Nuclear Disarmament
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Martin Sherwin’s “Gambling With Armageddon”
Citizens for Global Solutions · January 2023
Martin Sherwin’s ‘Gambling With Armageddon’ examines how nuclear weapons drive nations toward destruction. The Cuban missile crisis highlights the peril of nuclear brinkmanship in Cold War geopolitics.
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CGS 2022 Global Citizen Award To Pope Francis
Citizens for Global Solutions · December 2022
Bishop John Stowe carried the award from the US to the Vatican, where Cardinal Michael Czerny accepted it for a pope whose teaching, CGS says, backs new structures to solve global problems.
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A Government Whose Time Has Come
Citizens for Global Solutions · December 2022
Because nations still answer only to the law of force, the Security Council veto and unenforced treaties leave aggression and abuse unpunished. A democratic world government, with national armies cut to policing needs and a global peacekeeping force, is the next step in widening sovereignty.
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China, Russia, And The Bomb
Citizens for Global Solutions · November 2022
Even close allies balk at nuclear war: Moscow stopped helping China build the bomb after Mao shrugged off losing 300 million people, and Xi has now rebuked Putin’s threats. Deterrence is unreliable; only abolition ends the danger.
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Grandparents And Grandchildren Unite The World
Citizens for Global Solutions · October 2022
War sacrifices people to protect nations, when nations should protect people. Just as the 13 American states agreed to settle disputes in court rather than on the battlefield, the UN could become a federation with a world parliament, a constitution and courts that outlaw war.
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Bye-Bye World: While Nuclear Weapons And Wars Exist, Annihilation Beckons
Citizens for Global Solutions · October 2022
In 1946 most Americans polled backed turning the UN into a world government, and public pressure later won real arms treaties. Now those treaties are being scrapped, and only enforced abolition and a stronger UN can keep any war from ending the world.
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A Perspective from Northeast Asia on Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
World Federalist Movement · September 2022
ROK and Japan seek a nuclear weapons free zone in Northeast Asia. A 3+3 approach aims to end the Korean War and establish regional security.
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The Need for a World Atomic Weapons Disarmament Agency
Young World Federalists · July 2022
Atomic energy stayed civilian under the IAEA, but nine nations still held about 12,700 nuclear weapons in 2022. A separate supranational agency, outside the Security Council, could decommission warheads step by step and recycle them into civilian energy.
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Redefining the NATO mission or rethinking the Atlantic Alliance?
World Federalist Movement · June 2022
Taking on Indo-Pacific security would quietly change the Atlantic Alliance without any European debate. With the US looking to Asia and its politics unreliable, Europe must build its own defence, as a step toward global security rather than a Western bloc.
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Who solves the world’s problems?
World Federalist Movement · June 2022
Neither the UN nor any great power can fix the planet’s crises, because each serves special interests and none holds a global monopoly on force. Only a sovereign world authority with a constitution can, and yearly military spending of about $2 trillion would fund it.
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the World’s Future
June 2022
Nine more ratifications, broad public support and investor divestment marked the nuclear ban treaty’s first year, while all nine nuclear powers rejected it and raced to build new weapons. Only mass public pressure is likely to make them accept it.
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Globalism Without World Federalism Leads to Deadlier Wars
Young World Federalists · April 2022
Wanting to punish aggression in Ukraine pushes well-meaning people toward steps that risk nuclear war, because states live in anarchy. Federal subunits almost never fight each other, and a federal world with binding dispute settlement would remove that bind.
