UNFOLD ZERO & Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign

Posted: 7th May 2022

$Billion give-away
Get your millions of dollars to spend on peace – not nuclear weapons
A promotion for the Global Days of Action on Military Spending 




The global nuclear weapons budget is over $100 Billion dollars per year. Just imagine what this money could cover if it was not wasted so foolishly on weapons designed to inflict ‘destruction the like of which we have never seen before.’ (The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide only a glimpse of what would happen if 50 or 500 or 5000 nuclear weapons were to be used in a war today).

Most people have no idea about this collosal waste of money, the destruction these weapons could cause, or the good the money could generate if used on other things. But with some $1million notes in your pocket or wallet (like those pictured above), you would have a great way of sharing this information with them.

Move the Nuclear Weapons Money makes available some $1million notes for you to use to educate, inform and inspire friends and other colleagues to take action for nuclear abolition. Download your $1million dollar notes (front and back) and print double sided, or contact Move the Nuclear Weapons Money and we can post some printed notes to you.

Note: This offer is made during the Global Days of Action on Military Spending, but you can use the $1million notes at any time during the year. 
Using the $1 million notes to discuss nuclear weapons budgets, and on what the money could instead be spent: Maria Fernanda Espinosa, during her term as President of the UN General Assembly, Roger Waters from the rock band Pink Floyd, Yasmeen Silva from Beyond the Bomb, Amanda from School Strike for Climate and Bill Kidd from the Scottish Parliament. 

Take action to cut nuclear weapons budgets:
Endorse the Open Letter to the NPT

The States Parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which includes five nuclear armed countries (China, France, Russia, UK and USA) will be meeting at the United Nations for 4 weeks in August to discuss nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, to which they are committed under the Treaty. This provides an opportunity to lobby the nuclear armed states to cut nuclear weapons budgets, and to lobby all NPT States Parties to end investments in the nuclear weapons industry.

We encourage you to support this lobbying effort by endorsing Fulfil the NPT: From nuclear threats to human security, if you have not already done so. This Open Letter calls on the NPT States Parties to:

• End the nuclear arms race by permanently ceasing the manufacture of nuclear weapons;
• Phase out the role of nuclear weapons in security policies starting with no-first-use policies;
• Commit to a timeframe for the global elimination of nuclear weapons;
• Shift budgets and public investments from the nuclear weapons industry to instead support public health, climate stabilization and sustainable development.

We expect the Open Letter to have some influence on the NPT deliberations. Over 1300 political, military and religious leaders, as well as legislators (parliamentarians and mayors), academics, scientists, business leaders, youth, lawyers, Nobel Laureates and other representatives of civil society have already endorsed.
 Endorse the Open Letter – From nuclear threats to human securityYours sincerely
UNFOLD ZERO