August 6, 2016 marks the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. And more than 70 years later, nuclear weapons remain our greatest liability.
Nuclear weapons were designed to destroy entire cities and kill large masses of innocent civilians in the blink of an eye. They poison entire regions of the world with radiation and fallout. They threaten our safety every single day. Yet the leaders of the nine nuclear countries insist on maintaining more than 15,000 of these dangerous weapo...
August 6, 2016 marks the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. And more than 70 years later, nuclear weapons remain our greatest liability.
Nuclear weapons were designed to destroy entire cities and kill large masses of innocent civilians in the blink of an eye. They poison entire regions of the world with radiation and fallout. They threaten our safety every single day. Yet the leaders of the nine nuclear countries insist on maintaining more than 15,000 of these dangerous weapons.
In just a few months, the people of the United States will hand over the nuclear codes to a new president. That person will have the unchecked ability to end human civilization as we know it. It's our job to demand our next president make us safer from the threat of nuclear annihilation, not make it more likely. We must demand our new leader puts our safety first.
That’s why we’re coming together on August 6 in more than 20 cities to remind world leaders to keep us safe.
We’ll be biking around the District of Columbia, roughly tracing the circumference of the blast at Hiroshima to symbolize what a “small” nuclear detonation would look like in our city and what we stand to lose.
We’ll have a free t-shirt for every registrant! Be sure to RSVP ahead of time to claim yours: http://www.globalzero.org/bikeDC.
Questions? Contact Lilly at ldaigle@globalzero.org
Co-sponsoring organizations include: BicycleSPACE, CODEPINK: Women For Peace, ONE DC, Washington Peace Center, Win Without War and the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee.
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