September 14 ff. for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

September 14, 2020 By Bob Kinsey

September 26 is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

Basel Peace Office has joined with more than 80 other organisations in #WeThePeoples2020 which is promoting the day and other key events for the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.

We invite you to join The UN Day for Nuclear Abolition: What is happening? What can we do?, an UPConvergence 2020 discussion on Monday September 14 (1pm-2pm EDT) about civil society actions and events for September 26, and what we can do to advance nuclear disarmament.

This zoom discussion will be lead by Vanda Proskova, Vice-Chair of the PragueVision Institute for Sustainable Security and Co-convenor of the Abolition 2000 Youth Network, and Alyn Ware, Global Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament and Member of the World Future Council. Go to<info@baselpeaceoffice.org>ce for more information and the link to join.

About Bob Kinsey

Viewing Trinity Test July 16,1945: "Now we are all Sons of Bitches"

Kenneth BainbridgeDeputy Director Manhatten Project

“Everything I did at Kings Bay was a result of my faith and my commitment to challenge the idols whose only purpose is to destroy human life on an unimaginable scale. I went to Kings Bay to use my body to refuse to bow down to these idols. I went to try to bring attention to the idolatry that it is requiring of our nation and its people. I went in a spirit of prayer and repentance. I went in hope that this witness might invite other people to reflect on the obscenity and on the idolatry that it is before God.”

Liz McAlisterKings Bay Protestor 2019

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending he sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." --spoken to the American Society of Newspaper Editors 1953

Dwight EisenhowerUS President 1953-1961

We are prone to self-righteousness if we call ourselves peacemakers, and yet do not perceive how the peace issue cuts through all the economic and social issues that we often try to keep separate. If the race for nuclear arms is encouraged by our fear of losing the affluent ways of life that we have taken for granted, then we must see how our fears and desires have left so many other human beings naked and hungry.

Malsolm Warford"The Church's Role in a Nuclear Age

A world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily a world devoid of nuclear weapons…. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat…. Others subscribe to Churchill’s assertion ‘Peace is the sturdy child of terror.’ For me, such a peace is a wretched offspring, a peace that condemns us to live under a dark cloud of perpetual anxiety, a peace that codifies mankind’s most murderous instincts….The beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste.

General Lee ButlerFormer Commander, Strategic Air Command, April 28, 1996