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Political responsibility in the Nuclear Age
By Richard Falk, David Krieger and Robert Laney TFF PressInfo # 354 Lund, Sweden, January 22, 2016 Introduction What follows here is An Open Letter to the American People: Political Responsibility in the Nuclear Age. We believe citizens outside the United States will take interest in it too, nuclear weapons threatening all humanity. It was jointly written by Richard Falk in collaboration with David Krieger – both long-term TFF Associates – and Robert Laney. The three of us have been long connected with theNuclear Age Peace Foundation, NAPF. The NAPF focuses its effort on the menace posed by nuclear weaponry and the urgency of seeking nuclear disarmament. The nuclear agreement with Iran and the North Korean nuclear test explosion are reminders of the gravity of the issue, and should serve as warnings against the persistence of complacency, which seems to be the prevailing political mood judging from the policy debates that have taken place during the early stages of the 2016 presidential campaign. This complacency is encouraged by the media that seems to have forgotten about nuclear dangers since the end of the Cold War, except for those concerned with proliferation of the weaponry to countries hostile to the United States and the West ( [widely spread in the media: Ed.] Iran, North Korea). Our letter proceeds on the assumption that the core of the problem is associated with the possession, development, and deployment of the weaponry, that is, with the nine nuclear weapons states. The essence of a solution is to eliminate existing nuclear weapons arsenals through a phased, verified process of nuclear disarmament as legally mandated by Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968).
Dear fellow citizens…
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Political responsibility in the Nuclear Age
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