Make a difference in the challenge to confront global warming and prevent nuclear war and the development and use of nuclear weapons.
Support strong nationwide action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
New to the world of Washington, DC, I can see that much of
the action is outside the Beltway even with the budget debate coming up in the
Halls of Congress. That means YOU are
the most important people. I attended
the two day retreat for the Peace and Security Legislative Strategy with heads
of amazing groups around country. Experts
such as Daryl Kimball-head of Arms Control Association, David Culp of
Friends Committee on National Legislation, Joel Rubin of Ploughshares and many others who are strategizing about the
potential for cutting the nuclear arms and military budgets to better address
real security of education, economy and health.
Why are you important here in DC? Because legislators are most swayed by their local constituents. Your neighbors and Congress people need to hear from you in the newspaper as well in person and through the mail. Now that I’m in DC, I am not their constituent. You are local. The New START treaty passed because key legislators heard from people like you. Likewise the nuclear budget won’t get cut without you. In fact the entire military budget appears to be a sacred cow that in fact makes us less secure because we are not substantially funding diplomacy, foreign aid and education to come up with new solutions to the world’s problems. We have nuclear weapons on missiles in silos (ICBM’s), on submarines and carried by bombers. Do we really need all three as a deterrence force? Really do we “need” any? All will slowly age over the next 20 years, but there are of course plans to upgrade them all. There are enough nuclear weapons loaded on the submarines alone to destroy Russia 3 times over.
Nuclear weapons infrastructure is a relatively small item in the Pentagon budget, but packs an enormous threat to our own security and safety should an accident, theft or misfire occur. It may not be on the radar of your legislator, so you need to advance cuts as the only safe thing to do. We do not need a new weapons factory in Kansas City and our wonderful chapter there is fighting it, but it needs to have its budget cut. Please target all your representatives and write Letters to the Editor anytime you see the budget mentioned. In this budget tightening time, there is no excuse for allowing the nuclear weapons and military budget to escape the knife. Besides—we know we are safer without nuclear weapons!
Now is the time for Congress to make the right choices on spending and to take meaningful reductions in our bloated nuclear arsenal and military budget.
Please join us for special webinar on our new nuclear famine report that will take place on Thursday, May 10th at 8:30 PM Eastern.
Nuclear Famine: A Billion People at Risk
The newly generated data on the decline in agricultural production that would follow a limited, regional nuclear war in South Asia support the concern that more than one billion people would be in danger of starvation. Epidemic disease and further conflict spawned by such a famine would put additional hundreds of millions at risk. Read more »
The U.S. and Nuclear Terrorism
This report on nuclear terrorism in the US provides detailed analysis of the medical and public health consequences of nuclear terrorism or accidents. Read more »
PSR Reports Spring 2011
Inside this issue: 50 years of physician anti-nuclear advocacy; pressing for better toxics policy; next steps for the Clean Air Act; and more. Read more »
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For the first time since World War II the United States - without any ethical or strategic discussion- is about to rebuild the entire nuclear weapons production complex. We spent decades working to stop the production of nuclear weapons. Now all that work is about to be taken away. The lies are the same: the US needs to "modernize" and maintain nuclear weapons "safety" and reliability. But the truth is that new facilities will have the capacity to build thousands of new nuclear weapons per year. The US active nuclear arsenal has already been quietly modernized and no longterm safety or reliability issues exist. Given the clearance to discuss this in depth with two generations of nuclear weapons designers in 1994 we proved this to DOE with their own "Sandia Stockpile Lifestudy." With this we helped achieve a zero-yield CTBT. It is not just a budget item. It is a decision to commit to nuclear weapons production for another hundred years. Get involved.
March 14, 2012