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February 2021 - With Joe Biden as our new President, we have a brand-new chance to finally address the worldwide nuclear weapons threat that is getting more threatening of late. All 9 nuclear nations are currently in a mad arms race, modernizing their nuclear weapons, making new smaller “more usable” ones, and speeding up their delivery systems. All this unfortunately leaves less time to determine whether what looks like a massive attack is not actually the moon’s reflections off clouds. No joke—that happened!
This is a unique opportunity to finally make preparations for global elimination of nuclear weapons, which every nation on earth has said it favors. The 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a grand bargain: the non-nuclear nations committed to forgo nuclear weapons, while the nuclear nations at the time, China, France, Russia, U.K., and the U.S. committed to negotiate to eliminate theirs. The U.S. Constitution declares that Treaties are “the Supreme Law of the Land”, so it’s time to move on this. In addition, 122 nations have now voted for the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which entered into force on January 22 of this year.
TAKE ACTION:
Congratulate President Biden and tell him that you strongly support his aim to re-enter the Open Skies Treaty (allowing limited overflights over Russia, Europe, and the U.S.), the Iran Deal (to prevent Iran from making a nuclear bomb), and the New START Treaty (limiting U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapon deployments at 1,550 each, with checks against cheating).
Urge him in the strongest terms to invite the nuclear nations to lay the groundwork for negotiations to eliminate nuclear weapons worldwide, as we solemnly committed to do in the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The UN NPT Review Conference planned for this August would be a perfect time to do this.
CONTACT: President Biden
- Web: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
- Tel: 1-202-456-1414 Leave a message
- Mail: The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20500
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