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August 1955 saw the first meeting of the World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, which had around 3,000 participants from Japan and other nations. [2] Protests began in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s. [3] In the United Kingdom, the first Aldermaston March, organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, took place in 1958.
On 1 May 2005, 40,000 anti-nuclear/anti-war protesters marched past the United Nations in New York, 60 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [ 163 ] [ 164 ] This was the largest anti-nuclear rally in the U.S. for several decades. [ 131 ]
In 1986, the Window Peace project in New York City paid tribute to both this encampment and the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. [ 12 ] In the early 1990s, the Special Weapons area at the Seneca Army Depot, which is where the protesters believed the nuclear weapons were stored, was closed and the Army acknowledged that the base's Special ...
The Millennium Peace Summit was held in New York City between August 28–31, 2000. [4]: 81 The Summit was sponsored by and received support from various organizations, including Harvard Divinity School, Ford Foundation, the Turner Foundation as well as other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private groups.
Cricket Valley Energy Center is a power plant in Dover, New York, operated by EthosEnergy.The 1,100-megawatt natural gas-fired plant came online in 2020. [1]The Cricket Valley Energy Center was one of the three natural gas-fired plants in the New York metropolitan area that came online to support electricity needs before the decommissioning of the last nuclear reactor of the Indian Point ...
The American Peace Society is a pacifist group founded upon the initiative of William Ladd, in New York City, May 8, 1828. It was formed by the merging of many state and local societies, from New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, of which the oldest, the New York Peace Society, dated from 1815. Ladd was an advocate of a "Congress ...
U. N. headquarters in New York City. The 2005 World Summit was a United Nations summit held between 14 and 16 September 2005 at the U.N. headquarters in New York City. It was a follow-up summit meeting to the U.N.'s 2000 Millennium Summit (which formulated the Millennium Declaration of the Millennium Development Goals).
New York State Electric and Gas (NYSEG) is an electric and gas utility company owned by Avangrid that serves customers in New York. NYSEG was incorporated in 1852 as the Ithaca Gas Light Company. NYSEG was incorporated in 1852 as the Ithaca Gas Light Company.