Friends,
Contact your senators to co-sponsor Elizabeth Warren’s
S272. Senators Cardin and Van Hollen have yet to co-sponsor this
legislation.
Adam Smith’s bill in the House is H.R.921, and it has no
co-sponsors. Contact your representative to co-sponsor the bill.
If you need some assistance, let me know. Also let me know
if you do contact your legislators.
Kagiso, Max
For Immediate Release Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Just What the Doctor Ordered, for Our Health
and Future: Physicians for Social Responsibility Applauds Rep. Smith and Sen.
Warren’s “No First Use” Legislation
WASHINGTON
- Physicians for Social Responsibility applauds Representative Adam Smith and
Senator Elizabeth Warren for their bold commitment to ensuring the health and
safety of all families by establishing a U.S. policy of “No First Use” of
nuclear weapons. On January 30, Smith, Chair of the House Armed Services
Committee and Warren, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
introduced the “No First Use Act” in the House and Senate.
“This
simple, common-sense statement of principle — making it clear to the countries
of the world that the U.S. will never, ever deploy its nuclear weapons against
any state unless they have deployed them against us, is an important first step
toward returning our country to sanity when it comes to nuclear weapons, and
one that we hope will put us back on the path of negotiated disarmament with
other nuclear weapons states. We are fortunate to have leaders in Congress who
are willing to challenge the dangerous status quo,” said Jeff Carter, Executive
Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Smith and
Warren declared in their joint statement announcing the legislation, “Our
current nuclear strategy is not just outdated—it is dangerous. By making clear
that deterrence is the sole purpose of our arsenal, this bill would reduce the
chances of a nuclear miscalculation and help us maintain our moral and
diplomatic leadership in the world.”
“All my
life I’ve been told that the United States maintains a nuclear arsenal solely
because other nations have nuclear weapons, and that’s the way most Americans
view it. It’s high time that United States made No First Use the law of the
land,” said Martin Fleck, PSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program Director of
Physicians for Social Responsibility. “Most Americans already believe the
United States should not start a nuclear war.”
A nuclear
exchange would result in one of the worst mass health crises humanity has ever
faced, and no country on earth, including the United States, would have an
adequate health or emergency response. PSR, a leading health voice on the issue
of nuclear weapons policy, was founded in 1961 by a group of medical
professionals who sought to educate the public about the full health impacts of
nuclear weapons nuclear war. For decades, PSR has mobilized medical and health
professionals to call for policies that prevent the use of nuclear weapons and
prevent nuclear war.
“PSR
endorses the No First Use Act. We hope this leads to a robust debate in
Congress about the current U.S. nuclear weapons posture and raises questions
about the rationale for continued taxpayer investment in these horrific
weapons,” added Carter.
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Physicians
for Social Responsibility is a non-profit advocacy organization that is the
medical and public health voice for policies to prevent nuclear war and
proliferation and to slow, stop and reverse global warming and toxic
degradation of the environment.
Donations can be sent
to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD
21218. Ph: 410-323-1607; Email: mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/
"The master class
has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject
class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially their
lives." Eugene Victor Debs
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