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RootsAction.org
is joining with a rapidly growing list of organizations and
individuals from around the world to send an urgent appeal to
the presidents, prime ministers, and legislatures of nine
nuclear nations: China, France, India, Israel, North Korea,
Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United
States.
This is an appeal from the people of the
world to nine nuclear governments to each commit to a nuclear
policy of no first strike, not ever, not for any
reason; and to sign and ratify the Treaty on the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and to collectively agree
to immediately begin disarming on a schedule to completely
eliminate all nuclear weapons from the earth no later than
August 6, 2045.
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The full text of
the appeal is as follows (available on
the website in various languages):
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 nuclear weapons in a limited or on
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fact has withdrawn from a number of rather well-known and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 in
2020:
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.
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The RootsAction.org Team
P.S. RootsAction is an
independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara
Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald,
Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S.
Senator James Abourezk, Frances Fox Piven, Phil Donahue,
Sonali Kolhatkar, and many others.
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Sent: Thursday,
August 27, 2020 6:03 PM
Subject: Global
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