From our friends at Mass Peace Action comes this call to address the nuclear peril that began with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 76 years ago. As Joe Gerson said so powerfully at our observance this year, the threat has not faded, but only grown over the years. (A link to his remarks is here.)
President Biden’s powerful statements against First Use that he made as Vice President in 2017 and again on the campaign trail in June 2020 had given the citizens of this country hope that we can soon take this key step forward into a more moral world.
But unfortunately, the Biden Administration has requested a nuclear weapons budget of $43.2 billion, funding, or even expanding, nearly every nuclear program from the previous administration.
The United States must put in place a policy of No First Use of Nuclear Weapons. President Biden can do that in his administration’s Nuclear Posture Review. Congress can do it by passing Sen. Markey or Sen. Warren’s No First Use bill. Click here to call on Congress to act.
In this year’s spending and defense policy bills, Congress must cancel new nuclear delivery vehicles, the new ICBM or Ground Based Strategic Deterrent, the new nuclear armed cruise missile, the submarine-launched ballistic missile, new ballistic missile submarines, the new nuclear-armed bomber, and to end the nuclear mission of the F-35.
Send a message to President Biden and Congress, and share this message widely.