• Learn more about the ongoing impacts that nuclear weapons production, testing, and use have had on communities and environments around the world. Here and here are some good places to start.

 

  • Urge your community to formally recognized August 6 as Hiroshima and Nagasaki day and make a statement acknowledging the victims of US nuclear weapons. Call on the US government to also acknowledge and issue a formal apology for all victims, foreign and domestic, affected by nuclear weapons production, testing, and use.

 

  • Urge your community and the US government to support the victims of nuclear weapons production, use, and testing by offering free or subsidized health coverage to affected communities and their families.

 

 

  • Support the Clean Up the Mines Campaign calling on the US government to clean the country’s 15,000 abandoned uranium mines. Find out more http://www.cleanupthemines.org.

 

  • You can also call on congress to introduce legislation that will refund the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal, an arbitral tribunal set up to hear claims from those affected by US nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands. Despite thousands of unheard claims, the US has refused to refund the tribunal.

 

  • Urge your university, financial institution, or local business to develop scholarship opportunities for youth from affected communities.