Peace Train: What’s so great about the START Treaty?
Seventy-five years ago this coming August the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing about 140,000 human beings outright.
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Peace Train: Premetheus, maybe a god for our times?
The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, in partnership with the Joanna Macy Center of Naropa University, will present Ridley Scott's science-fiction film “Prometheus” in the Sycamore building on the...
Peace Train: Climate crisis versus nuclear crisis
The nuclear winter chapter of history began in the late 1970s when a group of scientists, including Carl Sagan, entered the nuclear arms fray.
Peace Train: Martin Luther King and nuclear weapons
Three weeks ago I attended the fall meeting of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in Tennessee.
Peace Train: Nuclear power, weapons connected
Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are strangely entwined in a Gordian knot. They cannot be separated.
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...
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...