Nuclear Disarmament
All articles in Nuclear Disarmament
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It’s Getting Late
Citizens for Global Solutions · February 2024
Modern warfare and environmental collapse threaten human survival. Nuclear war and climate catastrophe pose existential risks.
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How Strengthened Global Governance Could Produce a Nuclear-Free World
December 2023
The world faces an existential nuclear danger, with nine nuclear powers engaged in an arms race and military confrontations. Creating a nuclear-free world, however, remains possible through global cooperation and disarmament efforts.
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For Oppenheimer, a World Government Was the Only Way to Save Us From Ourselves
December 2023
Oppenheimer, a leading proponent of world government, argued that international control was the only way to prevent a nuclear arms race. His early proposals for an international Atomic Development Agency laid the groundwork for global cooperation.
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Daniel Ellsberg Remembrance (1931-2023)
Citizens for Global Solutions · September 2023
Daniel Ellsberg, renowned anti-nuclear analyst, is remembered for his wisdom and activism. His legacy includes pivotal contributions to nuclear disarmament and global federalist thought.
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From the Partial Test Ban Treaty to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
Citizens for Global Solutions · September 2023
Public alarm over fallout pushed Washington and Moscow into the 1963 test ban, and the treaties that followed cut arsenals from 70,000 warheads to about 12,500. A treaty banning nuclear weapons outright can halt the new arms race, if people demand it.
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The Worrying Erosion of the Nuclear Taboo: A World Federalist Perspective
World Federalist Movement – Canada · August 2023
Shifts in nuclear doctrine since Mutual Assured Destruction, plus Russian threats over Ukraine, are normalising talk of use, and WFM – Canada says disarmament needs a federal system that enforces collective responsibility.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Tragedy―and Ours
Citizens for Global Solutions · July 2023
A scientist who helped build the atomic bomb was purged for doubting it, and the arms race he feared is back: every nuclear power is upgrading its arsenal. A treaty banning nuclear weapons, ratified by 68 nations, offers a way out.
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Where are the answers to humanity’s great questions and challenges?
World Federalist Movement · June 2023
Humanity’s deepest problems persist because universities, think tanks, religions and media keep repeating old ideas. A free academy of seven to 21 thinkers, paid without performance demands, should start from scratch on science, politics and morality.
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A Realistic Route to Disarmament
World Federalist Movement · April 2023
Disarmament talks look like fantasy while autocracies band together and the Ukraine war risks spreading. Modest, inclusive steps, neutral inspection and a coalition of smaller states and NGOs, like the one that won the ICC, could still build a World Peace Authority.
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Winter is coming in Ukraine: Are there prospects for peace?
March 2023
Peace in Ukraine will come through talks, not Russia’s total defeat, because humiliating a nuclear power is too dangerous. Canada, though no neutral party, could press NATO to downgrade its nuclear weapons and back a civil society peace platform.
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The Solution is a Global Vision
World Federalist Movement – Canada · February 2023
The World Federalist Movement - Canada calls for a world government to end global regression. The article highlights the need for a post-UN structure to address nuclear re-armament and corporate control.
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Nations Of The World Unite!
Citizens for Global Solutions · January 2023
Isolationism does nothing to stop wars elsewhere, and pacifism has too few adherents to prevent them. What curbs violence within nations, laws and courts that bind everyone, could curb it between them: a UN without the veto, with taxing power and an elected world parliament.
