URGENT DISARM LEGISLATIVE ACTION

ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS ISSUES

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Ask your Congressional Delegation to

1) CALL for a full review of the nation's global nuclear weapons policy. The 2008 NNSA budget request in support of the RRW and Complex 2030 launches us on a dangerous new path, inviting global instability and a new nuclear arms race. It is time for the new Congress to reject the Bush Administration's provocative 2002 Nuclear Posture Review and call for nuclear weapons policies that comply with UN treaties and international law. (The American Association for the Advancement of Science has now called for such a full review. Read an abstract here. )

The full 32 page report can be accessed here.

FLASH! MAY 23 The House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee zeroed out the budget for Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW). They also killed the new plutonium bomb plant. And they added $878 million for nuclear nonproliferation programs!!! Follow the budget process during July and September and urge your Congressional Delegation to adhere to the recommendations of the House Appropriations Committee.

2) STOP the so called Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) that, if pursued, will require rebuilding of the entire U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, destroy the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty and open the doors to Armageddon. Ask your legislators to support Armed Services Committee cuts in funding for the RRW, and to seek elimination of this dangerous program.

3) STOP Complex 2030, the provocative and unnecessary nuclear weapons development and production scheme that will make the RRW and rebuilding of the arsenal possible. Union of Concerned Scientists gives us a chilling report on Complex 2030. Instead of complying with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and taking the agreed thirteen steps toward abolition of nuclear weapons, the present Administration intends to rebuild the entire nuclear arsenal and plunge the world into a new nuclear arms race! (To read more on Complex 2030 click here).

4) Ask your Senators and Representatives to support zeroing out of funding for Complex 2030 as proposed May 2 by the House Armed Services subcommittee chaired by Representative Ellen Tauscher.

Introduce your Representative to positive legislation that can change our nation's course:

5) H Res 68 for full compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and leading the global effort to abolish nuclear weapons. Also download the Dear Colleague letter from Representative Lynn Woolsey asking your Representative to co-sponsor this bill. (Look under summary and status for current co-sponsors.)

6) Call on your Senator to support ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty as the next step toward abolition of nuclear weapons, as called for in the Wall Street Journal article by Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, William Perry and Sam Nunn. Also download the letter from Mary Day Kent. If hawks like Kissinger and doves like the women of WILPF can agree, then surely Republicans and Democrats in the Senate can agree to move us on our way toward abolition of nuclear weapons. DISARM committee co-chairs have delivered these two items to all 100 Senate offices.