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UN NUCLEAR ABOLITION DAY
JUNE 2, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/omni-un-nuclear-abolition-day-june-2.html
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
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Notable dates for your calendar:
August is Nuclear Free Future Month.
JULY 7 United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted on the 7th July 2017, acceded by 122 State Parties.
“Implementing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.” The TPNW entered into force in January 2022. The latest issue of the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament explores how to implement its provisions and build a sustainable regime that will contribute to its goals. Browse now.
TEXTS
Google Search Nuclear Abolition Day June 2, 2022
2022 Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact … – BMEIA
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The 2022 Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons (HINW22Vienna) will take place on 20 June 2022 in the Austria Center Vienna.
Growing Nuclear Danger Represents A Call to Action – Arms …
https://www.armscontrol.org › blog › 2022-05-23 › gr…
May 23, 2022 — Please join friends and colleagues on June 2 for our 2022 Annual … on nuclear weapons policy, nuclear arms control and disarmament, …
Conference Primer: Disarmament / Guide de conférences : le …
https://libraryresources.unog.ch › conferenceprimers › dis…
UNIDIR Discovery Day, 16 June 2022 … Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – Meeting of States Parties … UN Geneva News, 2 March 2022.
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – UNODA …
https://meetings.unoda.org › meeting › tpnw-msp-1-2022
21 to 23 June 2022 in Vienna, Austria. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force on 22 January 2021. Article 8, paragraph 2 …
Nuclear Calendar | Friends Committee On National Legislation
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International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament is on the 24th of May, 2022 this year. Therefore, Youth Fusion would like to celebrate by hosting a …
Anti-Nuclear Weapons Organizations cited below: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Global Zero, The Catholic Worker, The Guardian, ICAN, NukeWatch Quarterly, Transcend Media Services, Z Magazine
NUCLEAR RISK
“Nuclear Notebook: How many nuclear weapons does the US have in 2022? “ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (5-12-22).
United States nuclear weapons are thought to be stored at an estimated 24 locations in 11 US states and five European countries. Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda provide estimates on the size of the US nuclear arsenal. Read more.
“A world beyond nuclear weapons.”
| Derek, Global Zero via ActionNetwork.org via email.actionnetwork.org Dec 17, 2021 | 7:01 | ||
| Dear Dick, At Global Zero, we envision not “simply” a world without nuclear weapons, but a flourishing world of possibility beyond the bomb. It is a not-too-distant future where nuclear weapons are universally rejected as barriers to peace, prosperity, and justice; where threats of mass destruction, hyper-militarism, and brute force are no longer recognized as a legitimate basis for stability; where recognition of shared interests and common threats have replaced a zero-sum mindset; and where cooperation and diplomacy drive a paradigm shift from national security to genuine human security. It’s a big goal, and we can’t do it alone. Key to sustaining this work for the long-term is expanding our sustained monthly giving program. If everyone who receives this email chipped in $10 per month, we’d have what we need. Can we count on you? I’ll chip in monthly to make sure Global Zero doesn’t miss a beat. I can’t chip in monthly, but I can make a one-time donation! We’ve got big plans for 2022. Your monthly contribution will help us work to: · Build out global movement infrastructure to challenge nuclear deterrence and assert disarmament as a commonsense, mainstream alternative; · Champion nuclear No First Use in the United States and globally; · Defund expensive modernization plans for a new generation of dangerous land-based nuclear missiles; and · Ensure restorative justice for communities harmed by the nuclear weapons complex,with an early emphasis on shoring up and expanding the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. We need to know what we can count on to advance this bold agenda in 2022. Every donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar by a generous donor, whether it’s a monthly commitment or a one-time contribution. Are you in? Yes! I’m ready to become a monthly sustaining member. No, I can’t do monthly, but I’m here for you today! With your dedicated support, Global Zero will continue to catalyze the kind of bold action we need to see our mission through. Wishing you peace and good health this holiday season, Derek Johnson Chief Executive Officer |
LET’S GO BACK A FEW YEARS
2017-2018
NUKEWATCH QUARTERLY (SPRING 2018), pub. by the Progressive Foundation, about 14 articles plus a page of shorts. Sampling of contents (Dick’s annotations).
Three articles on the NEW PENTAGON NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW. (Arkansas needs its own citizens to expose and decry these war-mongering reviews to the public. Subscribe to this excellent peacemaking magazine.)
Editor. “New Nuclear War ‘Posture’ Degrades National Security.” Analyzes the euphemistic and abstract terminology amounting to gibberish in the new NPR.
Katrina vanden Heuvel. “The Nuclear Posture Review Signals a New Arms Race.” “We need momentum for reducing nuclear weapons, not for ‘modernizing’ them.” One of our nation’s greatest living heroes for peace is vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation Magazine.
Ralph Hutchison. “Panic in Hawai’i and the Nuclear Posture Review.” The 38 minutes false alarm of a ballistic missile attack and the threatening and belligerent posture of the NPR that increases the risk of that attack.
John LaForge. “Military Budget Still Unaudited, Unaccountable for Lost Trillions.” [LaForge is the distinguished nuclear scholar and editor of NQ.]
“U.S. Wasting Billions on Nuclear Bombs That Pose Threat to NATO—Experts.” By Julian Borger, The Guardian (Feb. 15, 2018).
Michael Klare. “The Trump Doctrine.” Z Magazine (Jan. 2018). On making nuclear weapons usable again. [Fellow subscribers to cutting-edge Z Magazine, which published an essay by Noam Chomsky in every number,regret the demise of the magazine.]
Anthony Donovan. “Hope for Nuclear Abolition.” The Catholic Worker (Jan. Feb. 2018), 3. “Let us sing out from the hilltops some of the accomplishments of 2017.” Donovan discusses five, from the widespread celebration of MLKJr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech on its 50th anniversary to the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to ICAN for the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Google Search (Jan.Feb. 2018).
Good Thinking (Those Who’ve Tried to Halt Nuclear Weapons) on Vimeo
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Good Thinking (Those Who’ve Tried to Halt Nuclear Weapons). 2 years ago More.Anthony DonovanPlus …
Encouragement for: The Treaty For the Prohibition of Nuclear … – Vimeo
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Encouragement for: The Treaty For the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 5 months ago More. Anthony …
TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE » Transcending Nukes
Oct 2, 2017 – All nuclear weapons states, allies, and most NATO members boycotted the negotiations to draft the Ban Treaty. … A purported ban on nuclear weapons that does not address the security concerns that continue to make nuclear deterrence necessary cannot result in the elimination ….Anthony Donovan says:.
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT: An invitation to join the Catholic Nuclear …
https://paxchristiusa.org/…/nuclear-disarmament-an-invitation-to-join-the-catholic-nuc…
May 12, 2016 – from the Pax Christi International Washington Working Group Please consider being part of an important webinar on Tuesday, May 17th at 4pm (EDT) on nuclear weapon abolition and why we as U.S. Catholics should work for it at this time. Also, please pass this invitation to join the webinar to anyone you …
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Media Advisory: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to collect Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 2017 for treaty banning nuclear weapons. Any use of nuclear weapons would be a humanitarian catastrophe. The treaty is the way forward for nuclear disarmament, and shows the positive change …
Nuclear Ban Film- Why does the Treaty matter? – Bill Kidd MSP for …
www.billkiddmsp.org/news-archive/390-nuclear-ban-film-why-does-the-treaty-matter
Oct 4, 2017 – Filmmaker Anthony Donovan has created a film with statements of support for the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This treaty was adopted on the 7th July 2017, when acceded by 122 State Parties. Anthony’s video, ‘Encouragement For: The Treaty For the Prohibition ofNuclear …
2017
We just banned nuclear weapons! [HARD WORK WORKS]
JULY 7, 2017
by John Loretz (similar in Space Alert!)
Nuclear weapons have been banned.
Stigmatized and prohibited. That means we’re two-thirds of the way to fulfilling the Humanitarian Pledge, which feels like it was launched only yesterday.
It took three international conferences, two open-ended working groups, medical and scientific evidence accumulated over some 50 or more years, decades of selfless appeals by the Hibakusha and by the victims of nuclear testing, a core group of states with the courage to take effective leadership, a decisive UN resolution, four weeks of honest, good faith negotiating by people who really and truly want to rid the world of nuclear weapons, and seven years of intensive campaigning by ICAN…
…and nuclear weapons have been banned.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was adopted today in Conference Room 1 at the United Nations by an overwhelming 122-1 vote, makes a compelling case for the stigmatization and elimination of nuclear weapons. In fact, the language it uses to make that case is indistinguishable from the language of doctors, scientists, international lawyers, and others with expert knowledge of what nuclear weapons are and the devastating harm they cause:
“[T]he catastrophic consequences of nuclear weapons cannot be adequately addressed, transcend national borders, pose grave implications for human survival, the environment, socioeconomic development, the global economy, food security and the health of current and future generations, and have a disproportionate impact on women and girls, including as a result of ionizing radiation.”
“[A]ny use of nuclear weapons would…be abhorrent to the principles of humanity and the dictates of public conscience.”
“[A] legally binding prohibition of nuclear weapons constitutes an important contribution towards the achievement and maintenance of a world free of nuclear weapons, including the irreversible, verifiable and transparent elimination of nuclear weapons.”
The sections of the treaty that spell out the prohibitions and the obligations of the states that are party to it close the legal gap that has been exploited by the nuclear-armed and nuclear-dependent states not only to forestall their disarmament obligations, but also to keep nuclear weapons at the center of their military and security policies for decades to come. The development, testing, production, manufacture, acquisition, possession, stockpiling, use, and threat of use of nuclear weapons have been declared illegal under this treaty. Period.
The nuclear-armed and nuclear-dependent states have been provided with practical and flexible ways to comply with those prohibitions once they decide to join. If they persist in defying the norms established by the treaty, they will be outlaw states.
The treaty refutes the claim made by a handful of states that they need nuclear weapons to ensure their own security, and that humanitarian consequences must somehow be balanced with those needs. Not only does the treaty insist that the dangers posed by nuclear weapons “concern the security of all humanity,” but it also calls the long-overdue elimination of nuclear weapons “a global public good of the highest order, serving both national and collective security interests.”
The treaty is about more than prohibitions. It spells out the obligations and responsibilities of its parties to work for universalization, to redress and remediate the harm done by nuclear weapons to victims and the environment, and to support and defend the norm of collective security in a nuclear-weapons-free world.
Abacca Anjain-Maddison of the Marshall Islands—a place that has experienced the consequences of nuclear weapons first-hand—spoke on behalf of ICAN at the conclusion of this historic conference:
“The adoption of this landmark agreement today fills us with hope that the mistakes of the past will never be repeated. It fills us with hope that we will pass on to our children and grandchildren a world forever free of these awful bombs.”
Setsuko Thurlow said at the beginning of these negotiations that the ban treaty would “change the world.” With the successful conclusion of the negotiations, we now have a powerful new legal, moral, and political tool to do just that. We will have to maintain the partnership of states, international organizations, and civil society that has brought us this far in order to use the tool we’ve created for its intended purpose.
Nuclear weapons have been banned. All that’s left now is to eliminate them once and for all.WAND in Little Rock and OMNI provide Arkansas with a Nuclear Weapons Watch, with some reporting on nuclear power. OMNI publishes a newsletter Nuclear Weapons Abolition that includes information regarding UN International Day Against Nuclear Tests, Global Network Against Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Free Independent Pacific, Nuclear Abolition Month August, and more. And we were the Arkansas connection via the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation for the Marshall Islands Nuclear Nations Law Suits (which alas failed). See Nuclear Weapons Abolition Newsletter #21 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2015/03/nuclear-weapons-abolition-newsletter-21.html #22 in preparation
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