by Chris Blankenhorn | Mar 5, 2022 | Anti-imperialism, Foreign Policy, Nuclear Disarmament
By Howie Hawkins March 4, 2022 With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have entered a global crisis where nuclear war, or a nuclear power plant meltdown as a consequence of combat, are distinct possibilities. The war has buried media coverage of the release last week...
by Chris Blankenhorn | Aug 5, 2020 | Nuclear Disarmament
By Howie Hawkins and Madelyn Hoffman August 6 is the 75th anniversary of the only time any nation in the world dropped an atomic bomb on people. On August 6, 1945, President Harry Truman ordered Fat Man dropped on Hiroshima. 210,000 people were killed instantly. Three...
by H20 Staff | Jan 24, 2020 | Foreign Policy, Nuclear Disarmament
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists today moved its Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds to midnight, the closest to the doomsday strike of midnight that it has ever been. In its statement, the Bulletin said, “Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential...
by H20 Staff | Jul 27, 2019 | Nuclear Disarmament, Running Green
Two years ago on July 7, 2017, 122 nations approved the text of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 for spearheading this achievement. Few...