“Over the past five years, British expenditure on its nuclear weapons programme has increased by 43 per cent,” she said. “Funding can be found to stockpile nuclear weapons, but never to put money back into the pockets of the poorest households,” she said. “We have to be clear: the existence of nuclear weapons rests on the idea that some lives matter more than others,” she said. For Rehman, it is to insist that climate justice cannot be separated from disarmament. Real security, they argued, lies not in nuclear arsenals but in communities, climate action, and justice.