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Join A- & H- Bomb Survivors Launch Petition Campaign Seeking HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF SIGNATURES

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Three of Peace & Planet’s Japanese partner and other organizations here have launched an audacious campaign, a signature campaign titled “Appeal for a Total Ban on Nuclear Weapons” for which they are seeking HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of petition signatures worldwide. The goal is to add global force to the door that has opened toward nuclear weapons abolition by the United Nations Open Ended Working Group, whose draft report will be issued tomorrow, and which for the first time will lead … Continue reading →

Stop Trident: next steps

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Welcome to the March edition of CND’s new, monthly magazine. We’ll be keeping you updated about what we’ve been up to, what’s coming up and exploring a few issues in the Trident debate in more depth. Let me know if there’s anything in particular you would like us to cover in this magazine or if you have any other feedback at all. The Stop Trident demonstration was rightly acclaimed by all as the biggest anti-nuclear demonstration in a generation. CND … Continue reading →

Speech of Reiner Braun on the manifestation of the Stop Trident demonstration

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Speech of Reiner Braun, Co-President of the International Peace Bureau IPB) on the manifestation of the Stop Trident demonstration February 27th, London Dear Colleagues and friends, The ”world of peace”, the international peace movements are looking at you. You are the “avant-garde” in the worldwide fight against the modernization of nuclear weapons. What a scandal: the nuclear weapons countries want to spend more than one billion Dollars for new nukes which can destroy our planet several times. While modernizing, every … Continue reading →

NATO’s Nuclear Debate

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BERLIN (Own report) – In view of the NATO Summit scheduled this year in Warsaw, the deployment of nuclear arms against Russia is being discussed within the German military and think-tanks. The Federal College for Security Studies (BAKS), for example, accuses Moscow of “neo-imperial aggression” against Eastern Europe and calls for a revival of the “nuclear deterrence” strategy. According to BAKS, the idea of a nuclear weapons-free world should be considered as “unrealistic” – after all, “disarmament is not the … Continue reading →

AFSC: Diplomacy best answer to North Korea’s nuclear test

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The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is deeply troubled by reports that North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test on January 6.  As longstanding opponents of nuclear weapons, we urge the United States and the international community to respond by intensifying diplomatic efforts to address the situation and its underlying causes. This nuclear test underscores the need for the United States and international community to pursue an ongoing, committed diplomatic approach. AFSC has worked with and in North Korea since … Continue reading →

Please sign petition to stop NATO nuke sharing:

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U.S. Wants More “Usable” Nuclear Weapons in Europe The United States keeps nuclear weapons in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Turkey, in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which bans the transfer of nuclear weapons from a nuclear weapon state to a non-nuclear weapon state. Now, the U.S. wants to upgrade its nukes in Europe, to make them “precision” and “guided,” and therefore more likely to be used, even as tensions build between the United States and Russia. The … Continue reading →

Presentations Side Event: Nuclear Weapons in Europe

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It was on Monday, April 27th 2015, 11-13 / Conference Room C, UN, New York Organized by IALANA and INES US nuclear weapons as well as British and French still remain on the European continent. How can these stockpiles be included in efforts of disarmament, how can Europe become a nuclear weapons free zone? Nuclear sharing, for example in Germany, contradicts the NPT, yet it is reality. Chair: Kristine Karch (No to War – No to NATO, Germany) Speakers: Ludo … Continue reading →

Press Release: Int’l Network Launches Plans for 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

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International NGO Network Launches Plans for 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference Demands Fulfillment of NPT through Commencement of Negotiations for Complete Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

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Report of the 69th anniversary of the dropping of the first nuclear bombs

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World Conference against A and H Bombs, Hiroshima and Nagasaki Reiner Braun, IPB Co-President 5th August, 2014, afternoon, Hiroshima in the rain. The city prepares for the commemoration of the victims: the Peace Park is ready for the great ceremony, the schools are festively decorated and the temples are preparing for the different services. A couple of minutes of silence in memory of the hundreds of thousands of victims of the first nuclear bomb during a wet but impressive event. … Continue reading →