Friends,

On July 16, 1945 the first experimental atomic bomb was exploded at the site known as Trinity at Alamogordo, New Mexico. It was the beginning of what could someday be the end.

The rest, as they say, is history (and some of it particularly horrific history); but the history is still being written each day as many nations (led by the model of the United States) continue to rely on nuclear weapons while others seek to develop them. Monkey see, monkey do!!!

Our nation could be leading the world toward disarmament and ultimately abolition, but instead we continue to utilize the rhetoric of “deterrence” and “national security”, and seem to find a host of enemies since losing the comfort of the Cold War enemy. As a result we are re-building the Cold War infrastructure that made Trinity (and over the years tens of thousands of nuclear weapons) possible.