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A Moment for Community, Connection & Conversation
Last Thursday, BftB team members, activists, and Hub leaders gathered online for a virtual phone bank. Together we called the offices of 130 mayors, city councilors, and state legislators from around the country, asking them to sign onto our letter to Congress urging...
The Real-World House of Dynamite: What the Film Gets Right (and What’s Still Missing)
Rebecca Ferguson as Captain Olivia Walker in A House of Dynamite. Photo credit: Eros Hoagland/Netflix © 2025 Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite is a gripping thriller that captures the terrifying speed of a nuclear crisis. It gets key things right: the short...
Resources for Hosting a Gathering to Watch A House of Dynamite
Thinking and talking about nuclear war is never easy, but its something we have to do if we want to make progress towards nuclear disarmament. A House of Dynamite (available to stream on Netflix starting October 24, 2025) is a great opportunity for more people to get...
100 Days to the Brink: Why the New START Countdown Demands Our Leadership
We all know how our lives can change in good or bad ways in a blink of an eye, on any given day. Human history is filled with these moments, these inflection points. 63 years ago in October 1962, we were in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The U.S. and the...
September 26: A Day to Call on Leaders to Support a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
The very first resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1946 concerned nuclear disarmament as one of its highest priorities — a reflection of how important this was and continues to be for many nations, communities, and billions of people around...
BftB Hub Members Testify at Massachusetts State Legislature
On September 10th, a committee of the Massachusetts State Legislature held a hearing on a Back from the Brink resolution, S. 1649, a "Resolution to embrace the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and move the U.S. back from the brink...
“We Will Not Be Quiet”: Moral Courage in the Face of Policy Violence
*This post is part of our Faith in Action: Moral Courage for a Nuclear-Free Future series by Danny Hall On Monday, September 15th, I joined a powerful Moral Monday livestream—part of Moral Mondays: A Southern Call to Conscience, the protest movement founded in 2013 by...
Beginner’s Guide to Nuclear Weapons: Learn the Risks, Myths, and How to Take Action
Nuclear weapons are unlike any other threat facing humanity. The detonation of a single nuclear bomb can kill hundreds of thousands, and cause injury and illness for many more. A limited nuclear war could kill up to 2 billion people through climate effects that...
Paper Cranes, Pencils, and the Power of Community Care
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima earlier this month, Back from the Brink's Atlanta Hub, Students for Nuclear Disarmament, and PEAC Institute hosted the "Paper Cranes & Pencils Back-to-School Drive." In...
