From the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Take Action Now

We Can Stop New Nuclear Weapons!

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is planning to build new nuclear weapons. These new warheads are being prepared under the so-called Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Program. There is growing public and congressional opposition to this program. Your letter to Congress will help prevent a new generation of nuclear weapons.

Developing new nuclear weapons makes us less safe!

This costly ($150 billion), unnecessary, and dangerous program will further undermine US credibility with the international community and hurt US national security. Developing new nuclear weapons will hinder international non-proliferation initiatives and cripple international nuclear disarmament efforts. A new generation of nuclear weapons in the United States will make it more difficult to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, Iran to halt uranium enrichment and the rest of the world to abstain from developing nuclear weapons. We should not be taking actions that encourage other countries to develop or expand their nuclear weapons capabilities. We should be dismantling our existing weapons, not developing new ones.

There is an alternative to new nuclear weapons! Curate! Don’t proliferate!

Under article VI of the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty of which the US is a signatory, the United States is obligated to dismantle its nuclear stockpile. The NNSA should adopt a curatorship program in which nuclear weapons are maintained, not augmented, while they wait dismantlement.

We can stop RRW before it starts!

DOE has requested $89 million in the 2008 budget for RRW. Skepticism around building new nuclear weapons is building rapidly in Congress. Last month’s House and Senate hearings about RRW exposed fundamental flaws with the RRW program. Write Congress and tell them you don’t want new nuclear weapons!