[Peace-discuss] Fwd: FCNL (5/9/03): Toward Nuclear Sanity

[Jay Mittenthal]

>Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 16:32:10 -0400 (EDT)
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>May 9, 2003
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>TOPIC: ARMS CONTROL GROUPS RESPOND TO HOUSE POLICY COMMITTEE'S NUCLEAR
>WEAPONS AGENDA, and
>GET A COPY OF "TOWARD NUCLEAR SANITY" TODAY!
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>The House Policy Committee's Subcommittee on National Security and
>Foreign Affairs recently published a proposal for U.S. nuclear policy,
>entitled, "Differentiation and Defense: An Agenda for the Nuclear
>Weapons Program" (February 2003). On the whole, this report proposes a
>dangerous, aggressive and counter-productive policy that would increase
>the likelihood of nuclear proliferation while doing little to increase
>U.S. security. (Note: despite its non-partisan name, the House Policy
>Committee is a Republican Party organization.)
>
>Instead of following the path of instability suggested by
>"Differentiation and Defense," the United States should adopt a new
>nuclear policy that promotes and strengthens the nonproliferation
>regime. The key is a cooperative and preventive approach.  The Nuclear
>Weapons Working Group, a Washington-based coalition which FCNL
>participates in, has wrote a response to the House Policy Committee's
>agenda entitled, "Toward Nuclear Sanity".
>
>"Toward Nuclear Sanity" provides a response to key proposals and
>concepts in "Differentiation and Defense."  It does not provide a
>comprehensive proposal for U.S. nuclear policy, but that policy should
>undoubtedly include:
>
>* As a priority U.S. goal, a clear commitment to and work toward the
>elimination of nuclear weapons, including bringing all the current
>nuclear armed states into a nuclear disarmament regime.
>
>* An expanded program to reduce the likelihood of nuclear weapons and
>materials falling into terrorist hands, focused on bolstering efforts to
>account for, control and reduce those weapons and materials.
>
>* A rejection of rapid-launch options, changing deployment policies to
>supply survivable launch options within hours and days rather than
>minutes.
>
>* A commitment to the indefinite extension of the current nuclear
>testing moratorium and to implementation of the Comprehensive Nuclear
>Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
>
>You can download a copy of "Toward Nuclear Sanity" at:
>http://www.fcnl.org/pdfs/wilson_final.pdf .  To receive a hard copy of
>the report, email scott at fcnl.org.
>
>You can also download a copy of the House Policy Committee's agenda at:
>http://www.fcnl.org/issues/arm/sup/NuclearReport.pdf .
>
>To learn more about the how the policies of the Administration are
>undermining global nonproliferation efforts and possibly starting a new
>arms race visit FCNL's nuclear weapons web site at:
>http://www.fcnl.org/issues/arm/cntrl_nuclear-weapons.htm.  This newly
>redesigned web page will give you valuable tools to help stop the
>Administrations push for new nuclear weapons, the resumption of nuclear
>testing and lowering the threshold of using nuclear weapons.
>
>To keep up to date on the latest nuclear weapons events and information,
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>about the dangers of U.S. nuclear weapon policies by passing this
>information along to your friends!
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