by UFPJ web | Apr 27, 2024 | Member Group, Military Spending, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
By Mary Hladky, PeaceWorks Kansas City. Kansas City Missouri is literally at the center of the 2lst century new nuclear arms race. Kansas City MO is home to one of the 8 major sites that make U.S. nuclear weapons. It has an innocuous name, the Kansas City National...
by UFPJ web | Dec 24, 2023 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation; National Co-convener UFPJ* The Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) took place from November 27 – December 1, 2023 at United Nations...
by UFPJ web | Dec 23, 2023 | Action Alerts, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
by Mary Hladky, PeaceWorks Kansas City, VP Co-Chair and member of the United for Peace and Justice, Coordinating Committee The Kansas City Nuclear Bomb Plant, officially named the Kansas City Security Campus, is of vital importance in the making of nuclear weapons. ...
by UFPJ web | Jul 22, 2023 | Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
The much-hyped Hollywood blockbuster film, “Oppenheimer,” a biographical drama about the “father” of the atomic bomb, directed by Christopher Nolan, opened July 21. The film focuses on the story of Oppenheimer’s leadership of the team that developed and tested the...
by UFPJ web | Feb 24, 2023 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story, Webinars
Photo credit: Jamie Christiani, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists On January 24, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist moved the hands of its iconic Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The...
by UFPJ web | Sep 24, 2022 | Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story, Webinars
We are living in a time of extraordinary nuclear dangers. With Russia’s illegal war of aggression on Ukraine, which could eventually draw the militaries of the U.S., its NATO allies and Russia into direct conflict, Russia’s repeated threats to use nuclear weapons, and...
