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Poor countries neglected in financial bail-outs

Feature story | 17 October, 2008 at 2:00

The urgency shown by rich countries to tackle the financial meltdown stands in stark contrast to their foot-dragging and broken promises over aid and poverty alleviation, human rights and climate change.

Doomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight

Feature story | 19 January, 2007 at 1:00

The spectre of a nuclear war 60 years ago was what created the "doomsday clock," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'(BAS) cold war chronometer. The closer the clock to midnight, the closer the world was creeping toward disaster. These days,...

Tank girls occupy war machine

Feature story | 4 February, 2003 at 1:00

Despite growing public opposition to a war with Iraq, day and night British tanks, helicopters and jeeps are streaming though Southampton as part of the build up of the war machine. For over a week we have tried to stop the supplies from loading...

Five reasons to oppose a Star Wars missile plan

Publication | 18 March, 2001 at 1:00

Media briefing

This generation will ban nuclear weapons

Blog entry by Jen Maman | 10 December, 2014

Nearly 25 years after the end of the Cold War there are still estimated to be 16,300 nuclear weapons at 98 sites in 14 countries.  Rather than disarm, nuclear armed states continue to spend a fortune maintaining and modernising their...

Greenpeace's Shard ascent reminds us of the power of civil disobedience

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | 18 July, 2013 3 comments

Article originally published in the Guardian. Does it all seem too hard? Does it feel like governments and corporations will always get away with it in the end? Do you ask yourself what one person alone can do? Greenpeace is part...

Nuclear ambitions trump disarmament at UN meeting

Press release | 27 May, 2005 at 2:00

Greenpeace today condemned the lack of collective political will on the part of nearly 150 countries who failed to reach agreement on reducing the global arsenal of nuclear arms at the conclusion of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)...

Greenpeace demands full disclosure on secret US nuclear shipment from Iraq

Press release | 7 July, 2004 at 2:00

Greenpeace is calling on the Bush Administration to release a full inventory of the radioactive materials it secretly airlifted out of Iraq two weeks ago. The international environmental organisation further called for the International Atomic...

Neptune papers III ; Naval nuclear accidents at sea

Publication | 3 February, 1990 at 1:00

A 1990 listing of accidents involving naval vessels which were either nuclear powered or carrying nuclear weapons.Note: This is an automated, and imperfect, scan of a paper document.

'Preventive War' and International Law After Iraq

Publication | 27 May, 2003 at 2:00

The doctrine of ‘preventive war´ announced and practised by the United States, the attack on Iraq by the United States supported by a number of countries described as the ‘coalition of the willing´, and unilateral actions taken with respect to a...

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