Photo: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer presenting the parliamentary appeal ‘Turn Back the Doomsday Clock’ to the NPT Prep Com at the United Nations in Geneva, July 23, 2024. Legislators and civil society organizations are using the opportunities of key...
Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) is an annual period of action from April 13 to May 9, 2023 to cut military spending and reinvest in common security and human security. Move the Nuclear Weapons Money provides a number of actions that can be taken...
[COVID 19 vaccine production. Photo: Katisa, 123RF] In June 2022, United States President Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to accelerate domestic manufacturing of clean energy, in particular the production of five key energy technologies: (1) solar; (2)...
Is it $73 billion globally every year or over $100 billion? In June 2021, ICAN produced a report Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending, indicating that the nuclear armed states collectively spent $72.6 billion in 2020 on nuclear weapons. However, this figure...
NoFirstUse Global, a coalition of 9 co-founding organizations and 74 participating organizations, has recently launched Fulfil the NPT: From nuclear threats to human security, an Open Letter to States Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) calling on...
On Tuesday November 30, US Senator Edward Markey, a supporter of the Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign, took the floor in the US Senate to criticize the $768 billion US military budget put forward in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and to promote...
UNFOLD ZERO, an international coalition promoting United Nations initiatives for nuclear disarmament, is circulating Protect People and the Planet: An Appeal for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, and seeking endorsements prior to it being presented to the United Nations...
In late March 2021, US Senator Edward Markey, Co-President of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), and Ro Khanna, Member of the US House Armed Services Committee, introduced the Investing in Cures Before Missiles (ICBM) Act. The ICBM...
Peace and disarmament organisations around the world commemorated the 75th anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings on August 6 and 9 with numerous events and actions. A number of these highlighted the role of the nuclear weapons industry in...
In January this year the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set the ‘Doomsday Clock’ at 100 seconds to Midnight, indicating that the world was inching closer than ever to a cataclysmic disaster from climate change or nuclear weapons. Then the corona virus...
