“The New Nuclear Era” is a week-long series of posts (June 2022) intended to serve as an introduction to education toward the elimination of nuclear weapons, and to inspire peace educators to address the urgency of a renewed civil society movement for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The series commemorates and reflects upon the 40th anniversary of the largest single anti-war and weapons manifestation in the history of the 20th-century peace movement, the 1 million-person march for the abolition of nuclear weapons that took place at Central Park in New York City on June 12, 1982.
We recommend reviewing the posts in order as they are structured as a learning sequence:
In addition to the “The New Nuclear Era” series, you will also find below an extended archive of posts on nuclear abolition suitable to adoption for peacelearning purposes.
Paper cranes made by elementary school students in Cuba were presented recently at the Children’s Peace Monument in Peace Memorial Park with the help of local students.
This month in an unprecedented move, over 100 international medical journals came together in a joint editorial realizing the urgency of the moment to warn about the dangers of nuclear war.
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” reintroduced the bomb to the world, but he didn’t show us what it did to the bombed. Telling that part of the story may be the only thing that can save us from the same cruel fate. Ms. Kyoka Mochida, and her teacher, Ms. Fukumoto, from Motomachi High School in Hiroshima, tell the story of the art project addressing this gap: “Picture of the Atomic Bomb.”
“Nuclear weapons can’t be reduced by one person alone,” stated 14-year-old Koharu Murosaki, also a third-grader. “I want to tell people that it’s important to put together the power of various people to reduce [nuclear arms].”
New York City-based Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy seeks an executive director who will lead advocacy efforts for the abolition of nuclear weapons through respect for international and domestic law and is responsible for all aspects of LCNP operations.
To mark the release of the new Oppenheimer film, Quakers in Britain and the Peace Education Network (PEN) have released lessons examining the legacy of early atomic scientists.
Since 1963, Hiromu Morishita has conducted an annual survey of high school students’ attitudes toward the atomic bombing and with fellow teachers created a supplementary reader for peace education that has been regularly updated.
An inter-generational dialogue on how global governance solutions can tackle existential threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and war hosted by Citizens for Global Solutions, Youth Fusion, and World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy. Two online sessions: July 13 and July 20.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has launched a new webpage to help observers keep track of the work in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Other resources include Reaching Critical Will’s new paper on “The TPNW and Gender, Feminism, and Intersectionality.”
It’s 90 seconds till midnight. We are closer to the brink of nuclear war than at any point since the first and only use of nuclear weapons in 1945. While most reasonable people understand the need to abolish these weapons, few officials have been willing to suggest elimination as a first step. Fortunately, there is a voice of reason in a growing grassroots coalition: this Back from the Brink movement supports the elimination of nuclear weapons through a negotiated, verifiable time-bound process with the common sense precautionary measures necessary during the process to prevent nuclear war.
Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons have heightened tensions, reduced the threshold for use of nuclear weapons, and greatly increased the risk of nuclear conflict and global catastrophe. This briefing paper prepared by ICAN provides an overview of why delegitimization of these threats is urgent, necessary and effective.
In this post from the Global Sisters Report, an entry in the GCPE series on “The New Nuclear Era,” we see the potential of cooperation between secular and faith-based civil society activism for the renewed civil society movement for the abolition of nuclear weapons.