The Hour is Getting Late: Report from the United States
Speech by Joseph Gerson for the Bikini Day Commemoration – Annual Gensuikyo Conference, in Shizuoka, Japan, on February 27, 2026 (Delivered Online Due to Snow).
Nuclear Disarmament
85 Seconds to Midnight and Challenging New Start Treaty Likely Demise
As headlines focus elsewhere, the world edges closer to nuclear catastrophe. With the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, the failure to extend arms control treaties and renewed threats of nuclear escalation put global survival at risk.
Trump’s Nuclear Testing Threat: Playing with More Than Dynamite
Trump’s threat to resume nuclear testing risks igniting a new global arms race and undermining key treaties like New START and the NPT. The article urges collective action to prevent renewed testing and to uphold disarmament, warning that the collapse of these agreements could lead to worldwide nuclear proliferation and the end of decades of restraint.
The U.S. & China: Competition, Conflagration, Or Coexistence
Humanity once again faces the perilous clash between rising and declining powers, this time between the United States and China. Their economic and military rivalry threatens not only their own stability but also global security. The trade war, competition for rare earths, and escalating military confrontations risk triggering a catastrophic conflict—potentially even nuclear. As tensions deepen across the Indo-Pacific, history warns that miscalculation could lead to devastation. Yet the alternative remains within reach: renewed diplomacy based on common security, recognizing that no nation can be safe while threatening another.
Joint Appeal for the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
On September 26, the UN marks the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. With 12,500 warheads worldwide and rising risks of conflict or accident, the danger is greater than ever. We call on leaders to declare nuclear weapons inadmissible, reduce reliance on them, cut nuclear budgets, and redirect resources toward peace, climate, and sustainable development. The 80th anniversaries of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the UN demand urgent action to eliminate nuclear arms by 2045.
Joseph Gerson’s testimony in support of S.1649 and the Back from the Brink Initiative
Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland SecurityMassachusetts State House Joseph Gerson – Sept. 10, 2025 Testimony in Support of S.1649 Thank you for the opportunity to speak for passage of S.1649. It is the best way to move humanity away from the nuclear path to species suicide. I am president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and … Read more
Joseph Gerson’s Speech at the World Conference Against A & H Bombs —Hiroshima, August 4, 2025
CPDCS Director Joseph Gerson’s
speech at the World Conference Against A & H Bombs. Given in Hiroshima on the 80th Anniversery of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Speech by John Burroughs at the Future Challenges of Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Safeguards
Speech by John Burroughs, Senior Analyst, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
Speech by Dr. Marco Marzo at the Future Challenges of Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Safeguards
Presented in the side event Some Way Out of Here: Disarming Nuclear Power & Preventing Proliferation
3rd Session of PrepCom 2025, New York, 29 April 2025
From the Peace Prize to the Trump-Musk Coup: Hope and Resistance
Transcript of Joseph Gerson’s speech given at the Bikini Day International Conference 2025, in Shizuoka, Japan.