VIRTUAL POLICY BRIEFING • INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS • MARCH 4, 2021 • 11 AM EST

 

ENDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
BEFORE THEY END US

Opportunities Under the Biden Administration to Take Action

EVENT VIDEOS AND RESOURCES

THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this exciting event. In total, over 600 people from 28 countries tuned in live to learn from our panelists and discuss strategies for how to move forward together toward nuclear weapons abolition. We greatly appreciate all of the participation from activists around the world and we thank our co-host, the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, as well as the over 40 partner organizations who supported the event. Below please find video recordings, learning resources and actions you can take to eliminate nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear war.

POLICY BRIEFING VIDEOS AND RESOURCES

GROWING GEOPOLITICAL DANGERS AND EMERGING RISKS, PART 1 – 
Zia Mian

Foreword: On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament; Selected Writings of Richard Falk, edited by Stefan Andersson, with Curt Dahlgren, Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Scientists and the Struggle Against Nuclear Weapons Today: What Would Szilard Do?, Physics & Society, 48 (4), October 2019.

A. H. Nayyar, S. Pandey, M. V. Ramana, India, Pakistan, Kashmir: Taking the War Option Off the Table, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Sept. 23, 2019.

The INF Treaty and the Crises of Arms Control, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 24, 2018. Read More

GROWING GEOPOLITICAL DANGERS AND EMERGING RISKS, PART 2 – Michael T. Klare

PowerPoint Presentation by Michael T. Klare

“PLAN A: How A Nuclear War Could Progress” a video simulation from the Princeton Program on Science and Global Security, 2020.

“Nuclear Weapons: Who Has What at a Glance” Fact Sheet from the Arms Control Association.

Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy – a source on constructive, non-military approaches to U.S.-China relations

A Strategy for Reducing the Escalatory Dangers of Emerging Technologiesby Michael Klare in Arms Control Today December 2020

THE TREATY ON THE PROHIBITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IS THE GLOBAL MECHANISM FOR ACHIEVING A NUCLEAR WEAPON FREE WORLD – Beatrice Fihn

How to implement the nuclear weapons ban treaty, Beatrice Fihn,The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Full Text of The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons:

How the TPNW Works 

ICAN website 

ICAN Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

THE BACK FROM THE BRINK CAMPAIGN: A U.S. ROADMAP FOR NUCLEAR ABOLITION – Denise Duffield

Endorse Back from the Brink

Back from the Brink Advocacy Tools (organizing guide, sample resolution)

Back from the Brink website

Back from the Brink Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO ADDRESS THIS CRISIS – Tom Countryman

Nuclear Challenges for the New U.S. Presidential Administration: The First 100 Days and Beyond Arms Control Association report

Entry into Force of Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty a Step Forward Arms Control Association

Arms Control Association website

Arms Control Association Facebook, Twitter

PANEL DISCUSSION (Q & A)

POLICY BRIEFING – FULL VIDEO

SKILL BUILDING WORKSHOP VIDEOS AND RESOURCES

BUILDING A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE MOVEMENT – Lilly Adams

Nuclear Voices website – project that seeks to foster collaboration between nuclear frontline communities and those who work on federal nuclear policy and arms control

A call for antiracist action and accountability in the US nuclear community by Katlyn M. Turner, Lauren J. Borja, Denia Djokić, Madicken Munk, Aditi Verma, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, August 24, 2020

How Will We Save Ourselves (Racism and Accountability in the Nuclear Policy Field) by Lovely Umayam, July 2020

KEY ISSUES WORKSHOP VIDEOS AND RESOURCES

Opportunities to Adopt Saner and More Effective Nuclear Weapons Policies Under the Biden Administration – Daryl Kimball

PowerPoint presentation by Daryl Kimball

Nuclear Challenges for the New U.S. Administration: The First 100 Days and BeyondArms Control Association report, Jan. 2021

“Enough Already: No New ICBMs” by Daryl Kimball in Arms Control Today, March 2021

“New START and Beyond” by Amb. Steven Pifer in Arms Control Today, Jan/Feb 2021

“A U.S. Nuclear Strategy for the Biden Administration” By Jessica Sleight with Global Zero in Arms Control Today,  Jan/Feb 2021

Nuclear Weapons Budget – Where Are There Opportunities to Cut Programs and What Can We Spend on Instead? Erica Fein

PowerPoint presentation by Erica Fein

US Nuclear Excess report and web site from the Arms Control Association – Includes cost-cutting alternatives and information about budget tradeoffs

Twin Existential Threats – Nuclear Weapons and the Climate Crisis – Alan Robock

PowerPoint presentation by Alan Robock

Nuclear Famine: Two Billion at Risk? Global Impacts of Limited Nuclear War on Agriculture, Food Supplies, and Human Nutrition report by Ira Helfand, MD, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Physicians for Social Responsibility

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS

PARTNERING ORGANIZATIONS

American Friends Service Committee • Arms Control Association • Beyond Nuclear • Center for Political Ecology • Church of the Brethren Office of Peacebuilding and Policy • Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach • Friends Committee on National Legislation • Global Campaign for Peace Education • Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action • International Health & Epidemiology Research Center • International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War • Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy  • Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns • National Council of Churches of Christ USA • New Hampshire Peace Action • New Jersey Peace Action • Nuclear Age Peace Foundation • Nuclear Watch New Mexico • Outrider Foundation • Pathways to Peace • Pax Christi-USA • Peace Action • Peace Action New York State • Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College • PEAC Institute • Physicians for Social Responsibility • Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles • Presbyterian Church (USA) • Sierra Club • Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership • Soka Gakkai International-USA • St. Joan of Arc Church Peacemakers • Tewa Women United • Tri-Valley CAREs • Union of Concerned Scientists • United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries • United Methodist General Board of Church and Society • Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons • Vigilant Love • Win Without War • Women Against Military Madness

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