The New Movement to Ban Nuclear Weapons #1 - a podcast by Mara Bonacci, KA Garlik, Emma Crunch, AC Hunter, Michaela Stubbs & Lavanya Pant

Fifteen thousand, eight hundred nuclear weapons spread across 14 nations. One thousand, eight hundred ready to be launched within minutes of a warning. This is not the cold war, but the present reality – the daily existential threat with which we have learned to live.This podcast describes what has become known as the “humanitarian initiative”: an effort by governments, the Red Cross and civil society organizations to re-awaken the global public to this unparallelled danger, and to establish a treaty that outlaws nuclear weapons once and for all.Part 1 of 2, produced for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Image: ICAN campaigners gather in Nayarit, Mexico, for the Second Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons during February 2014.

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