PREVENT AN ACCIDENT WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

[Dietrich Fischer <102464.1110 at compuserve.com>]

GLOBAL DEMILITARIZATION                             April 30, 2001

Dear friends, we hope you can take a moment to help urge political
leaders of the nuclear weapons states to disable all the nuclear
weapons in the world.  We appreciate if you can take the time to
send letters by postal mail, in addition to email.

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Please send the following or a similar letter, email, fax or phone
message to the President of the United States each month.  Also
please send copies to the Heads of State of the other nuclear
weapons nations, whose addresses are listed at the end.

If you are an officer of a peace, environmental or religious
organization: In your next correspondence with your members, please
urge them also to send these messages each month.

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PREVENT AN ACCIDENT WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

President George W. Bush
The White House
Washington, DC 20500, USA
tel +1-202-456-1111, fax +1-202-456-2461
email president at whitehouse.gov

Cc: Vladimir Putin, President, Russia <rusun at undp.org>
Tony Blair, Prime Minister, Britain (Fax +44-207-925-0918)
Jacques Chirac, President, France <fraun at undp.org>
Jiang Zemin, President, China <chnun at undp.org>
Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister, Israel (Fax +972-2-664838)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, India <indun at undp.org>
Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan <pakistan at undp.org>

Dear Mr. President,

     In April, two serious incidents happened that underscore human
fallibility:  On April 1, a Chinese military jet collided with a
U.S. spy plane, with both countries blaming each other for the
collision.  And on April 20, a Peruvian fighter, guided by a
Peruvion officer on a U.S. surveillance plane, downed a missionary
family's plane, killing the mother and her infant daughter,
mistaking them as drug runners.  The Peruvian Air Force claims they
failed to file a flight plan, but the husband and the pilot insist
that they had filed the plan.

     Such accidents and misunderstandings are bound to happen one
day involving nuclear weapons unless we abolish them.  To save our
children and future generations from an unimaginable catastrophe,
please take the lead in reaching an agreement among all the nuclear
weapons nations to disable all their nuclear weapons.

     Sincerely,

     [Your name, post address & country]
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Addresses of the heads of other nuclear weapons states:

President Vladimir Putin
Office of the Government
Krasnopresenskaya 2
Moscow, RUSSIA
tel +7-095-925-3581, fax +7-095-205-4219
email rusun at undp.org

Prime Minister Tony Blair
Prime Minister's Office
10 Downing Street
London, SW 1A 2 AA, BRITAIN
tel +44-171-270-3000
fax +44(207)925-0918
website www.number-10.gov.uk

President Jacques Chirac
Office du President, Palais De L'Elysee
55-57 rue du Faubourg St. Honore
75008 Paris, FRANCE
tel +33-1-4292-8100, Fax +33-1-4742-2465
email fraun at undp.org

President Jiang Zemin
Office of the Premier
225 Chaoyangmennei Dajie, Dongsi
Beijing, P. R. CHINA
email chnun at undp.org

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
Office of the Prime Minister
3 Rehov Kaplan, Hakirya
Jerusalem 91007, ISRAEL
tel +972-2-705555, fax +972-2-664838

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister's Office
South Block
New Delhi 110011, INDIA
tel +91-11-3013040, fax +91-11-3016857
email indun at undp.org

Gen. Pervez Musharraf
Islamabad, PAKISTAN
telex 5742
email pakistan at undp.org

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Best regards,
Sue & Marvin Clark
Co-directors, Global Demilitarization
42 Maple Avenue, Troy, NY, 12180 USA

Administrative Board Members:
Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Laureate, honorary member
Jonathan Schell, Author
Mary Evelyn Jegen, SND, Pax Christi International
Dietrich Fischer, Author, Professor, Pace University
Bill Price, Director, World Peacemakers
Bill Hartung, Author
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