“Nuclear weapons are an exception to the general rule that the psychology of world leaders is less important than the systems they work in. Don’t assume this will proceed in an orderly fashion. It could spin out of control very easily.” @emmaclairefoley.bsky.social theguardian.com/world/2022/feb…

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There are not sufficient safeguards in place in Washington or Moscow to keep a conventional conflict from going nuclear. Quite the contrary, policy and posture in both nations grease the skids. Deterrence was always a sham. This could escalate from bad to worst case very quickly.

Non-nuke nerds, you know that thing where the nuke nerds keep screaming into the void about nukes…if we all just paid attention to them when they AREN’T at imminent crisis level, we could actually solve this existential problem.

Yes, you’re absolutely right, the United States and NATO are 100% capable of obliterating that Russian convoy headed for Kyiv and establishing a no-fly zone over Ukraine. And all we’d have to be willing to risk is… <checks notes>… the fate of all life on Earth as we know it.

Thank you, @RepKatiePorter, Senator Mazie Hirono, and Ed Markey for your leadership in moving the US toward nuclear justice.

There’s no nuking your enemies “a little bit.” Once that line is crossed, all bets are off. Anybody who tries to tell you a nuclear conflict can be controlled is way too delusional and dangerous to be anywhere near the decision-making process.

📢📢📢 "The crisis in Ukraine is evidence that there are no plausible military options for direct confrontation between the United States and a nuclear armed adversary – and the folly of investing $1 T in unusable new US nuclear capabilities" - garamendi.house.gov/media/press-re…

Time for NATO to do what, exactly? Risk the lives of billions of people and the fate of human civilization on an air raid? So you can feel less powerless as you doomscroll? Look, I get it. It’s horrifying. But please know it can get infinitely worse. We have to find another way.

We are living inside a story written by men who believed that holding the world hostage to nuclear war, risking all our lives, our cultures, and our futures, was an acceptable cost for their perceived security and dominance and power. It’s time for us to write something new.

The US has thousands of nuclear weapons, enough to end life on Earth as we know it. We have overkill capacity and a war-fighting posture geared for first strike and rapid launch. If that's not enough to deter threats and ensure stability, maybe that's because DETERRENCE IS A SHAM

Conflict between nuclear armed countries is scary. Take action & join us in calling on President Donald J. Trump to stand against Putin’s nuclear bullying, reject unnecessary & dangerous nuclear risk-taking & take nuclear weapons off the table in the war with Ukraine beyondthebomb.org/campaigns/take…

America already spends $800 billion on defense — more than the next 11 countries combined, including Russia and China. It has a nuclear arsenal capable of killing every human being on the planet. Don't let anyone tell you more money for more WMDs will magically achieve our goals.

"There's no putting the genie back in the bottle," said every person who doesn't know anything about monitoring and verification, or decades of successful efforts (between adversaries! who cooperated! without much trust!) to eradicate 80% of the global nuclear stockpile.

The nuclear threat hangs over every military incident involving nuclear-armed states. We cannot continue to count on luck to prevent conflict whether sparked by accident or intent. We can and must eliminate the threat by eliminating all nuclear weapons. nbcnews.to/3MIzDLr

Just another example of where Black leadership on solving the most critical issues of our time has been largely erased. So honored to call Mari Faines-Kuponipe a friend and partner in justice.

The legacy of people who “did their time” as unpaid interns in DC and want to force the next gen through the same suffering reigns toxically supreme. We can’t simultaneously wonder why this space is #sowhite and #soprivileged when orgs don’t #payinterns.

Gas prices are unaffordable…which is why I’m going to spend the next 72 hrs driving in circles at low speeds in a huge gas-guzzling truck. Take that, Exxon!

What I am constantly struck by, and happy to be reminded of, is that nuclear weapons are solvable. They are a problem created by humans, sustained by systems made by humans…which means we can dismantle them. We have the solutions, and the willpower. We can do this.

If you saw this news and thought, holy shit, Global Zero is building a dream team and they're up to something BIG... well, you'd be right. 👊🏽✊🏽🙌🏽