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National Illusions and Global Realities

Lawrence Wittner — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 21:22:35 +0000

For as long as they have existed, nations have clung to the illusion that their military strength guarantees their security.

The problem with this kind of thinking is that the military power that one nation considers vital to its security fosters other nations’ sense of insecurity. In this climate of suspicion, an arms race ensues, often culminating in military conflict. Also, sometimes the very military strength that a nation intended for protection ends up emboldening it to engage in reckless, aggressive behavior, leading to war.

U.S. Increases Nuclear Energy Spending as It Fights Global Weapons Ban

davidswanson — Fri, 26 May 2017 10:31:09 +0000

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US Can Only Delay But Not Stop North Korea’s Self-Defense

dlindorff — Tue, 09 May 2017 15:41:08 +0000

Why Is There So Little Popular Protest Against Today's Threats of Nuclear War?

Lawrence Wittner — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 03:09:52 +0000

In recent weeks, the people of the world have been treated to yet another display of the kind of nuclear insanity that has broken out periodically ever since 1945 and the dawn of the nuclear era.

Here we go again: Yet Another President Commits the Ultimate War Crime of Launching a War of Aggression

dlindorff — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:08:12 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

Depending on What Denominator is Used, Either 62% or 42% of the Federal Budget Goes to the Military

dlindorff — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:56:08 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

Why Should Trump--or Anyone--Be Able to Launch a Nuclear War?

Lawrence Wittner — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 23:03:56 +0000

The accession of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency brings us face-to-face with a question that many have tried to avoid since 1945: Should anyone have the right to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust?

From WIPP with love: Three Years Since the Kitty Litter Disaster at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

dlindorff — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:30:42 +0000

By Paul DeRienzo

Talk Nation Radio: John Burroughs on Using Law Against Climate and Nuclear Dangers

davidswanson — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:30:58 +0000

https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-john-burroughs-on-using-law-against-climate-and-nuclear-dangers

John Burroughs is Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (www.lcnp.org), based in New York City. He represents LCNP in Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review proceedings, the United Nations, and other international forums. He was a member of the Marshall Islands international legal team in its nuclear disarmament cases in the International Court of Justice. He's the author of numerous publications related to nuclear weapons including contributing to a report called The Climate-Nuclear Nexus, which we discuss.

Burrough's publications include: contributor, Unspeakable suffering - the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons (2013) (available here); contributor, Assuring Destruction Forever: Nuclear Weapon Modernization Around the World (2012) (available here); author, The Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the International Court of Justice (1998). He has also published articles and op-eds in journals and newspapers including Fordham International Law Journal, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Arms Control Today, the World Policy Journal, and Newsday. He has taught international law as an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School, Newark.

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A Nuclear Kellogg-Briand Pact Is An Even Better Idea Than Its Author Thinks

davidswanson — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 04:20:55 +0000

A Georgetown Law professor named David Koplow has drafted what he calls a Nuclear Kellogg-Briand Pact. In an article proposing it, Koplow does something all too rare, he recognizes some of the merits of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. But he misses others of those merits, as I described them in my 2011 book When The World Outlawed War.

Koplow acknowledges the cultural shift that the pact was central to, that shifted common understanding of war from something that just happens like the weather to something that can be controlled, should be abolished, and would henceforth be illegal. He acknowledges the role of the pact in motivating trials (albeit one-sided trials) for the crime of war following World War II.