Ray Acheson

Ray Acheson is the director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She represents the WILPF on the international steering group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

Arms SpendingOctober 1, 2018

To Preserve Our Humanity, We Must Ban Killer Robots

Algorithms could create a perfect killing machine, stripped of the empathy and conscience that might hold a human back.

Ray Acheson
Nuclear Arms and ProliferationJuly 6, 2018

How Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Changed the World

A year after 122 nations adopted a nuclear-weapons ban, the treaty is showing results.

Ray Acheson
War and PeaceJune 1, 2018

Rebuilding the Antinuclear Movement

A fierce resistance to nuclear weapons means disrupting the dominant narratives about nuclear weapons as tools of “safety” and “security” and “peace.”

Ray Acheson , Loreta Castro , Beatrice Fihn , Linnet Ngayu and Carlos Umaña
ActivismApril 27, 2018

A New Generation Against the Bomb

What the burgeoning youth-led fight against gun violence can learn from the global antinuclear movement.

Ray Acheson
Nuclear Arms and ProliferationFebruary 2, 2018

Resisting Nuclear Weapons Means Resisting Injustice and Oppression

Nuclear arsenals are part of broader systems of patriarchy, racism, militarism, and capitalism.

Ray Acheson
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Nuclear Arms and ProliferationJanuary 16, 2018

We Need a Complete Nuclear-Weapons Ban

The terrifying incident in Hawaii proves that nuclear disarmament is as important as ever.

Ray Acheson

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Ray Acheson

Arms SpendingOctober 1, 2018

Algorithms could create a perfect killing machine, stripped of the empathy and conscience that might hold a human back.

Nuclear Arms and ProliferationJuly 6, 2018

A year after 122 nations adopted a nuclear-weapons ban, the treaty is showing results.

War and PeaceJune 1, 2018

A fierce resistance to nuclear weapons means disrupting the dominant narratives about nuclear weapons as tools of “safety” and “security” and “peace.”

ActivismApril 27, 2018

What the burgeoning youth-led fight against gun violence can learn from the global antinuclear movement.

Nuclear Arms and ProliferationFebruary 2, 2018

Nuclear arsenals are part of broader systems of patriarchy, racism, militarism, and capitalism.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Nuclear Arms and ProliferationJanuary 16, 2018

The terrifying incident in Hawaii proves that nuclear disarmament is as important as ever.