Annals of Nuclear Resistance

Peace and Planet Mobilization April 26, 2015

Photo courtesy of Libero Della Piana - used by permission

From the Ban the Bomb movement to peace and planet summer, for seven decades people have resisted the menace of nuclear weapons that overshadow life on planet Earth.

This blog is dedicated to stories of protest and resistance, calls for nuclear disarmament, remembering those who have made and do make significant contributions to peace.

These are extraordinary stories. It has been an honor and privilege to recruit the material for the blog as a United for Peace and Justice project for Nuclear-Free Future Month and Peace and Planet Summer.


In January of this year, the "doomsday clock" was moved forward to three minutes to midnight.

From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists statement when the clock was moved forward:

Unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity, and world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of political leadership endanger every person on Earth.

With these recollections of nonviolent actions taken: marches and walks for peace, sit ins, fences scaled, seas sailed, missiles hammered, blood poured, signs posted and hoisted, sentences served, threads woven, treaties ratified, ballot questions approved, we aim to keep this storied resistance alive, to pass along the information and imagination at work to remind ourselves and others of the past struggle and its many (perhaps) half-forgotten accomplishments.

Peace and Planet Mobilization April 26, 2015

Photo courtesy of Libero Della Piana - used by permission

This blog is part of the the 70th anniversary commemoration of the use of nuclear weapons on the civilian populations of Hiroshima on August 6th and on Nagasaki on August 9th in 1945.

Readers are invited to send submissions on actions, inspirations, educational materials developed and used that can be uploaded, digital photos, memories, and moments of resistance to nuclear weapons and power.

The blog will be updated as new material is sent in, please send submissions to: submissions@masspeaceaction.org

Many thanks to all who have helped to get this project launched and to those of you out there with stories to tell who will keep it going!

Thea Paneth, Arlington, MA
Coordinating Committee, United for Peace and Justice
Summer 2015