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.

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Nuclear Weapons Have Always Been Immoral. Now They’re Illegal. Nuclear Weapons Have Always Been Immoral. Now They’re Illegal.

The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has reached the 50 ratifications needed to become international law.

Oct 27, 2020 / Ray Acheson

Protest Against Killer Robots

To Preserve Our Humanity, We Must Ban Killer Robots 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.

Oct 1, 2018 / Ray Acheson

How Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Changed the World

How Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Changed the World How Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Changed the World

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

Jul 6, 2018 / Ray Acheson

Anti-Nuclear War Demonstration

Rebuilding the Antinuclear Movement 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.”

Jun 1, 2018 / Ray Acheson, Loreta Castro, Beatrice Fihn, Linnet Ngayu, and Carlos Umaña

Students raise their fists

A New Generation Against the Bomb A New Generation Against the Bomb

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

Apr 27, 2018 / Ray Acheson

Nuclear Football

Resisting Nuclear Weapons Means Resisting Injustice and Oppression Resisting Nuclear Weapons Means Resisting Injustice and Oppression

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

Feb 2, 2018 / Ray Acheson

Treaty on Nuclear Ban

We Need a Complete Nuclear-Weapons Ban We Need a Complete Nuclear-Weapons Ban

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

Jan 16, 2018 / Ray Acheson

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