Nuclear Weapons

Israel Is Hell-Bent on Sabotaging US Nuclear Negotiations With Iran

December 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Iran, Israel, Nuclear Weapons, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Ariel Gold and Medea Benjamin, December 12, 2021 We should not forget that Iran has long advocated for a ‘nuclear free’ Middle East. However, barring that, they have no choice but to protect themselves from what is clearly an open and aggressive attack by Israel. [jb] After a 5-month hiatus, indirect negotiations between the U.S. and Iran resumed last[…]

Sleepwalking into a Nuclear Nightmare

November 30, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Nuclear Weapons, US Foreign Policy

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Consortium News, November 28, 2021 Every day there’s more propaganda banging the drums of war between nuclear-armed nations a little louder. Western media are churning out reports about Russia preparing to invade Ukraine any minute now and China preparing to invade Taiwan any minute now, saying the response to each is obviously to move a lot[…]

Digging for Peace- Resisting Nuclear Weapons

November 19, 2021 UNAC Editor Nuclear Weapons, US Meddling in Europe, War on the Earth

by Brian Terrell, published on Countercurrents, November 18, 2021 On Wednesday, October 20, I joined “Vrede Scheppen,” “Create Peace,” about 25 peace activists from the Netherlands, Germany and Austria at the airbase at Volkel, Netherlands, making a plea for an end to nuclear weapons. This base is home to two Dutch F16 fighter wings and the United States Air Force[…]

Anti Nuke Activism in the Netherlands

November 13, 2021 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Nuclear Weapons

By Ann Wright and Brian Terrell, published on Ann’s FB Page The great peace and anti-assassin drone activist Brian Terrell is back on the farm in Iowa after three weeks in the Netherlands and Germany. This is a brief report on his trip to bring attention to US nuclear weapons in the Netherlands and assassin drone connections in Germany: In[…]

Hiroshima-Nagasaki: The Story They Want Us to Forget

August 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Nuclear Weapons, Propaganda, US Government Action

by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, August 5, 2021 The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the barren plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto (day of the dead). US President Harry[…]

UNAC Statement on Nuclear Weapons: Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 4, 2021 UNAC Editor Featured, Nuclear Weapons, Statement

UNAC Statement, August 4, 2021 On August 6, we will once again recognize one of the most horrendous events ever to take place in human history. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the largely residential city of Hiroshima. Three days later they dropped a second nuclear bomb on the city of Nagasaki. As many[…]

The Rising Threat Of Nuclear War

April 24, 2021 UNAC Editor Nuclear Agendas, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, War on the Earth

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Popular Resistance, April 19, 2021 US Strategic Command, the branch of the US military responsible for America’s nuclear arsenal, tweeted the following on Tuesday: “The spectrum of conflict today is neither linear nor predictable. We must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear use as[…]

A Cold War Re-Education in 8 Minutes

April 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Imperialism, Nuclear Weapons, Propaganda, War on the Earth

by David Swanson, published on Let’s Try Democracy, March 21, 2021 from Remarks by David Swanson at the Cold War Truth Commission The Cold War didn’t have a hard and fast beginning that transformed the world or that turned heroic anti-Nazi Soviets into Satanic Commies on a particular afternoon. The rise of Nazism had been facilitated in part by[…]

What a US Nuclear War with China Would Look Like

April 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Nuclear Weapons

by Andre Damon, published on the World Socialist Website, March 24, 2021 Former NATO commander James Stavridis and novelist Elliot Ackerman have published a book depicting how the deepening conflict between the United States and China could escalate into a nuclear world war costing tens of millions of lives. The book, entitled 2034: A Novel of the Next World War,[…]

Who Is Clare Grady and Why Should We Care that She is in Federal Prison?

February 18, 2021 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-War, Civil Resistance, Nuclear Weapons

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action, February 15, 2021 On April 4, 2018—a date symbolically chosen because it is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination—Clare Grady and six other activists broke into the Kings Bay Submarine base in St. Mary’s, Georgia, the largest nuclear submarine base in the world. They carried hammers and baby bottles filled[…]