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Act Now: Help Prevent a Nuclear, Chemical or Biological Terrorist Attack!

Target: President Bush & the Democratic Presidential Candidates
Sponsored by: Nuclear Threat Initiative

The Day After a Terrorist Attack with a Nuclear, Chemical or Biological Weapon... What Would We Wish We Had Done? Why Aren't We Doing It Now?

The threat is real. Terrorists are racing to get nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. We are not yet racing to stop them.

Some nuclear weapons materials around the world are protected by just a chain link fence.
Dangerous biological materials are available in laboratories all over the world because the same technology used to cure can be used to kill.
Millions of deadly chemical weapons are also at risk; storage facilities are often poorly secured and the weapon canisters are old and in danger of leaking.

We need to work with other nations. If terrorists want to acquire nuclear, biological and chemical weapons or materials, they will not necessarily go where there are the most materials, they may go where the materials are the least secure. That means our efforts must be global. We must work with other nations to secure nuclear weapons and materials at the source; improve biological defenses; and secure and destroy chemical weapons and materials.

Right now the US spends less than one percent of the defense budget on cooperative efforts to keep nuclear, biological and chemical weapons out of the hands of terrorists. (Source: Matthew Bunn, Harvard University, 2003)

Join Ted Turner, former Senator Sam Nunn, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, Senator Richard Lugar and others. Show your support for accelerating efforts to lock down and destroy these dangerous weapons and materials before terrorists can get them. Americans always pull together in a crisis. Now we must pull together to prevent one. SIGN NOW!

deadline: 12-9-2004
goal: 5,000

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Attention President Bush & Presidential Candidates:

I am writing to ask you to please add your voice by signing on to the priority action agenda to keep terrorists from acquiring nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and materials. Support efforts to prevent a terrorist attack by:

Securing nuclear weapons and materials at their source;
Improving biological defenses by developing better vaccines, treatments and ways to detect outbreaks, strengthening our public health system and reducing access to dangerous pathogens; and
Securing and destroying chemical weapons stockpiles.

Thank you,
The Undersigned

We signed the “Act Now: Help Prevent a Nuclear, Chemical or Biological Terrorist Attack!” petition!

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8:21 pm PDT, Apr 13, Suzie Gordon, New Hampshire

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1:41 pm PDT, Oct 13, Polly Odyssey, Missouri

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11:55 am PDT, Oct 5, Rebecca Flannery, Kentucky

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11:35 am PDT, Sep 18, Kyna Crain, Montana

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1:57 pm PDT, Sep 12, Roman Soiko, New Jersey
Human existence is determined by preventing wmds from falling into the wrong hands

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3:46 am PDT, Sep 2, Kaytie Irvine, California

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4:41 am PDT, Sep 1, Penny McIlraith, Canada

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10:18 am PDT, Jul 23, Pauline Houzard, Guadeloupe

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9:32 pm PDT, Jul 22, Dana Szemereta, North Carolina
i want to help

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7:50 pm PDT, Jun 29, Chris Kuhar, Virginia

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10:27 am PDT, Apr 8, Ana Waxer, Michigan

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4:37 am PDT, Mar 31, Lauren Stone, California
I agree that this is a serious threat. I also believe the US gov is a serious threat to other countries with the same such weapons and WE too, should dispose of them.

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2:15 am PDT, Mar 28, Victoria Thomas, Wyoming

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9:19 pm PDT, Mar 23, Pam Wilkinson, Michigan

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12:56 am PST, Feb 27, Brooke Stone, Michigan

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6:46 am PST, Feb 20, Metric Clay, Mississippi
If we don't do something about the nuclear, biological and Chemical weapons that are being used even to threat which is a International Criminal Court of Justice violations.

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3:12 pm PST, Feb 12, Bobi Milner, Illinois

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2:42 pm PST, Feb 3, Amy Black, Florida

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12:14 pm PST, Jan 20, Paulina Dudek, Poland

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1:50 pm PST, Jan 18, Dave Sennett, Pennsylvania
WE NEED TO STOP NUCS NOW BEFORE THEY GET IN THE WRONG HANDS.

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11:26 am PST, Jan 8, Reverend Pennie Mumm CD MS, Washington

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8:53 am PST, Jan 7, Octavian Paul Draja, Romania
we need peace and stop the killing !!!

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12:40 am PST, Jan 3, Melanie Leary, Texas

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10:57 am PST, Dec 31, Delight Woodley, Georgia
I want my children and theirs to have a planet to live on. One great nuclear BOOM...we are all gone!!!

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7:18 am PST, Dec 27, Jessica-Dawn Drouin, Canada

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2:48 am PST, Dec 27, Julia Burwell, Washington

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1:23 pm PST, Dec 26, Joan Mclaughlin, Pennsylvania
The key word is COOPERATION not desolation

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11:11 am PST, Dec 26, Danille Baptista, Alabama

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2:49 am PST, Dec 23, Name not displayed, Australia
I want to live to an old age, and not have to worry about nuclear threats - I do not want to live in fear.

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9:46 am PST, Dec 20, Chad Halsey, Colorado

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5:18 pm PST, Dec 15, Joseph Klawiter, Virginia
The last thing I want is another terrorist attack!

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6:17 pm PST, Dec 13, Joshua Jordan, Indiana

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9:27 am PST, Dec 6, Jennifer Megeney, Canada

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1:14 pm PST, Nov 16, Diana*AnimalWarrior* Martz, Ohio

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