Washington’s secret Doomsday plans
Attorney General Ed Meese arrived at Andrews Air Force Base before dawn on June 18, 1986, one of dozens of officials and staff from the Pentagon, State Department, White House,…
The new reality : Ray Acherson
Nuclear Ban Daily, Vol. 2, No. 15 The new reality Ray Acheson 8 July 2017 Yesterday, we banned nuclear weapons. It’s still hard to believe this is the case. It…
Democracy Breaks Out at the UN as 122 Nations Vote to Ban the Bomb
We are witnessing a striking shift in the global paradigm of how the world views nuclear weapons. By Alice Slater On July 7, 2017, at a UN Conference mandated by…
A rebuttal to critics of the nuclear weapon ban treaty
EXPERT COMMENTARY 24 JULY 2017 Nick RitchieSenior Lecturer in international securityDepartment of Politics, University of York In their Bulletin article of July 16, Scott Sagan and Benjamin Valentino critique the…
AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY : FANTASIZING ABOUT NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
by N.D.Jayaprakash “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride!” If wishful thinking was all that mattered, the poor could have wished away poverty by merely passing a resolution…