Resisting weapons
On July 21, I was walking in the forests surrounding the German Air Force Base at Büchel in the Eifel Mountains with three Catholic Worker friends, Susan van der Hijden…
A denuclearized future
In the pandemic year 2020, 76 years after two American atomic bombs left the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in ashes, the world’s nuclear powers actually increased spending on nuclear…
Nuclear words
“A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” These words echoing the Reagan – Gorbachev Principle issued thirty six years before in Geneva came as a joint…
Nuclear-free world
Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin meet Wednesday for a summit that will discuss strategic stability, which includes nuclear weapons. The summit takes place in Geneva, the international city renowned…
India’s nuclear recklessness
Part II So the latest report of uranium being sold and smuggled out of India is not new. Why the international community has chosen to turn a blind eye and…
India’s nuclear recklessness – Part I
Within one month two stories of illegal possession and sale of uranium being caught by Indian police have surfaced. Of course, any attempt to smuggle radioactive material must be a…
The nuclear journey
May 2021 marks 23 years of the nuclear voyage that India and Pakistan have travelled together since 1998 to establish and maintain nuclear deterrence along with frequent occurrences of crises.…
Prioritising nuclear stability
Open government assessments of the state of India-Pakistan deterrence are rare. A recent US intelligence overview considered a ‘general war’ between the two countries ‘unlikely’ although ‘heightened tensions’ remain a…
Nuclear ban
As a veteran concerned about issues of war and peace, I am happy to celebrate the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), the important new international peace…
Banning weapons
The vile suffering that poison gas inflicted on the soldiers of WWI so horrified the world that chemical weapons were banned only seven years after the Great War ended. But…
