BACKGROUND: Step by step, the world is heading ever deeper into the nuclear abyss. Nuclear missiles are getting faster, leaving less time for deciding how to respond to what may or not be a nuclear attack. North Korea has built up a formidable nuclear force, while there is talk in Saudi Arabia, Iran, South Korea, and even Japan, about acquiring nuclear weapons. The trend is terrifying. The world needs to act.
As a first step, the US should remove our President's authority to act completely on his or her sole authority to launch nuclear weapons. Recall that General Milley, the former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, felt it necessary to call China to reassure it that the US would not allow then Pres. Trump to go nuclear in his post-2020-election fury, which could have caused China to launch a nuclear response. Now, analysts fear that if Pres. Putin of Russia thinks he would lose his war against Ukraine, which seems very possible, that he, on his sole authority, might launch nuclear weapons. He keeps threatening to do exactly that and has said he's not bluffing.
ACTION: Urge Pres. Biden to revoke the US Presidential power to launch nuclear weapons on the President's authority alone, and to urge Congress to incorporate that revocation into law.
Also, urge Pres. Biden to call a World Nuclear Weapons Elimination Congress to work toward worldwide nuclear weapons elimination. This would carry out the commitment the US made in Article VI of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
CONTACT: President Biden
- Web: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ (leave a message)
- Tel: 1-202-456-1111 (leave a message)
- Mail: The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20500
Please send this email on to family and friends and/or write a letter-to-the-editor on this important issue. It is a good way to educate others and build support for needed policies.
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