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THE CLOCK HAS BEEN MOVED FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT TO THE EARTH IS NUCLEAR WAR NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE UNCHRISTIAN AND UNISLAMIC
THIS SITE WISHES TO PROMOTE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND A COLLABORATION ON A PROJECT LIKE AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
The explosion of Hiroshima and Nagasaki tells us the damage from a ‘small’ atomic bomb. Chernobyl showed the damage from the meltdown of a single nuclear power station.
This should inform us of the kind of damage we can expect from even a few modern weapons exploding in the atmosphere or in or on a nuclear power station.
Damage to the ozone layer will make life impossible on the planet.
Now we are sitting at the breakfast table drinking our coffee and reading the newspaper, but in a moment we may be inside a fireball whose temperature is tens of thousands of degrees. Now we are on out way to work, walking through the city streets, but in a moment we may be standing on an empty plain under a darkened sky looking for the charred remains of out children. Schell 1982: 182.
Even one electromagnetic blast could destroy most systems of communications and result in economic meltdown.
The answer to the problem is international control of weapons- grade material and the destruction of current nuclear weapon stockpiles.
Any exchange or nuclear attack will also act together with the climate problem and send it out of control.
The answer is not to continue old habits of increasing the ownership of such weaponry; they are useless as a means of defence against terrorism. We have to come to terms with the fact that we must act now to prevent the extinction of the human species and most other species.
The US could not even react to help people from Hurricane Katrina, even one nuclear bomb will throw the US into disarray and produce economic Armageddon. I the most likely scenario is a terrorist explosion then all the nuclear weapons in the world are useless. It is not possible to deter an unknown fanatic. No sane state would use them for fear or retaliation. Nuclear weapons are therefore no use to their possessors. Nuclear disarmament and the international control of fissile material is the only way back from the brink.
A Nuclear wake up call the effects of a nuclear war between Israel and Iran
This suggests that 24 million Iranians would be killed and Iran would end as a civil society it suggets that Israel migh just survive as a society but the analysis omits the consideration of radioactive fallout in the region spreading to include Europe Pakistan and India and the potential catastrophic effect on the Ozone layer and the possible end of life on the planet.
It does say that there will be economic armageddon. This of course would lead to millions of other deaths.
Everyone must read the effects of nuclear weapons:
http://www.princeton.edu/~aglaser/lecture2007_weaponeffects.pdf
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Movies/index_movies.shtml
BBC questions and answers about the NPT.
We have only one choice go on as usual and become extinct or love, in the deeper meaning of the word accept the differences between cultures and accept mistakes of others and accept all nations as joint occupiers of a scared sphere. If we commit ourselves to the usual actions there is no hope. Luther King:Love is the only path to survival.
Jonathan Schell:
"Once we learn that a holocaust might lead to extinction we have no right to gamble, because if we lose, the game will be over, and neither we nor anyone else will ever get another chance. Therefore, although, scientifically speaking, there is all the difference in the world between the mere possibility that a holocaust will bring about extinction and the certainty of it, morally they are the same, and we have no choice but to address the issue of nuclear weapons as though we knew for a certainty that then-use would put an end to our species."
The trend to use nuclear weapons threatens the whole of creation and therefore all future generations. Therefore those right- to-life antiabortionists must support nuclear disarmament since the use of nuclear weapons is an abortion of all future foetuses.
The global climate would be irredeemably altered in a nuclear war and the ozone layer damaged beyond repair. All life is protected by the ozone layer, if any life survived it would be blind and burned.
Time Review of Schell:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,950632-3,00.html
Nuclear weapons represent an absolute evil, an ever present threat of total death embedded in the political life of our planet. Insofar as our traditional ("pre-nuclear") notions of national security and sovereignty depend on maintaining and threatening to use nuclear weapons, those notions are obsolete and, more to the point, dangerous. They must be recognized as such and discarded. Politics must be reinvented: existing institutions must give way to some sort of transcendent sovereignty and security, presumably by a government that embraces all mankind. Schell invokes love and Mahatma Gandhi, appealing for a kind of international Gandhiism to replace the system of nuclear-armed nation-states we now have.
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The struggle and the choice, is now between nuclear abolition and nuclear anarchy. Unless the world chooses nuclear abolition, it will get nuclear anarchy. The road to nuclear anarchy is in fact the road we are now on. Jonathan Schell
See Schell on the way forward The Unconquerable World
The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger (American Empire Project)
Book Description
From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America’s new nuclear policies. http://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Decade-Nuclear-American-Project/dp/0805081291/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195472931&sr=8-3
When the cold war ended, many Americans believed the nuclear dilemma had ended with it. Instead, the bomb has moved to the dead center of foreign policy and even domestic scandal. From missing WMDs to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, nuclear matters are back on the front page.
In this provocative book, Jonathan Schell argues that a revolution in nuclear affairs has occurred under the watch of the Bush administration, including a historic embrace of a first-strike policy to combat proliferation. The administration has also encouraged a nuclear renaissance at home, with the development of new generations of such weaponry. Far from curbing nuclear buildup, Schell contends, our radical policy has provoked proliferation in Iran, North Korea, and elsewhere; exacerbated global trafficking in nuclear weapons; and taken the world into an era of unchecked nuclear terror. Incisive and passionately argued, The Seventh Decade offers essential insight into what may prove the most volatile decade of the nuclear age.
SEE INITIATIVES BELOW STARTING WITH COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENTARY
IRANIANS DO NO WANT WAR http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=45712
STOP THE WAR IN IRAQ AND IRAN CONTACT CONGRESS
NOW
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Deja vu all over again from Guardian
Rabindranath Tagore talks about Japan at the time of the Fascist takeover before WWII:
the voluntary submission of the whole people to the trimming of their minds and the clipping of their freedom by their government which through various education agencies, regulates their thoughts, manufactures their feelings... the people accept this all pervading mental slavery with cheerfulness and pride because of their nervous desire to turn themselves into a machine of power called the nation.
LOBBY THE CANDIDATES
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10072
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Cheyney the liar and war profiteer:
The State of the Planet
The Times
October 26, 2007
The scale of the challenge is huge. We’ve got to act now
Land, sea, air and rivers have all deteriorated so much in the past 20 years that scientists fear humanity’s very survival is now at risk
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2741666.ece
http://current.com/items/BBC-New-UN-Report-Says-World-At-Risk-As-Never-Before/85925311
IMAGINE THAT ONE DAY YOU CAN JOIN US
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Other groups eg Quakers For Peace
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The fate of the planet is at risk
Commission report presented
New proposals to reduce threats
by weapons of mass destruction
On 1 June the WMDC Chairman Dr. Hans Blix presented the Commission report "Weapons of Terror" to the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York. The report contains sixty concrete proposals on how the world could be freed of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
HOLD THE MANUFACTURERS RESPONSIBLE
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=9
THE MERCHANTS OF DEATH THE KILLERS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_armament_manufacturer
PEACE INITIATIVE DOCUMENTARY
Honouring the NPT has stalled. This site is set up to change this through world-wide collaboration in the construction of a new peace initiative documentary presented by a major world figure. Open source peace- like open source software.
We will build a 90 minute online documentary together, to be used to lobby and demand that the main nuclear weapon states honour the NPT and progress towards their total elimination. The time is now.
Send money to and keep up to date with:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
OTHER INITIATIVES
TRANSNATIONAL OFFICES
Peacesource is setting up a virtual unified international disarmament community called PAND: People and Nations for Nuclear Disarmament- with multistory offices next door to the UN and all world centres of government in capital cities.
Each virtual building will house offices for all disarmament entities. This will be a truly transnational development with no carbon imprint. We urgently need someone to design and build our virtual office 20 floors and 200 offices, so we can walk through the office space and see each office and it occupant's title.
THE LAST LETTER
Another peacesource initiative: Vassily Grossman in Chapter 18 of Life and Fate, maybe the finest and most necessary novel of the 20th and 21st Century, there is a last letter written by a mother as she awaits Nazi annihilation. Grossman's war diaries should be read for the account of Trablinka.
How do we make people aware of the fact that we are all members of the same human universal family? If there is a God, God would not have selected one country or religion. We pray to the same God, the ritual practices and customs vary. I have travelled all over the world to study religion and its manifestations. Its fundamental structures are similar and bear witness to our common humanity.
Please send in your imagined last letters to wake the world to our need for peace, to alert everyone to the threat of nuclear war. There will be two selected from each country one from adults and one from children. We will need the original and english translation. A prize of $500 dollars is offered in both categories.
I think we can ask older children to write about the imagined possibility of losing their whole family. Write an imagined letter to your family or a loved one in your family as you are awaiting death from a destructive nuclear war. I am happy if a major publishing house takes this on.
Please support
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/sup
port.htm
http://www.truthdig.comhttp://www.heavy.com/video/15601
http://www.heavy.com/video/15601
THE UNIVERSAL FAMILY
We have tried hate and we have tried war, let's give love a chance not because it is left-wing and warm and fuzzy but because its the only way out of our species slow learning impediment. As we love our friends despite their flaws so we must learn to love and respect the fascinating differences between cultures. The centuries-old resort to the institution of warfare to resolve differences and protect interests is now the pathway to extinction. The global climate is spinning out of control and if we are to survive we have to unite as we might if we were attacked from outer space.
We are all members of the human family, regardless of different modes of thought and customs. This site wants display the same short 10-15 minute scene from all nations, maybe a family picnic or a family meal with children talking about their hopes and future. We will publish them here and on
YouTube.
Families
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery
/07/asia_pac_indonesian_family/html/1.stm
PAKISTAN AND SECURITY:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/173.html
In Pakistan Bell Tolls for Bush's Freedom Agenda
VOICES of The PEOPLE OF IRAQ
http://www.afsc.org/iraq/default.htm
VOICES FROM IRAN ABOUT THE IRAN IRAQ WAR
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4268530.stm
ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
GOD CANNOT BE ON ONE PERSON'S SIDE
OUR COMMON HUMANITY
http://www.familyofman2.com/
http://www.foma.lu/
The Family of Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.peace.ca/peaceinthefamilyofman.htm
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
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http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/172.html
http://www.iranheritage.org/sixthbiennial/filmsynopsis.html
Iran would need 3-8 years to produce bomb: IAEA chief
Reuters via Yahoo! News Mon, 22 Oct 2007 4:45 AM PDT
Iran would need three to eight years to make a nuclear bomb, the head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said in an interview published on Monday, and he warned against a rush to use force to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1119169062&channel=27638673
More than 100 countries face political chaos and mass migration in global warming catastrophe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/04/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange
A total of 46 nations and 2.7 billion people are now at high risk of being overwhelmed by armed conflict and war because of climate change. A further 56 countries face political destabilisation, affecting another 1.2 billion individuals.
This stark warning will be outlined by the peace group International Alert in a report, A Climate of Conflict, this week. Much of Africa, Asia and South America will suffer outbreaks of war and social disruption as climate change erodes land, raises seas, melts glaciers and increases storms, it concludes. Even Europe is at risk.
See International Alert
http://www.international-alert.org/
LETTERS FROM GAZA
Go to Google Video search The People of Gaza
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=The people of Gaza
People and The Land: The Story of a People Under Occupation
All time views:12,672 »
Diverse Media Zone, Inc.
56 min 43 sec - Jul 24, 2006
www.ameu.org
A genocide is engilfing the people of Gaza
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=PIL20070124&articleId=4580
[object Text]This is an invitation, firstly to the children of Gaza, to write essays on the following themes:
My life until now.
How I see my future.
How I see God?
This can be extended to other war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan and other cultures. We need to know and identify with people from across the world.
Every family in the world could identify with the plight of Madeleine McCann and her parents.
We need to be able to identify with the families of our so-called enemies.
There are many children and families who need or empathy and understanding.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE UNCHRISTIAN AND UNISLAMIC
Edward N. Luttwak
Let their system fail
review of Douglas Brinkley, Editor The Reagan Diaries 2007 HarperCollins
Nobody could then know of course that Reagan was America's post-nuclear President: early on he told his utterly shocked military chiefs what he could tell nobody else without destroying deterrence, that he would never authorize the use of nuclear weapons, even if the United States were attacked with them.
The Ayotollah Khomeini said that nuclear weapons were unislamic.
There is a tendency in peace and environmental movements to form small self-righteous groups we must counteract this tendency and unite in one powerful organisation called PAND.
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The fundamental position: nuclear weapons must be abolished before, as JFK said, they abolish us.
THEY DID THIS IN GERMANY NAOMI WOLF ON THE GROWTH OF FASCISM IN THE US
The persons using the term Islamofascism are the fascists.
see cartoon on http://peacesource.net/blog
Compare the Reichstag Fire with 9/11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
Compare Bush Cheyney Neocons relationshop with religion and Hitler's use of the Church
http://www.nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm
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