Musicians United for Safe Energy ( MUSE ) was a musical group founded in 1979 by Jackson Browne , Graham Nash , Bonnie Raitt , and John Hall , following the Three Mile Island nuclear accident . The group organized a series of five '' No Nukes '' concerts held at Madison Square Garden in New York City in September 1979 . On September 23 , 1979 , almost 200,000 people attended a large anti-nuclear rally staged by MUSE on the then-empty north end of the Battery Park City landfill in New York . The album '' No Nukes '' , and a film , also titled '' No Nukes '' , were both released in 1980 to document the performances
Three Mile Island nuclear accident
Three Mile Island accident
Anti-nuclear movement