Author name: Krista van Velzen

Krista van Velzen is a former Dutch MP and is currently working as nuclear disarmament campaigner with PAX in The Netherlands. She is running a citizens initiative in the Netherlands in order to get national legislation banning nuclear weapons. Van Velzen has been working on disarmament issues since the early nineties. As spokesperson on defence and foreign affairs she has convinced the Dutch government to ban and eliminate clustermunitions and and to prohibite investments as well. She has worked in Central and Eastern Europe creating a network of campaigners on the nuclear issue. She organised a Walk for Nuclear Disarmament from Brussels to Moscow. Her attempts to disarm a British Trident submarine gave her truly interesting experiences inside a Scottish jail. Disagreeing with president Obama, she believes a world without nuclear weapons is achievable in this lifetime.

Decennia na ‘Hiroshima’ en ‘Nagasaki’ is kernwapendreiging nog altijd actueel

Analyse, Nieuws, NL / July 3, 2020 / , , , ,

De capitulatie van Japan op 15 augustus 1945, vandaag 68 jaar geleden, betekende het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. Aan deze capitulatie gingen de atoombommen …

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