nuclear weapons

NATO plans amount to violation of NPT: Russian envoy

Press TV – April 16, 2015 Russia says the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is preparing the ground for the use of nuclear weapons by non-nuclear countries in contradiction to the Western military alliance’s obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). “NATO, contrary to the obligations taken under the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, […]

Dozens of arrests as anti-nuclear protesters demand end to UK’s Trident sub program

Anti-nuclear demonstrators at Faslane naval base, April 13 2015. (Photo by Veronika Tudhope) RT | April 13, 2015 Some 36 anti-nuclear activists have been arrested at Faslane naval base in Scotland, according to organizers, as hundreds of protesters blockaded the home of Britain’s nuclear weapons system. Workers at the naval facility were sent home after […]

US making ‘no practical steps’ to ratify Nuclear Test Ban Treaty – Russia

RT | March 27, 2015 Moscow has slammed Washington for taking “no practical steps” to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) – despite countless promises to do so – and consequently preventing the important international treaty from going into force. “The main load of responsibility that the CTBT has not entered into force […]

Why ban nuclear weapons? Ask the French president

By John Loretz | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | March 13, 2015 President François Hollande of France has explained to the world why nuclear weapons must be banned and eliminated. Not intentionally, of course. Not because he made the fallacious argument that nuclear weapons make France more secure in a dangerous […]

Shutting Down AIPAC

Removing Israel from American politics By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • March 10, 2015 [The following is a lightly edited version of a speech I gave on March 1 st in Washington during the anti-AIPAC and Netanyahu visit demonstrations. Two days later Israeli Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, whom I cite below, was sitting in […]