Updates & Resources • Friends Committee on National Legislation

Update Building on the Pope's Call for Nuclear Abolition

On Nov. 24, Pope Francis visited the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to renew his call for the global elimination of nuclear weapons.

By Monica Montgomery
Issues: Nuclear Weapons

Update A Day When Way Opened

Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

On Nov. 9, 1989, something that had been permanent evaporated—and the impossible suddenly, stunningly, became real.

By Anthony Wier
Issues: Peacebuilding, Nuclear Weapons

Update US Maximum Pressure Policy: Punishing the Poor and Ailing in Iran

The Trump administration doubled down on its maximum pressure policy approach to Iran with new sanctions, this time targeting Iran’s construction sector, which—according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo— is under the control of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

By Parissa Joukar
Issues: Nuclear Weapons, Middle East & Iran

Action Alert Stop Deployment of the New “Low-Yield” Nuclear Warhead Before It’s Too Late

Congress’s window to prevent the deployment of a dangerous new nuclear weapon will soon close.

By Monica Montgomery
Issues: Nuclear Weapons

Background End This New Arms Race

Question & Answer with DeAnne Butterfield

DeAnne Butterfield spent this summer as a Friend in Washington, a program where seasoned Friends share their experience. She is a member of FCNL’s General Committee and the Intermountain Yearly Meeting.

Issues: Nuclear Weapons

Letter FCNL Joins Coalition to Call for NDAA Measure on Diplomacy with North Korea

FCNL and nine other foreign policy organizations urged leadership of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees to keep an amendment supporting diplomacy with North Korea in the final version of the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Issues: Nuclear Weapons

Update House and Senate Head for a Showdown on Nuclear Policy

The Trump administration has been taking the U.S. down a dangerous course by seeking new nuclear weapons. Congress can change our country’s direction, but a stark divide has emerged between the two chambers through the fiscal year 2020 appropriations process: While the House rejected several of the administration’s calls for nuclear weapons funding increases, the Senate plans to fully fund—and in some cases exceed—the administration’s requests.

By Monica Montgomery
Issues: Nuclear Weapons

Letter National Security Experts Warn Against Deployment of Dangerous New Nuke

Along with dozens of coalition partners and national security experts, FCNL sent Sen. Jack Reed (RI), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, a letter urging him to support a provision in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that bars deployment of new low-yield nuclear warheads.

Issues: Nuclear Weapons

Minute of Concern on Nuclear Weapons

Honolulu Friends Meeting Minute on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, August 2019.

Honolulu Friends Meeting
Issues: Nuclear Weapons

Update Nuclear Weapons: Dangerous, Expensive and Immoral

Written by Deanne Butterfield

On August 6, 1945 the Japanese city of Hiroshima was annihilated in a flash by a single uranium bomb. It razed and burnt 70 percent of all buildings, killed an estimated 140,000 Japanese civilians and Korean laborers, irradiated the soil and plants, and brought increased rates of cancer and chronic disease among the survivors. A slightly larger plutonium bomb exploded over Nagasaki three days later, levelling the city and killing another 74,000.

Issues: Nuclear Weapons