This short recent essay by JWE President Helena Cobban is cross-posted from her personal blog “Just World News”. The image above shows some of the victims of the RAF’s “Battle …
Two-piece swimsuits and the trivialization of nuclear terror
This short recent essay by JWE President Helena Cobban is cross-posted from her personal blog “Just World News”. On August 6, 1945, the U.S. Air Force dropped a single atomic …
Two Images of the NPT Review Conference
by Richard Falk We are pleased to crosspost this piece from JWE Board Member and International Jurist Richard Falk’s blog, Global Justice in the 21st Century. Prefatory Note: Every year since …
Mass Peace Action Nuclear Disarmament Public Speaking Training Workshop
Last week, the Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) hosted a two-part Nuclear Disarmament Speaker Training Workshop. Both meetings were led by activist Ira Helfand, a member of the International Campaign to …
Handling International Crises: From JFK to Biden
by Rick Sterling We are pleased to crosspost this piece by JWE Board Member Rick Sterling which was first published by AntiWar.com There are significant parallels between the international crises …
Time to kill the NPT and its Nuclear Apartheid?
On August 1, representatives of the 191 states that are parties to the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) will be meeting in New York for the tenth of the “Review …
What’s so special about nuclear weapons? (Or, when did “WMDs” become a thing?)
by Helena Cobban We’re pleased to cross-post this article by our president, Helena Cobban. It was originally published on her personal blog, here. Throughout the present century, the corporate media …
Two important articles on Ukraine
by Helena Cobban We’re pleased to cross-post this article by our president, Helena Cobban. It was originally published on her personal blog, here. I want to note two recent articles …
A European Call for an end to the Ukraine War
We are pleased to crosspost this letter from JWE Board Member and International Jurist Richard Falk’s blog, Global Justice in the 21st Century. Prefatory Note: The following letter appeared in the …
Nuclear expert Ted Postol warned about fragility of current nuclear “balance”
In the first, audio-only session of Just World Ed’s ongoing project on “The urgency of banning nukes”, nuclear physicist Ted Postol warned about the extreme fragility of the current nuclear …