Joseph Gerson

Joseph Gerson is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmaent and Common Security, Co-founder of the Committee for a SANE U.S. China Policy and Vice President of the International Peace Bureau. His books include Empire and the Bomb, and With Hiroshima Eyes.
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Views Thursday, January 21, 2021 A New Day for Human Survivial: On the Promise of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons On Friday, January 22, people in cities and towns across in the United States and around the world, will celebrate the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Those gathering, online and elsewhere, stand in sharp contrast with the electric sense of fear felt by... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 07, 2021 Was Trump Hoping for a Coup? There is so much that we don’t know about Wednesday’s assault on our national capital and our limited constitutional democracy. The new Congress should not only investigate why the Capital police and Homeland Security were missing in action, but that it will also investigate from top to bottom the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 09, 2020 Our Real Security: Preventing a New Cold War with China Once again a self-defeating Washington consensus threaten the real security interests of the U.S. people. Military confrontations and preparations for great power war with China are a clear and present danger when our priorities should be international collaborations to address real threats to our... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 26, 2020 Nightmare of an October Surprise Last night I had the strangest dream. I’m hoping it was just a fevered nightmare. For the last several months, U.S. and Russian negotiators have been meeting intermittently, reportedly to explore possible extension of the New START Treaty. That treaty set the limit of 1,550 strategic (and omnicidal... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 25, 2020 A Pandemic, the Geopolitical Struggle for Power, and the Urgency of Common Security What follows are the prepared remarks for delivery during the Online World Conference focused on nuclear weapons abolition, peace, the climate, and social & economic justice on Saturday, April 25, 2020. Pandemics like wars accelerate profound structural changes that were already in motion. The... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 06, 2020 No to Disastrous War With Iran We woke on Friday to the news of Trump and the U.S. military’s assassination of Iranian General Soleimani. It was an act of war. Our priority, as communicated Saturday in 70 demonstrations across the U.S. must be to do all that we can to prevent a wider and disastrous war with Iran. Americans will... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 18, 2019 The Uncertain and Dangerous Interregnum: World Peace and the Post-Cold War Era The post-Cold War era is over. We are living in the interregnum between disorders, marked by uncertainties and dangers, as well as opportunities. Some see the confrontations of the moment as a new Cold War. Michael Klare has written that the U.S. and China are engaged in war by another name, while... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 11, 2017 No Fire, No Fury: Common Security Diplomacy to Resolve US-North Korean Crisis President Trump’s off the cuff and extremely dangerous and outrageous threat to devastate North Korea with “fire and fury… unlike the world has ever seen” is bringing us to the brink of the unthinkable. There is no military solution to the dangers posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. We... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 05, 2016 Imperial NATO: Before and After Brexit In his first public response to the Brexit vote that has shaken Europe and much of the world, President Obama sought to reassure Americans and others. He urged us not to give into hysteria and stressed that NATO did not disappear with Brexit. The Trans-Atlantic alliance, he reminded the world,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 06, 2016 Orwell (and the President) Come to Hiroshima How to you hide a trillion dollars or spending $66,000 a minute for thirty years building a new nuclear arsenal? Put another way, how to you hide 7,000 nuclear warheads capable of ending human life many times over or? For that matter, how does a nation whose constitution vows to reject war and... Read more |