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Nuclear War is a Local Issue

July 2025 

Nuclear War is a Local Issue

Dot Sulock

The possibility of nuclear war is a very local issue, just as climate change is.  Remember Helene.  In the case of nuclear war the effects would be the same but they would get worse instead of better.  No cell phone coverage, no tv, no internet, no electricity, no water, no gasoline, no food, …, no help.  Add to that radiation sickness.  Asheville citizens can and are pushing back against climate change.  Asheville citizens can also push back against the dangerous nuclear policies of the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about.  Politicians these days do not seem to be influenced by letters, email, or phone calls.  Large organizations may be able to help through educational efforts and lobbying.  Supporting Physicians for Social Responsibility or Ploughshares or Back from the Brink is a good pushback effort.  Western North Carolina PSR meets every month in Asheville.  Check out our website and join us.  The United States started this dangerous situation eighty years ago this month.  United States policies are making the situation more dangerous. Local citizens need to work for change.  Preventing nuclear war is a very local issue.

Dot Sulock 

Asheville, NC

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PREVENTING WHAT WE CANNOT CURE: Physicians for Social Responsibility is the medical and public health voice working to prevent the use or spread of nuclear weapons and to slow, stop and reverse global warming and the toxic degradation of the environment.