Daniel Ellsberg letter to Congress about ICBMs July 22, 2019 Representative _____   _______ ____ House Office Building Washington, D.C.   Dear Representative ______:   During the last six decades, since drafting Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s guidance for U.S. general nuclear war plans, I have been deeply immersed in the quest to understand nuclear-weapons dangers […]

Nuclear Winter Is Climate Change In Fast-Forward A nuclear winter would be a global climate catastrophe. But climate change itself also makes nuclear war more likely. By Ryan Black, Progressive Hub Climate change and nuclear weapons are inherently connected. Even a “limited” nuclear war would be catastrophic for the Earth’s climate. For example, computer models have shown […]

Why Is There More Media Talk About Using Nuclear Weapons Than About Banning Them? The Media Doesn’t Want To Talk About Banning Nuclear Weapons By Karl Grossman, FAIR.org It’s of critical importance—indeed, existential importance—to the world: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. And a coalition of peace organizations in the United States is […]

Nuclear Weapon Proliferation Is Not The Answer To Russian Aggression Continued investments into nuclear weapons make us less safe and did nothing to deter Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. The only logical path forward is diplomacy. By Ryan Black Russia’s criminal invasion of Ukraine has brought the dangerous possibility of nuclear war into renewed focus. In […]

Why Is Joe Biden Ignoring The Threat Of Nuclear War? Biden refuses to mention the worsening dangers of nuclear war. Media and Congress enable his silence. By Norman Solomon I’ve just finished going through the more than 60 presidential statements, documents and communiques about the war in Ukraine that the White House has released and […]