The word “infinity” is frequently misused and abused. It is too often deployed simply to mean something vast, indefinite, or large beyond conception. But the idea of the infinite is another thing entirely. It is after all part of the lore…
Author: Tad Daley
Zero Would Be Nice: The only way to end endless Oppenheimers is to end the Forever Arms Race
Posted in Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, Global Governance
For Oppenheimer, a World Government Was the Only Way to Save Us From Ourselves
Might something like a genuine world republic provide humanity with the tools to get a grip on existential perils like the climate emergency, runaway artificial intelligence, and new weapons of mass extermination? By Jane Shevtsov and Tad Daley Blink and…
Seven Long Centuries Ago, Dante Imagined the End of War and the Unity of Humankind
It’s difficult to imagine any sort of connection between the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and something that occurred in an unremarkable bedroom in Italy almost exactly 700 years prior. It has nothing whatsoever to do with…
Posted in Abolishing War, Global Governance
World Government: Mere Science Fiction—Or Future Possibility?
A Talk to the 2021 LOSCON (The Los Angeles science fiction convention)By Tad Daley, JD, PhD, Director of Policy Analysis at CGS The goal of Citizens for Global Solutions is the establishment of a democratic federal world government, something like…
Posted in Global Governance
The Joe Biden Connection
I didn’t vote for Joe Biden on Super Tuesday, March 3rd. Since the New Year I had been agonizing over whether to vote for Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders at my Los Angeles polling place on that day. I am…
Posted in Politics
Fifty Years After the Moon Landing, Recalling One Small Misstep
Why did the first humans to set foot off Planet Earth plant the flag of only part of Planet Earth?
Posted in Global Governance, Humanity's Future in Space
My Friend Harris Wofford Jr. 1926-2019: Prophet Of A United States Of The World
Tad Daley (Director of Policy Analysis for CGS), last year with former US Senator and JFK confidant Harris Wofford (founder of the Student Division of CGS in 1947). Senator Wofford died on January 21, 2019. In between them is Harris…
Posted in Other
What If the Bomb Warning Text Message in Hawaii Hadn’t Been a False Alarm?
This article appeared on AlterNet on January 17, 2018. Did you even know, before last Saturday, that if the Button were pushed, the apocalypse was nigh and nuclear doom was enroute…that you would receive a text message first? Mudslides and…
Posted in Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
Why Not ‘A Global Anthem,’ Donald Trump? Who Does ‘Represent the World,’ Steve Bannon?
In his speeches before both CPAC and the U.S. Congress, President Trump described with pinpoint accuracy the sovereign state system of today. But might we see a global anthem tomorrow, and a world flag, and even a United Earth? *****…
Posted in Abolishing War
Reimagining the United Nations: a 2020 Vision
This essay is a revised and updated version of a story that appeared in Disarmament Times, the official journal of the United Nations NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace, and Security. “Does the United Nations Still Matter?” It often seems so…
Posted in Abolishing War
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