I’m very happy to present a few videos on existential global issues produced by the excellent media corporation, The China Academy, which were filmed during my visit to Shanghai in October 2025. Here is the first. Your comments, whether below or on YouTube, are most welcome. Continue reading 1021 Jan Oberg Exposes the Truth About Nuclear Weapons
Jan Oberg Written on January 7, 2022, as Op-Ed for China Daily * One description of the contemporary world is more accurate and ominous than any other, namely that we live in the nuclear age or the age of nuclearism, i.e. the weapons plus the thinking and power structures that surround these doomsday weapons. In 1946, Albert Einstein stated that “the unleashed power of the … Continue reading Nuclear weapons abolition requires more than the five nuclear-weapon states’ recent joint statement
August 6, 2020 It is natural and human to commemorate what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But these stories, films and photos from back then must never come to serve as a museum for just a historical event. It would also be fairly naive – now 75 years later – to believe that showing such images of the destruction and listening to Hibakushas (survivors) will … Continue reading Nukes are not only history: Discuss this on August 6 and 9 and all other days
August 6, 2019 – Hiroshima Day Thought you might like to see a discussion I participated in at the invitation of PressTV in – non-nuclear – Iran. And, like me, you may have wondered why the Western world’s mainstream media largely ignore Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day? Well, I have a nasty mind: Because someone has let it be understood that there is no reason to … Continue reading Nuclear weapons states are terrorist states and these weapons are indefensible
A debate on PressTV between Jan Oberg and Jim Walsh, MIT Here is a link to a partial transcript Continue reading The BAN Treaty – it’s significance and why some have isolated themselves from civilisation