A Moral Imperative: Adopting the Nuclear Truth Project protocols

Speaking before an international audience of researchers, policymakers, and diplomats, Benetick Kabua Maddison (pictured above accepting the Nuclear Free Future Award), Co-Chair of the Nuclear Truth Project (NTP) and Executive Director of the Marshallese Educational Initiative, opened not with a plea, but with a demand. He came, he said, “not as a statistic, not as a research subject, not as a tragic footnote in a geopolitical story — but as a demand for ethical relationship. [A]ctive engagement in adapting and adopting [the NTP protocols] is a fundamental moral obligation. Not a favor. Not a courtesy. An obligation.” Benetick spoke at the NTP side event at the 11th Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York to address the NTP Protocols for working with members of affected communities.