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To: The presidents,
prime ministers, and legislatures of China, France, India, Israel, North
Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States
From: Add
your name here!
We, the people of good
will, of all walks of life, living on all continents and professing
different creeds and religions, direct your attention to the threat of an
all-out nuclear war that can erupt very easily either due to deliberate
actions of any nuclear-weapons state or because of unintentional, human,
technical or other mistake.
We are witnessing that
the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons in limited or large-scale
attacks recently has been dramatically lowered, bringing the entire world
to the brink of a nuclear Armageddon.
Many high-ranking
military and civilian officials, politicians and experts are openly talking
about the possibility of using nuclear weapons in a first strike attack
against any nation under many pretexts with low-yield or high-yield nuclear
charges.
The United States in
fact has withdrawn from a number of rather well-known and useful nuclear
arms control treaties and accords for dubious reasons and illogical
explanations.
Nuclear arms delivery
vehicles are becoming more sophisticated, faster and more precise. They
have been combined into a dangerous combination of arms embracing strategic
and tactical nuclear weapons with missile defense assets and conventional
capabilities, and with a possibility to place strike weapons in space,
including missile defense systems and anti-satellite weapons.
Many military
exercises that earlier have been conducted with the use of conventional
weapons, gradually are being transformed into drills using mock nuclear
weapons.
Nuclear arms experts
calculate that during an initial massive nuclear attack, at least 34
million people will immediately perish and 57 million people will receive
multiple injuries and wounds that will cause horrible pain, suffering,
radiation sickness and death. Additionally, various kinds of
infrastructure, flora and fauna, nuclear power plants, water resources –
including potable water and hydropower dams – will be heavily damaged or
destroyed completely by huge firestorms, vast nuclear contamination, powerful
explosions, and earthquakes.
But that is just the
immediate impact. The nuclear winter that would be created by even a
limited nuclear war would threaten all of humanity with starvation and
other mortal threats.
We who have
voluntarily signed this appeal urge you, as the leaders of all nine nuclear
nations, to take the following actions:
FCNL: And the good news: the RADIATION EXPOSURE
COMPENSATION ACT was expanded.
· First,
as an initial step leading to comprehensive and irreversible nuclear
disarmament on a global scale, to pledge not to use and denounce any kind
of nuclear weapon use in a first strike against any nation at any time.
· Second,
to sign and ratify the international Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons with the subsequent commitment specified in the next item.
· Third,
to commit to irreversibly dismantling all nuclear weapons by no later than
August 6, 2045 or earlier – by all nine nuclear weapon states, in carefully
calibrated stages and through well-developed and mutually acceptable
mechanisms of inspections, provided that all nuclear-weapon states will
follow this pattern simultaneously and honestly.
SIGN
YOUR NAME HERE.
World BEYOND War is a global network of volunteers,
chapters, and affiliated organizations advocating for the abolition of the
institution of war.
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