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Wittner: Another Nobel Controversy
Znet Article, October, 14 2009
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A 1980s controversy over a Nobel prize awarded to an anti-nuclear group
Wittner: The Weakness of National Military Strength
Znet Article, September, 21 2009
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The negative consequences of the huge amount of military spending
Wittner: Japan's Election and Anti-Nuclear Momentum
Znet Article, September, 05 2009
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Although the smashing victory of the opposition Democratic Party in Japan's parliamentary elections of August 30 had numerous causes, one of the results will be a strengthening of the campaign for a nuclear weapons-free world.
Wittner: The Ongoing Danger of Nuclear War
Znet Article, August, 03 2009
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This August, when hundreds of Hiroshima Day vigils and related antinuclear activities occur around the United States, many Americans will wonder at their relevance. After all, the nuclear danger that characterized the Cold War is now far behind u...
Wittner: What Has Prevented Nuclear War?
Znet Article, July, 07 2009
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One of the great questions of the modern world is: Why has nuclear war not occurred since 1945?
Wittner: Kicking the Nuclear Habit: Why We Need a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Znet Article, June, 22 2009
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Six reasons for supporting nuclear abolition.
Wittner: Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: After 50 Years, Alive and Kicking
Znet Article, August, 09 2008
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A history of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament after 50 years.
Wittner: John McCain Discovers Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament
Znet Article, June, 03 2008
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On May 27, in a major public address delivered at the University of Denver, Republican presidential candidate John McCain took what appeared to be a strong stand in favor of nuclear arms control and disarmament.
Wittner: Possibilities for a Nuclear-Free World
Znet Article, March, 23 2008
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Opposition to nuclear weapons comes from a strange source.
Wittner: Why Today's Peace Activists Should Not Be Discouraged: An Example from 1958
Znet Article, March, 10 2008
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The impact of public opinion -- worldwide and in the US -- on US policymakers regarding nuclear weapons testing in 1958 has lessons for peace activists today.
Wittner: A Nuclear-Free World? Policymaking Elites and the Public Agree
Znet Article, January, 17 2008
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Support for the abolition of nuclear weapons comes from former officials and the public.
Wittner: Foiled Again: The Defeat of the Latest Bush Administration Plan for New Nuclear Weapons
Znet Article, December, 21 2007
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Advocates of a U.S. nuclear weapons buildup received a significant setback on December 16, when Congressional negotiators agreed on an omnibus spending bill that omitted funding for development of a new nuclear weapon championed by the Bush admini...
Wittner: Protest against the reliable replacement warhead
Znet Article, October, 18 2007
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Although Congress has been dealing with the Bush administration's proposal to develop the reliable replacement warhead (RRW) for much of 2007, it's remarkable that the new weapon, a hydrogen bomb, has attracted little public protest or even public...
Wittner: Protest against the reliable replacement warhead
Znet Article, October, 17 2007
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Although Congress has been dealing with the Bush administration's proposal to develop the reliable replacement warhead (RRW) for much of 2007, it's remarkable that the new weapon, a hydrogen bomb, has attracted little public protest or even public...
Wittner: An Anniversary to Celebrate If You Oppose War
Znet Article, October, 01 2007
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The largest peace organization in the United States, Peace Action, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Yet surprisingly few Am...
Wittner: Spreading Nukes
Znet Article, June, 26 2007
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Spreading Nukes
Wittner: There It Goes Again: The Bush Administration's Latest Plan to Build New Nuclear Weapons
Znet Article, April, 09 2007
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There It Goes Again: The Bush Administration's Latest Plan to Build New Nuclear Weapons
Wittner: The Forgotten Alliance of African Nationalists and Western Pacifists
Znet Article, March, 19 2007
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This year, the West African nation of Ghana is celebrating fifty years of independence, based on the termination of British rule of the Gold Coast (as Ghana was called in the colonial era) in 1957.
Wittner: Reflections on War and Its Consequences
Znet Article, December, 05 2006
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The shift of the Iraq War from what its early proponents claimed would be a cakewalk to what most current observers -- including the small group of neocons who originally championed it -- consider a disaster suggests that war's consequences are no...
Wittner: Disarmament is a Two-Way Street
Znet Article, September, 25 2006
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The Bush administration's current confrontation with Iran over what it claims is that nat...
Wittner: Bush's Latest Nuclear Gambit
Znet Article, April, 18 2006
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In 2005, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, recognizing that the Bush administration's favorite new nuclear weapon--the "Bunker Buster"--was on the road to defeat in Congress, told its leading antagonist, U.S. Representative David Hobson (...
Wittner: Gandhi, Bush, and the Bomb
Znet Article, February, 28 2006
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Gandhi, Bush, and the Bomb
Wittner: Algeria, Vietnam, Iraq and the Conscience of the Intellectual
Znet Article, February, 22 2006
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"History," the French philosopher Julien Benda once remarked, "is made from shreds of justice that the intellectual has torn from the politician." This contention may overestimate the power of the former and underestimate the power of the latter. ...
Wittner: Have Peace Activists Ever Stopped a War?
Znet Article, January, 17 2006
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Have Peace Activists Ever Stopped a War?
Wittner: The Abuse of 'Democracy'
Znet Article, November, 28 2005
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The Abuse of 'Democracy'
Wittner: The Political Rehabilitation of Joseph Rotblat
Znet Article, September, 04 2005
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By the time of his death, which occurred on August 31, 2005, Joseph Roblat was a revered figure. A top nuclear physicist, Rotblat received -- among many other honors and awards -- a British knighthood and, together with the Pugwash Conferences on ...
Wittner: Sixty years after the bombs
Znet Article, August, 05 2005
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It has been 60 years since the U.S. government used atomic bombs to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The weapons killed 200,000 people outright and left tens of thousands of others dying of radiation-induced cancers or afflicted by birth def...
Wittner: Remember Hiroshima
Znet Article, July, 20 2005
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In late July 2004, as I opened the window curtains of my posh room in the Rihga Royal Hotel and looked out at the city of Hiroshima, I was struck by how marvelously it had been restored. Fifty-nine years ago, Hiroshima had been nearly obliterat...
Wittner: Einstein, Russell, and the Bomb:
Znet Article, July, 05 2005
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Einstein, Russell, and the Bomb:
Wittner: A Recipe for Disaster
Znet Article, May, 29 2005
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On May 27, the 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, designed to shore up the international commitment to creating a nuclear-free world, concluded in shambles. According to Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the Internatio...
