OMNI's War and Warming Anthologies: 2025

When Martin Luther King Jr. referenced "The fierce urgency of now" in his speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, he was speaking to times like the present. NDE recognizes the urgency of the moment as we prepare our annual pilgrimage in the desert from Las Vegas to the nuclear test site.

Why We Walk

If you cannot walk with us next week-

Starting this Sunday, Alan Winson and Rebecca McKean of BCR Podcast supported by the Nevada Desert Experience will produce a series of 20 minute videos telling the stories of the participants in the 2025 Sacred Peace Walk [SPW] -- protesting nuclear armament. Episodes will be posted at 7pm Pacific Standard time - Sunday to Friday -- during Passover / Holy Week. The SPW is an interfaith journey of 60 miles from Las Vegas to the Nevada [Nuclear] Test Site -- land taken from the Western Shoshone Paiute peoples. Nearly 1,000 Atomic Bombs have been detonated above and below this desert from 1951 to 1992. And today subcritical testing of America's nuclear stockpile and development of new, more powerful nuclear bombs continues in the desert. See our 3 minute promotion video.

TO USE A MOUNTAIN - yucca mountain documentary

The documentary film “To Use A Mountain” exploring the ongoing struggle to license and store the nation’s nuclear waste at Yucca mountain and other sites, premiered on April 7, 2025 at Visions du Réel (International Competition) in Switzerland.

Director, Cinematographer, Editor Casey Carter accompanied the Nevada Desert Experience Sacred Peace Walk in 2023, and credits the activists he joined on the Peace Walk in assisting him in furthering his understanding and inspiration going into this important film. In a letter written to those he joined on the Peace Walk, Mr. Carter wrote. “As this year's Peace Walk approaches, I am reminded how inspired I was by the time spent walking those many miles with all of you in 2023 - through the sun, rain, and even snow! And continue to be inspired by your commitments to this activism year after year.

“Remarkably, this film now feels even more relevant in 2025 than it did when I first began to imagine the project in 2017 - especially at home in the US. On that note, I am also excited to share that the US premiere will be held in Texas, on April 28, in competition at the Dallas International Film Festival.”

We wish to congratulate Mr. Casey Carter for this significant achievement! Vitally important to Las Vegas and Nevada, this film underscores the importance of activism and the Nevada Desert Experience Sacred Peace Walk in preventing the federal government’s effort to turn Nevada into a nuclear storage wasteland. Join with us to continue this important work.

We will keep you informed of opportunities to see this film.

"The Only Sane Solution" Resisting Nuclear Weapons in Europe

NDE's Brian Terrell wrote in his post-prison reflection, “The Only Sane Solution… Resisting Nuclear Weapons in Europe”: "Considering the enormity of the danger that the world is facing, do our small efforts, our protests and jailings make any difference? In our movements there is a false dichotomy, I think, between being faithful and being effective. 'I'm convinced that if the world survives these dangerous times, it will be tens of millions of small things that do it,' said the folk singer, Pete Seeger. Perhaps the best, the most effective contribution we can make to save the planet will be for each of us to accomplish one or two of the tens of millions of small things that need to be done."

photo- Christiane Danowski and Bernd Büscher meet Brian (center) upon his release from the prison at Wittlich, Germany, on March 12

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GLOBAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS RESISTANCE ORGANIZATIONS International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) (Nobel Peace Prize), International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (DATE ESTABLISHED)

· Arms Control Association (1971)

· ATOM Project (2012)

· Back from the Brink (2017)

· Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1957)

· Council for a Livable World (1962)

· Code Pink (2002)

· Economists for Peace and Security

· FCNL (1943)

· Global Security Institute

· Global Zero (2008)

· Ground Zero Center (1977)

· International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Nobel Peace Prize (2007)