VICTORY Over New Nuclear Weapon!

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Another example that activism works, that people can help make a difference

Thank you to all that helped in this campaign.

 

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IMPORTANT - See the animations about this new Nuclear Weapon:http://www.bushflash.com/nuke.htmlhttp://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/nuclear_weapons/nuclear-bunker-buster-rnep-animation.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks in part to your actions, we achieved an enormous victory this week, when Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) announced that Congress would deny all funding for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator. The Bush administration has sought to justify developing this new nuclear weapon in order to attack deeply buried command centers or underground stores of chemical and biological weapons. Independent analysis, however, has found that such a weapon would be ineffective and the radioactive fall-out could kill millions of innocent people in surrounding areas.

For the last three years UCS and our activists have been working to eliminate funding for this misguided weapons program. While last year this work led to the money being dropped, this year the Bush administration came back with a renewed but reduced request for funding. Senator Domenici, who has been a prominent supporter of research into this new weapon, sought to keep the program alive. With the support of thousands of activists like you, and the leadership of Representative David Hobson—Republican chair of the key House committee that decides funding for nuclear weapons programs—this year the money was again eliminated.

For more information, please see the UCS statement on the victory, Senator Domenici’s statement, the UCS fact sheet on the program, and the UCS animation that visually demonstrates the critical flaws in this weapon.

Thank you for sending thousands of letters to Congress opposing this dangerous and ineffective weapon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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