Three former UK Royal Navy Commanders sent a letter to all UK parliamentarians on April 1 questioning the policy of maintaining a continuous at sea nuclear deterrent. The commanders note that the £2 billion a year cost of maintaining this nuclear posture and readiness...
Corona-virus Image by mattthewafflecat from Pixabay. The coronavirus pandemic is sweeping around the world undermining public health, curtailing personal freedoms and causing havoc on our economies. In an article published in Newsweek on March 17 (‘National...
On Tuesday last week (January 28), New York City Council held public hearings on two measures (draft Resolution 0976 and Initiative 1621) which if adopted would oblige the city to divest its city pension funds from the nuclear weapons industry and establish an...
[Cover photo: HMS Victorius in the Firth of Clyde]. Clyde Naval Base in Faslane, Scotland, is home-base for the UK nuclear weapons fleet (nuclear armed submarines). The Scottish parliament, government and the majority of Scottish people are opposed to this. Now a new...
On Saturday October 26, peace volunteers took six hours to count out 10,400 notes of £500,000 each, a total of £5.2billion, outside the Ministry of Defence in Horse Guards Avenue, London, and ‘reallocate this’ to tree planting to protect the climate. The money...
Meet the key individuals and organisations who counted out $542 billion in nuclear weapons money during UN disarmament week (Oct 24-30), and symbolically reallocated this to climate protection, poverty alleviation and the Sustainable Development Goals. Most of the...
From Thursday October 24 (UN Day) to Wednesday October 30, a team of volunteers in New York City counted out $542 billion – the approximate global nuclear weapons budget for the next five years – and symbolically reallocated this to climate protection, poverty...
Volunteers from Count the Nuclear Weapons Money, Peace Accelerators and Code Pink organized a money counting action yesterday outside the New York office of nuclear weapons contractor Jacobs Engineering. According to research by the Norwegian Council on Ethics,...
Senator Edward J. Markey (Co-President of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament – PNND) and Congressman Earl Blumenauer today reintroduced legislation in the U.S. Congress that would cut $75 billion from the nuclear weapons budget over...
New York City action focuses on city investments and tax-payers’ contribution to the nuclear arms race. Volunteers from Count the Nuclear Weapons Money and 350NYC.org organized a nuclear weapons money counting in front of New York City Hall today to support calls on...
