by CKR
There’s an organization in northern New Mexico that lobbies for arms control treaties, like the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and for generally decreasing the numbers of nuclear weapons in the world. It also provides public education in related issues, mainly through talks by experts in the field. It’s been in existence since the 1980s, although part of its ancestry goes back to the end of World War II.
Some of the people in it have participated directly in the development of nuclear weapons. Casual talk around the table may recount time in the airplanes picking up dust from the first Soviet nuclear tests or how an American surface test looked from six miles out.
Their activity, up until now, has been primarily in northern New Mexico and with the New Mexico Congressional delegation.
Today that changes.
The Los Alamos Committee on Arms Control and International Security now has a website. It’s in its early stages of development, but we have big plans for more.
I hope you’ll check it out.