Sep 19, 2025
Ann Suellentrop, MSRN, vice chair of PeaceWorks KC and a past chair of the national Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, is going to visit Nagasaki and Hiroshima soon. Yes, an international peace ambassador! She’s travelling with the IPPNW, International Physicians...
Sep 18, 2025
PeaceWorks KC has already endorsed Nuclear Abolition Day, Sept. 26, a day celebrated around the world. Now YOU can endorse the day individually. At https://www.nuclearabolitionday.org/, click on the button “Endorse the Appeal” to add your name to the appeal the UN...
Aug 26, 2025
The extraordinarily devastating force and deadly toxicity of nuclear weapons sets them apart from all other weapons. The detonation of a single nuclear bomb can kill hundreds of thousands and cause injury and illness for many more. A limited nuclear war can kill up to...
Aug 6, 2025
This Hiroshima Day, as we recommit ourselves to peace, we’d like to share reflections from Dr. Ghassan Shahrour—a medical doctor, civil society activist, and writer. Every August 6, the world is asked to pause—for memory, for reflection, for conscience. We remember...
Jul 31, 2025
By Kimmy Igla Eighty years ago this August, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, changing the course of history and revealing a critical truth: the harm caused by nuclear weapons begins long before they are used—starting in the communities...
Jul 30, 2025
Archbishop John Wester gave the homily, excerpted here, at a Mass in Santa Fe, NM, on July 13, part of the observance of the 80th anniversary of the first test of a nuclear weapon—the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945. Developed in collaboration with Jay Coghlan (director...