Camus : Faced with the terrifying prospects that are opening up before humanity, we see even more clearly than before that peace is the only fight worth engaging in. This isn’t a plea any more, but an order that has to rise up from peoples to governments, the order to choose once and for all between hell and reason.
The Atlantic Council has printed a 26,000-word anonymous report laying a strategy for the US to combat China, including regime change.
MintPress News | Alan Macleod | 3 feb.
The head of Strategic Command announced the United States must prepare for the “very real possibility” of nuclear war with China or Russia.
Tom Sauer (2020) Power and Nuclear Weapons: The Case of the European Union, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 3:1, 41-59, DOI: 10.1080/25751654.2020.1764260
As the political philosopher Hannah Arendt once stated: “The danger is that these [deterrence] theories are not only plausible because they take their evidence from actually discernable present trends, but that, because of their inner consistency, they have a hypnotic effect; they put to sleep our common sense, which is nothing else but our mental organ for perceiving, understanding, and dealing with reality and factuality” (quoted in Harrington 2016, 105–106)
December 3 webinar hosted together with the Asia-Europe People's Forum a webinar on Military Spending & Global
(In)Security to discuss how current levels of military spending condition
our global emergencies. Speakers include: Michael T. Klare, Binalakshmi
Nepram, Tarja Cronberg and Walden Bello, and moderators will be Jordi Calvo
and Corazon Valdez Fabros.
The webinar coincides with the presentation of the book edited by GCOMS
coordinator Jordi Calvo "Military Spending and Global Security.
Humanitarian and Environmental Perspectives", published on
November 26 by Routledge. The book gives context to the discussion at
hand, reflecting on why people are not well served by nation-states when
they continuously seek to out-compete one another in the size and
destructive powers of their militaries. The webinar deals with the
scope of military spending around the world, while explaining how militarism
is linked with conflict and security threats, and how military spending
further prevent us from adequately dealing with global problems such as
climate change or the covid-19 pandemic.
teksten er hentet fra Knut Ruyter (red.): Forskningsetikk: Beskyttelse av enkeltpersoner og samfunn (2003)
Til alle tider – og særlig etter den vitenskapelige revolusjonen på 1600-tallet – har det blant forskere eksistert en eller annen form for regulering av egen atferd som et uttrykk for forskningens eget normsystem. I tillegg har forskere o …
Eric Schlosser's article in The New Yorker , January 17, 2014
"In retrospect, Kubrick’s black comedy provided a far more accurate description of the dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems than the ones that the American people got from the White House, the Pentagon, and the mainstream media."
by Zia Mian October 30, 2020 Demands for nuclear disarmament—perhaps too sensitive a topic in the past—can now be brought up as a matter of course in diplomatic venues.
From the time of its founding in April 1994 to this day, the priority areas of the Center's [PIR Center, Moskva] research studies remain international security, control and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. PIR Center is in consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
By Subrata Ghoshroy, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. October 6, 2020
In July, both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed their own versions of a defense authorization bill for 2021. By a wide majority, both chambers authorized more than $740 billion for defense spending next year. Tucked away in the Senate bill was $20.3 billion for missile defense, and that funding could make it into the final version that lands on the president’s desk. While $20.3 billion may not seem significant in a $740 billion budget, it is nevertheless a startling figure. What’s more, US taxpayers have invested nearly $200 billion on missile defense in the past two decades and another $100 billion in the decade before, with little to show for it.
Juni 2020 DGAP asked leading European experts on foreign policy about Germany’s role in providing nuclear deterrence in Europe. These experts, who each represent an EU member or a key partner, responded to three open-ended questions. You can read the introduction below or download a printable PDF of all responses using the download button to the right. In the related content section, you can view the responses by country.
RTL 20.9.2020: La Coalition belge contre les armes nucléaires a lancé jeudi un appel aux différents partis impliqués dans les négociations pour la formation ...
A Wired article 2019. Nuclear war doesn't have to be big to devastate the world, inducing years of famine and climate catastrophe alongside all that death and radiation.