![]() One miscalculation, one moment of confusion, one intentional launch of a short-range nuclear warhead, followed by a retaliatory long-range nuclear weapon, could burn us alive and blanket the world in ash.ĭelegates should also call on the United States and NATO to denuclearize Europe. ![]() The delegates should denounce Russian President Vladmir Putin for ordering the invasion of Ukraine and call on all parties in the war to engage in a negotiated settlement. UN treaty signatories, along with NGO conference delegates, should use the month-long NPT operations review to speak truth to power.įirst, they should speak out against the dangerous proxy war in Ukraine between the U.S./NATO and Russia that could lead to a nuclear confrontation. “Using nuclear weapons could create conditions for decisive results and the restoration of strategic stability …” “A nuclear weapon could be brought into the campaign as a result of perceived failure in a conventional campaign, potential loss of control or regime, or to escalate the conflict to sue for peace on more-favorable terms.” ![]() Mark Milley, then Secretary of the Army, now Chair of the Joint Chiefs, signed off on the chilling statements below: The vanishing unclassified document, preserved by the Federation of American Scientists, reflects the Pentagon’s delusional thinking that a nuclear war can be limited and won. No mention is made of this nightmare scenario, however, in the 2019 Joint Chiefs Nuclear Operations Publication (3–72), a Strangelovian document briefly released then deleted from the website of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Tuned to what? Our fading heartbeats?Īccording to the International Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a nuclear war between the US and Russia would lead to over 34-million dead and 57 million injured in the first few hours - and a dark subzero winter of famine and soot blocking the sun for those who survived. Instead, New Yorkers were instructed to get inside, stay inside and stay tuned. No mention was made of blinding flashes of light or widespread radiation that blisters the skin or immediate incineration. More recently, the City of New York, home of the United Nations, released, however well-intentioned, a so-called public service announcement on how to survive a nuclear attack, referring to it as “the big one”, as though it were an earthquake. In April, the Wall Street Journal published a commentary titled “The U.S. Instead of pursuing world peace and climate preservation for our children, US leaders are chasing a reckless foreign policy. nuclear rearmament program violates the spirit and intent of Article 6 of the NPT, which prohibits the pursuit of new nuclear weapons. What the State Department failed to mention in its reaffirmation of the NPT was that the U.S. nuclear “modernization” means the development of new weapon systems with new nuclear warheads and a new arms race. Modernization is not 100 new stealth air-launched nuclear missiles like the B-21 Raider, also capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear weapons.Īhh, but these nuclear weapons are just upgrades, not new systems, right? Modernization is not a new sea-launched nuclear cruise missile that carries both conventional and nuclear warheads with the same radar profile to confuse “the enemy.” Each of these “modern missiles” would span the length of a bowling lane with new warheads that are 20 times more powerful than the bombs that incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is not 600 new–instead of funeralized–intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM’s) on hair trigger alert to replace the Minuteman III in the midwest. policy, as opposed to wishful thinking or trickery.Īs treaty signatories and civil society representatives from around the world gather for a month in New York to evaluate the treaty’s implementation, the White House, Congress, and military contractors will move ahead on a near $2 trillion nuclear rearmament program euphemistically termed “nuclear modernization.” If only Blinken’s verbal support for the NPT was U.S. It has now been signed by 191 nations, including the U.S. The NPT, designed to “further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament,” entered into force in 1970 and was extended indefinitely in 1995. commitment to this treaty and the “ultimate goal of a world without nuclear weapons.” ![]() In the run-up to August’s United Nation’s 10th Annual Review of the landmark Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a review undertaken every five years, Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s State Department issued a surprising reaffirmation of the U.S. The real solution to the threat of nuclear war is in plain sight, but still the powerful weapons makers and war profiteers refuse to yield.
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