Ray Acheson
Acheson, Ray; Castro, Loreta; Fihn, Beatrice; Ngayu, Linnet; Umaña, Carlos, Rebuilding the antinuclear movement
Discusses dominant narratives about nuclear weapons as tools of “safety” and “security” and “peace,” and the need to reinforce of a mass social movement against nuclear weapons. The authors also outline the emergence and core activities of the International Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
On ICAN see https://www.icanw.org
Acheson, Ray, Impacts of the Nuclear Ban: how outlawing nuclear weapons is changing the world
30 2The article discusses how some of the expectations and hopes about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons signed by many non-nuclear weapons states in 2017 at the UN have been fulfilled, what else needs to be done to implement further economic divestment, and alter to the nuclear weapons discourse and policies.