Life Without Nukes? Some Day

FranMorelandJohns
ILLUMINATION
2 min readJun 19, 2022

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Photo by JEFF VRBA on Unsplash

A safe and secure future? Imagine.

At “Chain Reaction,” the recent annual fundraiser/celebration of Ploughshares Fund, supporters were doing just that. Ploughshares President Dr. Emma Belcher and Board Chair Terry Gamble Boyer were on hand, along with a variety of global experts ranging from Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey to former Ambassador Fiona Hill, all talking about lowering the threat level.

With hostility among nuclear-armed states currently close to the boiling point, assurance of a safe and secure future for everyone may seem a far-off goal. The five major “Nuclear Weapon” countries — U.S., Russia, U.K., France and China — have enough such weapons among them to blow the planet to smithereens at least a dozen times, with plenty remaining. Plenty of bombs, that is, not planets.

But Ploughshares is working hard to keep that from happening. If Ploughshares reaches its goal — assurance of a safe and secure future for us all — the nuclear threat will disappear. That might be an impossibility, but you’ve got to love Ploughshares for trying. HARD.

With Emma Belcher (l) & Terry Gamble Boyer (Author photo)

More than 40 years ago, sculptor, human rights activist, mother & wife Sally Lilienthal gathered a few…

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FranMorelandJohns
ILLUMINATION

Lifelong newspaper & magazine writer, author, blogger at franjohns.net, agitator for justice, kindness & interfaith understanding.