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get rid of the nukes
Apr. 10th, 2010 01:53 pmThere are more than 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world and another 13 countries on the verge of becoming part of the perverse nuclear club. We need to stop this.
The US-Russian nuclear pact signed by President Obama and President Medvedev is a beginning, but we need to keep pushing. If we don't get rid of nuclear weapons then the chance that they will get used again increases with every passing day. That is a possibility too terrible to allow. When a single weapon can obliterate a large city or a small country then these obscene devices can not be tolerated. It is utterly insane to think that these vile things could ever have any legitimate use. The don't discriminate between good or bad people, children or old people, dangerous or benign -- they just slaughter millions at the push of a button.
We must keep the pressure on our stupid politicians and make them realise that nothing short of eliminating these nightmares will do.
Sign Avaaz's petition at http://www.avaaz.org/en/together_for_zero/
Avaaz has a good track record of keeping pressure on politicians to do the right thing. By presenting petitions signed by hundreds of thousands of people they make politicians aware that their actions are being watched by large numbers, so they can't get away with thinking that they can let some bad things slide because nobody will notice.
The US-Russian nuclear pact signed by President Obama and President Medvedev is a beginning, but we need to keep pushing. If we don't get rid of nuclear weapons then the chance that they will get used again increases with every passing day. That is a possibility too terrible to allow. When a single weapon can obliterate a large city or a small country then these obscene devices can not be tolerated. It is utterly insane to think that these vile things could ever have any legitimate use. The don't discriminate between good or bad people, children or old people, dangerous or benign -- they just slaughter millions at the push of a button.
We must keep the pressure on our stupid politicians and make them realise that nothing short of eliminating these nightmares will do.
Sign Avaaz's petition at http://www.avaaz.org/en/together_for_zero/
Avaaz has a good track record of keeping pressure on politicians to do the right thing. By presenting petitions signed by hundreds of thousands of people they make politicians aware that their actions are being watched by large numbers, so they can't get away with thinking that they can let some bad things slide because nobody will notice.