Nuclearization and the public’s need to know

The Hill Times By MILAN ILNYCKYJ, PETER H. RUSSELL MAR. 19, 2018 The consequences of any large-scale nuclear attack are also now known. Unlike weapons tested in remote regions those targeted, as Russia’s and the U.S.’s are, on cities will inject masses of soot into the upper atmosphere dimming the sun for years with severe consequences for agriculture. Nuclear winter could result in omnicide: the extinction of most living creatures, including humankind.

TORONTO—For matters states keep secret, history unfolds in onion layers as memoirs are written and documents are declassified. This matter should be remembered when interpreting the world’s cautious relief about possible talks on denuclearization by Donald Trump and Kim Jung Un. These new accounts of possessing nuclear weapons make it nuclear that a nuclear detonation can arise as plausibly from a tool dropped in a silo as from a deliberate act of policy and that nuclear war is…….(subscribers only) https://www.hilltimes.com/2018/03/19/nuclearization-publics-need-know/137667

March 21, 2018 - Posted by Christina MacPherson | general

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On Sunday, August 2^nd, Veterans for Peace begins their eight-day virtual 2020 Convention. At noon Mountain Daylight Time, the Opening Plenary will tell the story in “The Nuclear Weapons Industry – Creating Victims – More Than 75 Years and Counting.” The scheduled speakers are: the Chief of Council of the Western Shoshone Nation and Spiritual Person, Chief Johnnie Bobb; the social practice artist and educator Yasuyo Tanaka; journalist and author in Kyoto, Japan, Toshiya Morita; and peace activist, Joni Arends, of CCNS.

For more information, visit https://vfp2020.attendease.com/

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Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility

A two-day virtual event commemorating the 75th year since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is scheduled for August 6th and August 9th. The organizers intend the event to be “a creative, intersectional way to shine a spotlight on local events nationwide, to highlight the stories of survivors, to look toward the future of a world free from nuclear threats, and to amplify the voices of activists, experts and others beyond their typical audience.” To learn more, use #still here or https://www.hiroshimanagasaki75.org/ . http://nuclearactive.org/

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