Annals of Nuclear Resistance : Nuclear Freeze

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.

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Sunday, August 9, 2015

Randy Forsberg 1943-2007 - Remembrance and Appreciation

In the winter of 1979, Randy Forsberg wrote a Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race which led to the Nuclear Freeze Campaign. The idea came out of a kitchen table discussion in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Centered in New England, the Freeze Campaign organized to place a simply worded question on local (and some state) ballots around the United States calling for a mutual, verifiable freeze on the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons systems.

For the first time since the detonation of the first nuclear bomb - Trinity - in 1945, just weeks before the use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima (August 6, Little Boy) and Nagasaki (August 9, Fat Man), the general public had the opportunity to vote on nuclear weapons policy.