Tri-Valley CARES director to address nuclear weapons agreements and prospects
In the spring of 2020, the five-year interval of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review conference will take on even more than its usual significance. This year will mark the 75th Anniversary of the only times (so far) that a nuclear weapon was used as a weapon of war - the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. And it is the 50th anniversary of the initiation of the NPT itself, which the nuclear weapons states continue to ignore at best and undermine at worst.
This year we also expect to see the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was approved by a plurality of non-nuclear weapons states in 2017, and whose existence the nuclear weapons states also essentially deny. The imperiled New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) will also be a focus, since it comes up for renewal early in 2021.
To help sort out key details on these various documents, as well as offer ideas about what to expect and what can be done by citizens and activists, longtime nuclear disarmament advocate Marylia Kelley - Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) - will be PASMC's guest speaker.
Marylia will discuss the immediate future of nuclear disarmament, internationally and in our Bay Area "backyard." She will share upcoming actions on the local, national and international levels. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Marylia Kelley founded Tri-Valley CAREs in 1983 in her hometown of Livermore out of twin concerns for U.S. nuclear policy and health and environmental effects of its largest employer, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - one of two places in the U.S. where nuclear weapons are designed. She and Tri-Valley CAREs pursue peace-related goals which include the end of design and testing of nuclear weapons and the conversion of LLNL into a civilian science "green lab."
Free, contributions welcome.
Presented by Peace Action of San Mateo County
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In the spring of 2020, the five-year interval of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review conference will take on even more than its usual significance. This year will mark the 75th Anniversary of the only times (so far) that a nuclear weapon was used as a weapon of war - the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. And it is the 50th anniversary of the initiation of the NPT itself, which the nuclear weapons states continue to ignore at best and undermine at worst.
This year we also expect to see the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was approved by a plurality of non-nuclear weapons states in 2017, and whose existence the nuclear weapons states also essentially deny. The imperiled New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) will also be a focus, since it comes up for renewal early in 2021.
To help sort out key details on these various documents, as well as offer ideas about what to expect and what can be done by citizens and activists, longtime nuclear disarmament advocate Marylia Kelley - Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) - will be PASMC's guest speaker.
Marylia will discuss the immediate future of nuclear disarmament, internationally and in our Bay Area "backyard." She will share upcoming actions on the local, national and international levels. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Marylia Kelley founded Tri-Valley CAREs in 1983 in her hometown of Livermore out of twin concerns for U.S. nuclear policy and health and environmental effects of its largest employer, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - one of two places in the U.S. where nuclear weapons are designed. She and Tri-Valley CAREs pursue peace-related goals which include the end of design and testing of nuclear weapons and the conversion of LLNL into a civilian science "green lab."
Free, contributions welcome.
Presented by Peace Action of San Mateo County
Tri-Valley CARES director to address nuclear weapons agreements and prospects
In the spring of 2020, the five-year interval of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review conference will take on even more than its usual significance. This year will mark the 75th Anniversary of the only times (so far) that a nuclear weapon was used as a weapon of war - the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. And it is the 50th anniversary of the initiation of the NPT itself, which the nuclear weapons states continue to ignore at best and undermine at worst.
This year we also expect to see the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was approved by a plurality of non-nuclear weapons states in 2017, and whose existence the nuclear weapons states also essentially deny. The imperiled New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) will also be a focus, since it comes up for renewal early in 2021.
To help sort out key details on these various documents, as well as offer ideas about what to expect and what can be done by citizens and activists, longtime nuclear disarmament advocate Marylia Kelley - Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) - will be PASMC's guest speaker.
Marylia will discuss the immediate future of nuclear disarmament, internationally and in our Bay Area "backyard." She will share upcoming actions on the local, national and international levels. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Marylia Kelley founded Tri-Valley CAREs in 1983 in her hometown of Livermore out of twin concerns for U.S. nuclear policy and health and environmental effects of its largest employer, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - one of two places in the U.S. where nuclear weapons are designed. She and Tri-Valley CAREs pursue peace-related goals which include the end of design and testing of nuclear weapons and the conversion of LLNL into a civilian science "green lab."
Free, contributions welcome.
Presented by Peace Action of San Mateo County
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In the spring of 2020, the five-year interval of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review conference will take on even more than its usual significance. This year will mark the 75th Anniversary of the only times (so far) that a nuclear weapon was used as a weapon of war - the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. And it is the 50th anniversary of the initiation of the NPT itself, which the nuclear weapons states continue to ignore at best and undermine at worst.
This year we also expect to see the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was approved by a plurality of non-nuclear weapons states in 2017, and whose existence the nuclear weapons states also essentially deny. The imperiled New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) will also be a focus, since it comes up for renewal early in 2021.
To help sort out key details on these various documents, as well as offer ideas about what to expect and what can be done by citizens and activists, longtime nuclear disarmament advocate Marylia Kelley - Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) - will be PASMC's guest speaker.
Marylia will discuss the immediate future of nuclear disarmament, internationally and in our Bay Area "backyard." She will share upcoming actions on the local, national and international levels. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Marylia Kelley founded Tri-Valley CAREs in 1983 in her hometown of Livermore out of twin concerns for U.S. nuclear policy and health and environmental effects of its largest employer, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - one of two places in the U.S. where nuclear weapons are designed. She and Tri-Valley CAREs pursue peace-related goals which include the end of design and testing of nuclear weapons and the conversion of LLNL into a civilian science "green lab."
Free, contributions welcome.
Presented by Peace Action of San Mateo County
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