Idealist - Nuclear Weapons Complex Abuse Questionairre

This questionnaire is designed to help you decide if, regardless of where you live, you are in an abusive situation with your nation’s nuclear weapons complex. There are different forms of abuse, and not everyone experiences all of them. Below are thirteen questions - after assigning points to each question, total the points and compare your score with Abuse Index at the bottom.

Directions: Use the scale to answer the following question to best describe your relationship.

1. Does your nation’s nuclear weapons complex ever violate domestic or international law?

2. Does your nation’s nuclear weapons complex ever make you feel uneasy about being critical of them?

3. Does your nation’s nuclear weapons complex ever threaten you, or have you ever felt threatened by their actions?

4. Do you ever contact government officials or politicians because you or a family member are in danger from their actions?

5. Do your nation’s nuclear weapons complex’s leaders’ moods change radically, from very calm to very hostile?

6. Does your nation’s nuclear weapons complex hurt your feelings?

7. Does your nation’s nuclear weapons complex ever show contempt for non-violent activists, or those expressing their freedoms of speech and press?

8. Does your nation’s nuclear weapons complex ever poison you?

9. Does your nation’s nuclear weapons complex ever give you or members of your community visible injuries (such as welts, bruises, blisters, hair loss and/or lumps)?

10. Does your nation’s nuclear weapons complex – in your best estimation – ever give you or members of your community non-visible injuries (such as leukemia, cancer, and/or radiation-induced diseases)?

11. Have you ever had to treat any injury with first aid or medical help from their violence?

12. Does your nation’s nuclear weapons complex ever lie about their actions or on issues of significance?

13. Is your nation’s nuclear weapons complex ever violent toward children?

Total

ABUSE INDEX: Use the number in the total to find your abuse index, and read the corresponding advice:

If your score was 0 – 6, you live in a Non-abusive relationship. The sorts of strains you experience are not unusual, and you and your nation’s nuclear weapons complex can deal with issues without violence entering into the picture.

If your score was 7 – 14, you definitely live in a nation where you have experienced some violence at least once in a while from the nuclear weapons complex. It may be that this is a relationship where the violence is just beginning, or perhaps for some reason, it has stopped at this level of severity. If you choose to do nothing, there is good reason to expect it will eventually escalate into more serious forms and may occur more frequently. You should seriously consider contacting your governmental representatives and national peace and environmental groups to see how you can help play a role in preventing the violence from getting worse and steering this relationship into a non-abusive one.

If your score was 15 – 30, you are in a seriously abusive situation that can, under increased pressures, move into the dangerously severe range. In an intensified situation, serious illness, disease or duress from their actions is quite probable if it has not already occurred. Much of this abuse is assault, pure and simple, by a violent nuclear establishment. If this is your score-range, you may want to consider finding counseling or some kind of support group for yourself, or consider sorting things out after going to a neighboring peaceful country. Your nation’s nuclear weapons complex may get help from various international peace efforts for those within their ranks who are abusive, if its leaders admit to the abuse and are willing to seek help. You may also want to consider being party or co-signor to a formal appeal to an institution that acts as a legitimate ‘democratic check’ – domestically or internationally - on your nuclear weapons complex. Counseling (between you and them) is not helpful when there has been abuse in the relationship. Regardless of the type of help you seek, you should seriously consider getting some kind of support for yourself, even leaving.

If your score was 31 or above, you need to consider even more seriously the option of leaving the relationship with the weapons complex, at least temporarily (and for your own safety). The violence will not "take care of itself" or miraculously disappear. Over time, the chances are very good that your life will literally be in jeopardy more than once. A neighboring peaceful country will provide safe haven.

Disclaimer: This questionnaire was modified from an existing domestic abuse questionnaire to apply to a relationship between a citizen (of any nation) and a nuclear weapons complex. It was created by Idealist.ws.

What is a nuclear weapons complex? It is the sum total of past and present nuclear weapons facilities and labs, government bodies and commissions, companies and trade groups, and any other institution that is purposed with the research, design, testing or construction of nuclear weapons. In the United States, the complex comprises the Nevada Test Site, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Rocky Flats Site, Idaho National Laboratory, etc.... You can read more about these components of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex on the site via the tab above (i.e NTS, Idaho (INL), LANL, WSMR)

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