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Oppose New Nuclear Weapons Today
Target: U.S. SenateSponsored by: Union Of Concerned Scientists
The Bush administration has asked for $8.5 million in the 2006 budget for research on a "Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator" (RNEP). This new nuclear weapon, also known as the nuclear "bunker buster," is being promoted as a useful tool in attacking deeply buried command centers or underground stores of chemical and biological weapons. But numerous scientific critiques, including one by the National Academy of Science, find that in many cases such a weapon would be ineffective. In addition, the nuclear blast and radioactive fall-out could kill millions of innocent people in surrounding areas. A single "bunker buster" would be nearly 100 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
In the coming weeks, the Senate will consider funding for this new nuclear weapon. Please tell your Senators to reject all funding for the dangerous nuclear "bunker buster."
In the coming weeks, the Senate will consider funding for this new nuclear weapon. Please tell your Senators to reject all funding for the dangerous nuclear "bunker buster."
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Like we have anywhere else on this planet to go.. Nobody like the US.. Keep that in mind when your grandchildren have children.
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Please STOP all nuclear programs.....
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We have enough super-weapons now to destroy everything on earth a thousand times. Who is going to profit from the doomsday super-penetrating nuclear weapons? Haliburton again? Haliburton's (or whosever) CEOs will spend their ill-gotten gains for super-yaughts and other super-trinkets, but the planet will smother under all the useless but permanently harmful weapons made by the draft-dodgers currently in power in the White House and Congress.
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Nuclear weapons pose a prisoner's dilemma. If the world cooperates effectively, we can all avoid the horrors of nuclear weaponry. Or, by continuing their production and geopolitical importance, we can ensure that they will be something all have to contend with. Let's not be prisoner to fear. The last things we need are "bunker busters" or any other new nukes.
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We are already well on the way to self-extinction of the human race; if we do not now reverse severe environmental degradation trends and clean up our planet, we are gone. We have already placed depleted uranium in Iraq & elsewhere which has a HALF LIFE of ~4.5 BILLION years, small particles of which will become airborne. How damn dumb are we. We definitely should halt further production of nuclear weaponry. Tax monies are to be used for the benefit of we the people, not further profit for the warmongering industries.
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We cannot morally consider ADDING new "useable'" nuclear weapson. "USEABLE" is not a word you can morally put with nuclear weapons. In addition, we cannot tell the rest of the world to disarm or not to develop nuclear weapons when we are NOT making major moves to disarm and ARE planning to develop these new weapons. The rest of the world won't buy or tolerate this double standard and we will be launching a new nuclear weapons race. In fact, we already have caused Iran and North Korea to busy themselves in this endeavor by our actions and words in recent years. WE DO NOT NEED TO DEVELOP THESE NEW WEAPONS! THEY WILL HARM US, NOT HELP US!
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WMDs are the biggest threat to our National Security and other nations'. In the hands of terrorists, they could be used in the worst possible way(s). Help protect innocent people everywhere from the greatest threat we fear, nuclear fallout.
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Are you people crazy? And please stop the use of uranium depleted weapons.
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There are already too many in existence. We should reduce the number of those we possess.
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Nuclear weapons can NEVER make us safer. Never. At BEST, they will poison the environment when tested and result in still more radioactive waste that cannot be safely disposed of. INEVITABLY, they will encourage our enemies to redouble their efforts to build and deploy such weapons against us. AND FINALLY, no number of mushroom clouds can make us safer, no nuclear weapon can be used without causing agonizing death and hideous damage to untold people including our own men and women. THIS IS WRONG, EVIL, AND ABSOLUTELY UNWORTHY OF ANY NATION LET ALONE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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The problem facing this country has not ceased to be cooperating in the elimination of the world's nuclear arsenals and disposal of present and continuing waste. Waste disposal takes greater priority as we look at the option of nuclear power to replace the worlds non-renewable energy resources. There were only so many dinosaurs back when the oil reserves were only an energy promise. Now, if this Republican war machine continues with insane plans like the "Bunker Buster", it appears that we shall be dinosaurs, too. Our remains will serve the new ruling race of radioactive cockroaches.
# 10,617:
No moral human being could support the development of nuclear weapons. A short-sighted one, yes. A frightened one, yes. A mad one, yes. A racist one, yes. But a moral one? Impossible.
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if i do remember correctly, Einstein meant for nuclear physics to heal, not to bomb and totally destroy other countries
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I believe there should be no forms of any nuclear weapons in any part of this world especially this country. This country should be the leader in elminating all forms of nuclear weapons and NOT increasing them. WE are a "Free Nation," that should be showing the example to the whole world that there is "NO REASON" to develope are contain any "weapons of mass destruction," in other words nuclear weapons or how Mr. Cheney calls them, "NUCLEAR MIGHT." This country sounds off the alarm when other nations test or build nuclear weapons and state they are a threat to the world, well, this nation needs to show a very good example and elminate all of these weapons without a second cause. You cannot state that you are oppose to nuclear weapons when in reality you are building a Nuclear Weapons Program to harm the world. That is NOT a good example for this world to see, not a good example at all. I STRONGLY oppose any form of nuclear weapons. I have stated that many, many times. I need NOT say more on this matter.
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How many generations will it take us to realize that making bigger bombs (and using them!) will never solve the problems of the world. I am angry that tax dollars go into this short-sighted, useless, undertaking. If all that money could be channeled into helping all the nations of the world to abolish poverty, provide housing and health care to their citizens, to educate the uneducated, and to foster a spirit of REAL humanity among peoples (and their animal brethren), think how little motivation and need there would be to produce such weapons!
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We have more than enough capability to destroy ourselves and everyone else on this planet. Stop the madness. Spend our money on taking care of our world, not blowing it up.
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When Einstein discovered nuclear physics, he meant it for healing....Weapons do not heal Only KILL. Thou Shalt Not Kill! Stop being Terrorists. Ironic you are supposedly killing terrorists yet You are Terrorists!
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This is not an option , we dont need this.
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Our Country's previous leaders signed agreements to stop neucleor weapon productions and to disarm long range nukes. Remember? These types of weapons are the most terroristic of any. Think about it! What controls radioactive fallout and the effects on peoples nearby? What cleans up the mess from our environment? The entire World is the environment, not just the part near where we live. Wake up! Think of the future and our descendants, and quit thinking of only your war mongering selves! You can't end terrorism by becoming the biggest terrorist!
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The only good nuke is the one that wasn't built. These WMD are the thing we don't want other countries to have, so why shouldn't we set the example to outlaw these weapons ?
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REMEMBER THE 1983 MOVIE~THE DAY AFTER~
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Not a good idea to keep building extremely dangerous weapons as a means to gain peace. Please PRAY before you make a decision. Thank you...