Nuclear Violence Has No Expiry Date

This 1st March, We Remember

At the top of the image is black text on a cream background that says: This 1 March, We Remember Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day. Below the text is a photograph of the Runit Dome in Marshall Islands which is a repository for atomic waste that the U.S. produced during Cold War weapons testing. Below the photos the black text on cream reads: Nuclear Violence Has No Expiry Date. On 1 March we mark Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day (NVRD). The 1954 Castle Bravo test at Bikini Atoll didn't end in 1954. For the Marshallese people, the fallout - displacement, illness, contamination - continues today. NVRD is now observed by affected communities across Oceania and globally, a growing chorus of voices demanding accountability, truth, and justice for nuclear-affected peoples everywhere.

On 1 March, communities across the Pacific and around the world will mark Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day. This is a day to honour the survivors, victims, and descendants of nuclear weapons testing, and to renew our commitment to nuclear abolition.

The 1 March marks the anniversary of the 1954 Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test, detonated by the United States at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was the largest nuclear weapon the US ever tested. Its explosive force was so immense that radioactive fallout rained down across thousands of square kilometres of the Pacific, reaching inhabited atolls far beyond the test site. People went about their lives as a fine white ash settled on their skin, their water, their homes. They were not warned. They were not evacuated. They were not protected.

Japanese fishing boats were impacted by fallout in the regional waters. There are on-going calls for justice for those survivors also.

For the Marshallese people, that day did not end in 1954. The consequences, contamination, displacement and illness passed across generations, and continues to this day. Castle Bravo is not history. It is a lived reality.

Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day began in the Marshall Islands as an act of witness and resistance. It is now observed by affected communities across Oceania and globally, a growing chorus of voices demanding accountability, truth, and justice for nuclear-affected peoples everywhere.

At the Nuclear Truth Project, we stand in solidarity with those communities. We believe their stories must be heard, their rights upheld, and the violence done to them - in the name of so-called national security - finally and fully acknowledged.

This 1 March we invite you to learn, listen, and take action. Follow and amplify our friends working on the frontlines of nuclear justice across the Pacific:

The truth about nuclear weapons is inseparable from the truth about who bears their cost. Today, we remember. Today and everyday we stand in solidarity with all nuclear victims.