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Nuclear Weapons

Beyond Nuclear advocates for the elimination of all nuclear weapons and argues that removing them can only make us safer, not more vulnerable. The expansion of commercial nuclear power across the globe only increases the chance that more nuclear weapons will be built and is counterproductive to disarmament. We also cover nuclear weapons issues on our international site, Beyond Nuclear International.

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Saturday
Jul182020

Half of Oklahoma Is “Indian Country.” What If All Native Treaties Were Upheld?

As reported by The Intercept.

The Nevada National Security Site (formerly known as the Nevada Test Site), where the U.S. and U.K. governments "test" detonated more than 900 full-scale nuclear weapons between 1951 and 1992 (and sub-critical nuclear weapons testing has continued there since), as well as the proposed Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump, are located on Western Shoshone land. The U.S. government acknowledged this when it signed the "peace and friendship" Treaty of Ruby Valley with the Western Shoshoe in 1863. Treaties are the highest law of the land, equal in stature to the U.S. Constituition itself. The U.S. government's genocidal radioactive racism is not only illegal, it is unconstitutional. For more information, see: <http://www.nativecommunityactioncouncil.org/>.

Wednesday
Jul152020

7/15/20: Beyond Nuclear on Radio Sputnik's "Loud & Clear"

Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show.
Thursday
Jul092020

WILPF Baltimore and Tucson Branches Remember Pat Birnie

Pat BirnieAs reported by Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) U.S.:

By Marliese Diaz
Former Chair, Baltimore Branch

May 2020

Baltimore and Arizona lost another extraordinary WILPF member on April 15, 2020, Pat Birnie. Pat turned 90 last September 2.

Through the 1980s and until she moved first to Florida and then to Arizona in 1993, Pat’s activism took her to protest at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physical Lab located between Baltimore and D.C.

We would get those reports at branch meetings and hear her stories of going to General Electric board meetings and taking on the stockholders about GE’s investments in weapons contracts. She owned some stock in GE and Pat took that issue seriously, as we learned firsthand.

A longer bio will be printed in the next issue of Peace & Freedom. Here is one remembrance of Pat from Felice Cohen-Joppa:

Pat Birnie, Presente! My friend Pat, a longtime and tireless peace and anti-nuclear activist, died on April 15 at age 90. Pat and Betty Schroeder, her friend and partner in crime (literally and figuratively, with both women arrested occasionally at protests, including with other Raging Grannies at a Military Recruiting Center!), moved to Tucson in 1994.

It was with Pat and Betty that Jack and I started monthly peace vigils at Davis Monthan Air Force Base and Raytheon Missile Systems more than 20 years ago, which continue to this day. We did A LOT of organizing and protesting together! Together with others, including Jim and Lucille Burkholder, we spent many months organizing multiple events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Pat, a member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, was a very kind and caring person. When Jack had surgery after breaking his arm in a bicycle accident, she and Betty came over to deliver a big box of groceries and make sure he was okay. Betty died in 2009, and Pat later moved to Maryland to be near her family, leaving some very big shoes to fill in the Tucson activist community.

For many years, Pat dedicated herself to working for a nuclear-free future, and I am deeply grateful for her vision, for her persistence and for the way she inspired and invited so many people to join her.

Wednesday
Jul082020

7/8/20: Beyond Nuclear on Radio Sputnik's "Loud & Clear"

Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show.
Wednesday
Jul012020

7/1/20: Beyond Nuclear on Sputnik Radio's "Loud & Clear"

Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, joins the show.