Ellen Thomas

[Ellen Thomas @nucnews]

Friday, January 22, nuclear weapons become illegal in 51 countries. Help convince U.S. legislators to make them illegal here too! #nuclearban #wilpf_us

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

They are discussing using nuclear weapons on Iran in strategy meetings.

Yes you read that correctly. It’s real. I’m not speculating, I know.

And it’s pure evil.

The last time a nuclear weapon was used was August 6th and 9th of 1945 on two cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, immediately killing 110,000 people, vaporizing people at ground zero, and total deaths reached 214,000 by the end of the year from severe burns and trauma.

But the extreme suffering continued for the Japanese people from radiation sickness, skyrocketing cancer rates, and generational birth defects.

Not to mention wiping out all means of their economy.

And the suffering was so great that all of humanity vowed, “never again.”

Trump and his admin were told by our own intelligence that Iran was no where near creating a nuclear weapon, then Israel said the same line it’s repeated for decades, “Iran is only weeks away.”

So we bombed anyways, killed their leaders and innocent little children in a school, and Iran has controlled the Strait of Hormuz ever since and punished the region for their part in it.

And now our government is the one actually discussing lowering the nuclear threshold in order to use nuclear weapons against Iran even though Trump claims he’s won the war like 40 times and says the U.S. controls the SoH.

Trump promised no more foreign wars, but may actually be the one who delivers a nuclear holocaust that would likely drag the entire world into major conflict, economic depression, and mass human suffering we’ve never seen in our lifetimes and maybe throughout history.

People need to speak out and boldly stop this insanity.

America is not untouchable.

If and when that happens, everyone, and I do mean everyone, will hold ALL of those in leadership right now fully responsible for the rest of human history.

Do not use nuclear weapons and stop this war NOW.

[Ellen Thomas @nucnews]

Now the question is why was this even invented to begin with?💭🤯 https://t.co/EPBEskjz2Q via @YouTube

[Zhai Xiang @ZhaiXiang5]

China just released an audio recording of a recent radio exchange between Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Chinese Navy.

The Japanese side identified itself by saying: "This is Japan Navy."

The Chinese Navy immediately responded:
Your so-called Japan Navy has violated your own constitution.

To understand how inappropriate "Japan Navy" is, imagine an employee whose official title is "staff member" walking into a board meeting and declaring:
"Good morning. I'm the chairman."

That is exactly what happened on the radio. A self-defense force is the strictly defensive organization Japan was permitted to retain after WWII.

A navy is a full military branch of a sovereign state, capable of offensive operations.

The distance between the two words is huge enough to separate the postwar order from its collapse.

According to Article 9 of Japan's Constitution:
"Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained."

And this is only the tip of the iceberg. Consider Japan's growing list of "small moves" in recent years.

1. Using offensive weapons in military exercises
2. Sending vessels of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force to pass through the Taiwan Strait
3. Putting an active-duty service member on the ruling party's stage
4. Promoting discussions on nuclear deterrence

One word at a time. One step at a time.

From "self-defense force" to "navy."
From "exclusively defense-oriented" to counterstrike capabilities.
From preserving the pacifist Constitution to campaigning for constitutional revision.
From honoring three nonnuclear principles to opening questioning nuclear taboos.

Taken together, they reveal a much larger transformation:

A force created in the name of self-defense is gradually shedding that label and reclaiming the identity of a full-fledged military, inch by inch.

The most important changes often do not begin with a declaration. Sometimes, they begin with a few words over the radio:

"This is Japan Navy."

And history is watching who lets them pass.

[Ellen Thomas @nucnews]

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[Ellen Thomas @nucnews]

See this Instagram photo by @nuclearban https://t.co/0uUMzhBrCz

[NTI @NTI_WMD]

🚨 Major victory in Nevada 🚨

The state legislature UNANIMOUSLY passed AJR13 urging the federal government to maintain the 30-year moratorium on explosive nuclear weapons testing.

When an entire state legislature speaks with one voice, it matters and sends a clear, bipartisan message to Washington.

#NoNukeTests #NVLeg

[ICAN @nuclearban]

1/ ICAN is gravely concerned by escalating hostilities between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, including last night’s missile strikes and nuclear threats. A nuclear exchange would be catastrophic for the world.
Read our full statement here: https://t.co/mepgLHCm7z
#NuclearBan

[Michael Steele @MichaelSteele]

During this period of Novemdiales (mourning the loss of Pope Francis) I’ll set this offense aside because Trump in his narcissism gets off on our being offended. More to the point, this affirms how unserious and incapable he is. At 78 he remains a 10yo child, emotionally scarred and broken while desperate to prove he could be somebody. His problem: he can’t grow up to prove it.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨MIT Cuts Ties With Israeli Weapons Maker Elbit Systems After Student-Led Campaign

In one of the most high-profile academic dissociations from an Israeli weapons manufacturer in the U.S. to date, MIT has cut ties with Elbit Systems following a six-month campaign led by the MIT Coalition for Palestine and BDS Boston.

➤ The decision removes Elbit from MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program (ILP), a membership platform that connects corporations with MIT’s research labs, faculty experts, and emerging technologies.

➤ Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest private arms company, supplying drones, surveillance systems, and other military equipment used in genocide in Gaza and across occupied Palestinian territories.

➤ The campaign targeting MIT’s relationship with Elbit reportedly involved disrupting ILP conferences in Boston, Bangkok, Seoul, and Tokyo.

➤ “Let this be a message to all the merchants of death: You have been put on notice.” Student organizers called the move a victory for academic accountability and a rejection of partnerships with firms complicit in Israeli war crimes.

(Video via BDS Boston and M1T_CAA Instagram)

[ICAN @nuclearban]

3/ The Holy See was one of the first states to ratify the #TPNW in 2017. That same year, Pope Francis welcomed ICAN to a disarmament conference at the Vatican, adding his voice and weight to a growing global movement for peace: https://t.co/zNBhztbACO
#NuclearBan

[ICAN @nuclearban]

🧵1/ We are deeply saddened by the passing of Pope Francis, a global leader whose moral courage and voice for peace shaped the movement to eliminate nuclear weapons.

@Pontifex declared both the use and possession of nuclear weapons “immoral” and supported the #NuclearBan.

[Ellen Thomas @nucnews]

US destroys Al-Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Yemen #QNews https://t.co/W1yBY6e0xc via @YouTube

[Ellen Thomas @nucnews]

Nuclear Arms Control: When Will the Lost Chance Be the Last Chance? - https://t.co/yGhYyPewyE https://t.co/S239tmW6yW

[Ellen Thomas @nucnews]

@caitoz It appears that the monsters who brutalized Jewish people in the 1940's have reincarnated as Zionists.

[Ellen Thomas @nucnews]

https://t.co/WgKM2RCend

[Hans-Benjamin Braun @Ben68638515]

Long overdue radiation measurements at Tartus (Syria) Ground Zero reveal radiation levels 60 times above natural background, on the order of Fukushima, and unambiguously demonstrate the use of a ~0.3kt nuke on Dec 15 2024:

https://t.co/DkgMf98Idn

[Ellen Thomas @nucnews]

@AnnieJacobsen I agree wholeheartedly. Here is what we've been trying to do about it: https://t.co/BgHsS964px

[Annie Jacobsen @AnnieJacobsen]

Nuclear war is insane. Nuclear threats are insane.

Every person I interviewed for NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO knows this.

Read the book. Join the conversation, while we can all still have one. 🙏United Nations, #TPNW, 3rd Meeting of the States Parties (3MSP).

[Ploughshares @plough_shares]

Did you know a federal judge ruled that the US government's plan to produce new plutonium pits for nuclear weapons violated environmental law? Also… what even is a plutonium pit? 🤔
@johncarlbaker breaks it down in our latest article: https://t.co/hswPT2Aunv

[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @BulletinAtomic]

The 2025 Doomsday Clock announcement will be held next Tuesday, January 28th at 10:00 am EST/1500 GMT.

Speakers this year include @JuanManSantos, chair of @TheElders, former president of Colombia, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Learn more below:
https://t.co/wXF00vcFcA