PREVENT NUCLEAR TERRORISM

[Dietrich Fischer <102464.1110 at compuserve.com>]

GLOBAL DEMILITARIZATION                         November 19, 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.
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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.  You are welcome
to share this message with anyone else who may be willing to help.
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PREVENT NUCLEAR TERRORISM

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 +972-2-664-838)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, India <indun at undp.org>
Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan <pakistan at undp.org>

Dear Mr. President,

     As terrible as the loss of life was on September 11, if the
terrorists had had access to nuclear weapons, half of Manhattan and
much of Washington could lie in ruins today.  The threat of
retaliation will not deter suicide bombers.  National missile
defense cannot guard against a small boat or a car approaching a
major city.  Unless we dismantle all nuclear weapons and dilute
weapons grade uranium and plutonium, terrorists will sooner or
later gain access to nuclear weapons.  As you pointed out in your
address to the United Nations General Assembly, they would not
hesitate to use them.

     We welcome your call for a two-thirds reduction in U.S. and
Russian nuclear arsenals, but what remains would be more than
sufficient to destroy thousands of cities.  We urge you to seize
this moment of world-wide concern about nuclear terrorism to take
the initiative to create a global authority that can enforce the
abolition of all nuclear weapons world-wide before it is too late.

     As we gather with our families for this Thanksgiving holiday,
let us be grateful that weapons of mass destruction have not been
used in more than half a century.  We owe it to our children and
future generations to make sure that they can never be used.

     Sincerely,

     [Your name, post address & country]
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OTHER ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE:
1) Write also to your national and local representatives.
2) Write by hand (a list of mailing addresses is attached below).
3) Reformulate as a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.
4) Send us the names and email addresses of others who you believe
   may participate in this monthly campaign.
5) Inform us of what you have done, and make other suggestions.
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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
Dietrich Fischer, board member
Pace University, Pleasantville, NY 10570
email fischer at transcend.org, website www.transcend.org

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