NUKES: LUCK IS LIMITED AND TIME IS SHORT!

NYTS "Nuclear Arms in Very Wrong Hands"

Please read the New York Times "Letters to the Editor" by clicking above.
                                                   

                                               

 

As stated in Ira Hefland's letter, "There are no right hands to control these weapons."
But now "We have placed our entire arsenal in the very wrong hands of Donald Trump."




                                                         

He concludes:"these weapons are simply too dangerous to exist".
(Also see our previous Blog Post below)

H-Bomb Physicist Kenneth W Ford writes:"There is simply no rationale for the use of Nuclear Weapons, even in response to a nuclear attack."
Further: "The correct number of Nuclear Weapons in the world...is zero."
                                                    

                                                  

Robert Dodge correctly states that having Nukes turns us into "suicide bombers."


                                                 

He concludes: "We now know that it is sheer luck that we have not destroyed the planet with our arsenals. Luck isn't a security policy, and eventually runs out."

ABOLITION IN OUR TIME BEFORE WE RUN OUT OF TIME

AND LUCK!

ARMAGEDDON(ALMOST)OPERATION ARCHER ABLE ON CSPAN 3 TODAY, 4:55

MUST SEE VIEWING. Author Nate Jones on the almost ARMAGEDON event that eventually brought Pres Ronald Reagan to Rejkavik and the summit with Gorbachev that almost abolished Nuclear Weapons in our lifetimes!
                                                     

                                                     

ABLE ARCHER 83: The Secret History of the NATO Exercise that almost triggered Nuclear War

BN

                                                         

Too easy, even today, to make a mistake, a misperception that will destroy Humanity and the World!

Reagan's Diary tells us how very near we came to The End.

ABOLITION IN OUR TIME BEFORE WE ARE OUT OF TIME

                                                      

NYTS NUKES EDITORIAL

See today's New York Times.

See our Jan 26 Post below on Pres Trump and the Markey/Lieu No Nuclear First Strike Bill.

Contact your Reps and Senators to support this now very necessary measure.

ABOLITION IN OUR TIME

                                                       

                                                      

NUCLEAR WEAPONS NEVER DIE, THEY KEEP ON KILLING

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/troops-radioactive-islands-medical-care.html?ref=todayspaperhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/troops-radioactive-islands-medical-care.html?ref=todayspaper

The shameful US Government denial of medical benefits to military veterans who cleaned up US Nuclear Bomb Tests in the Pacific.
                                                     

                                                     

Themonuclear Bomb Tests in the Marshall Islands area "vaporized four islands" and left "apocalyptic wreckage" behind.


ABOLITION IN OUR TIME



                                                      

                                                  

STOPPING PRES. TRUMP'S FIRST STRIKE NUCLEAR OPTION!

Just two days ago, Jan. 24, Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a  Senate Bill (S-200) to do just that!
                                         

                                               

"RESTRICTING FIRST USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS ACT 2017".
                                                  

                                                

The same bill (HR-699)was introduced in the House of Reps by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA).
                                                    

                                                   

The bills would prohibit POTUS from launching a world-ending Nuclear First Strike without a Congressional Declaration of War - as required by our US Constitution.
                                                    

                                                   

This legislation is introduced while the Bulletin of Atomic scientists has reset the "Doomsday Clock" to two and a half minutes until Midnight! The closest the clock's hands have been to Midnight since 1953 and the advent of the world's first hydrogen/thermonuclear bombs.
                                                 

                                             https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/science/doomsday-clock-countdown-2017.html    


The legislation has the strong support of former Sec of Defense William J Perry who stated that launching a First Strike "would likely bring about the end of civilization", "a decision that momentous... should have the checks and balances called for by the US Constitution."
                                                

                                                  

If we care about our world, our lives and future and the lives and futures of our children and grandchildren - we must support this Bill. It is a Moral Imperative.

END THIS ONE MAN NUCLEAR MONARCHY NOW
                                                   

You can sign petitions and/or contact your Congressional senators and representatives directly or through various organizations dedicated to a sane Nuclear Weapons Policy:

https://www.wagingpeace.org/https://www.wagingpeace.org/

http://www.globalzero.org/http://www.globalzero.org/

Physicians for social responsibilty


                                                                           

                                                                             



                                                                       

COMMAND AND CONTROL, PBS TONIGHT, Jan. 10,2017

Command and Control on most PBS Stations this evening. Check local listings.
                                  http://www.commandandcontrolfilm.com/

                                     

The award-winning documentary will show in detail the near loss of the state of Arkansas due to a mishap in a Nuclear Silo in September 1980.

Such catastrophic threats are still with us unless and until Nuclear Weapons Abolition is achieved in our lifetimes.

We cannot keep hoping that nothing... Nuclear War, Accidental Launch, Miscalculation...will ever happen. It only takes one such event to destroy humanity and the world.

ABOLITION IN OUR TIME

                                                                                                                        

                                                                                    

ELECTIONS 2016: THE CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER

It is not the Candidates.

IT IS THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS THEMSELVES.
                                     

                                       

No matter which Presidential Candidate we choose on November 8 that individual, when sworn into the Presidency next January, will have his or her hands on the Nuclear Football and its Armageddon unleashing Codes.
                                                  

                                                       

Open that Football, for whatever reason, intentional or accidental, and the most dangerous game in human history kicks off! 
But the sobering reality is that it is Not a sports game. Not a video game. Not virtual reality.
                                                  

                                                     

                                                     

The "game's" consequences stare us starkly in the face:
OMNICIDE. GLOBAL DESTRUCTION. ANNIHILATION of HUMANITY.
ABORTION OF ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS.

And all of this in just a matter of minutes. Before you can finish your Facebook Post or even your Tweet.
                                                  

                                                    

                                                    


                                                    

We need to keep in our minds and hold in our hearts One True Thing:

No matter the Winner on November 8, 2016, WE ARE, every single one of us,the LOSERS.
                                                

                                                 

Though the Players will have changed. The Existential Threat to our very existence will continue....UNLESS....

UNLESS, WE, ALL OF US TOGETHER, Do Something to STOP IT!

HOPE by itself is not enough. But HOPE coupled with ACTION can and will make a difference. 

It is already happening. Global and National Legal Movements. Grass roots resistance. Signed and sent petitions to lawmakers in the US and abroad:
                                                

                                                    

RESOLUTION L.41- just passed by the UN General Assembly on October 27 orders the convening of a March 2017 Conference to negotiate a legally binding treaty prohibiting Nuclear Weapons. THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED. The successful adoption of the resolution, despite US and Russian Federation objections and opposition (the two nations own 90% of the world's Nuke Stockpile) was the result of the other nations and people of the world crying out "ENOUGH!" to the continued threat posed to their existence by the Nuclear Armed Nations. 
                                                  

                                                 

   


This Resolution has been lauded as a non-violent, courageous revolt against the Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War Policies of the Nine Nuclear Armed Nations.

The UN Resolution is backed and supported, thus far, by: 
The European Parliament
Amnesty International 
17 Nobel Laureates
Greenpeace International
The International Red Cross
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

                                             

 "THIS HISTORIC DECISION IS A VOTE FOR COMMON SENSE AND HUMANITY. IT BRINGS US A STEP CLOSER TO A WORLD FREE FROM THE HORRORS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE AND INDISCRIMINATE WEAPONS EVER CREATED."     
(Amnesty International Announcement on UN passage of RES. L.41)

"A legally binding instrument to prohibit Nuclear Weapons, leading towards their total elimination."     

So, yes, there is hope. In the meantime, the Nuclear Clock is ticking. TIME IS NOT ON OUR SIDE. This is only a FIRST STEP.
                                                                           


                                                                             

 On this Issue of Issues this BLOG has been Non-Partisan in this election cycle. There is no "cherry-picking" here of the candidates' positions. Such info is out there for us to peruse and view.

But, yes, it is so important for us to know their positions on this Preeminent Issue.


                                           

We also should know the positions of any US Senators or members of Congress who are up for election/re-election in our states/districts.

One wrong move. One mistake or miscalculation. One moment of anger. One cocktail too many.
Like a bullet fired from a gun, once that hair-trigger is pulled, the missiles can never be called back to their silos, bombers or subs.
                                                 
                                                 

                                                 

The Candidates, despite their larger than life public images, are human after all - just like the rest of us. With failings, flaws and weaknesses.

All of this destructive, death-dealing power should never be left in the hands of one person. IT IS MORE THAN TIME to take the TEMPTATION and THE WEAPONS AWAY!

We must never give up! The Weapons will not dismantle themselves.Make your voice be heard. On election day and every day thereafter. The choice is ours....
                                                 

                                                   

CLICK DAISY AD, 1964

"We must either love each other. Or we must die." President Lyndon Johnson


ABOLITION IN OUR TIME. THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES.