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      This Is No Time for Nuclear War Games

      Leaders on all sides are pursuing policies inexorably driving us towards nuclear war. They must step back. Now.

      Kate Hudson
      Oct 26, 2022

      This month, United States President Joe Biden warned that the world could face armageddon if his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, were to use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine. You would imagine that such a prognosis would lead to urgent action to dial down the confrontation. Yet no effort is being made to move us back from that risk.

      The global majority actively works for a nuclear weapons-free world and is very aware that it is the activities of a tiny minority of states--just nine with nuclear weapons--that hold us all at risk of annihilation.

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      NATO Steadfast Noon

      Rehearsal for 'Armageddon' Underway as NATO and Russia Hold Nuclear Exercises

      "All nuclear exercises imply willingness to mass murder civilians, wipe out entire cities, and risk all-out nuclear war," said ICAN. "They also risk accidents and escalation, and will legitimize Russia's dangerous nuclear rhetoric."

      Brett Wilkins
      Oct 17, 2022

      As NATO on Monday began its annual rehearsal for nuclear war in Europe and Russia prepared to conduct its own nuclear drill amid Cold War-like tensions inflamed by the invasion of Ukraine, peace advocates underscored the imperative for de-escalation in order to avert catastrophe.

      "We are here though the graces of sheer luck. Sooner or later, our luck will run out."

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      Mumbai Students Say: No More Hiroshima

      World Faces 'Loaded Gun' on Hiroshima's 77th Anniversary

      “We must ask: What have we learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city?”

      Common Dreams Staff
      Aug 07, 2022

      "Humanity is playing with a loaded gun" UN head Antonio Guterres said in Hiroshima on Saturday, the 77th anniversary of the United States atomic bomb attack on Japan.

      "Tens of thousands of people were killed in this city in the blink of an eye. Women, children and men were incinerated in a hellish fire," he said.

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