When New York City recently released a grotesque "public service announcement" video explaining that you should stay indoors during a nuclear war, the corporate media reaction was principally not outrage at the acceptance of such a fate or the stupidity of telling people "You've got this!" as if they could survive the apocalypse by cocooning with Netflix, but rather mockery of the very idea that a nuclear war might happen. U.S. polling on people's top concerns find 1% of people most concerned about the climate and 0% most concerned about nuclear war.
Yet, the U.S. just illegally put nukes into a 6th nation (and virtually nobody in the U.S. can name either it or the other five that the U.S. already illegally had nukes in), while Russia is talking about putting nukes into another nation too, and the two governments with most of the nukes increasingly talk -- publicly and privately -- about nuclear war. The scientists who keep the doomsday clock think the risk is greater than ever. There's a general consensus that shipping weapons to Ukraine at the risk of nuclear war is worth it -- whatever "it" may be. And, at least within the head of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, voices are unanimous that a trip to Taiwan is worth it too.
Trump tore up the Iran agreement, and Biden has done everything possible to keep it that way. When Trump proposed talking with North Korea, the U.S. media went insane. But it's the administration that hit the height of inflation-adjusted military spending, set the record for number of nations simultaneously bombed, and invented robot-plane warfare (that of Barack Obama) for which one must painfully now long, as he did the ridiculous-but-better-than-war Iran deal, refused to arm Ukraine, and didn't have time to get a war going with China. The arming of Ukraine by Trump and Biden has done more for the chances of vaporizing you than anything else, and anything short of all-out bellicosity by Biden has been greeted with blood-thirsty howls by your friendly corporate U.S. news outlets.
Meanwhile, exactly like the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the guinea-pigged human residents of the much larger Pacific island nuclear experiments, and the downwinders everywhere, nobody sees it coming. And, even more so, people have been trained to be absolutely convinced that there's nothing they could possibly do to change things if they did become aware of any sort of problem. So, it's remarkable the efforts those paying any attention are putting up, for example:
Cease Fire and Negotiate Peace in Ukraine
Don't Get Yanked into War With China
Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments
Say No to Nancy Pelosi's Dangerous Taiwan Trip
VIDEO: Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Globally & Locally " A Webinar
June 12th Anti-Nuclear Legacy Videos
August 2: Webinar: What could trigger nuclear war with Russia and China?
August 5: 77 Years Later: Eliminate Nukes, Not Life on Earth
August 6: "The Day After" film screening and discussion
August 9: Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day 77th Anniversary Commemoration
Seattle to Rally for Nuclear Abolition
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