Why You Should Care About Nukes

For info about divesting from nuclear weapons companies, go to http://responsibleinvest.org/

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REFERENCES

Climate-model showing impacts of nuclear winter – http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/RobockNW2006JD008235.pdf

Current status of global nuclear forces http://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/status-world-nuclear-forces/

Financing the Nuclear Industry – http://www.dontbankonthebomb.com/

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Created by Henry Reich

This video is about the continued dangers of nuclear weapons and the nuclear arms race in the post-cold war world, particularly nuclear winter but also modernizations by the US and Russian governments, EMPs (electromagnetic pulses), fallout, explosions, terrorism, other accidents, etc.