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Opinion | My Generation’s Deadly Inheritance

HUGE NEWS: BftB’ project Students For Nuclear Disarmament is featured in The NY Times!

“As nations’ nuclear stockpiles expand and the risk of a strike rises, a generation of young people…is waking up to the threat.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/o...

80 Years of the Nuclear Era: Time for a New Way of Thinking We ignore the threat posed by nuclear weapons and the fallacy that they make us safer, instead of recognizing them as the greatest threat to our continued survival.

My piece picked up by LA Progressive. @backfrombrink.bsky.social

www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peac...

Keiko and Kristin holding up their origami cranes.

People gathered around the tables and our big bucket of cranes being held by Louis in the very back.

Day 3 of our 4-day #CranesForPeace action @backfrombrink.bsky.social What a beautiful gathering of humans…united in PEACE for PEACE!

Join us.
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Crane folding *galore* yesterday with @nti.org! Partners across the field gathered in community to honor the legacy of Sadako Sasaki—an 11-year old diagnosed with radiation-induced leukemia after the bombing in Hiroshima—who sought to fold 1,000 paper cranes. #CranesForOurFuture

A dining table covered with folded origami peace cranes.

A participant in yesterday’s #CranesForPeace sent me this photo. He took origami paper home with him and filled his table with the bounty of PEACE! @BackFromBrink.bsky.social @nuclearban.bsky.social

Cranes for Peace · Back From The Brink Join us in Libbey Park, Ojai, CA - August 6-9, 4:00pm-5:30pm Help fold 1,000 paper cranes to fulfill our wish for peace. We will begin on the 80th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear attack on Hiroshim...

Day 3 of our 4-day #CranesForPeace action @backfrombrink.bsky.social

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One group of people sitting around a table with all the cranes they had folded.

Our bucket of hundreds of folded cranes with the brochure for Back From the Brink

What a beautiful community builder #CranesForPeace @backfrombrink.bsky.social was yesterday & today. I met people living in my little town that I never met before. There were also people from England and Australia who saw it in the newspaper and came to be a part of it!

Thank you @reprashida.govpeeps.us for your passionate call for global nuclear abolition and support for H.Res.317 as we remember the atomic bombings in Japan 80 years ago.

Abolishing nuclear weapons is possible and realistic if we the people demand it.

preventnuclearwar.org/bftb-congres...

Beginner's Guide to Nuclear Weapons Beginner's Guide to Nuclear Weapons

Want to know more about nukes?

Our newly launched Beginner's Guide to Nuclear Weapons breaks down the risks, myths, and real-life impacts of nuclear weapons & shows how you can be part of building a safer, saner world.

We break down the jargon & give facts.
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BftB Congressional Resolutions BftB Congressional Resolutions

We refuse to let the shadow of the mushroom cloud be the end of the story. 80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a world without nuclear weapons is possible. Justice demands it. #HumanRaceNotArmsRace
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80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, everything we care about is threatened unless we abolish these weapons and recognize our interconnectedness. Here is a link to my current op-ed on changing the narrative. www.peacevoice.info/2025/08/07/8...

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Day 1 of 4- folding #CranesForPeace
#NuclearBan @backfrombrink.bsky.social @nuclearban.bsky.social

Lisa holding an origami crane

Naomi holding an origami crane

Carrie holding an origami crane

Folding cranes for peace today with @backfrombrink.bsky.social
Lisa – Awakening Peace, Naomi – musician, Carrie – SGI Buddhist

Thank you @ramirez.house.gov for your heartfelt message in support of BftB and H. Res. 317 and speaking candidly about the deep economic injustice of nuclear weapons.

Abolishing nuclear weapons is possible and realistic.
preventnuclearwar.org/bftb-congres...

Thank you @chuygarcia.house.gov for your leadership & support of H.Res.317—a bold and urgent framework to end the arms race and prioritize human dignity.

Abolishing nuclear weapons is realistic if we the people demand it and decision-makers in the U.S. and around the world confront this threat.

As we commemorate the 80th year since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we call on Congress to advance H.Res.317—a bold and urgent framework to end the arms race and prioritize human dignity.

Thank you @jayapal.house.gov for your moral and public support for nuclear disarmament.

At age 10, Hideko Tamura-Snider lived through a moment that changed her life — and the world — forever.

Today, through One Sunny Day Initiatives, she speaks out for peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons.

We’re deeply grateful to her for sharing her time, insight, and message of hope.

Cranes for Peace · Back From The Brink Join us in Libbey Park, Ojai, CA - August 6-9, 4:00pm-5:30pm Help fold 1,000 paper cranes to fulfill our wish for peace. We will begin on the 80th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear attack on Hiroshim...

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80th Commemoration Events with BftB Hubs 80th Commemoration Events with BftB Hubs

This week marks 80 years since the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Across the US, our hubs are organizing powerful events to honor the victims, hear from hibakusha, and renew the urgent call for a nuclear weapons‑free world.

Event list here: preventnuclearwar.org/80th-commemo...

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80 years ago today, families in Hiroshima were having a meal together, tucking children into bed, taking the dog for a walk…the next day the U.S. dropped a 15 KT atomic bomb on their city. May such horror NEVER be witnessed again. #80DaysofAction @backfrombrink.bsky.social
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This is what we like to see: full page ad in @bostonglobe.com dedicated to eliminating nuclear weapons.

Several organizations came together to spread this critical message the week of the 80th year since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

The time to act is NOW.

www.courant.com/2025/08/02/r...

After Eighty Years, Nuclear Threat Remains Grave A nuclear war would be catastrophic. We must eliminate nuclear weapons to ensure events like the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happen again.

“The world can no longer indulge in the denial which has marked our thinking since the end of the Cold War. Nuclear war is a real and present danger that we must acknowledge and confront.”

BftB’s Dr. Ira Helfand in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social

progressive.org/op-eds/after...

Our activists know how to get things done.

A snapshot of MA hub members hard at work making connections.

Thank you Rep. Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social for the opportunity to discuss the need to get serious about nuclear disarmament, reducing nuclear risks and the Back from the Brink campaign.

Cranes for Peace · Back From The Brink Join us in Libbey Park, Ojai, CA - August 6-9, 4:00pm-5:30pm Help fold 1,000 paper cranes to fulfill our wish for peace. We will begin on the 80th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear attack on Hiroshim...

mobilize.us/s/Ip0Hmu/r

Join us or a commemoration near you.
@backfrombrink.bsky.social
#80daysofaction

This is how a crisis can spin out of control. This is dangerous and inflammatory language. A perfect example of why no one American can have the ability to initiate a nuclear war. @scientistsorg.bsky.social

We must get rid of nuclear weapons and their destruction. Join our national grassroots movement: PreventNuclearWar.org.

Atlanta is heating up.

We’re proud of the movement building work in Atlanta by the incredible young people of @atlanta.students4disarmament and @students4disarmament.

We need everyone to get rid of nuclear weapons. They are leading the way.

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