One Million for Nuclear Freeze

An email from Back From the Brink informs me that forty years, ago, on June 12, about a million people gathered at a rally in New York to call for global nuclear disarmament. This is backed up by the Museum of the City of New York.

The email also led me to an article on the increasingly dangerous threat of nuclear war.

The gathering and protest on June 12, 1982, was part of the aptly named Nuclear Freeze movement. Nuclear war – and any use or misuse of nuclear weapons – causes a nuclear winter that destroy global agriculture and other necessary parts of civilization, possibly for decades.

The good news is that it’s possible to abolish nuclear weapons, and that no nuclear weapons have been used in war since their first use in 1945.

The bad news is that nuclear weapons testing has long-lasting multi-generational impacts.

The even worse news is that of the nine countries that have nuclear weapons, countries continue to threaten their use. (The US against Gaza in 2024 and 2025, Israel against Gaza)

Join the movement to abolish nuclear weapons before it’s too late.