Nuclear Pres

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If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse. - Gandhi Those of us who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons would be a human catastrophe without parallel...because so few weapons can kill so many people, even far-reaching disarmament proposals would leave us implicated in plans for un-precedented slaughter of innocent people. The sole measure that can free us from this burden is abolition. - Jonathan Schell

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Nothing we do changes the past but everything we do changes the future.

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There are 20,000 known nuclear weapons in the world. US and Russian arsenals comprise over 95% of these nuclear weapons.

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We must be the example and start the reduction process and establish a way to prevent the future development of weapons. The recent change in administrations is now providing the leadership and hopeful, positive energy that will make the goal attainable. The Obama administration is already engaged in negotiations with Russia on a START replacement treaty.

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Treaties such as START II and SORT have already helped to decrease nuclear stockpile in leading countries proving such treaties do work.

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There are other unilateral steps that the United States can take to further demonstrate leadership without compromising our national security. They include: • Declare a policy of “no first use” of nuclear weapons; • Take nuclear weapons off high-alert to prevent accidental nuclear war; • Halt all programs to develop new nuclear weapons. *Best of all these steps are now supported by many political leaders and military experts around the world.*

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Beyond that, the specific path that will bring us to a world free of nuclear weapons cannot be laid out fully in advance. It will likely not be a smooth, straight line.

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What we can specify is the process by which we follow the path ? a multilateral process of incremental steps that are mutually verifiable. The essential element is the critical will on the part of the United States, Russia, and other nuclear powers to reach the goal.

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How do we then insure that the goal achieved is maintained for all time? The eventual international treaty to ban nuclear weapons will contain in it procedures and sanctions to enforce the nuclear weapons-free regime.

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A large part will come from the international trust developed over the intervening years in the step-by-step process itself. Each successive step will build on the strong foundation of the previous steps and add to the store of mutual trust and confidence.

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Choose to keep this world we live in as beautiful as it already is.

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The only way this can all be achieved is if we come together. Let your voice be heard.

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We must choose to stand up and stop the research and testing of nuclear weapons.