Today is the 74th Anniversary of the first nuclear detonation--at Alamogordo NM. The result of the nearly 3 years and $2.5 Billion Manhattan Project, it influenced American decision makers at Potsdam. Secretary of War Stimson wrote in his diary on July 22, 1945. "...Now I know what happened to Truman yesterday. I couldn't understand it. When he got to the meeting after having … [Read more...] about Trinity Atomic Test
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US Cities Divesting from Nuclear Weapons–take Action Colorado!!!
Nuclear divestment by US cities: Cambridge, Charlottesville and New York Move the Nuclear Weapons Money legislation page and campaign news include reports on a number of nuclear weapons divestment initiatives in US cities. • On March 21, 2016, Cambridge, Massachuestts City Council adopted policy to end investments of the Cambridge Retirement System in nuclear weapons … [Read more...] about US Cities Divesting from Nuclear Weapons–take Action Colorado!!!
Don”t Buy it! Russian Bomb Tests.
Today it is reported by an American General that the Russians are violating the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Moratorium) by testing to develop new nuclear weapons. Well that's not good but …. 1. REMEMBER the US is NOT a signatory to this treaty but claims to be operating according to its terms. 2. The US Administration has budgetary commitments to developing new … [Read more...] about Don”t Buy it! Russian Bomb Tests.
Democracy Now– Chomsky Interview re: Nuclear War, Climate Change May 27, 2019
https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2019/5/27?autostart=true NOAM CHOMSKY: I want to make a couple of remarks below about the severe difficulty of maintaining and instituting democracy, the powerful forces that have always opposed it, the achievements of somehow salvaging and enhancing it, and the significance of that for the future. But first, a couple of words about the … [Read more...] about Democracy Now– Chomsky Interview re: Nuclear War, Climate Change May 27, 2019
Space Command is not about Peace Keeping
Peace Train for May 24, 2019 By JUDITH MOHLING Keep Space for Peace Reading about the unfathomable beauty of the aurora borealis recently in the April 29 issue of the New Yorker magazine, I mused that space should be the world's peaceful commons, a vast place that people world wide would agree is off limits for militarism and greed. It isn't. “The time has come to write the … [Read more...] about Space Command is not about Peace Keeping