GOOD NEWS: U.S. House votes to stop new nuclear weapons in Trump’s budget

July 4, 2019 GlenAnderson International Affairs (Click to see specific nations and regions), Military Spending, Nuclear Weapons, Our Current Political Crisis (in addition to Trump and Trumpism), Peace (See Foreign Policy and specific nations and regions -- and ALSO see Military Spending and Nuclear Weapons), Trump and Trumpism (Also see Our Current Political Crisis) 0

On June 25, 2019, the national office of Physicians for Social Responsibility (www.psr.org) announced this good news:

U.S. House votes to stop new nuclear weapons in Trump’s budget

The so-called “low-yield” nuclear weapon (W76-2) would NOT be a step toward peace, but rather a nuclear weapon that a president and the Pentagon would consider more “usable” and therefore more likely to be used. Realistic people recognized that if this “usable” nuclear weapon were used, it would rapidly escalate into an all-out nuclear war. Therefore, the peace movement and other reasonable people have been opposing it. Now the U.S. House has zeroed-out its funding.

The article at the link below also says:  “[T]he House Defense Appropriations budget contains no money for deploying the low yield weapon. House Appropriations also excludes research and development spending for any weapon that would violate the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.”

The article includes more information and ends with this:
TAKE ACTION: tell your Members of Congress to oppose funding for deployment of easy-fire nuclear weapons:  https://secure.psr.org/page/44636/action/1?ea.tracking.id=web

https://www.psr.org/blog/2019/06/24/with-support-from-psr-house-of-representatives-votes-to-stop-new-nuclear-weapons-in-trumps-budget/

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org