US President Trump orders to resume nuclear testing

US President Trump's announcement that he has ordered his Department of War to resume nuclear weapons testing immediately has sent shockwaves across the world.

Nuclear weapons testing in the last century took place from 1945 mostly on Indigenous lands, and in marginalised and often colonised places.

The impacts of those tests were devastating on many people and communities, and left lasting contamination on our environment.

"With this announcement Trump has raised fears across communities already living with the intergenerational consequences of nuclear testing from decades ago." - Dimity Hawkins, Program Coordinator, Nuclear Truth Project.

For nearly thirty years, nuclear weapons testing by the five largest nuclear weapons states has not taken place.

As a result of massive global outcry and sustained resistance from impacted communities, in 1996 the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) opened.

Nearly every country in the world has signed the CTBT,  a global agreement to "bans nuclear explosions by everyone, everywhere: on the Earth's surface, in the atmosphere, underwater and underground."

Nearly every country in the world has signed the CTBT a global agreement to "bans nuclear explosions by everyone, everywhere: on the Earth's surface, in the atmosphere, underwater and underground."

Join the Nuclear Truth Project on 19/20 November for our Holding the Memories webinar to learn more about the struggle for nuclear justice and access to archives for impacted People in Australia and the Pacific as well as British nuclear veterans from nuclear testing last century.