Carl Robichaud

So by all means, if you already know of a group working on nuclear weapons risk reduction, you can always support them directly.

But if you're not sure what to do, we want to make it really easy for people to make a difference here.

Well, I have incredible respect for the government officials who grapple with these problems, and they're not easy, and they're operating under a lot of constraints.

So we need really good people in government working on these issues.

So I think a career in government is excellent, an excellent path, both in the short term you can contribute, but longer term you're developing skills, connections, and perspectives that will be helpful.

There are a lot of graduate programs that prepare you both in terms of science and policy to have a high-impact career in this space.

But beyond that, I think we need people with a variety of skills.

So if you are an artist or a graphic designer, you can contribute in that way.

If you do social media, we need people who can tell great human stories and

about the way nuclear weapons have affected us and the risks we continue to run.

And I think there's a really important role for civil society and for citizens and for outside experts to provide support

for government efforts, but also to critique them and audit them and to hold people to account because there are large bureaucracies that are at work that are chugging away producing these outcomes that are inimical to our collective security.

And so you need people who are willing to call that out.

One example is this guy, Bruce Blair, who passed away a few years ago, but is just a hero to me.

He's this veteran nuclear launch officer, and he became a deep expert in nuclear command and control and a really dedicated truth teller to expose the dangers that are inherent in this whole enterprise.

And someone like that, he knew...

the generals and the admirals, and he knew people in the Russian enterprise as well, and he spoke with great clarity and conviction.

But he was able to provide a counterpoint to some of the official narratives in a way that I think is really healthy.

And you also have people who work in and out of government and develop the expertise and the connections they need outside of government and then bring that in.

So a good example of this is Rose Gottmiller, who worked in government early in her career.