Zaporizhzhia: Facing the Dangers of Nuclear Power Plans in War and Peace

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Recording of Dec. 11 Webinar with Oleg Bodrov & Linda Pentz Gunter With battles continuing to rage in and around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Oleg Bodrov, an engineer-physicist with the Council of the South Coast of Finland in St. Petersburg and Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear International described the potential dangers posed by … Read more

Oleg Bodrov’s Opening Statement in December 11 webinar Zaporizhzhia: Facing the Dangers of Nuclear Power Plants in War and Peace

Ukraine Nuclear Plant

Good afternoon, Massachusetts, good evening, Europe. Dear organizers and participants of the webinar! Thank you for the invitation to discuss the safety of the Zaporozhye NPP. I am speaking to you from the Russian coast of the Baltic Sea. It’s over 4,000 miles from Boston and 1,000 miles from Zaporozhje NPP. The topic of our … Read more

Sky Shield & the Spiraling U.S.-NATO Arms Race

Ministers supporting Sky Shield

Joseph Gerson’s In Depth News Article Initiated by Germany, NATO is in the process of ratcheting up spiraling nuclear and “conventional” arms races with Russia, with plans to deploy a multi-billion euro “missile shield” It is important for people to know about and begin debating this escalation of the new Cold War. The Biden Administration’s … Read more

The Ukraine War & the U.S. National Security Strategy

No more war demostration

Amidst the Ukraine War, the Biden Administration published its National Security. Strategy. The Strategy opens with the statement at “The post-Cold War era is definitely over, and competition is under way between the major powers to shape what comes next.” Rather than pursue win-win Common Security approaches, the Strategy calls for an integrated ali government zero-sum … Read more

Press Release : Solidarity with Russian War Opponents and Negotiations to End the Ukraine War

For Immediate Release         November 1, 2022 For more information contact:   Terry Provance (202-258-9562; terryprovance@gmail.com) Joseph Gerson (617-216-0576; JGerson80@gmail.com) MORE THAN 1,000 U.S. WAR OPPONENTS EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH RUSSIAN WAR RESISTERS and URGE NEGOTIATIONS Representatives of major U.S. peace organizations announced today that more than 1,000 Americans who opposed the U.S. … Read more

Joseph Gerson’s op-ed on Solidarity with Russian Opponents and the Imperative of Negotiations

On November 1, a statement of solidarity with Russians opposed to the Ukraine War was published. It was signed by more than 1,000 U.S. men and women who had opposed the U.S. invasions of Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. At a time when the Ukraine War increasingly resembles the trench warfare of the First World War … Read more

Joseph Gerson’s Speech Honoring Hiroshi Taka on His Award of the Sean MacBride Peace Prize – October 16, 2022

Joseph Gerson speech macbride prize 2022

For a shade under 40 years Joseph Gerson has worked closely with Hiroshi Taka, long the Secretary General of Gensuikyo, the Japan Council against A- & H-Bombs. In his speech during the International Peace Bureau’s MacBride Peace Prize ceremony for Taka, Joseph paid homage to this exceptional, modest deeply  committed and inspiring leader of the … Read more

Former Canadian Disarmament Ambassador Douglas Roche’s Sean MacBride Peace Prize Ceremony Speech – October 16, 2022

Douglas Roche Speech McBride Prize 2022

Former Canadian Disarmament Ambassador Douglas Roche’s speech at the MacBride Peace Prize ceremony for Hiroshi Taka, spoke of the urgency of confronting the specter of nuclear war arising from the Ukraine War, where disarmament initiatives of the past 50 years went wrong, the urgent need to reinforce the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and build on the … Read more

Hiroshi Taka’s IPB MacBride Prize Acceptance Speech – October 16, 2022

Hiroshi Taka speech

Hiroshi Taka, long the General Secretary of Gensuikyo, the Japan Council against A- & H-Bombs was awarded the International Peace Bureau’s Sean MacBride Peace Prize. True to his modest character and profound commitments to nuclear weapons abolition, Taka’s speech reviewed 40 years of some of the world’s most important nuclear disarmament initiatives and the importance … Read more