[GLODEM] HELP FREE THE WORLD FROM THE NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE

[Dietrich Fischer <102464.1110 at compuserve.com>]

GLOBAL DEMILITARIZATION                             June 14, 2003

Dear friends, please 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.
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HELP FREE THE WORLD FROM THE NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE

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>
Hu Jintao, 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,

     I agree with your stated goal of preventing the proliferation
of nuclear weapons and the possibility of nuclear terrorism.  But
if the United States develops new nuclear weapons, as your
administration has announced, this gives the wrong message to
everyone that the possession of nuclear weapons enhances a
country's security.  As long as the United States gives that false
message, with deeds if not with words, other countries will also
want to develop nuclear weapons, either openly or in secret.

     The only way that we can truly prevent the spread of nuclear
weapons is by working towards global nuclear disarmament.  That
includes every country.

     As long as nuclear weapons exist, there is also always the
danger of a misunderstanding or accident.  Robert McNamara, who
knows something about this because he helped make decisions during
the Cuban missile crisis, wrote in his memoirs, "In Retrospect":

     "The point I wish to emphasize is this: human beings are
fallible.  We all make mistakes.  In our daily lives they are
costly, but we try to learn from them.  In conventional war, they
cost lives, sometimes thousands of lives.  But if mistakes were to
affect decisions relating to the use of nuclear forces, they would
result in the destruction of whole societies.  Thus, the indefinite
combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons carries a high
risk of a potential catastrophe.

     "Is there a military justification to accept that risk?  The
answer is no."

     Please heed the advice from someone who has experience, and
help lead the world toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons.

     Sincerely yours,

     [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) Invite others to subscribe to this list.
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 Hu Jintao
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
Office of the President
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, A-7461 Stadtschlaining, Austria, board member

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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Emailings since July 1996