Tag: Nuclear Weapons
UK Activists Challenge Return of U.S. Nuclear Weapons with Two-Week Encampment at Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath
Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright - 0
In anticipation of U.S. nuclear weapons returning to UK soil after their removal 18 years ago, activists from around the world gathered at the Lakenheath Peace Camp from April 14 to 25, 2025, with a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week vigil at the main entrance to the Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath...
The escalating frequency of global military conflicts, the flouting of international laws by various actors, the swift dissemination of information from battlefronts enabling ordinary individuals to virtually participate in conflicts on the other side of the world — all contribute to heightening public apprehension about an imminent Third World War and...
President Harry S. Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki set the groundwork for an era of U.S. global hegemony and enriched corporations like General Electric, DuPont, Union Carbide, Bechtel and Westinghouse which made hundreds of billions of dollars developing generation after generation of "first-strike" nuclear...
Dan Ellsberg Blows the Whistle Again at UMASS-Amherst Conference to Commemorate His Legacy
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 9
The 90-year-old Pentagon Papers leaker details top secret plans in 1958 to destroy Taiwan and warns that similar discussions are going on in the Pentagon today.
Dan Ellsberg, the legendary whistleblower who has been arrested more than 75 times for protesting the U.S. warfare state, has not mellowed with age.
At...
What’s Behind the Biden Administration’s New $100 Billion Nuclear Missile System?
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 9
Massive popular pressure—like that organized by the 1980s nuclear freeze movement—is needed to stop more waste, fraud and abuse.
One of the more important tasks that the Biden administration will undertake this year will be to review the Pentagon’s nuclear weapons budget and modernization strategy.
According to a 2019 Congressional Budget...