.
From August 6-9, 2021, the Prefectures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Nuclear Threat Initiative are sponsoring "Cranes for our Future" where you can share a message of hope during a Global Weekend of Action. Go to https://www.cranesforourfuture.org/ to learn more,
Tell President Trump and your Senators to keep the INF Treaty and stop the production of new nuclear weapons.
The following is a list of notable international developments toward nuclear disarmament in the past year.
Ask Congress to reject funding for new nuclear weapons
The latest direct action against nuclear weapons by the Plowshares Movement occurred at a nuclear submarine base in Georgia on April 4, 2018.
Despite strong opposition from the nuclear weapon states to last year’s nuclear ban treaty, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and leaders of faith groups are pressing the countries to resume discussions on limiting and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons.
The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review by the United States signals a new arms race and increasing potential of the use of nuclear weapons. The following article was published in the March-April 2018 issue of NewsNotes.
We are as close as we have ever been to nuclear Armageddon.
In November the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development hosted a special symposium on nuclear disarmament at the Vatican.
Under pressure from nuclear-armed nations that insist a world without nuclear weapons is not possible, a grassroots movement has achieved a UN nuclear ban treaty and a Nobel Peace Prize.
Maryknoll Sister Elizabeth Zwareva reports on the negotiations at the United Nations to adopt a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading toward their total elimination.
In March, UN member states held the first round of controversial negotiations on a nuclear weapons ban. One month later, amid rising tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns co-sponsored a conference on nuclear disarmament at the U.S. Capitol where leading voices for nuclear disarmament were heard.
Everyone can be part of history by joining the Women's March to Ban the Bomb in New York City on Saturday, June 17th, organized by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom during the second round of the nuclear weapons ban negotiations at the UN.
Send a letter to President Obama today.
"Let all the souls here rest in peace, for we shall not repeat the evil."
(Epitah at bottom of the Hiroshima Peace Park Memorial Cenotaph and Peace Flame to remember all the victims of the atomic bombings)
The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Community welcomes all to join two events:
