Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project

Two of the people behind some of the most progressive nuclear disarmament legislation of any major city in the United States share some details of their work, to show what others can do to bring nuclear abolitionism home. They also give a sense of New York’s long history as a nuclear city—and as a hotbed of anti-nuclear activism.

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