CLINTON'S DOUBTS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM

"IN HACKED AUDIO, CLINTON RETHINKS AN OBAMA PLAN", The New York Times, Washington,D.C., September 30,2016)
                                                  
                                                 

At a February fundraiser, Candidate Clinton privately "expressed doubts" about our nation's moving forward with its 30 year trillion dollar creation of a new generation of World Destroying Nuclear Weapons and their computer-driven, highly complex, incredibly expensive delivery to target systems.

She also staked out a position (again, not on the record) against the proposed new Nuclear-Tipped Cruise Missile aka Long Range Stand Off missile, LRSO:

"The last thing we need are sophisticated cruise missiles that are nuclear armed."
                                                  

                                                    

As described in our numerous Posts here, the Times, too, describes a "modernization" program featuring "new factories, refurbished nuclear arms, and a new generation of weapon carriers, including bombers, missiles and submarines."
                                                   


                                                     

                                                     
                                                     

Andrew Weber, former high-ranking Defense official, called the new missile a "particularly destabilizing, dangerous type of nuclear weapon."

Clinton praised former Sec of Defense, William J Perry, for speaking out against the Nuclear Weapons threat, and in particular the LRSO, stating that the more he speaks out publicly "the better off we'll be in really trying to cut this off."


                                                     

She also appeared to question the necessity for the Nuclear Modernization program: "This is going to be a big issue. There's a lot of money we're taking about to go into refurbishing and modernization."

Clinton also mentioned being open to exploring new Nuclear Weapons Treaties with Russia beyond 2010's New Start which she helped negotiate.
                                                  

                                                   

She continued: "Do we have to do any of it? If we have to do some of it,how much do we have to do? That's going to be a tough question...." and said that she would ask for the help of Mr.Weber and Mr. Perry to "help me answer that question."

This Blog's position is stark and steadfast. To answer Sec Clinton's question - WE SHOULD NOT BE DOING ANY OF IT!

Allow these aging, horrific, world-ending weapons to die a world-wide natural death in their Silos, Subs and Bombers. If that's not fast enough, (and it probably won't be) Dismantle Them. Start Now!
We partnered with Russia on this before and we can do it again.



                                                    

                                                        

This is our NUCLEAR WEAPONS RUBICON. Once we cross this singularly dangerous threshold, there is no going back. That trillion dollars and more will be in the hands of the Nuclear Weapons Industry and its multitude of contractors. Then it will be too late. 

Like all of those Nuclear Missiles - once launched they cannot be called back....

                                                   

  
READ NYTS Article
William J Perry Website
SCRAP the Modernization ProgramWORK FOR ABOLITION IN OUR TIME! BEFORE WE ARE OUT OF TIME!

                                                 

GOT 12 MINUTES? NUCLEAR WAR AND THAT LAST CUP OF COFFEE

Think of our daily lives. What can we do in 12 minutes?

At work, we're taking a coffee break. At school, the kids are eating lunch or enjoying recess.The mailman is delivering letters on our street.
                                                   
                                                     

                                                    


                                               

We're running an errand to the store. Running some books over to the library. Putting gas in the car.
Checking our e-mail. Maybe making an on-line purchase.
Taking a nap.


                                                    

In that same 12 minutes, the President of the United States can take the Nuclear Football with its computer code cards, unlock our "hair-trigger" Nuclear Warheads and launch the war that really will end it all.


                                                   

                                                  

                                                       

WORLD WAR III.

No one will be left - not us, not any future generation - to ever start any war anywhere ever again on what would be left of this earth.

Like his shadow, the bulky satchel follows the President around. The Vice-President is trailed by his own, duplicate, shadow.


                                                  

There have been so many "close call", "near misses"with the world's Nuclear Weapons Arsenals. Examples:

1979 - Full scale launch against Soviet Union averted at last minute when U.S. Nuclear Weapons operators realize that they are watching a training video and not an actual attack on the U.S.

1996 - Russian President Yeltsin and his military mistake a research rocket launch for U.S. missiles heading for their homeland.
Yeltsin is handed "the football" and is ready to launch when the "error" is discovered.
                                                See Command and Control Book and Upcoming Documentary Film
Any of these "false alarms" could have triggered Nuclear War.


                                                 

That war which President Ronald Reagan said "can never be won and must never be fought".
                                                   

                                                     

Why do we put up with this?!
We do not have to sit by and wait for the inevitable to happen.

But as former Secretary of Defense William J Perry has reminded us, we must take action soon for Time Is Not On Our Side here.


                                                    

"The indefinite combination of human fallibility and Nuclear Weapons carries a high risk of a potential catastrophe." Secretary of Defense, Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Robert S. McNamara
                                            

                                                 

We cannot continue to allow a small group of "experts" in the Nine Nuclear Armed Nations to make Life and Death Decisions for everyone now living and for future generations yet to be born.

This situation is immoral and unconscionable!

We CAN and MUST do something about it.

100 Scientists (20 Nobel Prize winners) recently sent a letter to Mr. Obama advocating an end to our harrowing "hair-trigger alert" Nuclear Weapons posture.CLICK
SEE Letter
                                                  

                                                

As citizens we can organize demonstrations. See the "Nuclear Freeze" movement's Million Person Gathering in Central Park in 1982.CLICK

AND in this Election Year, with the debates coming up, we can ask the candidates to state their positions on this crucial issue.
AND know your Senators and Representatives positions.
                                               


                                                       

                                                   

                                                   
                                                    

                                                      

                                                     

AND then VOTE! 

We can support and/or be involved in Legal Movements here and around the world:

The current Marshall Islands Lawsuits against the Nuclear Armed Nations.


                                                      

The International Humanitarian Pledge Initiative now signed on to by 127 nations demanding a Legal Ban on Nuclear Weapons.


                                                  

Please read our previous Posts and Links on this issue!

Be informed. Take a position. Act within the Law.
This is still a Democracy. We can make our voices heard. Our opinions count.

"Speak Truth To Power" is not a cliche. It really does work!
(See recent Textron Corp. decision to stop all production of Cluster Bombs).CLICK                           

                                               
                                                    

It is our weapon of Self-Defense against the most deadly, devastating weapon in history.

ABOLITION IN OUR TIME!


                                                    

THE ONLY GOOD NUKE IS A DISMANTLED ONE
          

WE ARE NOT ALONE. NUKES IN THE NEWS (PART 2)

Sometimes within the Circle of the Nuclear Weapons Abolition Movement, it may seem as if we are unheard voices crying in the wilderness. Expressions of moral outrage shouted into the eye of an indifferent media hurricane.

Take heart! The Circle of Abolition is growing, expanding outward. More and more concerned, sensible people are taking that first step into the Circle. Thanks to Anti-Nuke Activists and a volatile election campaign, Nukes Are In The News.


                                               

                                                    

                                                    



And back on the minds of an ever-increasing number of concerned citizens both here and abroad.
Citizens concerned and worried about such a deadly concentration of power in one individual's hands.

In our August 15, 2016, Post we linked to the NYTS editorial regarding "A Nuclear Legacy Within Reach" for President Obama. That same date, the Times printed five letters to the editor all expressing great concern over the Nuclear Weapons threat to all of us everywhere: 

IRA HELFAND,Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War: referring to our survival against the odds thus far - "a string of incredible good luck that will not last forever", "these weapons are the greatest threat to our security and must be banned and abolished."


                                                
                                                 

    
(Ira Helfand with former Sec of Defense William Perry)



LISBET GRONLUND, Union of Concerned Scientists:
"Regardless of who is in the Oval Office, the process is not designed to be the careful, deliberative one you would want for the biggest decision in history."



                                                   

 
                                                      




CLICK for LETTERS

Point taken. But our GOAL is to arrive at the point that such a decision will never have to be made.

The alternative is to hope that nothing will ever happen forever.

Sounds like a fairy tale? IT IS!

ABOLITION IN OUR TIME. BEFORE WE ARE OUT OF TIME