It is clear that the NPR is ushering in a second nuclear age. The US is developing the next generation of smaller, more usable nuclear weapons and planning new production facilities to build them. Edward Teller, the inventor of the hydrogen bomb, calls Star Wars the third generation of nuclear weapons.
The US is sending the wrong signals to the rest of the world with its insistence on maintaining its nuclear weapons in perpetuity — in flagrant violation of its Non-Proliferation Treaty obligations. And its withdrawal form the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty threatens to unravel the entire existing arms control regime.
I joined IPPNW almost two decades ago with the events of August 1945 very much in my mind. I believed then, and believe now, that IPPNW has made extraordinary contributions to the prevention of nuclear war. Through Nobel Peace Prize-winning public education and advocacy, through diplomacy and rigorous scientific study, IPPNW speaks for sanity and humanity.
My plea to you is this. Mark the 57th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by joining my family and me in making a generous contribution to IPPNW to fund our work to abolish nuclear weapons. Your gift will honor the memory of those whose lives were lost or forever changed in August 1945, and it will signal your commitment to a future free from the threat of nuclear weapons.
The US is sending the wrong signals to the rest of the world with its insistence on maintaining its nuclear weapons in perpetuity — in flagrant violation of its Non-Proliferation Treaty obligations. And its withdrawal form the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty threatens to unravel the entire existing arms control regime.
I joined IPPNW almost two decades ago with the events of August 1945 very much in my mind. I believed then, and believe now, that IPPNW has made extraordinary contributions to the prevention of nuclear war. Through Nobel Peace Prize-winning public education and advocacy, through diplomacy and rigorous scientific study, IPPNW speaks for sanity and humanity.
My plea to you is this. Mark the 57th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by joining my family and me in making a generous contribution to IPPNW to fund our work to abolish nuclear weapons. Your gift will honor the memory of those whose lives were lost or forever changed in August 1945, and it will signal your commitment to a future free from the threat of nuclear weapons.