News stories by Andrew Lichterman - Alyn Ware - Yosuke Watanabe

OAKLAND, California / PRAGUE, Czech Republic / YOKOHAMA, Japan, Jun 28 (IPS) - Our three organizations - Western States Legal Foundation, Peace Depot, and Basel Peace Office - all dedicated to the elimination of nuclear weapons, have consistently expressed our concern about the risk of nuclear war escalating during armed conflicts and times of high tension, when nuclear-armed states often make veiled or even explicit threats to use nuclear weapons and prepare for such use.