1962, San Francisco, CA, Ban the Bomb Demonstration.
1962, San Francisco, CA, Ban the Bomb Demonstration.

UN Is Negotiating to Ban the Bomb in 2017…Again

Standing Up for Peace Now and Half a Century Ago

United Nations Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Leading Towards their Total Elimination

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1962, San Francisco, CA, Ban the Bomb Demonstration.

Harvey and Alice Richards made two documentary films about demonstrations to end nuclear testing and ban the bomb back in the 1950’s and 1960’s here on the west coast. Women for Peace and Everyman document these early efforts to ban the bomb. In the post Cold War world of today, awareness of the dangers of nuclear power has grown dramatically with the nuclear disasters in Chernobyl in the Ukraine and in Fukishima in Japan. Sickness and death from nuclear radiation is now widespread around the world near these disaster sites and near uranium mines, nuclear power stations, nuclear fuel storage facilities and arsenals. The existence of nuclear weapons, uranium mining, production, storage and distribution of nuclear materials threatens human life on the planet more today than ever. The UN conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons is a welcome sign that humanity can turn back from the nuclear nightmare we have unleashed. The photographs below by Harvey Richards were shot during the production of Women for Peace and Everyman.

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  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
    October 27, 1962 San Francisco Hands Off Cuba March
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
    October 27, 1962 San Francisco Hands Off Cuba March
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
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    October 27, 1962 San Francisco Hands Off Cuba March
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
    March, 1962 San Francisco Peace March
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
    March, 1962 San Francisco Peace March
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
    March, 1962 San Francisco Peace March
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
    March, 1962 San Francisco Peace March
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
    August 6, 1962 Hirosima Day March
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
    March, 1962 San Francisco Peace March
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
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    1962, Mercury, Nevada. Women For Peace March in the Desert
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
    1962, San Francisco, CA, Protest for release of crew of Everyman after their arrest at sea.
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
    1962, San Francisco, CA, Ban the Bomb Demonstration.
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
    1962, San Francisco, CA, Ban the Bomb Demonstration.
  • Nuclear Disamament & the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-60
    1960, San Francisco, CA, Union Square, End the Arms Race Rally.
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