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According to the Los Alamos National Laboratory website, there were a total of 1054 U.S. bomb tests between 1945 and 1992. There were 317 atmospheric tests, ending with the treaty in 1963. That means there were 737 underground tests, ending with the treaty in 1992…We estimate that nine states [U.S., Russia, France, England, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel] possess about 27,000 intact nuclear warheads, of which 97 percent are in U.S. and Russian stockpiles.

Nuclear stockpiles are becoming more opaque and difficult to describe with precision. It’s a situation that will only worsen after 2009 if the United States and Russia do not extend the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I, which requires biannual reporting on the status of intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and bombers.

The future. All five original nuclear weapons states [U.S., Russia, France, England, China] continue to insist that nuclear weapons are essential to their national security, which translates into substantial global nuclear weapon stockpiles for the foreseeable future and the possibility that more nations will want the Bomb as well…Despite nuclear weapons states’ progress in reducing global stockpiles, convincing nations to abandon their nuclear arsenals altogether remains a formidable task, one that will likely remain impossible until the nuclear powers themselves renounce their weapons.

2006 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
By Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen

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Gerald Holtom's son and daughter Darius and Rebecca
Photo by Sue Longbottom

Gerald Holtom's son Darius and daughter Rebecca attend the 50th Anniversary commemorating the First Aldermaston March on March 24, 2008 (originally held on April 4, 1958) at the Aldermaston Nuclear Weapons Research Facility, 52 miles from London. The Holtom's were also there to honor their father Gerald Holtom the designer of the symbol now commonly known all over the world as the Peace Symbol.

At the event, thousands gathered to protest the facility and England's massive new investments in nuclear weapons testing and its pro-nuclear campaign.

On February 16, 2003 my wife Jannice and I (along with two hundred thousand peace marchers) gathered in San Francisco, California to demonstrate a desire for peace. This woman (who had lived through numerous wars) had hopes of influencing President George W. Bush and Congress not to go to war. One month later, on March 20, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq.

Four years after the United States invasion of Iraq, millions of ordinary citizens throughout the world continued to rally against the war and the occupation. During a massive demonstration in San Francisco on March 8, 2007, this young woman quietly presented her vision.

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