Tell Congress: The United States Should Never Start a Nuclear War

From the Union of Concerned Scientists (http://www.ucsusa.org):

When it comes to nuclear weapons, it seems like the Trump administration is taking one reckless gamble after another. The most recent? The decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty with Russia—President Ronald Reagan’s landmark arms control agreement that eliminated all mid-range US and Soviet missiles and made the world a safer place.

Killing the treaty risks a new arms race. We need to be leading the world to reduce the nuclear arsenals, not increasing the odds of nuclear war.

Thankfully, Representative Adam Smith (WA-9), new chair of the House Armed Services Committee, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have introduced legislation that would actually make the world safer. The No First Use Act has exactly one sentence of text: “It is the policy of the United States to not use nuclear weapons first.”

Write your members of Congress at https://secure.ucsusa.org/onlineactions/UEQBaknz80mpWoQMnmtCSA2 and urge them to cosponsor the Smith-Warren No First Use Act and to do all they can to build support and promote this simple, common sense idea: The United States should never start a nuclear war.

More of the public and more members of Congress are standing against the Trump administration’s current bellicose nuclear weapons rhetoric and sabre-rattling. The risks are real, and we must change direction in our nuclear policies before things spiral out of control.

Tell your legislators to support a no first use policy, which will make us safer and send a powerful signal to our allies and adversaries that the United States will never use these weapons again.