CHALLENGING NUCLEAR SECRECY

End the Silence on Nuclear Violence.

Affected communities have faced the dangers of secrecy and lack of information about the real impact of harms since the beginning of the nuclear age. 

Addressing this fundamental injustice has been a key plank of the Nuclear Truth Project’s work.

In August 2023 we launched our report Challenging Nuclear Secrecy: a discussion of hierarchies, ethics and barriers to access to examine the hierarchies, ethics and barriers to access within nuclear archives.

In March 2025 we re-released the report with an update from three of the co-authors. The report provides insights to the many layered issues when seeking nuclear truths.

The 2025 version of the report notes increasing threats to global peace and the concerning trend of hostility towards nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.

In the name of ‘defence’ and ‘security’, information about nuclear harm is being withheld from the communities whom it affects the most. 

The Nuclear Truth Project recognises that those with lived experience are knowledge holders, providing expert evidence and insight both for intercommunity knowledge exchange and for informing broader policy and action. 

By centering survivor and nuclear affected community perspectives, and focusing on the expertise of lived experience, the Nuclear Truth Project aims to coalesce this knowledge with other scientific, ecological, and health evidence.

The effects of radioactive violence will endure long after we have achieved the total elimination of nuclear weapons and broader nuclear harms.

So the work of the Project is not only about  communicating nuclear truths to the present but informing generations to come. 

We hope this report contributes towards this and sparks conversations on nuclear accountability.

Read our 2023 Working Paper to the United Nations Second Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons here.