Archive » Tag: Abolish Nuclear Weapons
The beginning of the end of nuclear weapons?
March 23, 2018
“Future historians may record summer 2017 as the beginning of the end of the nuclear age.” So begins a masterful article by Paul Meyer and Tom Sauer on how the historic Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, aka the Ban Treaty, came about and its implications for bringing humanity closer to a world without […]
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Canadian diplomacy urgently needed for nuclear disarmament
July 28, 2016
The destructive power of nuclear weapons cannot be contained in space or time. They have the potential to destroy all civilisation and the entire ecosystem of the planet. (International Court of Justice, 1996) In the days before the 71st anniversary of the horrific Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bombings , on August 6th and 9th respectively, […]
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Call to Action by Five Former Canadian Disarmament Ambassadors
June 21, 2016
In a Commentary in today’s Ottawa Citizen, Five former Canadian Ambassadors for Disarmament, Douglas Roche, Peggy Mason, Chris Westdal, Paul Meyer and Marius Grinius, under four different Prime Ministers, outline what Canada can do to help eliminate nuclear weapons. How did the world move from the “downward” trend of nuclear weapons [in the 1990s] to […]
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New Liberal Party policy on nuclear disarmament
June 2, 2016
Due in large measure to the tireless efforts of Judith (Judy) Berlyn, long-time peace activist and member of the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party of Canada, an extremely progressive resolution calling for Canada to take a leadership role in advancing global efforts toward nuclear disarmament was adopted at the recent federal Liberal policy convention […]
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