August 28, 2015

“Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.”

- John F. Kennedy, from his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25, 1961

August 29 is International Day Against Nuclear Tests.