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Going to Congress: We Need You!

From time to time, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation lobbies members of Congress on US nuclear policy issues. Despite the fact that nuclear weapons threaten the existence of civilization and most life on earth, they continue to play a central role in US security policy. In the defense budget for 2005, there are requests to increase funding for research and development of new nuclear weapons, to shorten the time needed to resume full-scale nuclear testing and to build a new bomb manufacturing facility. By implementing and giving funding to these policies, the US is endangering itself and the world by making the use of a nuclear bomb more likely.

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is urging members of Congress to chart a new course in US nuclear policy – one that will ensure a far safer and more secure environment for US citizens and people throughout the world.

We want to hear from you so that your voice will be heard in Congress on these very important issues. Please take a moment to fill out the survey below. Please rate the issues by order of importance to you
(very important, important, not important). If there is a nuclear issue not addressed below that is important to you, please fill out the box below.

Questions

1. Stop all efforts to create dangerous new nuclear weapons and delivery systems.

 
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2. Maintain the current moratorium on nuclear testing and ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

 
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3. Cancel plans to build new nuclear weapons production plants, and close and clean up the toxic contamination at existing plants.

 
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4. Establish and enforce a legally binding US commitment to No Use of nuclear weapons against any nation or group that does not have nuclear weapons.

 
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5. Establish and enforce a legally binding US commitment to No First Use of nuclear weapons against other nations possessing nuclear weapons.

 
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6. Cancel funding for and plans to deploy offensive missile “defense” systems which would ignite a dangerous arms race and offer no security against terrorist weapons of mass destruction

 
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7. In order to significantly decrease the threat of accidental launch, together with Russia, take nuclear weapons off high-alert status and do away with the strategy of launch-on-warning.

 
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8. Together with Russia, implement permanent and verifiable dismantlement of nuclear weapons taken off deployed status through the 2002 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT).

 
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9. Demonstrate to other countries US commitment to reducing its reliance on nuclear weapons by removing all US nuclear weapons from foreign soil.

 
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10. To prevent future proliferation or theft, create and maintain a global inventory of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons materials and place these weapons and materials under strict international safeguards.

 
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11. Initiate international negotiations to fulfill existing treaty obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty for the phased and verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons.

 
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12. Redirect funding from nuclear weapons programs to dismantling nuclear weapons, safeguarding nuclear materials, cleaning up the toxic legacy of the Nuclear Age and meeting more pressing social needs such as education, health care and social services.

 
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If there is a nuclear issue not addressed above that is important to you,
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