position statement

As the only country to use nuclear weapons in conflict, the United States has a moral obligation to lead the world in ending this menace and restoring communities impacted by nuclear weapons.

 
 

Seventy-five years ago, the United States conducted two nuclear attacks against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, devastating their populations and destroying their infrastructure. In the process of manufacturing and testing these weapons, civilians within downwind communities, nuclear workers, uranium miners and their families, and military personnel were also exposed to harmful and sometimes deadly levels of ionizing radiation. Following their use in Japan, the production and past testing of nuclear weapons in the United States and internationally continues to harm the health, environment, and cultures of communities around the world.

Today, we are living in a time of extraordinary nuclear dangers. Vital international agreements to reduce and control nuclear weapons worldwide are being abandoned. Budgets for the development and production of new nuclear weapons are growing. Tensions among nuclear-armed nations are rising to levels not seen since the Cold War.

As the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki warn: “We are badly off course in efforts to honor the plea of the hibakusha and end the nuclear threat."

People created these weapons and designed the systems governing their use; people can work to eliminate them.

As the only country to use nuclear weapons in conflict, the United States has a moral obligation to lead the world in ending this menace and restoring communities impacted by nuclear weapons.

We must press our leaders to take the actions necessary to ensure nuclear weapons are never used again and to negotiate in good faith the global elimination of these most devastating weapons of mass destruction.

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become a partner

The organizations below work on nuclear weapons issues, in their own way with their own communities but are united in marking these anniversaries. If your organization would like to join them, you can sign on here.

  • Arms Control Association (National)

  • Back from the Brink: The Call to Prevent Nuclear War (National)

  • Benedictine Sisters of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

  • Beyond Nuclear (National)

  • Beyond the Bomb (National)

  • Bombshelltoe x Arts Collective (National)

  • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (National)

  • Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security (Cambridge, MA)

  • C.O.R.E (Consequences of Radiation Exposure) (National)

  • Catholic Peace Ministry (Des Moines, IA)

  • Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (Washington DC)

  • Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility (MD)

  • Coalition for Peace Action, headquartered in Princeton, NJ (Princeton, NJ)

  • CODEPINK (National)

  • Columbia Friends Meeting (Columbia, SC)

  • Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (Santa Fe, NM)

  • Consistent Life Network (International)

  • Council for a Livable World (National)

  • Dallas Peace and Justice Center (Dallas, TX)

  • Davis (Calif.) CAN (Committee Against Nuclear Weapons) (Davis, CA)

  • Davis Community Church Compassion, Peace and Justice Ministry (Davis, CA)

  • DC Metro Physicians for Social Responsibility, Washington DC

  • Des Moines Faith Committee for Peace (Des Moines, IA)

  • Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (NM)

  • Ecological Options Network, EON (Bolinas, CA)

  • Episcopal Diocese of Olympia (Seattle, WA)

  • Federation of American Scientists (National)

  • Franciscan Peace Center (National)

  • Friends Committee on National Legislation (National)

  • From Hiroshima to Hope (Seattle, WA)

  • Gender + Radiation Impact Project (Asheville, NC)

  • Georgia Women's Action for New Directions (GA)

  • Global Zero (International)

  • Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, Boston MA

  • Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart (PA & NY)

  • Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (Pacific Northwest)

  • Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee (Baltimore, MD)

  • Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area

  • K=1 Project, Center for Nuclear Studies, Columbia University (New York City, NY)

  • Laguna Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment (NM)

  • Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (New York, City NY)

  • Leadership Conference of Women Religious (National)

  • Little Friends for Peace (Washington, D.C.)

  • Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World (New York City, NY)

  • Marshallese Educational Initiative (AK)

  • Massachusetts Peace Action (Cambridge, MA)

  • Memory Productions (Chestnut Hill, MA)

  • Methodist Federation for Social Action, Iowa Chapter (IA)

  • Millennium Arts Salon of Washington, DC (Washington DC)

  • Minneapolis St Paul Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration Committee (Minneapolis, MN)

  • Monterey Peace and Justice Center (Seaside CA)

  • Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (NM)

  • N Square (National)

  • National Benedictines For Peace (National)

  • Neighbors for Peace (Evanston, IL)

  • New Hampshire Peace Action Educational Fund (NH)

  • NH Nuclear Weapons Working Group (NH)

  • NH Seacoast Peace Response (Portsmouth, NH)

  • No More Bombs (National)

  • Nonviolence International (International)

  • Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (National)

  • Nuclear Free Schools (National)

  • Nuclear Hotseat Podcast/Broadcast (Los Angeles)

  • Nuclear Information and Resource Service (Takoma Park, MD)

  • Nuclear Threat Initiative (Washington, DC)

  • Nuclear Voices (Brooklyn, NY)

  • Nuclear Watch New Mexico (NM)

  • Nuclear Watch South (Atlanta, GA)

  • NuclearBan.US (Northampton, MA)

  • Nucleus Group (National)

  • Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (Oakridge, TN)

  • Oleander Initiative (Cambridge, MA)

  • Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility (Portland, OR)

  • Outrider Foundation (National)

  • Pace e Bene and Campaign Nonviolence (Corvallis, OR)

  • Pax Christi El Paso (TX)

  • Pax Christi Metro DC - Baltimore (Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, and Baltimore, MD)

  • Pax Christi Metro New York (Metro New York City, NY)

  • Pax Christi Northern California (San Francisco Bay Area, CA)

  • Pax Christi Rhode Island (RI)

  • Pax Christi USA (National)

  • PEAC Institute (Institute)

  • Peace Action (National)

  • Peace Action Maine (Portland, ME)

  • Peace Action New York State (NY)

  • Peace Action of Monterey County (Seaside, CA)

  • Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College (Wilmington, OH)

  • People for Nuclear Disarmament (NSW Sydney Australia)

  • Physicians for a National Health Program - Western Washington Chapter (Seattle, WA)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility (National)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility - Arizona (AZ)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility - Colorado (CO)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility - Florida (FL)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility - Kansas City, (Kansas City, KS)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility - Maine (ME)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility - Sacramento, (Sacramento, CA)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay (San Francisco Bay Area, CA)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility - Tennessee, (TN)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility (IA)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility - Wisconsin (WI)

  • Physicians for Social Responsibility - Western North Carolina (NC)

  • Post 71 Uranium Workers Committee (NM)

  • Prevent Nuclear War - Maryland (MD)

  • Prevent Nuclear War - Frederick (Frederick, MD)

  • Proposition One Campaign for a Nuclear-Free Future (National)

  • Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, (Olympia, WA)

  • Red Water Pond Road Community Association (NM)

  • Resist US-Led War Movement (Oakland, CA)

  • ReThink Media (National)

  • The Ribbon Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN)

  • RootsAction.org (National)

  • San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (San Luis Obispo, CA)

  • Savannah River Site Watch (SC)

  • School Sisters of Notre Dame, Central Pacific Province (Central Pacific)

  • SERV (Bethesda, MD)

  • Sierra Club USA (National)

  • Sisters of St. Francis, Clinton Iowa (Clinton, IA)

  • Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, PA (Baden, PA)

  • Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood NY (Brentwood, NY)

  • Sisters of the Presentation, Dubuque, Iowa (Dubuque, IA)

  • Social Justice Center of Marin (San Rafael, CA)

  • Soka Gakkai International-USA (SGI-USA) (National)

  • Stand with Kashmir (National)

  • Syracuse Peace Council (Syracuse, NY)

  • Taos Environmental Film Festival (Taos NM)

  • Tewa Women United (NM)

  • The Nuclear Resister (Tucson, AZ)

  • The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice (Northampton, MA)

  • The Vocal Seniority (Bend, OR)

  • Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) (Northern California)

  • Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (New Mexico)

  • Union of Concerned Scientists (National) 

  • UN International Day of Peace Committee, Dubuque, Iowa (Dubuque, IA)

  • United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries (National)

  • United for Peace and Justice (National)

  • Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons  (UT)

  • Veterans for Peace (National)

  • War Prevention Initiative (Portland, OR)

  • War Resisters League—West (San Francisco Bay Area, CA)

  • Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (Seattle, WA)

  • Western North Carolina Chapter, Physicians for Social Responsibility (NC)

  • Western States Legal Foundation (Oakland, CA)

  • Whatcom Peace & Justice Center (WA)

  • Win Without War (National)

  • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Monterey County Branch (Monterey, CA)

  • Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section (National)

  • Women’s Action for New Directions (National)

  • World BEYOND War (International)

  • WRL War Resisters League, Chicago Chapter (Chicago, IL)

  • Youth Arts New York/Hibakusha Stories (New York City, NY)