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Peace and Disarmament

Peace and Disarmament

Topic | 20 April, 2007 at 15:35

Make no mistake; nuclear weapons are a problem today. There are approximately 30,000 nuclear weapons in the world, belonging to nine countries.

Greenpeace International responds to nuclear testing conducted by North Korea

Press release | 3 September, 2017 at 14:46

North Korea announced on Sunday that it had successfully conducted a nuclear test using a hydrogen bomb more powerful than any it previously used. This is believed to be the sixth test conducted by North Korea.

Citizens inspection arrests

Citizens inspection arrests

Press release | 16 April, 2005 at 2:00

A massive police presence greeted inspectors from Greenpeace and Bombspotting at NATO-HQ, SHAPE and Kleine Brogel airbase. Greenpeace activists from the six NATO countries currently hosting the 480 nuclear weapons based in Europe: Italy, Germany...

Military spending is going up. Don’t let it take us down

Military spending is going up. Don’t let it take us down

Blog entry by Jen Maman | 5 April, 2016 3 comments

Weapons spending worldwide increased in 2015 and now stands at a mind boggling $1676 billion, according to a new data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute today. This 1% increase from 2014 marks an...

Trump ignores climate risk in military focus

Trump ignores climate risk in military focus

Blog entry by Jen Maman | 2 March, 2017

“We got to start winning,” Trump said on Tuesday.  “We got to start winning wars again.” What he was proposing was to win by increasing military spending in the US by 9%, adding a staggering $54 billion to the Pentagon’s budget...

The beginning of the end for nuclear weapons

The beginning of the end for nuclear weapons

Blog entry by Jen Maman | 20 September, 2017

"I have been waiting for this day for seven decades and I am overjoyed that it has finally arrived,” said Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow in July, when a new treaty banning nuclear weapons was agreed at the United Nations in New...

Nuclear threat towards the USA or from the USA?

Nuclear threat towards the USA or from the USA?

Press release | 10 June, 2002 at 2:00

60 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki Greenpeace renews its call for peace

60 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki Greenpeace renews its call for peace

Press release | 5 August, 2005 at 2:00

On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Greenpeace renewed its call to world leaders to make real their decades old commitments to nuclear disarmament and for the Japanese government to abandon plans...

Greenpeace response to International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iraq radiation contamination

Greenpeace response to International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iraq radiation...

Press release | 16 July, 2003 at 2:00

 

Conference on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty a fiasco - Nuclear Weapons States defiantly ignore calls to disarm

Conference on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty a fiasco - Nuclear Weapons States...

Press release | 9 May, 2003 at 2:00

While the most important conference about nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament finished today, member States of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) failed to agree a common understanding or way forward on how to achieve the abolition...

Conference on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty a fiasco - Nuclear Weapons States defiantly ignore calls to disarm

Conference on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty a fiasco - Nuclear Weapons States...

Press release | 9 May, 2003 at 2:00

While the most important conference about nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament finished today, member States of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) failed to agree a common understanding or way forward on how to achieve the abolition...

What my grandmother would say about President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima

What my grandmother would say about President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima

Blog entry by Daisuke Miyachi | 27 May, 2016 1 comment

World leaders are meeting in Japan for the G7, but on a side trip, President Obama is doing something no sitting US president has done before: visit Hiroshima. The city was flattened during World War II by the first nuclear weapon used...

Greenpeace letter to Iraq Coalition members

Publication | 15 March, 2004 at 1:00

This is a sample letter which Greenpeace has sent to all members of the Iraq coalition on the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. It asks them to respond to specific questions about their support for the war in light of the failure to...

On Impact: Modern Warfare and the Environment

Publication | 3 June, 1991 at 2:00

A Greenpeace case study of the impact of the 1991 Gulf war on the environment.

The 1991 Gulf War: Environmental Assessments of IUCN and Collaborators

Publication | 1 May, 1994 at 2:00

This document summarises the results of environmental assessments of the 1991 Gulf Warundertaken by IUCN-the World Conservation Union and collaborators during the period 1991to 1993.

NPT

NPT

Background | 10 April, 2006 at 16:07

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) came into force in 1970 and is the only legally-binding agreement where the nuclear weapons states promise to eliminate their nuclear arsenals.

Star Wars activists free

Star Wars activists free

Feature story | 15 April, 2002 at 2:00

Four Greenpeace activists and two freelance journalists who faced felony charges following a peaceful protest against the US Star Wars missile programme last July have walked free from court with varying probationary periods and one sentence of...

Greenpeace reminds Turkish Grand National Assembly of consequences of war

Greenpeace reminds Turkish Grand National Assembly of consequences of war

Press release | 24 February, 2003 at 1:00

Greenpeace activists return to confront US war preparations in Belgium port

Greenpeace activists return to confront US war preparations in Belgium port

Press release | 17 February, 2003 at 1:00

Local solutions

Local solutions

Background | 10 April, 2006 at 16:08

We believe greater peace, greater security, greater safety is possible. Reaching out across national boundaries Greenpeace is working with citizens and political leaders around the world to make this happen.

Regional solutions

Regional solutions

Background | 18 April, 2006 at 11:59

It seems that the five nuclear powers, the US, Russian Federation, UK, France and China want to have their yellow cake and eat it too.

Plutonium

Plutonium

Background | 27 June, 2006 at 12:12

Plutonium was discovered in the US in 1941 when scientists exposed uranium to neutron radiation in a laboratory. There is nothing natural about it, and has only been in the environment since the first atomic bomb was detonated in the US in 1945...

1 million Europeans call for GMO labelling on milk, meat and eggs

1 million Europeans call for GMO labelling on milk, meat and eggs

Press release | 5 February, 2007 at 1:00

Greenpeace today delivered to Markos Kyprianou, European Commissioner for Health, a petition containing 1,000,000 citizens' signatures calling for the labelling of milk, meat, eggs and other animal products where the animals have been fed with...

Ile Longue nuclear military base:

Ile Longue nuclear military base:

Press release | 15 May, 2005 at 2:00

Crew aboard the Greenpeace ship Artic Sunrise were today arrested after its inflatable zodiac boat entered the Ile Longue military zone in France today to make a citizens’ inspection of the Ile Longue nuclear military base. A flotilla of some 40...

Greenpeace takes Tuwaitha radiation to heart of U.S. administration in Iraq

Greenpeace takes Tuwaitha radiation to heart of U.S. administration in Iraq

Press release | 4 July, 2003 at 2:00

Greenpeace hot air balloon flies at United Nations Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference, calling on countries to Ban the Bomb

Greenpeace hot air balloon flies at United Nations Nuclear Non-Proliferation...

Press release | 5 May, 2003 at 2:00

As 187 nations who are members of the NPT (1) meet in the UN for the second week of deliberations on disarmament, the Greenpeace hot air balloon flew over Lake Leman calling for states parties to take immediate action to 'Ban the Bomb'.

Mock missiles destroyed at UN as nations meet to discuss global nuclear disarmament

Mock missiles destroyed at UN as nations meet to discuss global nuclear disarmament

Press release | 28 April, 2003 at 2:00

States which were prepared to go to war to disarm Iraq must take action to meet their international legal obligations to get rid of their own nuclear weapons, Greenpeace said, as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Member States began...

Alice in Nuclear Blunderland

Alice in Nuclear Blunderland

Feature story | 8 March, 2006 at 1:00

Editor's note: In preparing this article about the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, we read the news stories from all of the most reputable sources, we read the reports from all of the best institutions, we read...

Nuclear proliferation starts at home

Nuclear proliferation starts at home

Feature story | 26 April, 2004 at 2:00

While the glare of the world's media is focused upon the release of Mordechai Vanunu after 18 years in prison for revealing the world's most open secret - that Israel has the bomb - diplomats from all over the world are preparing for an important...

Year one of war

Year one of war

Feature story | 18 March, 2004 at 1:00

Last February, 30 million people took to the streets to oppose the invasion of Iraq. "Let the Inspections Work!" and "No War for Oil!" the banners read. Twelve months ago, the bombing started, the troops landed and the tragic story of the Iraqi...

War on WMD backfires

War on WMD backfires

Feature story | 11 February, 2005 at 1:00

George Bush's war on weapons of mass destruction has just had its first concrete result: the world now has 8 countries with declared nuclear weapons instead of 7. North Korea has officially announced that they have manufactured "enough nuclear...

UK military port blocked

UK military port blocked

Feature story | 30 January, 2003 at 1:00

Days after the Rainbow Warrior entered Marchwood Military port in Southampton and blocked the departure of UK military supply vessels heading for the Iraqi conflict in the Gulf, activists board and set up peace camp on military supply ship.

NATO: 'No' to nuclear first strike!

NATO: 'No' to nuclear first strike!

Feature story | 21 November, 2002 at 1:00

In public NATO speaks soothingly of disarmament and non-proliferation. But there is another face to NATO we don't often see, the warlike one of a well-armed nuclear force. In the firm grasp of the US, this shadowy face is being tilted toward a...

International solutions

International solutions

Background | 18 April, 2006 at 12:01

In addition to closing down nuclear test sites to delay nuclear explosions, blocking ships carrying nuclear weapons grade materials, and generally being a nuisance to the nuclear powers, we also work in a number of political arenas to help...

Let's make it a green peace

Let's make it a green peace

Blog entry by Bunny McDiarmid and Jennifer Morgan | 20 September, 2016

Today (21 September), around the globe, we mark Peace Day knowing that for many, peace is nowhere to be found. Not today. And unless things change dramatically, not any time soon. On New Years Day 2016, a Médecins Sans...

Save The Dugong - Stop The Airbase

Save The Dugong - Stop The Airbase

Press release | 10 March, 2005 at 1:00

Tokyo, 10 March 2005 -- Greenpeace is demanding that a plan to build a military airbase across sensitive coral reefs and dugong habitat in Okinawa, Japan be abandoned. In a press conference in Tokyo today, Greenpeace called for the designation of...

Greenpeace calls out Obama’s double standards for a nuclear-free world at Hiroshima visit

Press release | 27 May, 2016 at 4:00

Tokyo, 26 May 2016 - Greenpeace welcomes President Obama’s historic visit to Hiroshima just after the G7 meeting - the first ever visit by a sitting U.S. president - but condemns his double-standards as his administration works to expand the U.S...

Greenpeace launches relief oil campaign for the US in Germany

Press release | 17 March, 2003 at 1:00

 

Greenpeace urges North Korea to rejoin the NPT: urging diplomacy over 'sabre rattling'

Press release | 10 February, 2005 at 1:00

In response to North Korea's statement that it is indefinitely pulling out of the Six Party talks and the first public admission that it has nuclear weapons, the international peace and environment group Greenpeace urged the country to...

Greenpeace launches nuclear bomb location map while citizen inspectors visit...

Press release | 30 April, 2003 at 2:00

Nuclear proliferation regime severely threatened by North Korean declaration of its...

Press release | 25 April, 2003 at 2:00

Greenpeace today condemned North Korea's declaration that it possesses nuclear weapons and that it has reprocessed spent fuel. In reports from talks being held in Beijing, U.S. officials have stated that North Korean delegates confirmed on...

Revitalizing the General Assembly First Committee

Publication | 8 March, 2006 at 1:00

A seminar organized by the Dutch government6 October 2005, United Nations, New York. Remarks by Felicity Hill, Greenpeace International

13 practical steps to nuclear disarmament

Publication | 1 January, 2006 at 1:00

Thirteen steps toward the abolishment of nuclear weapons.

Analysis of Greenpeace materials from Iraq

Publication | 29 July, 2004 at 2:00

Report on the proliferation and radiological impacts of nuclear material looting uncovered by Greenpeace in July 2003. This report, by nuclear expert John Large, was sent to the International Atomic Energy Agency in July of 2004. It assesses...

Digest of Greenpeace Documents Related to 1991 Gulf War and War in General

Publication | 10 October, 2001 at 2:00

Includes US Nuclear Weapons in the Persian Gulf Crisis (Arkin,Durrant) 1991, Background Briefing on Gulf War (Walsh, Arkin) 1991, and Greenpeace statements against wars in Afghanistan and Yugoslavia.

Greenpeace statement opposing war with Iraq

Publication | 11 January, 2003 at 1:00

Greenpeace is opposed to war in Iraq and will campaign actively to prevent it. We will remain opposed, whether or not an attack is sanctioned by the United Nations.

From START to Stop

Publication | 20 November, 2002 at 1:00

G-8 Summit: critical test of global will to stop nuclear proliferation

Press release | 8 June, 2004 at 2:00

On the opening day of the G-8 Summit, Greenpeace is urging leaders to support the global effort to stop production of all plutonium, the key radioactive ingredient to nuclear weapons, and to remove existenting nuclear material from any commercial...

Survivors of nuclear warfare in Japan are calling for an end to nuclear weapons

Survivors of nuclear warfare in Japan are calling for an end to nuclear weapons

Blog entry by Tamara Stark | 5 August, 2016

This week marks 71 years since atomic bombs were dropped on Japan and devastated the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Often we do not mark a 71st anniversary - unlike a 25th or 50th anniversary, a 71st is simply one more year...

Priorities? Global military spending just hit US$1.6 trillion

Priorities? Global military spending just hit US$1.6 trillion

Blog entry by Jen Maman | 25 April, 2017 2 comments

Military spending worldwide is going up. 2016 has seen governments around the world spend US$1.686 trillion on their militaries according to a new repor t from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Spending...

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