Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

The MADness of the Resurgent U.S. Cold War With Russia

March 29, 2022 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Ukraine, US Hypocrisy

by Nicolas J. S. Davies, March 28, 2022 The war in Ukraine has placed U.S. and NATO policy toward Russia under a spotlight, highlighting how the United States and its allies have expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders, backed a coup and now a proxy war in Ukraine, imposed waves of economic sanctions, and launched a debilitating trillion-dollar arms[…]

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[…]

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[…]

On the 75th Anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Martyrdom We Shall Strengthen the Struggle Against Nuclear Weapons

August 20, 2020 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Nuclear Agendas, Statement

by Socorro Gomez, published on the US Peace Council Website, August 5, 2020 This August 6 and 9, humanity rememorates one of the greatest tragedies in History, which was even more nefarious because it was caused by human action, that of US imperialism. The inauguration of nuclear weapons by the United States against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,[…]

Can the Religious Left Take Down Nuclear Weapons?

November 26, 2019 UNAC Editor Nonviolence, Nuclear Agendas, Resistance

by Sam Husseini, published on CounterPunch, November 22, 2019 Pope Francis will travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki this weekend. On Sunday, he will give a public address at the ground-zero site of the nuclear attack on Nagasaki. He is expected to give the clearest articulation yet of the Vatican’s position, since 2017, that condemns the “very possession” of nuclear weapons.[…]