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Seven decades of struggle for a nuclear-free world
on Saturday 5 August 2017
on Saturday 5 August 2017
Within days of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, AFSC (American Friends Service Committee) and other religious organizations called on President Truman to ban nuclear weapons completely. Since then, tens of thousands of people have worked with AFSC to halt weapons testing, arms acceleration, and the spread of nuclear technology.
Large-scale campaigns to prevent nuclear annihilation began in the 1950s—when the Committee for SANE Nuclear Policy (co-founded by AFSC) focused (…)