Category:Nuclear Weapons

Before he was chosen to compile a DoD history of the Vietnam War, which was to become the history-making "Pentagon Papers", Daniel Ellsberg was a US high-level nuclear war planner

Do you know how close the US came to nuclear war? Do you know the devastation that use of nuclear weapons would deliver to the world?

GreenPolicy360's founder knew Dan Ellsberg. The nuclear threat was explained as real, very real, all too real.

Dan was also thankful how the Vietnam Moratorium peace movement acted tp prevent President Nixon from ordering a nuclear attack on Vietnam.

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The Movement and 'the Madman': How a Peace Movement Prevented the Use of Nuclear Weapons

2023

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=vietnam+moratorium&fulltext=Search The Vietnam Moratorium mobilization of October-November 1969]

The 2023 PBS special event "American Experience" film reveals that the Vietnam Moratorium and peace movement politically influenced and stopped US President Nixon from using nuclear weapons in Vietnam.

Watch scenes from the The Movement and the ‘Madman’ documentary film

— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfhHcq-IUQo

"The Public Broadcasting System documentary investigates and brings to light the story of a dramatic showdown between a protest movement and a president"

Vietnam Moratorium for Peace 1969-1970

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Vietnam_Moratorium_for_Peace_1969-1970

2018

"Doomsday Machine" book inscription from Dan Ellsberg to Steven Schmidt

NONFICTION

Is Nuclear War Inevitable?

NY Times Review

THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE

Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

By Daniel Ellsberg

420 pp. Bloomsbury, Dec. 2017

'Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un trading threats with words like “fire and fury”; Pakistan deploying tactical nuclear weapons to counter Indian conventional threats; Russia enunciating an Orwellian doctrine of “escalate-to-de-escalate” that calls for early use of battlefield nuclear weapons; and major nuclear-weapons states modernizing their arsenals — nukes are back. The cruel irony: This is happening after eight years of a president who won the Nobel Peace Prize largely for his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons.

When the Cold War ended in 1991, nuclear weapons vanished from the minds of most Americans. Together with the Soviet Union, they were supposedly consigned to the dustbin of history. But the emergence of 21st-century nuclear threats — including the fear that terrorist groups will obtain this ultimate W.M.D. — has revived discussion about these devices of destruction. Among professionals, this debate can be found in government documents like the Defense Department’s Nuclear Matters Handbook and journals like the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Popular books like Eric Schlosser’s “Command and Control” and David E. Hoffman’s “The Dead Hand” have exposed a wider audience to these topics...

Daniel Ellsberg’s new memoir, “The Doomsday Machine,” is the latest in this genre.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/books/review/daniel-ellsberg-the-doomsday-machine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE0.29XJ.WRWoUhccg4HO&smid=url-share

Exposition Park, Los Angeles, Moratorium for Peace, October 15, 1969. Photo by Harvey Smythe.

Memories of a Man Named Daniel -- https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Daniel_-_June_16,_2023.png

Nuclear Arms Race 3.0

https://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-arms-race-3-0/

Cold War 2.0

https://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-arms-race-3-0/

Remember the Nuclear 'Close Calls'

Stanislav Petrov: Russia remembers - https://www.rt.com/news/403625-nuclear-soviet-officer-died/

US remembers - http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/man-who-saved-the-world-from-nuclear-armageddon-in-1983-1818501062

UK remembers - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stanislav-petrov-dead-soviet-officer-nuclear-war-1983-saved-world-dies-died-77-robert-de-niro-a7952361.html

and then there's Vasily Arkhipov http://strategicdemands.com/remembering-a-day-in-1962/

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Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Adopted

July 7, 2017 / UN conference adopts treaty banning nuclear weapons

● http://www.lasg.org/press/2017/press_release_7Jul2017.html

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Draft Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons / July 5

http://www.undocs.org/en/a/conf.229/2017/L.3/Rev.1

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https://www.apnews.com/6732780e340f4fc785c9c4ab846b2f65/First-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-expected-to-be-adopted

http://www.lasg.org/press/2017/press_release_5July2017.html

● Putin, Trump, Nuclear Risks / June 27, 2017

http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/medialibrary/2017/06/26/1467b192/Letter%20to%20Trump%20and%20Putin_Embargoed.pdf

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At the UN: Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

https://www.un.org/disarmament/ptnw/president.html

http://www.lasg.org/BAN/LASG_comments_draft_ban2.pdf

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/13/no-more-con-games-abolish-nuclear-weapons-now/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/14/no-more-con-games-abolish-nuclear-weapons-now-part-two/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/15/no-more-con-games-abolish-nuclear-weapons-now-part-three/

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2016

● http://strategicdemands.com/re-presidents-last-days-commander-chief/

● http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-end-of-times-scenario/

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● http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/

● http://strategicdemands.com/stewards-of-the-apocalypse/

● https://twitter.com/armscontrolnow

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Nuclear weapons remain one of the greatest threats to humankind

2015

● http://strategicdemands.com/going-back-to-1963-going-forward-with-the-npt/

● http://strategicdemands.com/deal-now-onto-implementation/

As attention focuses on the results of the upcoming months, a point that needs to be emphasized is the Iran deal will produce substantive P5+1 support and funding to develop additional capabilities of the IAEA. In turn, this support will develop a larger scope of the international agency to verify nuclear arms control actions and agreements over time.

This is a considerable, if yet unrecognized, accomplishment as nuclear proliferation issues are rising security threats internationally.

One need look no further than the recent collapse of the five-year Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the increasing tensions of a multi-polar ‘new Cold War‘.

http://strategicdemands.com/iran-deal-or-no-deal/

http://strategicdemands.com/june-30th-agreement-or-another-war/

http://strategicdemands.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-a-nuclear-arms-race/

http://strategicdemands.com/escalating-geopolitics_eurasia/

The United Nations Non-Proliferation Review Conference concludes in disarray

http://strategicdemands.com/re-pits-nuclear-warhead-cores/

http://strategicdemands.com/national-defense-authorization-act/

http://strategicdemands.com/new-nuclear-arms-race/

http://strategicdemands.com/npt-treaty-at-risk/

In recent years, civil society has again turned its attention to the most destructive bomb ever created and voices demanding a prohibition on these indiscriminate weapons are growing stronger every day.

Past successes in the fields of disarmament, human and civil rights demonstrate the power of an engaged public, unified behind a clear cause with and actionable agenda, in achieving changes to government policy.

● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Nuclear_Nonproliferation

● http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Proliferation

● http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Weapons

● http://strategicdemands.com/blip_on_the_screen/

http://strategicdemands.com/going_bzhrk/

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