OMNI
UN NUCLEAR
ABOLITION DAY
JUNE 2, 2022
Compiled by
Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
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Notable dates for your calendar:
August
is Nuclear Free Future Month.
JULY 7 United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was
adopted on the 7th July 2017, acceded
by 122 State Parties.
TEXTS
Google Search Nuclear Abolition Day June 2, 2022
2022 Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact ... - BMEIA
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The 2022 Vienna Conference on the
Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons (HINW22Vienna)
will take place on 20 June 2022 in
the Austria Center Vienna.
Growing Nuclear Danger Represents A Call to
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Conference Primer: Disarmament / Guide de
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UNIDIR
Discovery Day, 16 June 2022 ... Treaty on the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons –
Meeting of States Parties ... UN Geneva News, 2 March 2022.
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UNODA ...
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meeting › tpnw-msp-1-2022
21
to 23 June 2022 in
Vienna, Austria. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force
on 22 January 2021. Article 8, paragraph 2 ...
Nuclear Calendar | Friends Committee On National
Legislation
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International
Women's Day for Peace and Disarmament is on the 24th of
May, 2022 this year.
Therefore, Youth Fusion would like to celebrate by hosting a ...
Anti-Nuclear Weapons Organizations cited below: Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists, Global Zero, The Catholic Worker, The Guardian, ICAN,
NukeWatch Quarterly, Transcend Media Services, Z Magazine
NUCLEAR
RISK
“Nuclear Notebook: How many nuclear weapons does the US have in 2022?
“ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (5-12-22).
United
States nuclear weapons are thought to be stored at an estimated 24
locations in 11 US states and five European countries. Hans M. Kristensen and
Matt Korda provide estimates on the size of the US nuclear arsenal. Read more.
“A world beyond nuclear weapons.”
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LET’S GO BACK
A FEW YEARS
2017-2018
NUKEWATCH
QUARTERLY (SPRING 2018), pub. by the Progressive Foundation, about 14 articles plus a page of shorts. Sampling of contents (Dick’s annotations).
Three
articles on the NEW PENTAGON NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW. (Arkansas needs its own citizens to expose and
decry these war-mongering reviews to the public. Subscribe to this excellent peacemaking magazine.)
Editor. “New Nuclear War ‘Posture’ Degrades National
Security.” Analyzes
the euphemistic and abstract terminology amounting to gibberish in the new NPR.
Katrina
vanden Heuvel. “The Nuclear Posture Review Signals a New Arms Race.” “We
need momentum for reducing nuclear weapons, not for ‘modernizing’ them.” One of our nation’s greatest living heroes
for peace is vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation Magazine.
Ralph
Hutchison. “Panic in Hawai’i and the
Nuclear Posture Review.” The
38 minutes false alarm of a ballistic missile attack and the threatening and
belligerent posture of the NPR that increases the risk of that attack.
John
LaForge. “Military Budget Still
Unaudited, Unaccountable for Lost Trillions.” [LaForge is the distinguished nuclear
scholar and editor of NQ.]
“U.S. Wasting Billions on Nuclear Bombs That Pose Threat to NATO—Experts.” By
Julian Borger, The Guardian (Feb. 15,
2018).
Michael
Klare. “The Trump Doctrine.” Z
Magazine (Jan. 2018). On
making nuclear weapons usable again.
[Fellow subscribers to cutting-edge Z
Magazine, which published an essay by Noam Chomsky in every number, regret the demise of the magazine.]
Anthony
Donovan. “Hope for Nuclear
Abolition.” The Catholic Worker (Jan. Feb. 2018), 3. “Let us sing out from the hilltops
some of the accomplishments of 2017.”
Donovan discusses five, from the widespread celebration of MLKJr.’s
“Beyond Vietnam” speech on its 50th anniversary to the Nobel Peace
Prize awarded to ICAN for the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Google
Search (Jan.Feb. 2018).
Good Thinking
(Those Who've Tried to Halt Nuclear Weapons) on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com › Anthony Donovan › Videos
Uploaded by Anthony Donovan
Good Thinking (Those
Who've Tried to Halt Nuclear Weapons). 2 years ago More.Anthony
DonovanPlus ...
Encouragement
for: The Treaty For the Prohibition of Nuclear ... - Vimeo
https://vimeo.com › Anthony Donovan › Videos
Uploaded by Anthony Donovan
Encouragement for: The
Treaty For the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 5 months
ago More. Anthony ...
TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE » Transcending Nukes
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2017/10/transcending-nukes/
Oct 2, 2017 - All nuclear
weapons states, allies, and most NATO members boycotted the
negotiations to draft the Ban Treaty. ... A purported ban on nuclear
weapons that does not address the security concerns that continue
to make nuclear deterrence necessary
cannot result in the elimination ....Anthony
Donovan says:.
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT: An invitation to join the Catholic
Nuclear ...
https://paxchristiusa.org/.../nuclear-disarmament-an-invitation-to-join-the-catholic-nuc...
May 12, 2016 - from the
Pax Christi International Washington Working Group Please consider being part
of an important webinar on Tuesday, May 17th at 4pm (EDT) on nuclear weapon abolition and
why we as U.S. Catholics should work for it at this time. Also, please pass
this invitation to join the webinar to anyone you ...
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Media Advisory:
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
to collect Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 2017 for treaty banning nuclear
weapons. Any use of nuclear weapons would
be a humanitarian catastrophe. The treaty is the way forward for nuclear
disarmament, and shows the positive change ...
Nuclear Ban Film- Why does the Treaty matter? - Bill Kidd
MSP for ...
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Oct 4, 2017 - Filmmaker Anthony
Donovan has created a film with statements of support for the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This
treaty was adopted on the 7th July 2017, when acceded by 122
State Parties. Anthony's video, 'Encouragement For: The Treaty For the
Prohibition ofNuclear ...
2017
We just banned nuclear weapons! [HARD WORK WORKS]
JULY 7, 2017
by
https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2017/07/07/we-just-banned-nuclear-weapons/
Nuclear weapons have been banned.
Stigmatized and prohibited. That means we’re two-thirds of the
way to fulfilling the Humanitarian Pledge, which feels like it
was launched only yesterday.
It took three international conferences, two open-ended working
groups, medical and scientific evidence accumulated over some 50 or more years,
decades of selfless appeals by the Hibakusha and by the victims of nuclear
testing, a core group of states with the courage to take effective leadership,
a decisive UN resolution, four weeks of honest, good faith negotiating by
people who really and truly want to rid the world of nuclear weapons, and seven
years of intensive campaigning by ICAN…
…and nuclear weapons have been banned.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,
which was adopted today in Conference Room 1 at the United Nations by an overwhelming 122-1 vote, makes
a compelling case for the stigmatization and elimination of nuclear weapons. In fact, the language it
uses to make that case is indistinguishable from the language of doctors,
scientists, international lawyers, and others with expert knowledge of what
nuclear weapons are and the devastating harm they cause:
“[T]he
catastrophic consequences of nuclear weapons cannot be adequately addressed,
transcend national borders, pose grave implications for human survival, the
environment, socioeconomic development, the global economy, food security and
the health of current and future generations, and have a disproportionate
impact on women and girls, including as a result of ionizing radiation.”
“[A]ny
use of nuclear weapons would…be abhorrent to the principles of humanity and the
dictates of public conscience.”
“[A]
legally binding prohibition of nuclear weapons constitutes an important
contribution towards the achievement and maintenance of a world free of nuclear
weapons, including the irreversible, verifiable and transparent elimination of
nuclear weapons.”
The
sections of the treaty that spell out the prohibitions and the obligations of
the states that are party to it close the legal gap that has been exploited by
the nuclear-armed and nuclear-dependent states not only to forestall their
disarmament obligations, but also to keep nuclear weapons at the center of
their military and security policies for decades to come. The development,
testing, production, manufacture, acquisition, possession, stockpiling, use,
and threat of use of nuclear weapons have been declared illegal under this
treaty. Period.
The
nuclear-armed and nuclear-dependent states have been provided with practical
and flexible ways to comply with those prohibitions once they decide to join.
If they persist in defying the norms established by the treaty, they will be
outlaw states.
The
treaty refutes the claim made by a handful of states that they need nuclear
weapons to ensure their own security, and that humanitarian consequences must
somehow be balanced with those needs. Not only does the treaty insist that the
dangers posed by nuclear weapons “concern the security of all humanity,” but it
also calls the long-overdue elimination of nuclear weapons “a global public
good of the highest order, serving both national and collective security
interests.”
The
treaty is about more than prohibitions. It spells out the obligations and
responsibilities of its parties to work for universalization, to redress and
remediate the harm done by nuclear weapons to victims and the environment, and
to support and defend the norm of collective security in a nuclear-weapons-free
world.
Abacca
Anjain-Maddison of the Marshall Islands—a place that has experienced the
consequences of nuclear weapons first-hand—spoke on behalf of ICAN at the
conclusion of this historic conference:
“The
adoption of this landmark agreement today fills us with hope that the mistakes
of the past will never be repeated. It fills us with hope that we will pass on
to our children and grandchildren a world forever free of these awful bombs.”
Setsuko
Thurlow said at the beginning of these negotiations that the ban treaty would
“change the world.” With the successful conclusion of the negotiations, we now
have a powerful new legal, moral, and political tool to do just that. We will
have to maintain the partnership of states, international organizations, and
civil society that has brought us this far in order to use the tool we’ve
created for its intended purpose.
Nuclear
weapons have been banned. All that’s left now is to eliminate them once and for
all.
WAND
in Little Rock and OMNI provide Arkansas with a Nuclear Weapons Watch, with
some reporting on nuclear power. OMNI
publishes a newsletter Nuclear Weapons
Abolition that includes information regarding UN International Day Against
Nuclear Tests, Global Network Against Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Free Independent
Pacific, Nuclear Abolition Month August, and more. And we were the Arkansas connection via the
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation for the Marshall Islands Nuclear Nations Law Suits
(which alas failed). See Nuclear Weapons
Abolition Newsletter #21 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2015/03/nuclear-weapons-abolition-newsletter-21.html #22 in preparation.
END NUCLEAR ABOLITION DAY ANTHOLOGY JUNE 2, 2022
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