UN OUTRAGE! NUCLEAR WEAPONS NATIONS BOYCOTT TREATY TALKS

A MURDERER's ROW OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS NATIONS AND THEIR ALLIES IS BOYCOTTING SCHEDULED UN TALKS ON THE ELIMINATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
                                               
                                                  
                                                

Last October, 120 countries voted to proceed with formal discussions on the proposed Treaty at the UN.
The talks are to decide and vote on "a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons toward the goal of total elimination."

The Obama administration voted "No!"

Now, in a clear indication that the Nuclear Weapons Industry is in charge no matter who sits in the Oval Office, the US throughTrump appointee UN Ambassador Nikki Hayley, is calling for and leading this outrageous, immoral boycott.

                                                     
                                               

Their position is that We, the people, of the US and the world should not even be allowed to discuss this Urgent Life And Death Issue in a global forum.

Ambassador Haley made the moral miscue of chastising those governments that favor the Treaty talks: "...are they looking out for their people?"
 She even dusted off the old canard that such thinking (a Nuclear Weapons Ban) is "unrealistic." Seventy plus years of kicking the Nuclear Armageddon can down the road and this is still their argument.
                                                 
                                                

Still not done, she trotted out the sad joke that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has become - thanks to non-compliance by the very same signatory Nuclear Armed Nations over the course of decades.Note the "Disarmament" requirement:


                                           

      



The MARSHALL ISLANDS' Lawsuits vs. those nations for "non-compliance" is currently pending.
                                                   
                                                  
                                                   

WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!

2,000 scientists have signed an "Open Letter" endorsing the Treaty talks at the UN.CLICK


                                                 

  


POPE FRANCIS sent his message of support for the Treaty talks:
"an ethical and moral exercise in hope."


In opposition sits a small circle of Nuclear Nations foreign ministers and ambassadors who represent an even smaller, unelected and unaccountable circle of officials, who allow only themselves to make these ultimate decisions for all of us.

That circle ultimately shrinking to one individual - a President or Prime Minister - who will, ALONE, decide whether or not to Launch - thereby committing the Omnicide of Humanity and of all unborn future generations.
                                                  

   

                                                   

                                                    
                                                  

                                                       
                                                 

  



Add Accident, Mistake, Malfunction, Human or Computer Error and it is easy to see a Nuclear Holocaust looming just over the horizon.
                                                   

                                                 
                                             

      
                                             

                                                   

NOW, MORE THAN EVER, IT IS TIME FOR NUCLEAR ABOLITION IN OUR TIME

Time to make a stand. For your families, your children and your childrens' children and for the Present and Future of Humanity.

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln:
THIS COULD BE OUR LAST, BEST HOPE!



                                                       

WE ARE ALL WE HAVE. THIS WORLD IS ALL WE'VE GOT.



                                                   

SEE NYTS

NUCLEAR WEAPONS NEVER DIE, THEY KEEP ON KILLING

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/troops-radioactive-islands-medical-care.html?ref=todayspaperhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/troops-radioactive-islands-medical-care.html?ref=todayspaper

The shameful US Government denial of medical benefits to military veterans who cleaned up US Nuclear Bomb Tests in the Pacific.
                                                     

                                                     

Themonuclear Bomb Tests in the Marshall Islands area "vaporized four islands" and left "apocalyptic wreckage" behind.


ABOLITION IN OUR TIME



                                                      

                                                  

THE DAY AFTER: NUKES AND THE TWO FACES OF DONALD TRUMP

"NUCLEAR WAR IS OUR SINGLE GREATEST THREAT." "Nuclear weapons. Nuclear armaments."

"We should end it. Just get rid of it."

                                                 
                                                   

So, at first, we think: "Okay!" Finally, a Presidential Candidate, DONALD TRUMP, willing to say that this IS the biggest, most urgent problem facing the world and humanity. A position this Blog has been staking out since it started. Put the problem out there. Make the public aware. Necessary first steps.

Mr. Trump's above statements have done that. MORE: When asked by moderator Lester Holt about the US refusal to pledge a policy of "No First Use/No First Strike" :

"I certainly would NOT do a first strike. Once it happens it's over."

BUT:

"But I can't take anything off the table."

READ NEW YORK TIMES, Today's Article on this Subject

Candidate Trump has also mentioned during the campaign that perhaps South Korea and Japan should develop their own Nuclear Weapons!

Global Zero, one of the leading Nuclear Weapons Abolition organizations, sent out an e-mail to members prior to the debate asking them to ask Lester Holt to raise the Nuclear Threat issue.

Further, Global Zero has now committed itself to an "all out" campaign against Mr. Trump's candidacy, viewing him as "the greatest threat to a Nuclear Weapons Free Future that we have ever had."
                                                  

                                               

  


Candidate HILLARY CLINTON points out that Mr. Trump's position on the Nuclear Arming of Japan and S Korea would be a violation of our decades-long position of Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation
which has been, she states, a cornerstone of US Nuclear Policy.


                                                     

This, however, ignores the Nuclear Armed Nations' decades-long flouting of Article 6 of the NPT Treaty calling on these nations to dismantle and disarm their Nuclear Arsenals in exchange for all of the other nations of the world promising NOT to develop their own Nuclear Weapons.


                                                 

A decision on the Defendant Nuclear Armed Nations' Motion to Dismiss the Marshall Islands' Lawsuit against them for violation of the Treaty is expected very soon. CLICK


                                                   

Today's Blog Title is an appropriate reference to the TV film of 1983: The Day After. It is still the most-watched television film in history. Wikpedia



                                                                           

                                                                             



                                                                           

It depicted and dramatized the U.S. the day after a Nuclear War with the Soviet Union. We know now, thanks to his Diary, that Pres. Reagan was deeply affected by his viewing of this gut-wrenching film.
The film was fueled by and helped to fuel the Nuclear Freeze and Abolition Movements and led Reagan eventually to his historic summit with Gorbachev in Rejkavik with the intention of abolishing the Nuclear weapons threat once and for all.



                                                 

   



We CAN still get there. And finish the job! IN OUR LIFETIMES. Precious Time is running through the hourglass of history.

This BLOG is non-partisan. Consistently viewing this Issue as too important and overwhelmingly urgent to be a political football. 

The choice is yours. Be knowledgeable. Keep working at it. Never give up! The present and future of our, the world of our children and grandchildren, is at stake. There must be a World left to leave them....
                                                  

                                                       
                                                       

Ask the candidates what their positions are. Press for details. We caught a glimpse of their positions last night. (as contradictory as they may have been)
And don't forget your Senators and House members. They work for us! Demand to know their positions on this burning, urgent issue. 

And VOTE accordingly.

THE ONLY GOOD NUKE IS A DISMANTLED ONE
                                                  

                                                  

ABOLITION IN OUR 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