And the fact that the US and Russia have made massive cuts in nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. From a height of 50,000 warheads total between the US and USSR, we are down to a total of 10,000 or less. Depending on the numbers. I did some research and number vary wildly depending on who is making the claim.

like maybe by the mid 80's?

http://www.peaceandplanet.org/conference-program/


Also a march from Union Sq. Park up to the U.N. on Sunday. (about 2 miles)

Did Ellsberg safely get out from under the bus, then?
Sounds like a great time.

For more than 50 years, Physicians for Social Responsibility activists have brought together health professionals and concerned citizens to advocate for a world free of nuclear weapons and a foreign policy focused on peace. In 1985 the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and PSR shared the Nobel Peace Prize for their grassroots work against nuclear testing and to advocate for nuclear disarmament. Today, we ask you to join us as we continue the work needed to prevent some of the gravest threats to human health.




http://www.psr.org/nuclear-weapons/

great movements. Do they get much airtime these days?

He organized a visit from PSR's Dr. Ira Helfand to come talk to regional Rotary Clubs here
in the Triangle area in conjunction with their Peace program. But he couldn't get
any of the local media-- print or TV--to cover the visit. They did get Helfand on a local
radio show while he was here in early March.

My theory is that the ultimate success of previously obstructed media consolidations and ownership transfers that characterized changes in media ownership in the 80's and 90's, allowing Westinghouse, Capital Cities and of course GE all along to own the national news organizations that Americans had access to froze out the freeze.
Fire needs spark, fuel and oxygen, and they vacuumed the life out the movement.
Disarmament was hardly a big deal success as Star Wars defense scams ruled our world then.
Then again, if we hadnt used nukes we would all be eating sushi and buying trade favored Sony knockoffs at Pacific Stereo.

NT

Every now and then I still hear about new applications for nuclear weaponry and possibly the development of new tactical nukes, but nothing has really moved forward on that since Obama became president (as far as I know).

ZPG = Zero Population Growth.

"In the late 1960s ZPG became a prominent political movement in the U.S. and parts of Europe, with strong links to environmentalism and feminism... Founding fathers of the movement were Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, and Thomas Eisner. Ehrlich stated: “The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children.” (Wikipedia)

I did my bit -- I have only one child. And my only child has only one child.