The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation initiated the following ‘Nuclear Testing Alert’ letter in response to mounting threats from the Trump administration that it will resume nuclear testing. We will publish any responses received and will cover the issues in more detail in the next issue of End Info (July 2020). Recipients:State Signatories to the Comprehensive … Continue reading Nuclear Testing Alert
Trump’s dangerous nuclear test threat
On 1 March 1954, the United States carried out its largest ever nuclear test. Named ‘Castle Bravo’, the test was part of a series of similar events, ‘Operation Bravo’, designed to assess the feasibility of high-yield and therefore high-energy devices. ‘Castle Bravo’ was expected to produce a yield of six megatons (375 times larger than … Continue reading Trump’s dangerous nuclear test threat
Article by Article – Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Brochure by Daniel Rietiker and Manfred Mohr The events of July 7, 2017 at the United Nations in New York deserve our attention. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)constitutes a real paradigm shift, and the end of a period of stagnation innuclear disarmament of more than 20 years. After biological (1972) andchemical … Continue reading Article by Article – Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons