Peace Train: Keeping space for peace
“The time has come to write the next great chapter in the history of our armed forces, to prepare for the next battlefield where America’s best and bravest will be...
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Peace Train: We must stop letting our weapons shape us
And everywhere the good prepare for perpetual war And let their weapons shape the plan The way the hammer shapes the hand. — “Casino Nation” lyrics by Jackson Browne, 2002...
Peace Train: Are you investing in nuclear weapons?
Building nuclear weapons is a hugely lucrative industry. Nuclear weapons are produced by corporations like Boeing, Bechtel, Lockheed Martin and Honeywell. They rake in enormous profits and are financed by...
Peace Train: We need everyone on board to free the world from nuclear weapons
Nuclear war is an increasing threat in our already beleaguered, fragile world. There is a new Volkswagen ad featuring an electric van and the words, “Drive like there’s a tomorrow.”...
Peace Train: After eight years, ceremony holds sway over substance of Fukushima fallout
“The visit was more ceremony than substance,” CBS relayed on President Donald Trump's recent visit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. There certainly seemed to be a lot of “pomp...
Peace Train: Space should be the world’s peaceful commons
Reading about the unfathomable beauty of the aurora borealis recently in the April 29 issue of the New Yorker magazine, I mused that space should be the world’s peaceful commons,...
Peace Train: Risk of nuclear war is increasing
“Shall we call it The Beginning of the End or The End of the Beginning?” — David Krieger, president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Only nine countries own the...
Peace Train: U.S. withdrawal from treaty sets up Cold War II
Has President Donald Trump fired the starting pistol on Cold War II? Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, thinks so.
Peace Train: ‘Act as if the house is on fire’
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by bomb scientists who could not remain silent on the possible consequences of their work. Every year, the Bulletin calculates...
Peace Train: Nuclear risk rising between India and Pakistan
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to...