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Ukraine: Viewpoints on the war

It is open-and-shut evident at this point that we witness two wars as the Armed Forces of Ukraine face off with the Russian military. There is the presented war, the meta-war, you might say, and there is the waged war, the war taking place on the ground, nothing meta about it. U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, center, with NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana, left, and NATO…

Activists Walk “Cease and Desist” Order into Nuclear Weapons Base

BÜCHEL, Germany — Eleven international peace activists entered the Büchel Air Base southwest of Frankfurt early this morning to deliver what they called a “Treaty Enforcement Order” declaring that the sharing of US nuclear weapons at the base is a “criminal conspiracy to commit war crimes.”

Buchel Air Base, Germany

VCNV   July 10, 2019 MEDIA ADVISORY / FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 JULY 2019

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VIDEO: John LaForge discusses “Nuclear Heartland, Revised Edition”

When Nuclear Heartland was originally published in 1988, there were 1,000 land-based Minuteman missiles in six large missile fields, each with between 150 and 200 rockets. Today, three of the fields have been eliminated, but 450 missiles remain, each of which carries a 335-kiloton thermonuclear warhead with 20 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. https://vimeo.com/162148934

The original Nuclear…

REVIEW | Nuclear Heartland : A guide to the 450 land-based missiles of the United States (Nukewatch, 2015) revised edition

Nuclear Heartland, revised edition: A guide to the 450 land-based missiles of the United States chronicles the history of these weapons as well as the decades of efforts by peace activists toward their removal. WomenAgainstMilitaryMadnessNewsletter  Spring I 2016 See below for upcoming book talks and signings in Minnesota.

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Missile System Still on Alert in the Midwest

Is there a nuclear…