OMNI WAR WATCH
WEDNESDAYS, #141, AUGUST 30, 2023
Art Hobson. “Ending the nuclear weapons threat: USA and others must support U.N. treaty.” NWADG 22 August 2023
. . . The bad news is that, along with global warming, The
Bomb is an existential threat to civilization.
The good news is that the chances of real action on both issues are now
at an all-time high.
For global
warming, this is because the evidence is now obvious daily, making it absurd
for the fossil fuel industry to continue its decades-long propaganda campaign
supporting oil production.
For nuclear
weapons, this is because of the United Nations' "Treaty on the Prohibition
of Nuclear Weapons." It prohibits
the nations that have signed the Treaty from testing, producing, acquiring,
possessing, stockpiling, using, deploying, or threatening to use nuclear
weapons. It also prohibits providing
nuclear weapons assistance to other nations.
The UN
adopted this Treaty in 2017 with 122 nations in favor, 1 opposed, and 70 not
voting. Those opposed or not voting
included USA and the NATO nations, which slavishly follow USA in such matters.
Note that
U.N. adoption of the Treaty does not obligate any nation to abide by it. Only those nations that sign the adopted
Treaty are obligated to abide by it. To
date, 92 nations have signed.
According to
the Doomsday Clock set every year by the science and security advisors to the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the current time is 90 seconds to midnight,
a symbolic fact that brings tears to my eyes.
Will civilization survive? The
world is now in a race against this clock to induce the nine nuclear nations as
well as other nations capable of building such weapons to sign and abide by the
Treaty.
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I also want to recommend a recent essay in Harper’s Magazine (June 2023) by
Benjamin Schwarz and Christopher Layne.
“Why Are We in Ukraine? On the Dangers of American Hubris.” The article reinforces Sachs’ report in great
detail.
NO SHORTAGE OF OPPONENTS OF WAR in the print media. Multiply your peace power by joining with
other peacemakers. Choose a friend and multiply the effort.
Subscribe to a magazine. For example,
the latest no. of The Progressive Magazine contains ten articles asserting peace
against the US War Party (Democrats and Republicans), each article suggesting
actions including:
From the Editor: “Issues of Peace.” “…in this issue of The Progressive we delve deeper
into…U.S. domination and meddling in countless regions across the globe.”
David
Vine.
“Build Back (Much, Much)
Worse.” “…Biden
is undermining his own progress against humanity’s other existential
threat—climate change—by boosting spending on the world largest institutional
carbon user—the U.S. military.”
Jim
Carrier.
“Playing with Fire.”
Pres. Biden, in Japan at invitation of the Japanese P.M. Kishida to
promote a “world without nuclear weapons.”
The NYT headline from
Hiroshima on 5-19-23 declared: “Biden Pays Silent tribute to Victims of
Hiroshima Bomb.” It was a classic
example of disingenuousness, for “a new nuclear arms race is underway—more
treacherous, expensive, and unpredictable than the one the United States set in
motion seventy-eight years ago,” and The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists was set at 90 seconds to midnight—“the closest to global
catastrophe it has ever been.”
Alfred
Meyer.
“The Bipartisan Atom.” “A
new nuclear arms and energy race is full speed ahead, thanks to both sides of
the aisle” (i.e. the War Party).
