Nuclear weapons should not exist. At the very least, we must dismantle ~99% of the existing stockpile. Why do we have ~5500 nuclear weapons? A handful would suffice for deterrence, and every one is an accident waiting to happen. 1/8
https://twitter.com/LongDesertTrain/status/1489403956363153409
Too few people know that the only thing that saved North Carolina from becoming a radioactive wasteland carpeted in corpses was a single light switch which, by chance, was not flipped during the spiraling, out-of-control descent of the B52 it was in. 2/8
"Even the man responsible for the safety of our nuclear weapons wasn't being told about accidents involving those weapons."
"When I was director of weapon development, I was unaware of a large # of accidents because I had no access to the information" 3/8
"When I was director of weapon development, I was unaware of a large # of accidents because I had no access to the information" 3/8
"People don't even think about all the nuclear weapons we have. They think that's all in the past, & the reality is...they're all over the place." 4/8
"Nuclear weapons will always have a chance of an accidental detonation. It will happen. It may be tomorrow or it may be a million years from now. But it will happen." 5/8
All clips are from Command & Control, the PBS documentary version of the excellent, excellent book of the same name by Eric Schlosser. 6/8 penguinrandomhouse.com/books/303337/c…
h/t to @sanghyuk_shin for sharing the following tweet about "the black heroes who fought against nuclear weapons," which inspired this thread. 7/8
https://twitter.com/OutriderFdn/status/1488626253607411718
One of the most important movements today is the movement to outlaw and abolish nuclear weapons, being led by @nuclearban. We should all support this critical mission. icanw.org 8/8
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