20200824 Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments

24.08.2020 Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments

Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments

"This is the greatest moral crisis of our time:
governments are prepared to unleash a nuclear war which would end civilization as we know it and could kill over seven billion people." Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower, and endorser of this appeal.

To the presidents, prime ministers, and legislatures of China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States

This is an appeal from the people of the world to nine nuclear governments to each commit to a nuclear policy of no first strike, not ever, not for any reason; and to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and to collectively agree to immediately begin disarming on a schedule to completely eliminate all nuclear weapons from the earth no later than August 6, 2045.

This petition was started today and has the support of Russian, German, Australian, Canadian, UK and U.S. peace organizations. Please sign the petition!

We, the people of good will, of all walks of life, living on all continents and professing different creeds and religions, direct your attention to the threat of an all-out nuclear war that can erupt very easily either due to deliberate actions of any nuclear-weapons state or because of unintentional, human, technical or other mistake.

We are witnessing that the threshold for the use nuclear weapons in a limited or on large-scale attacks recently has been dramatically lowered, bringing the entire world to the brink of a nuclear Armageddon.

Many high-ranking military and civilian officials, politicians and experts are openly talking about the possibility of using nuclear weapons in a first strike attack against any nation under many pretexts with low-yield or high-yield nuclear charges.

The United States in fact has withdrawn from a number of rather well-known and useful nuclear arms control treaties and accords for dubious reasons and illogical explanations.

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