1) Free online film “The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons” 56 min
2) on military spending Lawrence Wittner The Big Spender We Don’t Need July 26, 2020
Lawrence Wittner follows US tax dollars as they pour into the black hole of military spending — $732 last year and more on the horizon as debate rages over the current bill. US defense spending dwarfs the rest of the world’s. Pandemic, unemployment and climate change notwithstanding, the White House goal is to further enrich arms manufacturers and spark a new global arms race.
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3) on military spending William J Hartung, Why is the Pentagon wasting money on nuclear weapons and space? July 27, 2020
This year’s proposed budget of $740 billion for the Pentagon and related programs is one of the highest levels of defense spending since World War II, higher than spending during the Korean or Vietnam Wars or the peak of the Reagan buildup. Spending this much money on traditional military capabilities is out of sync with the world we now live in, where pandemics, climate change, and extreme inequality pose the greatest challenges to our safety and security. Our military should be smaller, have fewer missions, and be structured around different priorities.
4) Recorded webinar and papers for 100 Seconds to Midnight: What does this mean and what can we do?
International participants on nuclear risk reduction and disarmament
http://www.abolition2000.org/
5) Recorded webinar: What Every Global Citizen Needs to Know About the Decision to A-Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The debate over the atomic bombings—a controversy that forced the Smithsonian Institution to abandon its Enola Gay exhibit 25 years ago—continues unabated in America today as we approach the 75th anniversary of the incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Four historians, Gar Alperovitz, Martin Sherwin, Kai Bird, and Peter Kuznick, each of whom has written extensively on the topic, discussed the documentary evidence and assessed the current state of knowledge about the bombings in a webinar held on July 25. Internationally acclaimed poet Carolyn Forché moderated. The webinar critically explored in depth the “official” explanation that use of the atomic bombs was the only way to force the fanatically resistant Japanese to surrender without an Allied invasion that would have cost hundreds of thousands of U.S. and British and an even greater number of Japanese lives
