What’s Going on?

Thanks to constituents (like you!), Congress voted to extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), a program that compensates nuclear weapons development and testing victims, by two years. This extension is a great first step to preserving and expanding RECA, but it still falls short. 

Since the dawn of the nuclear age, thousands of Americans have died or been harmed by U.S. nuclear weapons — disproportionately these have been poor, rural, Black, Indigenous, and people of color. From workers who mined and milled uranium without proper protective gear to American citizens caught downwind of hundreds of nuclear tests and exposed to dangerous radiation without their consent, these weapons cause irreparable damage at every stage of production, maintenance, and use.