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NPT, ICAN, TPNW

June 5, 2019 By Bob Kinsey

Learn the Lingo. Under the Obama Administration a program was set in motion to “Modernize the Nuclear Weapons (and Delivery systems)” with a projected cost of $1.2 Trillion US over 30 years. This was and continues to be counter to the commitments the US made in the NPT treaty to work with other Nuclear Armed States to reduce and eliminate their Nuclear Weapons. All Nuclear Weapons States were signatories of this NPT. (Even before the end of the Cold War the US and USSR began to make serious agreements leading to a great reduction in the number of live Nukes on the Planet.

NPT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty created in 1968 (Trump withdrew US from the Treaty)
http://www.a-pln.org/understanding-the-significance-of-the-non-proliferation-treaty-from-which-trump-withdrew-u-s-support/

The UN currently has open for signatures and state ratification a Treaty TPNW which makes the creation, possession and use or threat of use of Nuclear Weapons against international law. All the Nuclear Weapons States opposed this treaty along with states under their “Umbrella”. Apparently there is a preference among these states for a new nuclear arms race and the balance of power politics and balance of terror for human kind while pouring national wealth into creating weapons jobs and military might rather than into the welfare and happiness of their citizens and the rest of the world. This competitive model supported and intensified by TRUMP’s MAGA mania and the PNAC (Project for a New American Century) zealots such as John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and a host of others including US Space Command blind us to necessity for all human societies to work together radically and immediately to save the Planet from ourselves.

ICAN Won Nobel Peace Prize for organizing and initiating the TPNW
https://www.lawfareblog.com/revisiting-treaty-prohibition-nuclear-weapons

One wild card in all this is that Israel–not a Nuclear Weapons State at the time–has never been a part of the NPT and has since developed an unacknowledged arsenal of weapons estimated at 80 to 200 bombs capable of delivery throughout the Middle East (at least). They have been one of the strongest opponents of the NPT except where it applies to Iraq and Iran. Any analysis of the forces that oppose the TPNW as a way forward as well as the reasons for the US withdrawing from the NPT must include Israel’s influence over US policy and politics.

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Disarmament Quotes

Viewing Trinity Test July 16,1945: "Now we are all Sons of Bitches"

Kenneth BainbridgeDeputy Director Manhatten Project

“Everything I did at Kings Bay was a result of my faith and my commitment to challenge the idols whose only purpose is to destroy human life on an unimaginable scale. I went to Kings Bay to use my body to refuse to bow down to these idols. I went to try to bring attention to the idolatry that it is requiring of our nation and its people. I went in a spirit of prayer and repentance. I went in hope that this witness might invite other people to reflect on the obscenity and on the idolatry that it is before God.”

Liz McAlisterKings Bay Protestor 2019

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending he sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." --spoken to the American Society of Newspaper Editors 1953

Dwight EisenhowerUS President 1953-1961

We are prone to self-righteousness if we call ourselves peacemakers, and yet do not perceive how the peace issue cuts through all the economic and social issues that we often try to keep separate. If the race for nuclear arms is encouraged by our fear of losing the affluent ways of life that we have taken for granted, then we must see how our fears and desires have left so many other human beings naked and hungry.

Malsolm Warford"The Church's Role in a Nuclear Age

A world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily a world devoid of nuclear weapons…. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat…. Others subscribe to Churchill’s assertion ‘Peace is the sturdy child of terror.’ For me, such a peace is a wretched offspring, a peace that condemns us to live under a dark cloud of perpetual anxiety, a peace that codifies mankind’s most murderous instincts….The beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste.

General Lee ButlerFormer Commander, Strategic Air Command, April 28, 1996

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