Posts Tagged ‘Disarmament’

The START Treaty – Betsy Crites

The August 8 AP article “Abolishing Nukes: flicker of hope to global cause” notes the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan.  According to the article, in 3 days in 1945 the US killed 220,000 people, yet the world still stockpiles enough nuclear weapons for 150,000 Hiroshimas.

Nuclear weapons threaten all of us.  Is there any hope?  In addition to the Global Zero initiative, four US foreign policy leaders are speaking out.  Former Secretaries of State George Schultz and Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, and former Senator Sam Nunn have proposed specific steps to free the world of nuclear weapons. Read the rest of this entry »

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Quote of the Week
"If all the states in the U.S. had the same level of peacefulness as the most peaceful state of Maine, $274 billion worth of extra economic activity could be generated. This additional economic activity would be enough to generate over 1.7 million jobs." — U.S. Peace Index Report.