Nonviolence for us is both the means we employ in politics and the end we seek in the world. This advocacy and practice is based on personal experience as well as a deep consideration of the state of human relationships, the possibilities for positive social change, the worldwide crises of war, resource depletion, population and pollution, and the chances for success in abolishing human exploitation and war.

We believe with Philip Berrigan that “…The only people who have understood what revolution means are those who consider nonviolent revolution possible.”

And we share the stark rejection of revolutionary violence summarized by Louis Lecoin: “If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say no to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.”

Since its inception in 1979, Nukewatch has been a vigorous advocate of nonviolent direct action.

From H-Bomb truck watches, to the mapping of land-based missile sites; from sit-in protests against the U.S.-led Contra war on Nicaragua, to line-crossings at Strategic Command; from nuclear power reactors to NASA's plutonium space shots at Cape Canaveral; from the cramped spaces of jail to kitchen duty in prison; Nukewatch employees, volunteers and supporters have embraced nonviolence in word and deed -- even as we've struggled to rid our thoughts as well of the violence that inundates the social, political, cultural and spiritual life of the United States.