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Good Friday vigil: No nuclear weapons, diplomacy, not war, in Ukraine

April 20, 2022 By Marilyn Bechtel

The urgency of organizing against nuclear weaponry, much of it designed at the Livermore Lab in California, was one of the demands for peace at the annual Good Friday event, a virtual one this year. Nagasaki,...

Nuke treaty anniversary observed with calls for U.S. ratification

January 27, 2022 By Marilyn Bechtel

Demonstrations happen at the Livermore lab, one of two places making all U.S. nuclear warheads.

Japanese Communists denounce plan to dump radiation-tainted water into ocean

April 22, 2021 By Shimbun Akahata

The contaminated water is left over from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Treaty to ban all nuclear weapons is now international law

January 27, 2021 By Marilyn Bechtel

A major milestone on the long road to ridding the world entirely of nuclear weapons was reached on Jan. 22.

International virtual webinars call for ending all nuclear weapons

September 30, 2020 By Marilyn Bechtel

On the minds of all the speakers was the intertwined relationship of the world’s major crises – ending nuclear weapons and other struggles for military dominance, defeating the pandemic, curbing climate change, the struggle for racial...