Renouncing nuclear threats, healing nuclear harms
Nuclear weapons are an everything issue. They not only threaten human survival, they are the extreme embodiment of the structural injustices and violences manifest in toxic masculinity, neocolonial racism, and extractive capitalism. These weapons poison our politics with anti-democratic and anti-scientific practices.
Around the world, nuclear weapons harm and kill people every day due to the ongoing humanitarian impacts of nuclear mining, testing, and waste. These harms most heavily impact indigenous communities, and recent research has established that the negative impacts of ionising radiation disproportionately harm women and girls.
Nuclear clown is sad, from the Nuclear Circus multimedia series.
Nuclear weapons are among the most urgent threats facing humanity. Global nuclear war not only remains possible, but is never more than an hour away due to the high launch-readiness of Russian and American nuclear forces. A nuclear war would cause catastrophic humanitarian, environmental, and economic impacts around the world, triggering rapid global climate change, food shortages, and public health crises as secondary effects. But while millions march and students strike for climate action, most ignore the growing threat of nuclear war.
There is an urgent need for progress toward the global renunciation of nuclear weapons and threats, and the healing of communities and environments impacted by nuclear harms, led by those most impacted by those harms.
