If you would have asked 10 year-old, 15 year-old, even 19 year-old Jasmine what she would be doing after college, she would have laughed in your face if you said fighting to get rid of nuclear weapons. Growing up, nuclear weapons were never on my radar. Sure, I think I passively knew that they were really bad weapons, but my knowledge and care stopped there. [Read more...]
Read MoreAn intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb when she was a school girl on August 6, 1945. Her experience of atomic destruction and devastation is the source of her VOW to rid our planet of nuclear weapons. Her life's work culminated in the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which came into force in 2021...
Read MoreFrom the conclusion by Dave Lochbaum, GRIP Board Member:
We also must strive to lessen the number of persons harmed by future radiation releases; not just to save compensation payments but to save lives and the quality of those lives. Modeling alone simply isn’t sufficient. Modeling must be backed by some measurements that hopefully will confirm that the numbers spit out by the computers are valid, or point to the reforms needed to modify the models to better match reality.
Read MoreColleagues have just published major new work on Fallout from nuclear weapons tested in New Mexico and Nevada, above ground, between 1945 and 1962…new insights are available from their work. AND Mary Olson gives a rundown of health consequences from bathing the continent in highly radioactive fission products like cesium and iodine… and at the same time, summons some hope.
Read More[Nov 22, 2022] I have an error I must own. My mistake does not invalidate any of the data presented on the disproportionate impact of ionizing radiation to girls and women. My mistake is in data communication and visualization: I combined two things that do not belong together, resulting in an error. I must both disclose and sincerely apologize. I will do my best to make corrections and repairs. {Read more]
Read MoreTeaching about radiation! Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear and Mary Olson of Gender and Radiation Impact Project have more than 50 combined years of experience working with communities impacted by ionizing radiation. Now we are ready to teach—not train—people to think about this topic, ask clearer questions and better understand presentations, research papers and government documents. Classes are short, online and there is a scholarship fund.
Read MoreThis organizational statement gives background to understand that a radiological emergency is a bigger emergency for girls and women, compared to boys and men…Gender and Radiation Impact Project calls on all combatants to cease violence near any nuclear power site.
Read MoreReport from Austria—the Vienna Conference 2022–the day before the first meeting of Parties to the Treaty on The Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)—I was there and spoke at the conference. The International Committee of the Red Cross provided radiation screening on the way into the event—a reminder…
Question: Do you believe in collective healing? If you don’t immediately say “YES!” I understand. I invite you to gently suspend your disbelief long enough to read on…
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