Month: January 2022

The archbishop also pointed to the history of New Mexicans who, after the emergence of nuclear weapons during World War II, began to promote peace …

A new study based on computer modelling finds that vast quantities of smoke from a nuclear war would eventually devastate ozone layer leading to a …

Wester said the focus should be on shifting weapons work to “life-affirming jobs” that involve environmental cleanup of Cold War-era waste, …

In 2020, Pope Francis marked the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima by calling for peace and repeating that the mere possession …

“We need nuclear arms control, not an escalating nuclear arms race. … In 2020, Pope Francis marked the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attack on …

… Ronald Reagan wrote in his journal that the film left him “greatly depressed” and hardened his resolve “to see there is never a nuclear war.

It should be good news that five major nuclear powers have reaffirmed the Reagan-Gorbachev principle that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must …

… in Munich in September 1938; and the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, when the US and the Soviet Union came close to a nuclear war.

While the weapons haven’t played an active part in a conflict since World War 2, the threat has persisted for generations. The Cold War – another …

In 1970, at the height of the Cold War, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) came into force. Under the Treaty, which today includes all but …