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“Sustained, coordinated, and sufficiently-resourced civil society campaigning to halt and reverse the new arms race will again be critical to channel the public’s general concern about nuclear weapons to demand more effective US policy action to cap, reduce, and eliminate arsenals.”
— Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director, Arms Control Association

The risk of nuclear war is rising again.
We need a new movement for global peace.
David Cortright, The Guardian

After viewing the film, here are three things you can do to help reduce the nuclear threat:

1) TAKE ACTION NOW

Write or call your Congressional representatives and encourage them urgently to:

  • Support a New Nuclear Arms Control Treaty

  • Say NO to Renewed Nuclear Testing

  • Eliminate ICBM’s

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2) CONNECT WITH AN ORGANIZATION

Stay involved by connecting with one or more of the leading organizations below working to halt and reverse the nuclear arms race. Click on the logos to learn more about each organization.

3) SHARE THE FILM WITH OTHERS

Help raise greater awareness of the nuclear threat and encourage action. The film is available free to share online, for public screenings, conferences, classrooms and house parties.

SUCCESSFUL ARMS CONTROL MOVEMENTS

Need inspiration? Throughout the nuclear age, people concerned about the danger nuclear weapons pose have successfully organized to halt nuclear testing, stop the development of new weapons systems and reduce nuclear stockpiles.

Here are articles and books that document those successes, with lessons for taking action today.

The Nuclear Freeze Movement and Its Impact
Lawrence S. Wittner, professor of history emeritus, SUNY

African American Leadership in the Fight for Nuclear Disarmament
Vincent Intondi, associate professor of history, Montgomery College

When US Labor Opposed Nuclear Weapons
Jeff Schuhrke, labor historian and assistant professor, SUNY

People of Faith Helped Stop Nukes Once; Let’s Do It Again
William D. Hartung & David Cortright, Sojourners

Book 'Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement'

Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. It covers the entire period of significant opposition to the bomb, from the late stages of World War II up to the early 2000’s.

Book about the Nuclear Freeze Movement

The definitive chronicle of the transformative and transnational Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign of the 1980’s. Amid an escalating Cold War that pitted the nuclear arsenal of the United States against that of the Soviet Union, the grassroots peace movement emerged, sweeping the nation and uniting people around the world.