Please register for the May 15 onlne No First Use Conference. On more than 30 occasions during international crises and wars the U.S. has prepared and threatened to initiate nuclear war, most recently Donald Trump’s “fire and fury” threat and preparation to attack North Korea with nuclear weapons. In 2017 and 2019 Joe Biden stated that the sole use of U.S. number weapons should be deterrence. Our conference will serve as a launching pad for a nationwide campaign to win passage of the Senator Warren-Rep. Smith No First Use bill, and to press President Biden to codify a no first use doctrine.  No First Use is but a small disarmament step, but with the increasingly dangerous confrontations with China (which has a no first use doctrine) and Russia, it would greatly reduce the danger of nuclear catastrophe.

We have a great line up of speakers:

Dr. Ira Helfand (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War)

Elaine Scarry (Harvard; MA Peace Action; CPDCS)

Zia Mian (Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University)

Wm Perry (Sec. of Defense in Clinton adm.)

Tom Collina (Ploughshares Fund)

Zhao Tong (Tsinghua University & Carnegie Foundation_

Joseph Gerson (CPDCS)

John Burroughs (Lawyers Com on Nuclear Policy)

Kennette Benedict (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists)

Senator Ed Markey (on video)

Representative Ted Lieu

And five breakout sessions

Cosponsors: Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security (CPDCS); Massachusetts Peace Action; Council for a Livable World; CodePINK; Chicago Area Peace Action; NY Peace Action; Maine Peace Action; Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; Greater Boston Physicians