General Lee Butler is former head of the US Strategic Command, with responsibility for all US Air Force and US Navy strategic nuclear forces.   Even before he retired he had a radical rethink about nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons are the enemy of humanity. Indeed, they're not weapons at all. They're some species of biological time bombs whose effects transcend time and space, poisoning the earth and its inhabitants for generations to come. 

There is a better way of doing things, explains 'new economics' guru Hazel Henderson. 

In a world where gang violence, rape, and war are commonplace, where children think it’s the norm to fight against races different from their own, and where prisons are filled to capacity, people clamouring for peace are looking for answers to stop the violence. 

By Andrea Verdin

A single week's issue of a leading military journal reveals a lot about the strategic predicament and plans of the US. 

By Professor Paul Rogers

Paul Rogers is professor of peace studies at Bradford University and author of Oxford Research Group's International Security Report 2007,Towards Alternative Security: Alternatives to the War on Terror.

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By Jim McCluskey

On Sunday, as part of the CND 50th Anniversary International Conference, I attended a round-table discussion of about thirty people, chaired by a senator from Canada and including experts from around the world in various scientific fields.