Cameron Fletcher

Cameron Fletcher, (He/Him) is a student at LREI in NYC. His topic for his social justice project is the effects of nuclear proliferation. He is studying this topic to learn all about and inform people on the past and future of nuclear warfare. This topic is important to him because of how dangerous and potentially catastrophic it could be without a solution

An Interview With Daniel Prins

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Me and my piers in the Nuclear Proliferation justice group recently had an interview with Daniel Prins. Daniel Prins is a former member of the United Nations and represented the Netherlands. He gave us a lot of insight as to how countries are being asked to stop using weapons and how we could end them. One of the biggest points he made was that it’s hard for countries to drop their weapons because of the fact that other countries have them. This fear of other nations is what holds back the disarmament of nuclear weapons. We also learned that some countries have agreed to disarm but there has never been a date and thus, no progress. Overall our interview was very informative and we are glad to have spoken with Daniel Prins.

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Inside The Growler

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On the twenty ninth of January me and my fellow group members visited a Cold War submarine named the Growler. This nuclear submarine was in action throughout the peak years of the Cold War, 1958-19633 and was never hit or sunk. We got a close look at the missiles on the submarine and how it ran. The men that served on the ship did so by volunteering, out of a want to help their country. We were able to talk to some of these veterans and learn exactly what it was like to be a part of the crew on the USS Growler. The men had no sunlight or outside air whatsoever when inside the submarine. For their entire time they would await a call to launch missiles at targets, knowing that if they did, they could easily be found and blown to pieces. However, the men didn’t understand that their job involved ending lives. As we spoke to a Cold War Veteran, we learned that since their targets were so many miles away, they didn’t correlate launching missiles with death. It was more of just a job to them which is extremely problematic for the proliferation of nuclear weapons,

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