APWG – Articles and Speeches

In a Perilous Time: Nuclear Dangers, Politics, and the New Cold War

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In a Perilous Time Nuclear Dangers Politics and the New Cold War

UN Secretary-General Guterres warns that “Humanity is on a knife’s edge. The risk of nuclear weapons being used has reached heights not seen since the Cold War.”  New Cold War bloc systems have reemerged with the “lattice-like” network of U.S. Indo-Pacific alliances, NATO,  and the Chinese, Russian. North Korean and Belarussian entente. In the US, … Read more

BCTV Interview with Joseph Gerson

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Joseph Gerson Interview

Conversation with Dr. Joseph Gerson on U.S. Empire and Nuclear Weapons.  Recorded March 2024 / Originally aired on BCTV: 3/26/24 Faramarz Farbod interviews Dr. Joseph Gerson, the author of four books, including Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World (2007) and With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and … Read more

Finding Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Oppenheimer Film

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Finding Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Oppenheimer Film

By Joseph Gerson Since the first reviews of the  Oppenheimer film appeared, a question has been floating in the ether: Why don’t we see substantial images of the destruction and victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-Bombs? Days before the Academy Awards, I had the opportunity to learn the answers to that question. I  had … Read more

Organizer’s Report to the 70th Anniversary 2024 Bikini Day Rally

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Hiroshi Taka

by Hiroshi TAKA, Co-chair of the Steering Committee, Organizing Committee of the World Conference against A and H Bombs First, it was reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened all-out nuclear war in his annual state-of-the-nation address delivered yesterday, saying that Russia’s “strategic nuclear forces are in a state of full readiness for guaranteed use.” … Read more