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Tell President Bush 'Don't Blow It!' |
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by Nuclear Threat Reduction Campaign
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24 Apr 2002
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Why do we have all these weapons? The US is already the most powerful nation in the world. President Reagan's Assistant Secretary of Defense, Dr. Lawrence Korb, believes we need no more than 1,000 nuclear weapons to protect our country.
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There are over 36,000 nuclear weapons around the world. Thousands of them are on "launch ready status," ready to be fired in minutes. Our government alone spends over $30 billion annually just to maintain the Pentagon's nuclear arsenal of over 12,000 nuclear weapons. That's the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs.
Why do we have all these weapons? The US is already the most powerful nation in the world. President Reagan's Assistant Secretary of Defense, Dr. Lawrence Korb, believes we need no more than 1,000 nuclear weapons to protect our country.
The good news is that Russia announced a renewed commitment to reducing the threat of nuclear weapons. Their parliament adopted two international treaties to eliminate thousands of nuclear bombs, ban nuclear test explosions and halt the spread of nuclear weapons.
But the US has yet to enact these same treaties. The U.S. Senate voted against ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to ban nuclear explosions.
Recently President Bush called for unilateral nuclear reductions. This is a bold first step forward towards reducing nuclear weapons. However, he took two huge steps backwards by withdrawing our nation's support from principles that have governed the world's nuclear balance for 30 years. He condemned the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty as a Cold War relic and vowed to deploy an unproven and expensive National Missile Defense system. This program is full of "missiles" and short on "defense." It would violate other international treaties and may provoke Russia and China to build up their nuclear weapons. 50 Nobel Prize winners warn it will start a new arms race.
There is growing concern over a National Missile Defense system and this is a critical time to voice public concern over the threat of nuclear weapons. The US must take the lead in reducing nuclear weapons and ensuring that weapons do not fall into the hands of our enemies.
Please tell President Bush to support international arms reduction treaties, deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal and reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation.
Send a postcard to President Bush! Tell Mr. Bush "Don't Blow It!" Urge him to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons now!
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http://dontblowit.policy.net/
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