Imagine a global society where we’ve achieved world peace. A world without wars, chaos, violence, and weapons is all possible. Yet, the future is uncertain as more and more rogue states and terrorist organizations are looking to acquire the weapons and materials to make nuclear bombs. Nuclear bombs threaten our ability to not only achieve world peace, but also threaten our survival as a human species. The solution is clear – denuclearize everywhere.

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What You Can Do

Let’s shift global policy and put pressure on elected officials to achieve nuclear disarmament. Please use these resources to contact your elected officials. 

Create buzz around the threat of nuclear war by writing a letter to the editor of your local paper. A published opinion article could help convince others to advocate for this issue as well. 

Nervous that the Scouts didn’t cover what to do in case of a nuclear threat? The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission provides a check-list for this scenario.

Support These Organizations

We can thank The Nuclear Threat Initiative for working collaboratively across governments to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a coalition of NGOs in 100+countries promoting adherence to the UN’s Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Given the environmental impacts of nuclear technology, it’s not surprising that environmental groups such as Friends of the Earth have developed denuclearization campaigns. 

Greenpeace, another environmental organization, also advocates fiercely for anti-war and nuclear disarmament policies. 

Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War has advocated for nuclear disbarment since 1980.

News Articles

Pentagon Sees “Increased Potential” for Nuclear Conflict: Our world is becoming less safe as nuclear threats increase, according to the Pentagon. (Federation of American Scientists)

How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet: Potential nuclear war scenarios may make you want to sleep under a lead blanket at night. (Nature)

Melting Glaciers Could Unleash Nuclear Fallout Trapped Within the Ice: Climate change will increase accessibility to nuclear stockpiles, which is the last thing planet earth needs. (Vice)

Each time North Korea flexes its nuclear capabilities, the world tenses. Track the latest headlines in the region. (CBS)

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has eroded the nuclear taboo from. (The Economist)

Strategies to Achieve Disarmament

Nuclear-Weapon Free Zone is a club every country ought to join. Today, regions such as Latin America, Africa, and Antarctica are within UN-designated Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones.

Op-Eds from Thought Leaders

A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn, all highly regarded global leaders, outline a vision of a nuclear-free world.

Toward a Nuclear-Free World: Advancing the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons requires concrete steps needed to make progress in that direction.

How to Protect Our Nuclear Deterrent: The accelerating spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how, and nuclear material has brought us to a tipping point.

Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Proliferation: We can’t deter nuclear war by building bigger and better nuclear weapons to intimidate our enemies. Other strategies are available to us.

Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Risks: Since the end of World War II, nuclear war has remained a threat to our society, and we’ll need bold action to finally meet the urgency of this threat.

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Nuclear Energy V's Weapons

There’s so much confusion between nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. NPR breakdown the differences in the article: Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Bombs: What Defines the Differences?

Discussion is taking place across the United States on the role of nuclear energy as a part of our clean energy transition. National Geographic introduces some of the important considerations.

Following a 2011 earthquake, Fukushima’s damaged reactors wreaked nuclear havoc on the local environment and population, demonstrating some of the dangers of using nuclear energy. 

UN team says that it’s unclear if Fukushima cleanup can finish by 2051, which shows how long-lasting the impacts of nuclear accidents are.

As if snakes needed another reason to be scary, scientists using them to help monitor Fukushima Fallout in order to document the long-lasting impact of the 2011 nuclear accident.

Documentaries

Chernobyl, an HBO miniseries, explores the devasting story of a nuclear accident from 1986. 

For more on Chernobyl, consider also hearing the first-hand accounts of survivors in NPR’s feature piece, ‘Voices From Chernobyl’: Survivors’ Stories.

The Bomb uncovers the powerful story of the most destructive invention in human history.

Atomic Message examines the conflicting ideologies and looks at how the dropping of atomic bombs affected Japanese society.

Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War unravels the story of the 1963 Cuban Missile Crisis. While dated, this film provides context to the moment the world sat on the brink of nuclear war.

In Code Name Sickle, viewers go behind the scenes at a unit operating the latest Topol-M nuclear missile.

From the Library of Congress, Duck and Coveralternated animations with images of students and adults practicing the recommended safety techniques from the 1950s.

Good Books

How on Earth did we come to have so many nuclear weapons? Steve Olson explores this in his historical recounting, The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age.

Richard Rhodes’s The Making of the Atomic Bomb helps us understand some of the motivations for the creation of the atomic bomb.

George Shultz and James Goodby’s wrote The War That Must Never Be Fought: Dilemmas of Nuclear Deterrence as a blueprint to avoid nuclear war.

TEDx Talks

Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson standoff in a debate: “Does the world need nuclear energy?” It’s a discussion that’ll make you think — and might even change your mind.

Your elected officials should be able to answer basic questions about the threat of nuclear war for our society. Emma Belcher shares three questions you can ask them.

Today’s nuclear weapon technology is hundreds of times more destructive than those used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ericka Gregory explains why we don’t need any more.

Teacher Resources

Using the Nuclear Tipping Point film as the backdrop, leverage the accompanying Teacher’s Guides, to reinforce critical literacy skills for high school-aged students.  

School children of the 1950s may remember How ‘Duck-and-Cover’ Drills Channeled America’s Cold War Anxiety. This is one piece of nostalgia we don’t want to have to comeback.

To make the stories of Hiroshima A-bomb survivors come to life, consider listening to a first-hand account tapped by the Hiroshima Peace Museum.

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Image Credits: NASA – James Webb Telescope

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