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Film: Radio Bikini
Contents 2013
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Nuclear Abolition Day
Ellsberg,
Missiles, Call President Obama
Valerie
Plame Wilson: Global Zero
Bishop
Tutu
Oliver: Cuban Missile Crisis
Chomsky:
Many Nuclear Threats
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Nuclear Abolition Day 2012. On June 2, 2012 thousands of
campaigners will demand the immediate start of negotiations for a ban on nuclear
weapons.
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Three of the world's nuclear powers -- China, India
and Pakistan -- have increased their arsenals ... Sunday Jun 02, 2013 | Hugues Honore for
Agence France Presse ... slow, according to
SIPRI, a long-time advocate of abolishing weapons of mass destruction. ...Amazon's German workers
called out for third day-long strike ...
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Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:14 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
Hi Everyone,
A fascinating recounting of a time when Daniel Ellsberg witnessed the launch of an MX missile. A large questions mark appeared in the sky. Will humanity transcend this time of fear, war and nuclear weapons? Dan then offers some thoughts on why the Vandenberg 15 were successful in protesting the Minuteman lll missiles at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Call President Obama now and insist that he dismantles this doomsday machine. 202-456-1111. Thank you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WncDJ9qK-HI
Paz, John from VETERANS FOR PEACE
A fascinating recounting of a time when Daniel Ellsberg witnessed the launch of an MX missile. A large questions mark appeared in the sky. Will humanity transcend this time of fear, war and nuclear weapons? Dan then offers some thoughts on why the Vandenberg 15 were successful in protesting the Minuteman lll missiles at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Call President Obama now and insist that he dismantles this doomsday machine. 202-456-1111. Thank you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WncDJ9qK-HI
Paz, John from VETERANS FOR PEACE
GLOBAL ZERO
A World Without Nuclear
Weapons
wenty-five years ago, President Reagan laid out a vision for a world without nuclear
weapons, and in his first term President
Obama boldly picked up that mantle - most famously in his 2009 speech in
Prague, where he announced America's commitment to eliminate all nuclear
weapons globally. There is now a unique opportunity for President Obama, in his
second term, to follow through on that commitment and set the world's course to
global zero. He can do this by pursuing further
reductions to the
This
week, Global Zero - the international movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons
- is launching a global campaign urging President Obama to do just that. And we
are calling on him to make a major announcement about this on April 5, 2013 - the fourth anniversary of
his historic Prague
As part of this campaign, we are rolling
out a short video narrated
by my fellow Global Zero leader Michael Douglas, which is being promoted by a
host of celebrities, organizations and students on social media and that we
hope the president will watch.
In
addition to the video, the campaign includes a letter to the president from approximately 75 former prime
ministers, foreign and defense ministers and military commanders; an official
declaration recently adopted by the European Parliament in support of Global Zero's
step-by-step plan to eliminate nuclear weapons; and a grassroots petition appealing directly to the president.
We believe that President Obama wants to
make good on his commitment to seek a world without nuclear weapons and elevate
it to be a legacy issue of his presidency - but he is facing a host of other
pressing problems in the world and he needs to hear urgent support for
eliminating nuclear weapons.
The Global Zero movement is supported by
hundreds of respected national security and military leaders from around the
world who understand that nuclear
weapons do not address today's security threats - and a powerful grassroots
movement that's led by the world's first post-Cold War generation, which rejects absolutely the 20th century idea of
basing national security on the threat of mass destruction.
Years
from now, when the last nuclear bomb is dismantled, it will be because people
all over the world had the courage to demand zero - and a safer world for their
children, their grandchildren and all generations to come. Please join this
critical campaign at www.globalzero.org and join us as we call on President Obama to set the world's
course to zero.
Together, we can make history.
Nuclear Weapons Must Be Eradicated
04 March 2013 RSN
No nation should own nuclear arms - not Iran , not North Korea
e cannot intimidate others into behaving well
when we ourselves are misbehaving. Yet
that is precisely what nations armed with nuclear weapons hope to do by
censuring
Until we overcome this double standard - until we accept
that nuclear weapons are abhorrent and a grave danger no matter who possesses
them, that threatening a city with radioactive incineration is intolerable no
matter the nationality or religion of its inhabitants - we are unlikely to make
meaningful progress in halting the spread of these monstrous devices, let alone
banishing them from national arsenals.
Why, for instance, would a proliferating state pay heed to
the exhortations of the US
and Russia ,
which retain thousands of their nuclear warheads on high alert? How can Britain , France
and China
expect a hearing on non-proliferation while they squander billions modernising
their nuclear forces? What standing has Israel
to urge Iran
not to acquire the bomb when it harbours its own atomic arsenal?
Nuclear weapons do not discriminate; nor should our leaders.
The nuclear powers must apply the same
standard to themselves as to others: zero nuclear weapons. Whereas the
international community has imposed blanket bans on other weapons with
horrendous effects - from biological and chemical agents to landmines and
cluster munitions - it has not yet done so for the very worst weapons of all.
Nuclear weapons are still seen as legitimate in the hands of some. This must
change.
Around 130
governments, various UN agencies, the Red Cross and the International Campaign
to Abolish Nuclear Weapons are gathering in Oslo this week to examine the catastrophic
consequences of nuclear weapons and the inability of relief agencies to provide
an effective response in the event of a nuclear attack. For too long, debates
about nuclear arms have been divorced from such realities, focusing instead on
geopolitics and narrow concepts of national security.
With enough public pressure, I believe that governments can
move beyond the hypocrisy that has stymied multilateral disarmament discussions
for decades, and be inspired and persuaded to embark on negotiations for a
treaty to outlaw and eradicate these ultimate weapons of terror. Achieving such
a ban would require somewhat of a revolution in our thinking, but it is not out
of the question. Entrenched systems can be turned on their head almost
overnight if there's the will.
Let us not forget that it was only a few years ago when
those who spoke about green energy and climate change were considered peculiar.
Now it is widely accepted that an environmental disaster is upon us. There was
once a time when people bought and sold other human beings as if they were mere
chattels, things. But people eventually came to their senses. So it will be the
case for nuclear arms, sooner or later.
Indeed, 184 nations have already made a legal undertaking
never to obtain nuclear weapons, and three in four support a universal ban. In
the early 1990s, with the collapse of apartheid nigh, South Africa
voluntarily dismantled its nuclear stockpile, becoming the first nation to do
so. This was an essential part of its transition from a pariah state to an
accepted member of the family of nations. Around the same time, Kazakhstan , Belarus
and Ukraine
also relinquished their Soviet-era atomic arsenals.
But today nine nations still consider it their prerogative
to possess these ghastly bombs, each capable of obliterating many thousands of
innocent civilians, including children, in a flash. They appear to think that
nuclear weapons afford them prestige in the international arena. But nothing
could be further from the truth. Any nuclear-armed state, big or small,
whatever its stripes, ought to be condemned in the strongest terms for
possessing these indiscriminate, immoral weapons.
We are
concerned about a recent drift towards vitriol in the RSN Reader
comments section. There is a fine line between moderation and censorship. No
one likes a harsh or confrontational forum atmosphere. At the same time
everyone wants to be able to express themselves freely. We'll start by
encouraging good judgment. If that doesn't work we'll have to ramp up the
moderation.
General
guidelines: Avoid personal attacks on
other forum members; Avoid remarks that are ethnically derogatory; Do not
advocate violence, or any illegal activity.
Remember that
making the world better begins with responsible action.
- The RSN Team
Mr. Tutu is correct.
For the human race to thrive we need to be in Love not in fear.
Remove the evil causes of fear and we will have Harmony on Earth.
Let's realise the Oneness of All.
For the human race to thrive we need to be in Love not in fear.
Remove the evil causes of fear and we will have Harmony on Earth.
Let's realise the Oneness of All.
Thanks. This is what everyone should
demand of nuclear armed nations. The dismantling of nuclear weapons needs to
start at the top -- the most heavily armed nations. Small countries like North Korea build nuclear weapons to keep the
big nations like the US Iraq
The problem is the aggressive nations like theUS US US
TheUS Vietnam
with serious birth defects caused by all the chemical weapons the US
Thanks for this strong statement. We need more. We need a huge global outcry and boycott of theUS
The problem is the aggressive nations like the
The
Thanks for this strong statement. We need more. We need a huge global outcry and boycott of the
Remembering when they nearly blew us up
Mon Oct 22, 2012 Posted by: "vfp_chapter39" vfp_chapter39
This article appeared in the Forum Section on Sunday, 10-21, in
the
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Remembering when they nearly blew us up by Arnold Oliver
TIFFIN, Ohio -- This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban
missile crisis -- when nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the
United States was only narrowly averted.
Coincidentally, the last presidential debate for 2012 just happens to
be on foreign policy, and is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 22 -- 50 years
to the day since President John F. Kennedy's dramatic television address
to the nation which led to a week of heightened anxiety, to put it
mildly, among the people of the world. It is to be hoped that candidates
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will be asked to weigh in on the
lessons of 1962.
First, some background: The crisis developed out of the conflict over
the Cuban revolution of 1959. The Kennedy administration pulled out all
the stops in an effort to bring down the new Castro regime. Trade
sanctions, sabotage, assassinations and finally the Bay of Pigs invasion
were launched in an effort to roll back Fidel Castro's revolutionary
government, which then took a sharp turn to the left and turned to the
Soviet Union for support.
Premier Nikita Khrushchev, acutely aware ofU.S.
nuclear Jupiter
missiles based close to Soviet territory inTurkey ,
approved sending
military aid, troops and nuclear weapons toCuba
were to protect his new Cuban allies and to achieve nuclear deterrence
vis-+-vis theUnited States
very few long-range nuclear missiles.
After aU.S.
Oct. 14, the crisis rapidly escalated. When Kennedy spoke to the
nation, he demanded that the missiles be removed, and imposed a naval
blockade of the island.
We know now that the crisis was a classic example of misperception and
misunderstanding -- the fog of war in action. Soviet leaders thought
incorrectly that theUnited States
government would accept missiles in
Cuba since the United States had missiles in Turkey , on the doorstep of
theUSSR U.S. leaders did not know
that the Soviet military already had
162 nuclear warheads inCuba
submarines. Both sides thought, incorrectly, that they understood the
situation as well as the motives of the other side. They were wrong.
It seems clear in retrospect that the president was poorly served by
his top military advisers. Secret White House tapes made during the
crisis reveal that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were unanimous in pressing
for war, and hurled charges of "appeasement" in an effort to intimidate
Kennedy into launching an attack onCuba
president left the room, the joint chiefs can be heard mocking him.
It later emerged that both sides had grossly misunderstood the
situation, and nuclear war had been averted more by accident than
competent statesmanship. Robert McNamara, Kennedy's secretary of
Defense, later worked to abolish those weapons worldwide. In the end he
concluded that, unless we act, the indefinite combination of human
fallibility and nuclear weapons must at some point result in "the death
of nations."
What is perhaps most alarming about the crisis is that bothU.S.
Soviet leaders behaved as if the addition of nuclear weapons to the mix
had little impact on their handling of the crisis. In a mind-boggling
display of hubris, they allowed a dispute over a transient tactical
advantage to put at risk the fate of the entire planet, both the natural
world and human generations yet unborn.
If that sounds insane, it should. This is what Albert Einstein warned
about in 1946 when he declared that, "The unleashed power of the atom
has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift
toward unparalleled catastrophe."
Do you think either Romney or Obama would have done better than Kennedy
during the crisis? Do you trust either one of them to be stewards of
weapons quite capable of extinguishing life on the planet? Well, I
don't either. So, on this our 50th anniversary of being more lucky than
good, let us make a commitment to rid the Earth of nuclear weapons. It
can be done.
Oliver is emeritus professor of political science atHeidelberg
University in Tiffin Eureka ,
Calif.
Peace restore the Golden Rule, the very first anti-nuclear sailing
vessel.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Remembering when they nearly blew us up by Arnold Oliver
TIFFIN, Ohio -- This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban
missile crisis -- when nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the
United States was only narrowly averted.
Coincidentally, the last presidential debate for 2012 just happens to
be on foreign policy, and is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 22 -- 50 years
to the day since President John F. Kennedy's dramatic television address
to the nation which led to a week of heightened anxiety, to put it
mildly, among the people of the world. It is to be hoped that candidates
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will be asked to weigh in on the
lessons of 1962.
First, some background: The crisis developed out of the conflict over
the Cuban revolution of 1959. The Kennedy administration pulled out all
the stops in an effort to bring down the new Castro regime. Trade
sanctions, sabotage, assassinations and finally the Bay of Pigs invasion
were launched in an effort to roll back Fidel Castro's revolutionary
government, which then took a sharp turn to the left and turned to the
Premier Nikita Khrushchev, acutely aware of
missiles based close to Soviet territory in
military aid, troops and nuclear weapons to
were to protect his new Cuban allies and to achieve nuclear deterrence
vis-+-vis the
very few long-range nuclear missiles.
After a
Oct. 14, the crisis rapidly escalated. When Kennedy spoke to the
nation, he demanded that the missiles be removed, and imposed a naval
blockade of the island.
We know now that the crisis was a classic example of misperception and
misunderstanding -- the fog of war in action. Soviet leaders thought
incorrectly that the
the
162 nuclear warheads in
submarines. Both sides thought, incorrectly, that they understood the
situation as well as the motives of the other side. They were wrong.
It seems clear in retrospect that the president was poorly served by
his top military advisers. Secret White House tapes made during the
crisis reveal that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were unanimous in pressing
for war, and hurled charges of "appeasement" in an effort to intimidate
Kennedy into launching an attack on
president left the room, the joint chiefs can be heard mocking him.
It later emerged that both sides had grossly misunderstood the
situation, and nuclear war had been averted more by accident than
competent statesmanship. Robert McNamara, Kennedy's secretary of
Defense, later worked to abolish those weapons worldwide. In the end he
concluded that, unless we act, the indefinite combination of human
fallibility and nuclear weapons must at some point result in "the death
of nations."
What is perhaps most alarming about the crisis is that both
Soviet leaders behaved as if the addition of nuclear weapons to the mix
had little impact on their handling of the crisis. In a mind-boggling
display of hubris, they allowed a dispute over a transient tactical
advantage to put at risk the fate of the entire planet, both the natural
world and human generations yet unborn.
If that sounds insane, it should. This is what Albert Einstein warned
about in 1946 when he declared that, "The unleashed power of the atom
has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift
toward unparalleled catastrophe."
Do you think either Romney or Obama would have done better than Kennedy
during the crisis? Do you trust either one of them to be stewards of
weapons quite capable of extinguishing life on the planet? Well, I
don't either. So, on this our 50th anniversary of being more lucky than
good, let us make a commitment to rid the Earth of nuclear weapons. It
can be done.
Oliver is emeritus professor of political science at
Peace restore the Golden Rule, the very first anti-nuclear sailing
vessel.
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
“There are two problems
for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says
Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our
time and their points of intersection since World War II.
While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response to human-induced climate change. Denial of the facts is only half the equation. Other contributing factors include extreme techniques for the extraction of remaining carbon deposits, the elimination of agricultural land for bio-fuel, the construction of dams, and the destruction of forests that are crucial for carbon sequestration.
On the subject of current nuclear tensions, Chomsky revisits the long-established option of a nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) in theMiddle East , a proposal set in motion through a
joint Egyptian Iranian General Assembly resolution in 1974.
Intended as a warning, Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe is also a reminder that talking about the unspeakable can still be done with humor, with wit and indomitable spirit.(less)
While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response to human-induced climate change. Denial of the facts is only half the equation. Other contributing factors include extreme techniques for the extraction of remaining carbon deposits, the elimination of agricultural land for bio-fuel, the construction of dams, and the destruction of forests that are crucial for carbon sequestration.
On the subject of current nuclear tensions, Chomsky revisits the long-established option of a nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) in the
Intended as a warning, Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe is also a reminder that talking about the unspeakable can still be done with humor, with wit and indomitable spirit.(less)
Paperback, 160 pages
Published April 30th
2013 by Seven Stories Press (first
published February 12th 2013)
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