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There has been a significant effort, especially across Europe, to
encourage investors to remove their socially responsible investment
policies or to make exceptions for nuclear weapons producers.
This is not because the defence sector doesn’t have enough money,
it is a way to try and provide legitimacy for their activities- and
for nuclear weapons.
It’s because nuclear weapons are overwhelmingly viewed as
illegitimate by the majority of the world’s countries who recognise
existing nuclear deterrence policies, with their inherent threat to
indiscriminately kill hundreds of thousands, are preventing them from
providing for the security of their own citizens.
It is because the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is
growing, in numbers, in strength and in impact.
ICAN’s work is helping the treaty to grow, and helping people
outside the nuclear disarmament bubble to understand the power of this
new international legal norm. A norm so powerful in fact that we’ve
kept about $4.7
trillion out of the nuclear weapons industry.
Your support helps make that work possible, and we want to thank
you for the many ways you help us. Whether it is by forwarding emails
like this, amplifying our social media posts,
or if you are one of those who generously give
so we are able to keep challenging the wealthy nuclear weapons
industry, thank you.
Together, we are dismantling the profit motives behind nuclear
weapons.
Thank you,
Susi Snyder
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