Set a date to abolish all nuclear weapons

[Dietrich Fischer <102464.1110 at compuserve.com>]

GLOBAL DEMILITARIZATION                              May 31, 2000

Dear friends, we hope you can take a moment to help urge political
leaders of the nuclear weapons nations, by email, to disable all
the nuclear weapons in the world.

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To: president at whitehouse.gov

Subject: Set a date for the abolition of nuclear weapons

Cc:
Vladimir Putin, President, Russia <rusun at undp.org>,
Tony Blair, Prime Minister, Britain <gbrun at undp.org>,
Jacques Chirac, President, France <fraun at undp.org>,
Jiang Zemin, President, China <chnun at undp.org>,
Ehud Barak, Prime Minister, Israel <pm at pmo.gov.il>,
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, India <indun at undp.org>,
Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan <pakistan at undp.org>

Dear Mr. President,

We welcome that at the review conference of the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty in May the five original nuclear powers
agreed to abolish all nuclear weapons. But no fixed time table was
set. The nuclear powers committed themselves to nuclear disarmament
already in 1970, but nuclear weapons are still with us.

Why wait? Please set an example by making unilateral deep cuts in
nuclear weapons, which will only improve our security, and by
calling for an urgent meeting to set an early fixed date by which
all nuclear weapons are to be abolished.

There is a Korean saying, "The day I finally decided to visit my
friend, it was his funeral." Let us not wait until it is too late!

Sincerely yours,

[Your name, post address & country]
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Best regards,
Sue & Marvin Clark
Co-directors, Global Demilitarization
42 Maple Avenue, Troy, NY, 12180 USA

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