Global Majority of State Parties Now Signed onto the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

In response to the president’s call to resume testing of nuclear weapons, contactyour two United States Senators to support Senate Resolution 323 that urges theUnited States to lead a global effort to halt and reverse the nuclear arms race.

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The Communities for Clean Water (CCW) coalition is calling on the Departmentof Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, Los Alamos NationalLaboratory (LANL), and the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) toimmediately release all data, monitoring results, and analytical records from the recenttritium venting operation at LANL.

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This month, the International Uranium Film Festival in Berlin honored uraniumweapons expert and activist Damacio A. Lopez with the festival's Honorary LifetimeAchievement Award. For over thirty years, the US Air Force veteran from Socorro, NewMexico has campaigned for an international ban on depleted uranium munitions andweapons.

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In an essay for NYU’s Democracy Project, David F. Levi, a former federal judgeand director emeritus of the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law, reflected on thenegotiations he facilitated in New Mexico about the renewal of the hazardous wastepermit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a deep geologic repository forplutonium-contaminated waste generated in the fabrication of nuclear weapons. JudgeLevi’s essay is entitled “Participatory Democracy in Action.”

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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is a small, independent federalagency that serves as a watchdog for the Department of Energy’s nuclear weaponscomplex. It is supposed to have five members, but it currently has only two. And onemember’s term expires on October 18 th . If one or more board positions aren’t filled on orbefore October 18 th , the Safety Board will no longer have a quorum to operate. Thepublic needs the Board to continue its vital nuclear safety mission at the DOE nuclearweapons facilities.

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The independent Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has been dwindlingfrom a five-member board to one member and may disappear if we, the People, do notraise our voices to support its essential nuclear safety work. The Safety Board needs atleast two new members. And that needs to get done by October 16th. New Mexico U.S.Senators Heinrich and Lujan have key roles to play to ensure the Safety Board’s workcontinues unimpeded.

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Following the 80 th year since the bombings of Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki,did you know that 2025 is also the 80 th year since the formation of the United Nations?The General Assembly’s first resolution recognized nuclear disarmament as theprincipal goal of the United Nations.

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