Two nuclear weapons hit the town on Wednesday August 6th for Hiroshima Remembrance Day. Sixty-three years ago, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan- causing unprecedented death and destruction. Watch out for the weapons chilling in Rittenhouse Square, or strolling along Walnut Street- out to remind Philadelphians that their tax dollars are being spent on a massive nuclear arsenal.
On hair-trigger alert, nuclear weapons present a constant lethal threat to life, and also facilitate the proliferation of their kind throughout the world. Today, the world has a total of 26,000 nuclear weapons, with the United States and Russia holding 95%. Other holders are China, India Pakistan, Israel, France, the UK and North Korea. Scientific studies prove that debris and smoke from the detonation of just 1% of the global nuclear arsenal would block out the sun, reduce precipitation, and cause massive agricultural failure.
One obstacle to disarmament is that the Nuclear weapons issue is ‘out of sight, out of mind’ to the average individual. Public street theatre with life sized nuclear weapons acts as a physical manifestation of nuclear proliferation, which is hard to ignore.
Learn more about SNWFW: http://www.disarmamenthub.org/
Learn more about nuclear weapons: http://projectfornuclearawareness.org/
Contact the SNWFW group: Emily.pna@gmail.com.
2 comments:
Nice that you provided information about the weapons because you certainly make nukes look cute. good luck!
Hi, Sarah. Right. These weapons look "cute," but they're the deadliest things ever invented.
They're also seen as a good "insurance policy." But if those who think this way knew they risk catastrophic climate change from nukes-- they'd switch insurance companies, and fast!
Ed
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