Historic Opportunity for Real Peace With North Korea By John Lewallen President Trump’s June 12 peace agreement with North Korea, and his commitment to end “war games” around North Korea, need peace movement and public support to be effective. It is vital that we insist that the “tremendously expensive” and “provocative” (Trump’s words) annual U.S….Continue Reading “Historic Opportunity for Resl Peace With North Korea”
Peace Talks With North Korea Great Victory for U.S.! –by John Lewallen, June 12, 2018 Today’s beginning of peace talks between the U.S. and North Korea greatly reduces the threat of “accidental” war between these two nuclear powers, who have no fundamental conflict. My heartfelt personal thanks to President Donald Trump, who has cut through…Continue Reading “Peace Talks With North Korea Great Victory for U.S!”
Trump’s Historic Opportunity: Begin Talks to End Korean War –by John Lewallen, April 23, 2018 President Trump has an opportunity to begin talks with the goal of ending the Korean War with a peace treaty, a tremendous advance in securing the United States and avoiding war. There need be no preconditions, and the peace treaty…Continue Reading “Trump’s Historic Opportunity: Begin Talks to End Korean War”
Nuclear War Today Threatens Meltdown of Computerized Civilization –by John Lewallen, March 23, 2018 Since the most recent high-altitude nuclear H-bomb tests in the 1960s, the very nature of the threat of nuclear war has shifted and evolved. Now fission bombs such as those which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 are used as triggers…Continue Reading “Nuclear War Today Threatens Meltdown of Computerized Civilization”
Trump Should Open Peace Talks With North Korea –by John Lewallen March 19,2018 President Trump will be revered forever by the human race if he opens peace talks with North Korea, a nation which has no fundamental conflict with the United States. The goal of talks should be a peace treaty in the Korean War,…Continue Reading “Trump Should Open Peace Talks With North Korea”
Finding Delight in Avoiding War With North Korea –by John Lewallen Feb.9, 2018 Howdy Neighbors, I’m here on a beautiful day in Mendocino County, California. For me, my sense that the risk of nuclear war is rather high just now is exacerbating my delight in my wife, my friends, and the delightful world we share. Psychologically,…Continue Reading “Finding Delight in Avoiding War With North Korea”
North Korean Atmospheric H-Bomb Blast Would Risk Damage To Global Electronics –by John Lewallen, January 23, 2017 I sincerely hope that the North Korean government does not carry out its threat to detonate a thermonuclear weapon, or H-Bomb, in the Earth’s atmosphere. Since the most recent atmospheric H-Bomb tests in the 1960s, two factors have…Continue Reading “North Korean H-Bomb Blast Would Risk Damage To Global Electronics”
Dismantling the Nuclear Doomsday Machine With Daniel Ellsberg –book review of The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) Reviewed by John Lewallen I love Daniel Ellsberg, and am having a delightful time struggling for a human future with him. I recognized him as a true colleague in the peace movement in…Continue Reading “Dismantling the Nuclear Doomsday Machine With Daniel Ellsberg”
U.S. People’s Nuclear Posture: Deterrence Only to Avoid Nuclear Attack Jan.18,2018 As Donald Trump prepares to announce a nuclear weapons posture based on aggressive first-strike threat, I’m inviting all my fellow hostages to Trump’s insane provocation of nuclear attack to join me now in making a “U.S. People’s Nuclear Posture” based on Deterrence Only to…Continue Reading “U.S. People’s Nuclear Posture: Deterrence Only to Avoid Nuclear Attack”
Jan.10: Restraining Trump From Provoking Thermonuclear Attack on U.S. Homeland I read Foreign Affairs magazine for a window on the thinking of the U.S. foreign policy “Establishment.” If “The Korean Missile Crisis” by Scott D. Sagan in the November/December 2017 issue reflects insider thinking, Secretary of State Mattis should “ignore belligerent tweets, push back against…Continue Reading “Restraining Trump From Provoking Thermonuclear Attack on U.S. Homeland”