destruction and the infrastructure with which to maintain them strikes me as unsound, immoral, and illegal under international law and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. We, the taxpayers of the United States, are being told to spend $1.2 trillion, desperately needed for […]
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Ditch The Nukes: It’s The (INTERNATIONAL) Law!!!
Editor’s Note: This post is an edited and expanded version of a Paid Public Service Announcement, written by Ground Zero’s Glen Milner, run in the Kitsap Sun newspaper on January 16, 2022. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination. It was adopted on July 7,2017, opened for signature on September 20, 2017, and entered into force on January 22, 2021. The (TPNW) outlaws not only the use of nuclear weapons, but everything to do with nuclear weapons, making […]
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the World’s Future
By Lawrence S. Wittner [Dr. Lawrence S. Wittner (https://www.lawrenceswittner.com/ ) is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press).] Late January of this year will mark the first anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This momentous international agreement, the result of a lengthy struggle by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and by many non-nuclear nations, bans developing, testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, and threatening to use nuclear weapons. Adopted by an overwhelming vote of the official representatives of […]
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Activists around Puget Sound are Bannering for Nuclear Abolition Now!
Peace activists from grass-roots organizations in and around the Puget Sound region of Washington State will be bannering this week on and around the International Day of Peace (September 21st) and the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (September 26th). The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire. The 2021 theme for the International Day of Peace is “Recovering better for an equitable and sustainable world.” The UN General […]
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Mother’s Day Weekend Nuclear Resisters Have Their Day in Court
Reporting and court photos by Mary Gleysteen Four people cited in a Mother’s Day weekend demonstration at the Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor, Washington appeared before a judge in Kitsap District Court on July 27th. Five activists had entered the highway on May 8th carrying two large banners stating,“CONGRESS WANTS $1 TRILLION FOR NUKES–What will be left for our children” and “TRIDENT THREATENS ALL LIFE ON EARTH” and blocked all incoming traffic at the Main Gate at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor for about 20 minutes before they were removed from the highway by the Washington State Patrol. They were cited for violating […]
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