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Friends,
Greetings
from Hiroshima on the
eve of the 81st
anniversary and the
World Conference against
A & H Bombs.
As
one of its last actions
before adjourning for
the summer the
Massachusetts state
legislature joined the
CA, OR, RI legislatures
and the Maine Senate and
the NJ Assembly in
supporting our Back from
the Brink policy
prescription. This is a
real victory that
reflects the work of
scores of people over
several
years. Congratulations
to all and THANK YOU! To
all who made those phone
calls and went to those
meetings. You helped to
make it happen.
Back
from the Brink calls on
the United States to
lead a global effort to
prevent nuclear war. In
order to do so, we urge
the U.S. to enact these
five policy solutions:
- Pursue global
elimination of nuclear
weapons through a
verifiable agreement
among nuclear-armed
states to eliminate
their nuclear arsenals
- Renounce the option
of using nuclear
weapons first
- End the sole,
unchecked authority of
any president to
launch a nuclear
attack
- Take U.S. nuclear
weapons off
hair-trigger alert
- Cancel the plan to
replace the entire
U.S. arsenal with
enhanced weapons
These
policy solutions are
outlined in our
congressional
resolutions — H. Res.
317 in the U.S. House
and S. Res. 323 in the
U.S. Senate. Learn
more about supporting
our resolutions.
Keep
working for peace,
justice, and democracy,
Joseph
Gerson
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