As you know, Peace Action formed over 60 years ago as The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy to abolish nuclear weapons. We have come a long way. The world produced over 125,000 nuclear warheads and now around 17,000 remain. And that number continues to decline.
Write Congress now to move closer to abolishing nuclear weapons.
Despite President Obama’s Prague speech a few years ago proclaiming a world free of nuclear weapons, he has committed to completely rebuilding all three legs of the U.S. nuclear triad – strategic bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and nuclear-armed submarines (SLBMs) and calls for spending $350 billion over the next decade and up to $1 trillion over the next 30 years. Military experts agree that we cannot afford these costs and we can be completely secure with far fewer nuclear weapons.
Next week, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) will introduce…
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Veterans For Peace, Linus Pauling Chapter 