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No War

What did we learn from the cold war, the disarmament movement of the last three decades, and the intricate history of arms control?

Greenpeace 'inspectors' outside the U.S. embassy to examine whether or not the Bush Administration is living up to its commitments to eliminate its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace finds WMDs

Since the US and the UK are having such a hard time finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, we thought we'd lend a hand by providing this easy guide to the nukes we know about.

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Follow the rainbow: beyond the bomb

What are the thoughts of someone who might be about to die for his beliefs? A recently uncovered audio tape from the early 1970s documents what Greenpeace activist David McTaggart had to say from the cabin of the tiny, wooden sailing vessel with which he was challenging the greatest force on Earth: nuclear weapons. Read on to see how you can carry on the fight for a safer world in 2005, the twentieth anniversary of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior.

192,000 people died from the bombing of Hiroshima. 'As long as nuclear weapons exist, it is inevitable that some country, at some point, will experience the horror that Hiroshima and Nagasaki already know.' --Former Hiroshima mayor Takashi Hiraoka Enlarge Image

Is your Mayor for Peace

Until we can rid the world of nuclear weapons nation by nation, we'll start town by town. That's the strategy behind the Mayors for Peace project - an international effort which began with the mayor of one city, Hiroshima, Japan, who in 1982 said "never again" to the suffering his own town endured.

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