The labor movement has a key role to play in opposing the madness of a nuclear arms race and the possibility of nuclear war. In the 1980s, progressive unions did just that.

Eighty years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, leveling it and killing an estimated 140,000 people. Three days later, the United States hit Nagasaki with a second atomic bomb, killing another 75,000. Since then, humanity has lived under the constant danger of complete destruction by nuclear weapons.

Though it no longer gets the same amount of public attention it received during the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation remains frighteningly possible today. There are currently over 12,000 nuclear warheads in the world. The vast majority are held by the United

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