“We as people of faith join in solidarity, with our voices and our power, for disarmament, nuclear abolition, and ways of being that are in the right relationship.
On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear explosion in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico–causing radioactive ash to rain down, contaminating the land, water, food, and air throughout the region. Just weeks later, Hiroshima and Nagasaki became the first cities to experience the hell on Earth of nuclear weapon attacks on August 6 and 9, 1945.”