A compilation of reference materials including
publications, films, and websites.
Good Thinking - The Documentary - For over 70 years humanities greatest minds, including our scientists who knew the technology best, and our most inspiring social, spiritual and even military leaders have spoken clearly about the inconceivable waste, the terrible cost and gravest danger of nuclear weapons. This is an attempt to honor them and connect with what they shared with us.
Command and Control - From Robert Kenner, the director of the groundbreaking film Food, Inc., comes Command and Control, the long-hidden story of a deadly accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas in 1980. Based on the critically-acclaimed book by Eric Schlosser, this chilling documentary exposes the terrifying truth about the management of America's nuclear arsenal and shows what can happen when the weapons built to protect us threaten to destroy us.
The Day After - Watched by millions when broadcast in 1983, the made-for-TV movie 'The Day After' depicts a fictional war between NATO & Warsaw Pact countries that quickly escalates into an all-out nuclear battle between Russia and the US. It focuses on mid-western residents who live near the nuclear missile silos.
Countdown to Looking Glass - Docudrama uses fictional reports of a crisis in the Middle East, which leads to a nuclear confrontation between the US and the USSR. "Looking Glass" is the code word for the Strategic Air Command's control plane which is to be used in the case of nuclear war.
Title/Link | Description | Date |
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Letter to the Editor of Deseret News | What do you call it when someone threatens to blow up your house? | September 2019 |
UN Conference, SLC Workshop: Join the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Cities Appeal | Your city can join others in supporting the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. | August 2019 |
Risk of nuclear war now highest since WW2 | By Renata Dwan, director of the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research | May 2019 |
The world has nearly 15,000 nuclear weapons. | This year's Nobel Peace Prize honors the quest to abolish all of them. | Oct 2017 |
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety | Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs. | Aug 2014 |
Nuclear Weapon Stockpiles: Past and Present | There are still some 17,000 intact nuclear warheads around the world, according to a study published in the Bulletin of American Scientists. | Sept 2013 |
Throwing Money at Nukes | New York Times Editorial on the B61 Nuclear Bomb Funding | May 2013 |
Time to Ratify Ban on Nuclear Testing | Utah Representative Jennifer Seelig notes the 17th Anniversary of the CTBT and urges the U.S. Senate to ratify the treaty. | Link |
Trinity: The plight of "downwinders" | by Eve Mary Verde - a resident of Carbon County | July 2012 |
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons | By Sam Nunn with input from Former Sectys of State Henry Kissinger and George Schultz, and former US Secty of Defence William Perry | Jan 2007 |