May 2010:
La Paix Est La Sécurité: Speaking with a Leader of the French Peace Movement
The French delegation at the United Nations, along with the UK, Russia, and the US, has been particularly difficult at this Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference. The P-4, as they’re being called, has been reluctant to allow any firm language regarding disarmament, dates, and setting an institutional international phase-out plan for nuclear weapons.
But that’s only one of the French delegations in New York this week. Like many countries, France is also represented by a civil society...
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Mr. President, Think Before You Press That Button! (or, Want to Win an iPad?)
Red is the color of power, the color that supposedly induces aggression and hunger. Do we really just want a red button to control what would be the most environmentally, economically, politically and inhumane war/disaster of all time? And is a radiation symbol enough to remind a leader of the consequences of nuclear war?
WFUNA (World Federation of United Nations Associations) has a contest to reimagine the "nuclear button".
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Here's your chance to design a button that would...
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US, Iran and the NPT
With the opening of the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty on Monday, it seems like all eyes are focused on Iran, and its questioned nuclear program. While Iran’s spiritual leader has issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons, and President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad has said that the nation will not pursue nuclear weapons, Iran is still considered a major threat to the NPT and nuclear non-proliferation by the U.S. and international community, who want more transparency and absolute proof that Iran is only...
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It's Only Just Begun
Approximately 15,000 people from around the world took to the streets of New York this past Sunday, May 2nd. Calling on world leaders at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, which will continue throughout the month of May, citizens of all ages demanded for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.
Bang-USA, alongside with our international partners Bang-Europe, Students International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, as well as...
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