Hi
Ellen,
This month, government
representatives and activists from
around the world are gathered in
New York City for the 11th
Non-Proliferation Treaty Review
Conference. The treaty is one of
the last international agreements
aimed at preventing the unchecked
spread of nuclear weapons, even as
it places the responsibility to
disarm in the hands of the
countries with the most nuclear
weapons.
As delegates
discuss the future of the
treaty, activists are working on
the sidelines to push their
leaders to pursue actual changes
to the status quo. The
NPT provides a forum to
demonstrate what most of the world
already knows: that nuclear
weapons lock in a global system
where the countries that have them
have disproportionate power.
This same imbalance
holds within these countries: when
only the most powerful person in
the country is allowed to decide
whether its nuclear weapons will
be used, they are given
essentially unrestricted
power to determine whether
everyone else lives or dies.
That’s the reality in the United
States as well as other
nuclear-weapons countries.
To support progress on
nuclear weapons, we have to make
sure our leaders know that we
reject their continued existence:
We're collecting
signatures on 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.
Please
add your name and ask others to
do the same!
