ICAN Week of Action on Nuclear Spending

Nuclear weapons are the only devices ever created that have the capacity to destroy all complex life forms on Earth. It would take less than 0.1% of the explosive yield of the current global nuclear arsenal to bring about devastating agricultural collapse and widespread famine. Nuclear-armed states’ decision to divert public resources from health care and other urgent social needs to weapons of mass destruction is unconscionable. Nuclear weapons produce health consequences that span generations. No meaningful disaster relief is possible even to those who survive the immediate nuclear blast.

One year of nuclear weapons spending could…..

• Convert more than 16.5 million homes to solar power
• Secure a year of clean water & sanitation for 1.2 billion people
• Hire 1.5 million high school science teachers
• Vaccinate 2 billion people against coronavirus
• Pay for ⅓ of the costs for climate change adaptation in developing countries 

and so much more.

Details of our campaign action to follow.