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RESOLUTION:
NO LATER THAN 2010
"Before They
Abolish Us"
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I endorse this resolution
and will work with a firm commitment to achieve its goals.
ENDORSE "Resolution: No Later Than
2010"
(Include Name, Country & Organization if applicable in email)
Addressed to President George
Bush, all presidents and prime ministers of nuclear powers and
all members of the U.S. Congress
"The weapons of war must
be abolished before they abolish us."
- President Kennedy,
UN General Assembly, September 25, 1961
WHEREAS thousands of U.S. and Russian nuclear warheads
are on "hair-trigger" alert, ready for launch in a
few minutes notice that could destroy both countries, and perhaps
civilization, within hours, and
WHEREAS
a dangerous escalation of nuclear arms is underway by the Bush
Administration that includes a "preemptive" war policy
and with a compliant U.S. Congress providing funds for the administration
to develop a new class of tactical nuclear warheads and the resumption
of nuclear testing, and
WHEREAS 30,000 nuclear weapons are stockpiled, and yet
nuclear proliferation is increasing with the International Atomic
Energy Commission reporting that up to 40 countries may have
the ability to build nuclear weapons, and
WHEREAS
only dramatic action can halt the critically dangerous course
of world events, we call on the United States and other nuclear
weapons countries to immediately initiate the following steps:
(1)
All U.S. and Russian nuclear warheads be taken off "hair-trigger"
alert to end the daily threat of nuclear incineration through
an accidental missile launch or miscalculation. The warheads
are to be placed in storage under the inspection of the U.S.,
Russia, and the United Nations;
(2)
Immediate freeze on all nuclear weapons development with negotiations
initiated to establish a precise and rapid timetable to achieve
the total elimination of all nuclear weapons, with safeguards
under international law to ensure they can never be produced
again;
(3)
Long-term negotiations to vastly reduce conventional arms and
military spending to achieve our common security. This must include
a reformed, strengthened and democratic United Nations made capable
of resolving future disputes between peoples and nations (and
deal with terrorists) through the framework of world law.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED we call on concerned
people in every land to mobilize and apply maximum nonviolent
political pressure on the United States and other nuclear weapon
states, and to continue such pressure with an unyielding determination
until all nuclear weapons are abolished from the face of the
earth before "they abolish us" as President Kennedy
warned.
I endorse this resolution
and will work with a firm commitment to achieve its goals.
ENDORSE "Resolution: No Later Than
2010"
(Include Name, Country & Organization if applicable in email)
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RESOLUTION: NO LATER THAN 2010 "Before They Abolish Us" I endorse this resolution and will work with a firm commitment to achieve its goals. (Include Name, Country & Organization if applicable in email) Addressed to President George Bush, all presidents and prime ministers of nuclear powers and all members of the U.S. Congress "The weapons of war must
be abolished before they abolish us." WHEREAS
a dangerous escalation of nuclear arms is underway by the Bush
Administration that includes a "preemptive" war policy
and with a compliant U.S. Congress providing funds for the administration
to develop a new class of tactical nuclear warheads and the resumption
of nuclear testing, and WHEREAS only dramatic action can halt the critically dangerous course of world events, we call on the United States and other nuclear weapons countries to immediately initiate the following steps: (1) All U.S. and Russian nuclear warheads be taken off "hair-trigger" alert to end the daily threat of nuclear incineration through an accidental missile launch or miscalculation. The warheads are to be placed in storage under the inspection of the U.S., Russia, and the United Nations; (2) Immediate freeze on all nuclear weapons development with negotiations initiated to establish a precise and rapid timetable to achieve the total elimination of all nuclear weapons, with safeguards under international law to ensure they can never be produced again; (3) Long-term negotiations to vastly reduce conventional arms and military spending to achieve our common security. This must include a reformed, strengthened and democratic United Nations made capable of resolving future disputes between peoples and nations (and deal with terrorists) through the framework of world law. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED we call on concerned people in every land to mobilize and apply maximum nonviolent political pressure on the United States and other nuclear weapon states, and to continue such pressure with an unyielding determination until all nuclear weapons are abolished from the face of the earth before "they abolish us" as President Kennedy warned. I endorse this resolution and will work with a firm commitment to achieve its goals. (Include Name, Country & Organization if applicable in email) Sponsored by: War & Peace Foundation |
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