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00:00Participate in non-signing up to war and weapons.
00:04Nuclear powers are modernizing their arsenals
00:08in the face of growing geopolitical tensions around the world.
00:12Spending in this sector has increased by a third in the last five years.
00:17These investments are not useless,
00:20but also extremely dangerous, as ICANN says,
00:24the organization that received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017
00:28for having contributed to the adoption of the historic treaty
00:32on the prohibition of nuclear weapons.
00:35Unfortunately, the risk of a nuclear war has never been higher.
00:40We have two major conflicts involving nuclear arms states.
00:45Nuclear threats have been made in both of those contexts.
00:49An almost complete breakdown in arms control agreements
00:53and a new nuclear arms race underway.
00:56It is time for the international community and for civil society
01:00to take action against the ever-present danger of nuclear weapons.
01:06Nuclear weapons are the only devices ever created by humans
01:11that have the capacity to destroy or wipe out people.
01:15We must eliminate them before they eliminate us.
01:21The global context will also examine the national and local one,
01:25with a focus on the importance of the participation of people
01:29to bring about a concrete change in society.
01:32How can the civil economy play a positive and political role?
01:38Certainly, investments in the nuclear arsenal show a political intention.
01:44That is, they want to put on the table the hypothesis of the use of nuclear weapons,
01:48which would be devastating for humanity.
01:50In this sense, asking for a transfer of resources from the nuclear arsenal
01:56to more useful uses from a social point of view
01:59would contribute not only to strengthen the civil economy,
02:02but also to reduce threats.
02:04Because, unfortunately, we know that if some types of weapons are built,
02:08maintained, developed and modernized,
02:10then there could be the desire to use them.