• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About
    • Allies
    • Board of Directors
    • Guiding Principles
    • Member Organizations
    • Mission & History
  • Membership
  • Request a Speaker
  • Volunteer
  • Contact Us
  • Contribute

The Colorado Coalition

Envision a World without Nuclear Weapons

Click Here to Contribute

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Featured
  • Events
  • Take Action
  • News
  • Perspective
  • Subscribe

Write a Letter to your Congressional Representative and Senator

May 28, 2020 By Bob Kinsey

Below is a sample letter sent to each of our Colorado Congressional Representative and Senators’ Colorado Office. It would be great if you could pen a letter in support of these points to them as well. Just google their name and get the addresses from their web sites. If you get a response please share it with us by sending it to kinsey_65 @msn.com.

Scott Tipton (CO-3)
Doug Lamborn (CO-5
Diana DeGette (CO-1)
Ken Buck (CO-4)
Ed Permutter (CO-7)
Joe Neguse (CO-2)
Jason Crow (CO-6)

Senator Michael Bennet
Senator Cory Gardner

The Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of Nuclear War

 To: Representative xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

As members of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability we would usually be seeking a visit with you in Washington DC.   But given the current stay at home regulations we write to you to share our concerns and seek your positions on three main issues related to US nuclear weapons activities.
 Our government seems to head in two directions at once. Direction 1: a $1.7 TRILLION Nuclear Security Administration modernization of the weapons complex. Direction 2: President Obama receiving a Peace Prize for calling on both the world and the U.S. to walk the cooperative path toward reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons (including the six nation joint treaty with Iran.)
We use the NPT which has status as international law, only to enforce non-proliferation by the hawkishly labeled “evil empires” (Iran, Iraq, North Korea) but not with countries we claim as friends.  The most egregious example of this is Israel with its large and illegal nuclear arsenal. Yet we continue military aid to Israel while they violate international law regarding the human rights of the Palestinian people? Will you vote to end this aid so long as Israel flouts international law?

The nuclear modernization program increases our capacity to produce new, supposedly more “useable” nuclear weapons and delivery systems in direct violation of the spirit and letter of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.  Should we be committing resources on a path to another nuclear arms race?

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the nuclear clock to two seconds to midnight.   Imagine NASA’s modernization dollars committed to mitigation of climate change and environmental degradation.   Imagine restoring National Nuclear Security Administration reductions in clean up rather than increased spending for this nuclear “modernization”.   The recent decision of the Broomfield City Council to withdraw from the Jefferson Parkway was based on the fact that clean-up of Rocky Flats radioactivity was inadequate and that human activity there may be life threatening. Mitigating climate change and restoring the environment , require cooperation among all the nations of the world and not another arms race.  Please restore the NNSA clean up funding instead.

Your views and intended actions are important to us.   We look forward to hearing from you.  

Sincerely and with gratitude for your years of service,

Filed Under: Take Action

About Bob Kinsey

Primary Sidebar

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

Copyright © 2025 The Colorado Coalition


A Website by Arielle Elak Design