{"id":390314,"date":"2018-12-24T02:32:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T01:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/reviving-the-nuclear-disarmament-movement-a-practical-proposal-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-24T02:32:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T01:32:34","slug":"reviving-the-nuclear-disarmament-movement-a-practical-proposal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/reviving-the-nuclear-disarmament-movement-a-practical-proposal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviving the Nuclear Disarmament Movement: A Practical Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In late November 2018, <\/span>Noam Chomsky<\/span><\/a>, the world-renowned public intellectual, remarked that \u201chumanity faces two imminent existential threats: environmental catastrophe and nuclear war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Curiously, although a widespread environmental movement has developed to save the planet from accelerating climate change, no counterpart has emerged to take on the rising danger of nuclear disaster. Indeed, this danger \u2015 exemplified by the collapse of arms control and disarmament agreements, vast nuclear \u201cmodernization\u201d programs by the United States and other nuclear powers, and reckless threats of nuclear war \u2015 has stirred remarkably little public protest and even less public debate during the recent US midterm elections.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, there are peace and disarmament organizations that challenge the nuclear menace. But they are fairly small and pursue their own, separate antinuclear campaigns. Such campaigns \u2015 ranging from cutting funding for a new nuclear weapon, to opposing the Trump administration\u2019s destruction of yet another disarmament treaty, to condemning its threats of nuclear war \u2015 are certainly praiseworthy. But they have not galvanized a massive public uprising against the overarching danger of nuclear annihilation.<\/span><\/p>\n

In these circumstances, what is missing is a strategy that peace organizations and activists can rally around to rouse the public from its torpor and shift the agenda of the nuclear powers from nuclear confrontation to a nuclear weapons-free world.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign<\/span><\/a>, launched decades ago in another time of nuclear crisis, suggests one possible strategy. Developed at the end of the 1970s by defense analyst Randy Forsberg, the Freeze (as it became known) focused on a rather simple, straightforward goal: a Soviet-American agreement to stop the testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In late November 2018, Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned public intellectual, remarked that \u201chumanity faces two imminent existential threats: environmental catastrophe and nuclear war.\u201d Curiously, although a widespread environmental movement has developed to save the planet from accelerating climate change, no counterpart has emerged to take on the rising danger of nuclear disaster. Indeed, this danger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}