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Environment.
What’s
at stake:
Global Warming/Climate Change is the chief long-range danger to all life
on our planet; Nuclear Weapons are the chief short-range danger. --Art Hobson.
They are connected. The threats
of nuclear weapons and global warming grow because the necessary restraints—strict,
reliable regulation--are wholly inadequate for the danger, and the restraints
were created weak intentionally. “Today,
every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet will
no longer be habitable. Every man, woman
and child lives under [both] a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the
slenderest threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or
miscalculation or madness” (President Kennedy), and under the consequences of
human overpopulation, overdevelopment, overconsumption, over-production of C02,
temperature rising. All of these
conditions and causes are the result of human choices; all were within human
power to choose alternatively; but those in power and their populations chose
wars and warming. And in every aspect of
wars and warming, the US has led the way.
A major example is the US rejection of plans for the reduction,
monitoring, and elimination of nuclear weapons, as Pilisuk and Rountree explain
in The Hidden Structure of Violence. The International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) has been “helpless when faced
with a U.S. administration that is determined to develop new types of nuclear
weapons and with a willingness to consider using them in pre-emptive
strikes. If the world is to avert
nuclear war, the inspection powers of the IAEA will have to be reinforced and
made applicable universally” (29). The
same is true regarding the catastrophically rising global temperature. Regulatory rules must be sufficient to
reverse temperature rise, violating companies must be heavily fined, and
criminal corporate officers must be jailed.
See: UN Nuclear Abolition Day Newsletter June 2, UN
Hiroshima Day August 6, UN Nagasaki Day August 9, UN International Day Against
Nuclear Tests August 26, Global Zero
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Dropping "The Bomb" On Hiroshima And Nagasaki Was
Never Justified
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by Naji Dahi via TheAntiMedia.org,
August
6th and 9th of 2015 mark the 70th anniversary of the U.S. dropping two atomic
bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was the first and only time a state used
a nuclear device on cities (or civilians) of another state. Some conservative
estimates put the immediate death toll of the two bombs at 200,000 people. This
is more than the total number of American soldiers killed in the Pacific front
of World War II.
Since
the bombs were dropped, the U.S. government, U.S. high school history texts,
and the American public have asserted that dropping the bombs was necessary.
According to one review of American textbooks by Satoshi Fujita, an assistant
professor of U.S. modern history at Meiji University,
“…most
of the textbooks published by the early 1980s carried the U.S. government’s
official view that the nuclear attacks allowed the U.S. troops to avert the
invasion of Japan’s mainland and minimize American casualties, thus
contributing to an early conclusion of the war.”
American
politicians have continued to espouse this view. Primary among them was Harry
S. Truman, the one-term president responsible for making the decision to drop
the bombs in August of 1945. In his 1955 memoirs, Truman claimed the bombs
saved half a million American lives. Truman insisted he felt no remorse and
bragged that “he never lost any sleep over that decision,” while simultaneously
referring to the Japanese as “savages, ruthless, merciless, and fanatic.” By
1991, George H.W. Bush claimed dropping the bombs saved millions of American
lives. Historian Peter Kuznick sums up the ever-increasing number of American
lives saved due to these actions:
“…from
the War Department’s 1945 prediction of 46,000 dead to Truman’s 1955 insistence
that General George Marshall feared losing a half million American lives to
Stimson’s 1947 claim of over 1,000,000 casualties to George H.W. Bush’s 1991 defense
of Truman’s ‘tough calculating decision, [which] spared millions of American
lives,’[11] to the 1995 estimate of a crew member on Bock’s Car, the plane that
bombed Nagasaki, who asserted that the bombing saved six million lives—one
million Americans and five million Japanese.”
Twenty
years ago (the 50th anniversary of the bombings) when the Smithsonian Museum
tried to create a thought-provoking display about Enola Gay (the plane that
dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima), the Senate threw a temper tantrum and
passed a resolution condemning the move. The resolution stated that
“…the
Enola Gay during World War II was momentous in helping to bring World War II to
a merciful end, which resulted in saving the lives of Americans and Japanese.”
Of
course, none of these figures about saved American lives are true. When
President Truman was contemplating dropping the bomb, he consulted a panel of
experts on the number of American soldiers that would be killed if the U.S.
launched an invasion of the two main Japanese islands. According to historian
Christian Appy,
“[Truman]
did…ask a panel of military experts to offer an estimate of how many Americans
might be killed if the United States launched the two major invasions of the
Japanese home islands…Their figure: 40,000 – far below the half-million he
would cite after the war. ”[emphasis added]
Americans
are socialized to believe that dropping the bombs was necessary to end the war.
As recently as January 2015, a Pew poll found that 56% of Americans believed
dropping the two atomic devices was justified. Only 34% said it was not
justified. This American attitude is understandable given the downplaying of
Japanese deaths and the exaggeration of American lives saved in high school
history books.
In
spite of this public perception, dropping the nuclear bombs was totally
unnecessary from a military standpoint. America’s leading generals voiced their
concerns before and after the bombs were dropped. General Eisenhower, Supreme
Commander of the Allied Forces in Western Europe, reacted to the news in a way
that contradicts politicians’ narratives:
“During
his [Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson] recitation of the relevant facts, I had
been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave
misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and
that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I
thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a
weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to
save American lives ,” he said. [emphasis added]
General
Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific, was not
even consulted about the use of the bomb. He was only notified two days before
the first bomb was dropped. When he was informed he thought “‘…it was
completely unnecessary from a military point of view.’ MacArthur said that the
war might ‘end sooner than some think.’ The Japanese were ‘already beaten.’”
Tough,
cigar-smoking “hawk,” General Curtis LeMay—who was responsible for the
firebombing of Japanese cities—was also disappointed with the decision to drop
the bomb. In an exchange with reporters he said,
“The
war would have been over in two weeks without the Russians entering and without
the atomic bomb. [emphasis added]”
“You
mean that, sir? Without the Russians and the atomic bomb?” one journalist
asked.
“The
atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all,” LeMay replied.
Admiral
Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, sent out the following
public statement: “The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely
military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan [emphasis added].”
While
Eisenhower, MacArthur, LeMay, and Nimitz believed the dropping of the bombs to
be unnecessary, Chief of Staff Admiral William D. Leahy went even further,
insisting that even the contemplated invasion of Japan was unnecessary to end
the war. He said,
“I
was unable to see any justification…for an invasion of an already thoroughly
defeated Japan. My conclusion, with which the naval representatives agreed, was
that America’s least expensive course of action was to continue to intensify
the air and sea blockade…I believe that a completely blockaded Japan would then
fall by its own weight. [emphasis added]”
At
the conclusion of the war in the Pacific, President Truman appointed a panel of
1000 experts to study the conflict. One third of the experts were civilians and
two-thirds were military. The panel issued its report, entitled “United States
Strategic Bombing Survey”—a 108 volume publication on the Pacific front. The
survey makes the following damning conclusion about the necessity of dropping
the the atomic bombs and invading Japan:
“Nevertheless,
it seems clear that, even without the atomic bombing attacks, air supremacy
over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional
surrender and obviate the need for invasion. Based on a detailed investigation
of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese
leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31
December 1945,…Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not
been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion
had been planned or contemplated. [emphasis added]”
Even
the Japanese leaders knew they were defeated. They were even secretly willing
to negotiate an unconditional surrender. According to the survey, there was
“…a
plan to send Prince Konoye to Moscow as a special emissary with instructions
from the cabinet to negotiate for peace on terms less than unconditional
surrender, but with private instructions from the Emperor to secure peace at
any price.”
If
dropping the bombs was not necessary, and if Japan was even willing to
contemplate an unconditional surrender, then why were the bombs dropped at all?
One reason referenced by several historians was to project American power
against the future enemy in the Cold War, the U.S.S.R. As the Christian Science
Monitor noted in 1992,
“Gregg
Herken…observes…that ‘responsible traditional as well as revisionist accounts
of the decision to drop the bomb now recognize that the act had behind…’a
possible diplomatic advantage concerning Russia.’ Yale Prof. Gaddis Smith
writes: ‘It has been demonstrated that the decision to bomb Japan was centrally
connected to Truman’s confrontational approach to the Soviet Union.’”[emphasis
added]
Secondly,
there was a rather large incentive to use the bomb—to test its effectiveness.
On that subject, the most succinct quote comes from Admiral William F. Halsey,
Jr., Commander U.S. Third Fleet. He said, “[The scientists] had this toy and
they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it. . . . It killed a lot of Japs,
but the Japs had put out a lot of peace feelers through Russia long before.”
According
to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Manhattan Project
(the project to build the bomb) cost the U.S. an estimated $1,889,604,000 (in
1945 dollars) through December 31, 1945. That comes out to $25,051,739,964.00
in today’s dollars. The Center goes on to add:
“Weapons
were created to be used. By 1945, the bombing of civilians was already an
established practice. In fact, the earlier U.S. firebombing campaign of Japan,
which began in 1944, killed an estimated 315,922 Japanese, a greater number
than the estimated deaths attributed to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.”
From
a purely numbers perspective, the detonation of the atomic bombs killed fewer
people than the firebombing of the 67 Japanese cities with napalm. The sick
logic of war is this: having killed close to 316,000 Japanese people by
firebombing cities, killing 100,000-200,000 more is just as justifiable.
It
is clear from the recitation of some of the evidence that the dropping of the
atomic bombs was not necessary to end the war. It was not necessary to obviate
the U.S. invasion of Japan (which in and of itself was not necessary) and it
was not necessary for an unconditional surrender.
It
is time for the United States to stop believing that the infamous nuclear
attacks were justified. On that front, there is some hope. Back in 1991, 63% of
Americans believed dropping the bombs was justified, compared to 56% today.
Clearly, the numbers are heading in the right direction.
The
U.S. government could easily nudge public opinion in the appropriate direction
by issuing a public apology for the dropping of these weapons of mass
destruction on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The U.S. is capable of
doing this. In 1988, the U.S. Senate voted to compensate Japanese Americans for
interning them during WWII. In 1993, President Bill Clinton signed a formal
letter of apology. The U.S. did the right thing by apologizing to Japanese
Americans. It is time to extend this apology to the entire Japanese nation.
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Dear friend,
Today, as we consider the echoes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Global Zero members all over the world are doing something extraordinary.
In a global act of remembrance, they’re showing up, taking action and demanding world leaders take urgent steps to eliminate nuclear weapons.In 26 cities worldwide, these committed activists are raising awareness of the devastating humanitarian impact a nuclear weapon would have in their communities. Some are biking around the perimeter of a nuclear blast. Others are walking it. All are calling attention to the fact that, 70 years after nuclear weapons were unleashed on Japan, everything we hold dear is still at risk of unspeakable catastrophe. That we are always on the brink.
Today, as we consider the echoes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Global Zero members all over the world are doing something extraordinary.
In a global act of remembrance, they’re showing up, taking action and demanding world leaders take urgent steps to eliminate nuclear weapons.In 26 cities worldwide, these committed activists are raising awareness of the devastating humanitarian impact a nuclear weapon would have in their communities. Some are biking around the perimeter of a nuclear blast. Others are walking it. All are calling attention to the fact that, 70 years after nuclear weapons were unleashed on Japan, everything we hold dear is still at risk of unspeakable catastrophe. That we are always on the brink.
We’re also mobilizing on Twitter to demand urgent action to #EliminateNukes. If you aren’t able to participate in today’s demonstrations on the ground, I hope you’ll stand in solidarity online.
You can follow the action all day on Twitter at the hashtag #EliminateNukes.
Or you can see what your allies in the movement are up to on Facebook by searching for #EliminateNukes.
friend, 70 years is too long to live in the nuclear shadow. The only way we can guarantee the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are never repeated is to eliminate nuclear weapons. Everywhere.
We can make that happen, but only if we speak loud enough to cut through the noise and get our leaders’ attention. That’s why I’m asking you to take part in this global day of action and solidarity. Please add your voice to our call for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
Thank you for everything you do to keep us moving forward.
Fight on,
Derek Johnson
Executive Director
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The historical importance of these anniversaries is of
special significance because we must maintain the collective
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The Marshall Islands plans to submit its brief at the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals next Monday, July 13. This marks a big step forward in
their lawsuit against the United States as the case moves to a higher-profile
court. We will be in touch on Monday as soon as the brief is filed so
that you can read the brief, see sample media materials and social media posts.
In the meantime, there have been a couple of stories in the media
that may be of interest to you.
1. Times of India covers Nuclear Zero Lawsuit
The Times of India published an article about
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Justice. The article mentions India's two requests for extensions to file a
reply Memorial at the ICJ and some basic details of the case against India.
2. Runit Dome in the news
Last week, The Guardian published an in-depth piece on
Runit Dome, the concrete dome on Runit Island that houses some 111,000 cubic
yards of radioactive debris left behind after 12 years of U.S. nuclear weapons
testing in the Marshall Islands.
The dome is already cracked and leaking, and rising sea levels
threaten to unleash the radioactive contents of the dome into the Pacific
Ocean. The U.S. government claims that the dome and its contents are now the
responsibility of the Marshall Islands.
While the issue of Runit Dome does not directly relate to the
Nuclear Zero Lawsuits, it once again illustrates why the Marshall Islands has
undertaken this bold legal initiative. They have experienced firsthand the
devastating human and environmental consequences of nuclear weapons and want to
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Dear
friend,
This Sunday marks 70 years since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
Global Zero members all over the world are coming together in solidarity to send a strong message to our world leaders: 70 years is too long to live in fear of nuclear annihilation.
In 26 cities in 5 countries on 3 continents, our members will be circling the perimeter of the Nagasaki bomb blast on foot and by bike to symbolize what a nuclear catastrophe would look like in their communities. It will be a powerful reminder that nuclear weapons are designed to wipe entire cities off the map.
Here's one thing that you can do right now to show your support: Send a tweet on Sunday, August 9 in solidarity.
Join our tweet-a-thon: Use this tool to schedule a tweet or a Facebook post for Sundayusing the hashtag #EliminateNukes.
This Sunday marks 70 years since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
Global Zero members all over the world are coming together in solidarity to send a strong message to our world leaders: 70 years is too long to live in fear of nuclear annihilation.
In 26 cities in 5 countries on 3 continents, our members will be circling the perimeter of the Nagasaki bomb blast on foot and by bike to symbolize what a nuclear catastrophe would look like in their communities. It will be a powerful reminder that nuclear weapons are designed to wipe entire cities off the map.
Here's one thing that you can do right now to show your support: Send a tweet on Sunday, August 9 in solidarity.
Join our tweet-a-thon: Use this tool to schedule a tweet or a Facebook post for Sundayusing the hashtag #EliminateNukes.
This tool allows people from all over the world to schedule the same post on social media for a designated time, and then sends the post from hundreds of accounts simultaneously. It's a useful way to maximize our reach and impact on this important day.
Nuclear weapons still pose one of the most urgent threats to humanity -- and your voice can make a difference. Help send a message to world leaders: 70 years is too long.
Are you in to help us get #EliminateNukes trending this Sunday? Sign up to tweet your message in solidarity now.
Fight on,
Ryan Rastegar
Digital Engagement Manager
Global Zero
Global Zero is the international movement for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
Sent by GLOBAL ZERO | 1436 U Street NW, Suite 401 | Washington,
DC 20009 USA
Global Wave 2015 and Peace & Planet at the UN nuclear
non-proliferation conference
This NPT Conference
failed, (see the next entry for explanation).
But because the hopes of the NPT conference remain in the hearts and
minds of wiser people around the world, as this Newsletter shows, I have given
the following full program of the conference to enable us to get our bearings
out of both the good and the bad of the conference. --Dick
NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
TREATY CONFERENCE HOPES
Nuclear abolition call is highlighted in the
conference draft agreement!
With one
week to go in the month-long deliberations of governments at theNon-Proliferation
Treaty Review Conference in New York, Global Wave
2015 and the Peace and Planet on Friday May 15
organised a presentation at the United Nations to promote their call for governments to agree to a plan for the
prohibition and complete elimination of nuclear weapons.
The UN
event:
- highlighted
the 7 million signatures on the nuclear abolition petition Peace and
Planet presented to the President of the NPT Review Conference on April
26,
- discussed
the connections between nuclear abolition and other core human security
issues (such as climate change, poverty, unemployment, war and human
rights),
- re-stated
the importance of governments agreeing to a concrete plan to abolish
nuclear weapons,
- reported
on youth actions for nuclear abolition, and
- showed videos and photos from
Global Wave actions around the world.
Previously,
in the opening weeks of the NPT Conference, Peace and Planetpresented to one of the main plenaries,
tweeted photos and videos of Global Wave actions from countries as the foreign
ministers or other representatives of those countries spoke, met informally
with government representatives to advocate for nuclear abolition, and presented
to a number of side events.
The
majority of governments at the conference support the nuclear abolition call,
and are promoting the abolition of nuclear weapons in the deliberations and in
the disarmament section of the draft outcome
document.
The draft
disarmament section calls on nuclear weapon States to take immediate steps to
reduce nuclear stockpiles (page 7, para 5), end modernisation of nuclear
weapons (page 7, para 6), reduce the role of nuclear weapons (para 7), and
remove of all nuclear weapons from high alert levels (para 9). The draft
also calls on States to engage in an inclusive process within the United
Nations to explore and develop the legal framework to achieve and maintain a
nuclear weapon free world.
Launch of Global Wave 2015 at Peace and Planet rally in New York
UNFOLD ZERO,
a partner campaign to Peace and Planet, held a side-event on Thursday,
outlining the ways in which the abolition of nuclear weapons can be, and is
being, facilitated and supported through various UN bodies and initiatives.
These
include promotion of a nuclear weapons convention by
the UN General Assembly and the UN
Secretary-General, putting legal pressure on the nuclear weapon States through
the International Court of Justice, hosting deliberations and negotiations
through a UN General Assembly process, deciding to hold
a high-level conference on nuclear disarmament (similar to a UN Summit), criminalising nuclear weapons through the
International Criminal Court, and building public engagement and support
through the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear
Weapons.
There is
still one week to go in the NPT Review Conference. The nuclear weapon States
are already opposing some of the draft text. And even if the text is adopted,
it does not mean that the nuclear weapon States will implement it quickly. They
have, for example, done very little to implement the more modest agreements
from the 2010 NPT Review Conference – leading the Marshall Islands to launch cases in
the International Court of Justice against the nuclear armed
States challenging the lack of implementation of disarmament obligations.
However,
civil society actions including Global Wave and Peace and Planet have
definitely had a positive impact at this important international conference,
challenging the nuclear weapons states and giving support to the non-nuclear
States.
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For more
information see:
- List
of Global Wave 2015 actions around the world and
links to photos of these;
- Playlist
of Global Wave 2015 videos;
- World
Map of Global Wave actions;
- News
stories of interesting actions.
Events
Screenings in various locations
in Switzerland during the week September 21-26
Directed by Peter Anthony
Featuring: Stanislav Petrov, Kevin Costner, Sergey Shnrynov, Matt Damon, Natalia Vdovina & Robert de Niro
Featuring: Stanislav Petrov, Kevin Costner, Sergey Shnrynov, Matt Damon, Natalia Vdovina & Robert de Niro
On the night of September 26, 1983, Stanislav
Petrov disobeyed military protocol and probably prevented a nuclear holocaust.
He says that he is not a hero. 'I was just in the right place at the right
time.' You decide!
Wave goodbye to nukes! 24 hours of actions in
capitals and other cities around the world April 26-27, 2015
Framework Forum roundtable
Monday September 8, 2014, 13:00 – 18:00
Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Auditoire Jaques Freymond, rue de Lausanne 132 , Geneva
By invitation only
Contact info@baselpeaceoffice.org
Monday September 8, 2014, 13:00 – 18:00
Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Auditoire Jaques Freymond, rue de Lausanne 132 , Geneva
By invitation only
Contact info@baselpeaceoffice.org
Kazakh Room (Cinema Room XIV),
Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva
September 25, 16:00 - 17:30
followed by refreshments
Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva
September 25, 16:00 - 17:30
followed by refreshments
Organised by UNFOLD ZERO and the Basel Peace
Office
Hosted by the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs
Hosted by the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs
A UN pass is required to attend.
Contact info@unfoldzero.org
18 August to 15 October 2014
Oberer Rheinweg, Basel, Between Mittlere Brücke (Middle Bridge) and Wettstein Bridge
Oberer Rheinweg, Basel, Between Mittlere Brücke (Middle Bridge) and Wettstein Bridge
Late October until early December 2014
Theatrestrasse, Basel. From Elizabethenkirche to Barfusserplatz
Theatrestrasse, Basel. From Elizabethenkirche to Barfusserplatz
Sunday August 17, 6pm – 9pm
Im Fluss stage on the Rhine
Oberer Rheinweg, Basel
Free
Im Fluss stage on the Rhine
Oberer Rheinweg, Basel
Free
PLAYforRIGHTS presents a
Youth Music Performance to commemorate World Humanitarian Day
A range of live music featuring ERROR 404
brass band ensemble from Musik Akademie Basel
July 4 - 5
Basel, Switzerland
Hosted by Guy Morin, President of the Basel-Stadt Canton
Organised by the Basel Peace Office
Basel, Switzerland
Hosted by Guy Morin, President of the Basel-Stadt Canton
Organised by the Basel Peace Office
Mayors, parliamentarians and civil society!
Join us in Basel to share initiatives, network with others and advance the cooperative security framework for peace, prosperity and nuclear disarmament.
Join us in Basel to share initiatives, network with others and advance the cooperative security framework for peace, prosperity and nuclear disarmament.
Chernobyl exhibition and the Rhine
Kleinbasel, Basel
Sunday April 13, afternoon
Kleinbasel, Basel
Sunday April 13, afternoon
With Basel Peace Office and Environmental
Award laureates participating in the 3rd International
Convention of Environmental Laureates.
13:00: Photo exhibition of Chernobyl nuclear
disaster
by Alexander Hofmann
Basel Art Center, Riehentorstrasse 33, Basel
Discounted group rate 15 CHF (normal entry is 22 CHF)
by Alexander Hofmann
Basel Art Center, Riehentorstrasse 33, Basel
Discounted group rate 15 CHF (normal entry is 22 CHF)
13:50 Lunch
Merian Spitz Cafe, Rheingasse 2
Merian Spitz Cafe, Rheingasse 2
15:30. Rhine Promenade, water-powered ferry,
Munster
RSVP to alyn@pnnd.org or +41 788 912 156
International Day of Sport for Peace and
Development
Sunday April 6, 2014
Sunday April 6, 2014
Carton Blanc photo event and short peace run/cycle in
Basel
Followed by an informal talk on peace and sport – peace bike rides
Followed by an informal talk on peace and sport – peace bike rides
3pm: Run/cycle along the Rhine from Oberer
Rheinweg (under Wettstein Bridge) to the Three Countries Corner
4pm: Carton Blanc photo event at Three Countries Corner, Dreiländereck
5pm: Light meal and talk at Restaurant Schiff
4pm: Carton Blanc photo event at Three Countries Corner, Dreiländereck
5pm: Light meal and talk at Restaurant Schiff
Contact info@baselpeaceoffice.org
Act now to encourage your country to engage
in the OEWG. Organize a public event with motive of “opening the door
to a nuclear weapons free world”!
Tuesday 21 May, 2013
13:15 – 14:45
Room XI, Building A, UN Geneva
13:15 – 14:45
Room XI, Building A, UN Geneva
Side-event of Open Ended Working
Group on Nuclear Disarmament
Group on Nuclear Disarmament
Launch of the 2nd edition of the Nuclear
Abolition Forum
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
12:30 – 14:00
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
WMO/OMM Building Avenue de la Paix 7bis, Geneva
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
12:30 – 14:00
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
WMO/OMM Building Avenue de la Paix 7bis, Geneva
Featuring:
Ambassador Urs Schmid(Switzerland)
Ambassador Nobuyasu Abe (Japan)
Jean-Marie Collin (PNND, France)
Marc Finaud (Program Adviser, GCSP)
Alyn Ware (Founder, Nuclear Abolition Forum, New Zealand)
Teresa Bergman (Researcher, Basel Peace Office)
Ambassador Urs Schmid(Switzerland)
Ambassador Nobuyasu Abe (Japan)
Jean-Marie Collin (PNND, France)
Marc Finaud (Program Adviser, GCSP)
Alyn Ware (Founder, Nuclear Abolition Forum, New Zealand)
Teresa Bergman (Researcher, Basel Peace Office)
6pm, Friday May 24
University of Basel, Lecture Hall 001
Petersgraben, Basel
University of Basel, Lecture Hall 001
Petersgraben, Basel
Featuring:
Wilson Kipketer, runner. Current world record holder for the 800 and 1000 meters (indoors).
Spokesperson for L’organisation pour la Paix par le Sport (Peace and Sport)
Paol Hansen, Special Adviser UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace
Carola Szemerey, Youth Future Project
Henk Van Nieuwenhove, Flanders Peace Field project (the 1914 Soccer Truce)
Wilson Kipketer, runner. Current world record holder for the 800 and 1000 meters (indoors).
Spokesperson for L’organisation pour la Paix par le Sport (Peace and Sport)
Paol Hansen, Special Adviser UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace
Carola Szemerey, Youth Future Project
Henk Van Nieuwenhove, Flanders Peace Field project (the 1914 Soccer Truce)
US BLOCKS UN NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION TREATY CONFERENCE AND MIDDLE
EAST NUCLEAR FREE ZONE, Google Search, July 9, 2015
2.
U.N. nuclear conference collapses over WMD-free zone in
...
www.washingtonpost.com/.../un-nuclear...free.../2015... The Washington Post
May 22, 2015 - U.N. nuclear conference collapses over WMD-free zone in the Middle East ... Discussions this month ranged beyond the Middle East — from the
conflict ... Between March 2014 and March 2015, both Russia and the
United States ... atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in August, said Beatrice
Fihn ...
3.
Global Wave 2015 and Peace & Planet at the UN nuclear
...
www.baselpeaceoffice.org/.../global-wave-2015-and-peace-planet-un-nu...
Sunday August 17, 6pm – 9pm ... With one week to go in the month-long deliberations of
governments at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review ... to explore and develop
the legal framework to achieve and maintain a nuclear weapon free world.
4.
US Stops UN Effort to Create Middle East Nuclear Free
Zone
www.veteranstoday.com/2015/.../us-stops-un-effort-to-create-middle-eas...
US Stops UN Effort to Create Middle East Nuclear Free Zone. Posted by Bob Johnson on May 26, 2015. On Friday the US stopped
a United Nation's effort to ...
5.
Requiem for the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Nuclear
...
www.globalresearch.ca/requiem-for-the-nuclear-non...nuclear.../5461006
2 days ago - August, 2015 marks 70 years since the atomic bomb was
dropped on the ... On the evening of May 22, 2015, after almost a month of grueling and ... of Nuclear Weapons,
stalemating efforts to fulfill the United Nations Charter ... behalf of Peace and Planet
Mobilization for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful,
Just and ...
WORLD URANIUM SYMPOSIUM:
LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND. Nukewatch Quarterly (Summer 2015).
The
gathering in Quebec City called for a worldwide ban on uranium exploration,
mining, milling, and processing, and a halt to reprocessing of radioactive
waste. The communique recommended
phasing out nuclear power and expansion of renewable energy For the full Communique: http://uranium2015.com/en/news/quebec-declaration-uranium
Dick
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND US CONGRESS
CUT THE WASTEFUL BUDGET
Sen. Markey & Rep. Blumenauer Introduce Bicameral Legislation to Cut $100 Billion from Wasteful Nuclear Weapons Budget. Monday, March 23, 2015
Sen. Markey & Rep. Blumenauer Introduce Bicameral Legislation to Cut $100 Billion from Wasteful Nuclear Weapons Budget. Monday, March 23, 2015
Sen. Markey & Rep. Blumenauer Introduce Bicameral ...
www.markey.senate.gov/.../sen-markey-and-rep-blu... United States Senate
Mar 23, 2015 - The United States spends more money on nuclear weapons than all other ... Washington (March 23, 2015) – As Congressional
Republicans remain ... Friends Committee on National Legislation, Georgia WAND, Global Green ...
Pope Francis’ Latest Mission: Stopping Nuclear Weapons
April 10, 2015
Getty ImagesPope
Francis attends a private audience with President of Slovakia Andrej Kiska at
the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, Vatican, on April 9, 2015.
The
U.S. State Department is revving up its efforts to work with the Holy See
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The Vatican has long
opposed nuclear weapons, but Pope Francis is making the cause one of the top
diplomatic priorities of his two-year-old papacy.
In December, the
Vatican submitted a paper calling for total nuclear disarmament to the Vienna
Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. In January, Pope
Francis touted nuclear disarmament as a major goal alongside climate change in
his speech to the Vatican’s diplomatic corps. And on Easter Sunday, he publicly
prayed that the prospective multi-nation deal to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons
program would be “a definitive step toward a more secure and fraternal world.”
Many observers
expect the Pope to raise the topic in his speech to the United Nations in
September, especially as that event also commemorates the 50th anniversary of
Pope Paul VI’s historic U.N. speech calling for “never again war, never again
war.”
“Pope Francis has
recently pushed the moral argument against nuclear weapons to a new level, not
only against their use but also against their possession,” Archbishop Bernedito
Auza, the Holy See’s Ambassador to the U.N., says. “Today there is no more
argument, not even the argument of deterrence used during the Cold War, that
could ‘minimally morally justify’ the possession of nuclear weapons. The ‘peace
of a sort’ that is supposed to justify nuclear deterrence is specious and
illusory.”
The Vatican push
on nuclear weapons comes as the United States is in the final stages of
negotiating a deal with Iran and as 190 parties that have supported the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty prepare for its five-year review. The upcoming NPT
RevCon, as the U.N. treaty review conference is called, is the first NPT review
during the Francis papacy, and Francis’ voice is already adding moral and
political weight to the conversation. The Holy See, a party to the Treaty, has
opposed the possession and use of nuclear weapons since the beginning of the
nuclear age.
The Holy See is
“very concerned,” Auza adds, about nuclear-capable states’ commitment to
disarmament, arguing that the central promise of the treaty remains
unfulfilled. “The fact that nuclear-possessing States not only have not
dismantled their nuclear arsenals but are modernizing them lies at the heart of
nuclear proliferation,” he says. “It perpetuates the ‘injustice’ in the NPT
regime, which was supposed to be temporary while nuclear disarmament was in
progress…. how could we reasonably convince the pre-NPT non-nuclear countries
not to acquire or develop nuclear arms capabilities? Now, the real and present
danger that non-state actors, like terrorist and extremist organizations, could
acquire nuclear weapons ‘in the black market’ and ‘not-so-black market,’ ‘in
the back alleys’ and ‘not-so-back alleys’ should terrify us all.”
On Thursday, two
events on opposite sides of the planet signaled Pope Francis’ diplomatic reach
ahead of the NPT review. In New York at the United Nations’ headquarters, the
Holy See’s Mission to the U.N. and the Global Security Institute hosted a
conference of diplomats and interfaith partners to promote the abolition of
nuclear weapons. At the Vatican, a United States diplomatic delegation was
courting Catholic Church leaders on President Obama’s commitment to nuclear
disarmament.
Under Secretary
of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller has
picked up on the Vatican’s keen interest in nuclear disarmament and has made it
a priority to engage the Holy See. Gottemoeller first visited the Vatican in
January to discuss arms control and nonproliferation issues with several
counterparts. In late March, the State Department invited the Holy See to
participate as an observer in its new disarmament verification initiative, the International
Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification. This week, Gottemoeller
returned to the Vatican with Madelyn Creedon, the Department of Energy’s
principal deputy administrator for the National Nuclear Security
Administration, for a two-day diplomatic visit.
Gottemoeller’s
efforts have centered on briefing the Vatican on the United States’ disarmament
agenda. She has been working to reach highest-level counterparts, as well as
technical experts and non-governmental experts. “President Obama from the very
beginning of his term in office has been very clear that his goal is to proceed
with nuclear disarmament,” she says. “People think sometimes that that is just
a kind of propaganda slogan out there without a lot of ‘there’ there, so I
wanted to make sure that our Vatican counterparts knew the degree to which the
President’s Prague initiative has become substantively a very significant part
of our national policy.”
The United States
knows the political capital Pope Francis holds when it comes to national and
international decision-making. Most notably, the White House credited Francis
for his role in brokering the U.S.-Cuba deal in December. “I think there is a
huge moral impact of the Vatican on issues that relate to nuclear weapons
deterrence and the disarmament agenda overall,” Gottemoeller says. “I see it is
as a confluence of interest in a very positive sense. … You can’t just wave a
magic wand and make nuclear weapons go away. It takes hard work and it takes a
lot of very practical steps, but we can get there, and that is the President’s
message. I just hope that we will be met by patience from the community trying
to work on these issues.”
For Francis,
nuclear disarmament—like most everything—must be viewed from the position of
the poor instead of the position of the powerful. Inequality and nuclear power
are interwoven. “Spending on nuclear weapons squanders the wealth of nations,”
Pope Francis wrote to the Vienna Humanitarian Conference in December. “To
prioritize such spending is a mistake and a misallocation of resources which
would be far better invested in the areas of integral human development,
education, health and the fight against extreme poverty. When these resources
are squandered, the poor and the weak living on the margins of society pay the
price.”
The United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has also been deepening its theological
and political attention to disarmament. Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces, New
Mexico, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on International Justice and Peace,
spoke at the Holy See’s U.N. panel. During the NPT RevCon, the USCCB plans to
sponsor an event with the Kroc Institute on evolving Catholic perspectives from
nuclear deterrence to disarmament. Stephen Colecchi, director of the USCCB’s
Office of International Justice and Peace, says that the USCCB is trying to
move the Holy See’s moral discussion forward in the U.S.—the USCCB had a close
relationship with the Administration during the time of the New START Treaty,
and has continued the dialogue with Gottemoeller, who is Catholic. “We
certainly urge the United States to work with Russia and we have been urging
them to separate the issue of the day, which is Ukraine, from the issue of the
decades, which is nuclear disarmament,” Colecchi says. “Deterrence is even less
stable in a multipolar world. We might ask, Are nations, including our own,
serious about nuclear disarmament if they are modernizing nuclear weapons
systems?”
After a period of
denuclearization in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union, several states in
the developing world went nuclear and events recently have further undermined
the NPT. U.N. Ambassador Libran Cabactulan of the Philippines—who was the
president of the previous NPT RevCon—flew in from Manila to speak at the Holy See’s
event at the U.N. on Thursday. “Nothing has been achieved. Nothing much,”
Cabactulan told the U.N. gathering, describing the progress of disarmament in
the last five years. “What perhaps I achieved, that was calling more on
temporal power, and maybe I failed, because in the order of things it’s the
tally sheet, what has been done. And that is why I am gratified…to have
spiritual leaders.”
Ambassador
Antonio Patriota, permanent representative of Brazil to the United Nations,
believes that Francis’ position will resonate during the NPT review conference.
“He himself coming from South America, we feel that he has a very deep
understanding of the challenges posed by inequality,” Patriota says. “His words
carry quite a bit of political weight. It is a powerful message from man of
high moral standing in a time when leadership is scarce.”
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NUKEWATCH
This organization informs us about and protests nonviolently all
aspects of nuclear dangers.
Identifies as criminals
all involved in making and spreading nuclear weapons.
Labels nuclear weapons “deterrence” a taxpayer-funded hoax.
Maintains pressure on the President to comply with the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Decries the ultimate immorality of US specific targeting plans to obliterate enemy cities, including those of friends—in offices six stories below Strategic Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha. We have about 2,200 nuclear weapons ready for the President to launch (or by accident or miscalculation).
Works for a global Treaty Ban on the production, possession, deployment, and threatened use of nuclear weapons. The US is investing in three new H-bomb factories (in TN, MO, and NM), and plans to build new warheads for the next decade, all in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Has just published a revised ed. of Nuclear Heartland calling for removal of the 450 obsolete nuclear missiles underground around the Midwest (www.nukewatchinfo.org).
Publishes Nukewatch Quarterly. The Summer 2015 number includes articles on nuclear weapons proliferation, the legal trials of nuclear resisters, storing nuclear waste, Chernobyl, Fukushima (nuclear power leads to nuclear weapons), international protests: the Abolition Movement. (nukewatch1@lakeland.ws ). –Dick
Labels nuclear weapons “deterrence” a taxpayer-funded hoax.
Maintains pressure on the President to comply with the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Decries the ultimate immorality of US specific targeting plans to obliterate enemy cities, including those of friends—in offices six stories below Strategic Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha. We have about 2,200 nuclear weapons ready for the President to launch (or by accident or miscalculation).
Works for a global Treaty Ban on the production, possession, deployment, and threatened use of nuclear weapons. The US is investing in three new H-bomb factories (in TN, MO, and NM), and plans to build new warheads for the next decade, all in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Has just published a revised ed. of Nuclear Heartland calling for removal of the 450 obsolete nuclear missiles underground around the Midwest (www.nukewatchinfo.org).
Publishes Nukewatch Quarterly. The Summer 2015 number includes articles on nuclear weapons proliferation, the legal trials of nuclear resisters, storing nuclear waste, Chernobyl, Fukushima (nuclear power leads to nuclear weapons), international protests: the Abolition Movement. (nukewatch1@lakeland.ws ). –Dick
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