Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Author: David Krieger

  • Open Letter to President Obama

    OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA:
    Fulfill the Prague Promises of Nuclear Disarmament

    Dear Mr. President:

    As you approach your final year in office as President of the United States, I write to urge you to take critical steps to fulfill the promises of nuclear disarmament set forth in your 2009 Prague speech.

    You stated, “…I state clearly and with conviction America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”  There can be no doubt that America and all other countries would be more secure in a world without the overarching threat of nuclear devastation.  You also stated in the Prague speech, “…as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act.  We cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can lead it, we can start it.”

    These were wise words, speaking to the critical role of the United States in leading the world out of the nuclear age, as we led it into the nuclear age.  With a little over a year remaining in your final term, it is important for you to take action that would lead toward a nuclear-free world.

    Please consider the following steps:

    1. Fulfill the U.S. obligation under Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by providing leadership to convene good faith negotiations among the world’s countries for an end to the nuclear arms race, including modernization of nuclear arsenals, and for complete nuclear disarmament.
    1. Take all U.S. nuclear weapons off high-alert status.
    1. Declare a U.S. policy of No First Use of nuclear weapons.
    1. Complete the job of securing all weapons-grade nuclear materials throughout the world.
    1. Speak out and educate the American people about the dangers and lack of security inherent in nuclear deterrence policies, as well as the provocative and offensive capabilities inherent in missile defense policies.

    You could set the world on a fast-track course for nuclear zero.  You are approaching the end of your opportunity as President to do this.  Judging from your Prague speech, you know it is the right thing to do.  Don’t miss this chance, leaving open the very real possibility of foreclosing the future through nuclear war by accident or design.  You have a unique opportunity to secure this victory for all humanity, or at the least set it in motion by your leadership in the final year of your presidency.

    You, and only you, can do this.

    Respectfully,

    David Krieger, President
    Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

  • 2015 Evening for Peace Introduction

    Good evening and thank you for being part of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 32nd Annual Evening for Peace. A special welcome to all the students with us tonight. We hope that this evening will be a great learning experience for you – both educational and inspirational.

    Our honoree this year, the 70th anniversary year of the atomic bombings, is a hibakusha – a survivor of those bombings. She, like other hibakusha, has the truest perspective on the horrors caused by the atomic bombs, the perspective of being under a nuclear detonation.

    Before I introduce our honoree to you, I’d like to make a few comments about nuclear weapons and the work of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation to abolish them.

    The atomic bombs used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relatively small nuclear weapons when compared with those of today.  Nonetheless, they were very effective killing devices, killing 210,000 to 220,000 persons in the two cities by blast, fire and radiation by the end of 1945.

    Nuclear weapons are not the friend of humanity or other forms of life. In fact, they are the enemy of all Creation. They are illegal, immoral, tremendously costly and undermine the security of their possessors.

    The only reasonable number of nuclear weapons on our planet is Zero, and it is our collective responsibility to go from where we are to Zero. This has been the goal of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation since our founding in 1982.

    We’ve progressed from 70,000 nuclear weapons in the world in the mid-1980s down to under 16,000 today. This is progress, but it is not sufficient. We still face the prospect of a Global Hiroshima – a nuclear war, by accident or design, which could end civilization and even the human species.

    There is far too much complacency around this issue. I worry about ACID, an acronym for key elements of complacency: Apathy, Conformity, Ignorance and Denial. We must change these acidic forms of complacency to engagement by changing Apathy to Empathy; Conformity to Critical Thinking; Ignorance to Wisdom; and Denial to Recognition of the nuclear threat.

    One important way we do this is through our work as a consultant to the Republic of the Marshall Islands in their lawsuits against the nine nuclear-armed countries in the International Court of Justice and in US federal court. The Marshall Islands does not seek compensation in these lawsuits. They seek only that the nuclear-armed countries negotiate in good faith for nuclear disarmament as they are obligated to do under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and customary international law.

    The Foundation has helped establish legal teams to support these cases, and the attorneys working on the cases have given thousands of hours to this work on a pro bono basis. Two of these lawyers are here this evening and I’d like you to join me in recognizing them: Laurie Ashton and Lynn Sarko.

    I’d also like you to join me in recognizing Dan Smith, another pro bono attorney who has submitted amicus briefs on behalf of other civil society organizations in support of the Marshall Islands.

    When you support the Foundation, you are supporting the courage of the Marshall Islanders and their legal efforts to achieve a victory for all humanity.

    Another way we work to shift complacency to engagement is through our project, “Humanize Not Modernize.” This project opposes the US and other nuclear-armed countries upgrading, modernizing and generally making their nuclear arsenals more usable. The US alone plans to spend $1 trillion over the next three decades on modernizing its nuclear arsenal. It will only benefit the arms manufacturers at the expense of meeting human needs for the poor and hungry and those without health care.

    When you support the Foundation, you are supporting the shift from nuclear insanity to human security.

    Still another way we work to combat nuclear complacency is by educating a new generation of Peace Leaders. Paul Chappell, the director of our Peace Leadership Program, travels the world teaching people the values and skills needed to wage peace. We also have a great internship program at the Foundation, led by Rick Wayman, our Director of Programs. Our interns make valuable contributions to the Foundation’s work.

    When you support the Foundation, you are supporting the development and training of committed young peace leaders.

    Tonight we shine a light on courageous Peace Leadership. This is the 32nd time we have presented our Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. It has gone to some of the great Peace Leaders of our time, including the XIVth Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Carl Sagan, Yehudi Menuhin, Jody Williams, Jacques Cousteau, Helen Caldicott and Medea Benjamin.

    We are honored to be presenting our 2015 award to an exceptional woman, who is a hibakusha and child victim of war. She was just 13 years old when the US dropped an atomic bomb on her city of Hiroshima. She lost consciousness and awakened to find herself pinned beneath a collapsed building.

    She thought she would die, but she survived and has made it her life’s work to end the nuclear weapons era and to assure that her past does not become someone else’s future. She is a global leader in the fight to prevent a Global Hiroshima and assure that Nagasaki remains the last city to suffer a nuclear attack. Our honoree is a Peace Ambassador of the United Nations University of Peace in Costa Rica, a Peace Ambassador of the city of Hiroshima, and was a nominee for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

    I am very pleased to present the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 2015 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award to a courageous Peace Leader and member of the human family, Setsuko Thurlow.

    David Krieger delivered these remarks at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 32nd Annual Evening for Peace on October 25, 2015.

  • War Crime Blues

    Have you heard the terrible news?
    U.S. forces bombed a hospital in Kunduz.
    It gives me a case of the wartime blues,
    makes me shake with the war crime blues.
    You can’t win a war, you can only lose.

    U.S. forces already knew
    the place was off limits under the law, before
    they attacked, killing twenty-two.

    The chain of command I sadly accuse
    of being at fault and causing the spread
    of the war crime blues.

    The attack was launched at two
    in the morning.  It came without warning,
    with no sign or clue.

    The first bombs fell on the hospital’s I-C-U.
    Patients were burned in their hospital beds,
    it is tragically true.

    Despite frantic calls, the bombing continued
    for well over an hour, showing the wartime power
    to be arrogant, cowardly and relentlessly rude.

    That no U.S. leader would stand and refuse
    to carry out such orders makes me shake
    with the war crime blues.

    Bombing a hospital, no one should do.
    Among the dead were three young children,
    their lives cut short, who were murdered, too.

    The U.S. attacked the only hospital in Kunduz.
    Now it’s the people, wounded and writhing in pain,
    who will shake with the war crime blues.

    Have you heard the terrible news?
    U.S. forces bombed a hospital in Kunduz.
    Does it give you a case of the wartime blues?
    Does it make you shake with the war crime blues?
    You can’t win a war, you can only lose.

  • Children of War

    In war, children die,
    float away on clouds of grief.
    By far, the greatest lie of all
    is the well-worn but absurd belief
    that war is noble, not a crime.

    In war, children writhe in pain,
    while their parents wail.
    Before we spread war’s red stain,
    should we not consider how we fail
    the young, again and yet again?

  • El Papa Francisco pide prohibición completa de armas nucleares

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    Cuando el Papa Francisco llegó a los Estados Unidos trajo consigo no sólo su espiritualidad, sino su entereza, la compasión y el compromiso de crear un mundo más decente. Instó a la población de Estados Unidos y sus representantes para vivir la Regla de Oro y respetar la naturaleza que nos sostiene a todos. A pesar de tener una agenda muy ocupada, encontró tiempo para compartir una comida con las personas sin hogar, dialogó con los presos, y bendijo a los necesitados. Comentó que los niños son los más importantes entre nosotros. Él nos dio ejemplo con sus sonrisas, su calor, sus palabras y sus hechos.

    El Papa tuvo tantas actividades durante su visita de seis días que muchos estadounidenses tal vez no vieron y escucharon su discurso en las Naciones Unidas el 25 de septiembre sobre la “urgente necesidad de trabajar por un mundo libre de armas nucleares, aplicando el Tratado de No Proliferación, en lo escrito y en su espíritu, con el objetivo de una prohibición total de estas armas”. El Papa nos pide no sólo que deseemos un mundo así, pero nos exhorta “a trabajar” para ello. Si se va a trabajar para alcanzar este mundo, todos debemos intercambiar la apatía por la empatía, la conformidad por el pensamiento crítico, la ignorancia por la sabiduría, y la denegación del reconocimiento de la amenaza que estas armas representan para la humanidad y el futuro de la vida en la Tierra.

    El Papa Francisco nos llama a reconocer que existe una “necesidad urgente” para dicho trabajo. No es el trabajo de un día lejano, o que se puede hacer un día de estos. El tema es urgente, la necesidad es enorme. Él insistió por la “plena aplicación del Tratado de No Proliferación, en su redacción  y espíritu.” El Tratado de No Proliferación (TNP), que entró en vigor en 1970, obliga a las partes en el artículo VI del tratado “a celebrar negociaciones de buena fe sobre medidas eficaces relativas a la cesación de la carrera de armamentos nucleares en fecha cercana y al desarme nuclear … “.

    Los cinco países con armas nucleares que son parte en el TNP (Estados Unidos, Rusia, Reino Unido, Francia y China) no están siguiendo a ni lo escrito ni el espíritu del tratado. En lugar de poner fin a la carrera de armas nucleares, dedican grandes cantidades de dinero a la costosa y peligrosa “modernización” de sus arsenales nucleares, haciendo caso omiso de su obligación de negociar de buena fe para el desarme nuclear. Los cuatro países con armas nucleares que no son parte del tratado (Israel, India, Pakistán y Corea del Norte) están obligados por el derecho internacional consuetudinario a estas disposiciones del TNP, y también están haciendo caso omiso de sus obligaciones en virtud del derecho internacional.

    El Papa Francisco dice claramente que la meta a alcanzar es la “prohibición total” de las armas nucleares. Medidas parciales no son suficientes. Como líder espiritual que es, tiene que ser muy consciente de que toda la Creación, incluyendo la humanidad, se coloca en riesgo por las más de 15.000 ojivas nucleares que hay todavía en nuestro planeta. El Papa rechaza efectivamente la disuasión nuclear como justificación. Él dice: “Una ética y una ley basada en la amenaza de destrucción mutua – y posiblemente la destrucción de toda la humanidad – es contradictorio en sí mismo y una afrenta a todo el marco de las Naciones Unidas, que terminaría como ” naciones unidas por el miedo y la desconfianza. ‘”

    Como alguien que ha trabajado para la abolición de las armas nucleares durante más de tres décadas, me siento muy alentado por el llamado rotundo del Papa para la “prohibición total”. Él no anda con rodeos. Fue claro y directo y habló de la urgencia de lo que es necesario para realizar la tarea. Muchos otros en todo el mundo que busca un planeta libre de armas nucleares también deben estar encantados con el llamado de Francisco “para la abolición de las armas nucleares, incluyendo los 117 países que han firmado el” Compromiso Humanitario “, iniciado por Austria, para llenar el vacío legal que actualmente existe con respecto a la posesión de estas armas. La pequeña República de las Islas Marshall se debe sentir particularmente alentada por el llamado del Papa para la abolición, ya que está en el proceso de demandar a los nueve países con armas nucleares en la Corte Internacional de Justicia y en una corte federal por su incapacidad para cumplir con sus obligaciones en virtud del el Tratado de No Proliferación y el derecho internacional consuetudinario.

    El Papa Francisco es un hombre sabio y decente. Sus palabras de apoyo para una “prohibición total” de las armas nucleares deben llegar al corazón de todos los que buscan un mundo libre de esta terrible amenaza, una meta que los que ahora vivimos le debemos a nuestros hijos y nietos y a todas las generaciones que nos seguirán en el planeta.

    David Krieger es presidente de la Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Sus libros y artículos están disponibles en la página web de la Fundación (www.wagingnpeace.org).

    Rubén Arvizu es Director para América Latina de la Nuclear Age Peace Foundation y Director General para América Latina de la organización de Jean-Michel Cousteau, Ocean Futures Society.

  • Pope Francis Calls for Complete Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    When Pope Francis came to the United States he brought with him not only his spirituality, but his courage, compassion and commitment to creating a more decent world.  He urged the people of the US and their representatives to live by the Golden Rule and to respect nature that sustains us all.  Despite a full schedule, he found time to share a meal with the homeless, dialogue with prisoners, and bless those in need.  He commented that the children are the most important among us.  He taught us with his smiles, his warmth, his words and his deeds.

    pope_ungaThe Pope did so much during his six-day visit that many Americans may have missed his remarks at the United Nations on September 25th on the “urgent need to work for a world free of nuclear weapons, in full application of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, in letter and spirit, with the goal of a complete prohibition of these weapons.”  The Pope asks us not only to desire such a world, but admonishes us “to work” for it.  In order to achieve this world, one must work to replace apathy with empathy, conformity with critical thinking, ignorance with wisdom, and denial with recognition of the threat these weapons pose to humankind and the human future.

    Pope Francis calls upon us to recognize that there is an “urgent need” for such work.  It is not work for a distant day, or work that can be put off to another time.  The matter is urgent, the need is great.  He also calls for the “full application of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, in letter and spirit.”  The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which entered into force in 1970, requires the parties in Article VI of the treaty “to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to the cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament….”

    The five nuclear-armed countries that are parties to the NPT (US, Russia, UK, France and China) are not at present following either the letter or spirit of the treaty.  Rather than ending the nuclear arms race, they are engaged in costly and dangerous “modernizing” of their nuclear arsenals, while ignoring their obligations to negotiate in good faith for nuclear disarmament.  The four nuclear-armed countries that are not parties to the treaty (Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea) are bound by customary international law to these provisions of the NPT, and are also ignoring their obligations under international law.

    Pope Francis is clear that the goal to be achieved is the “complete prohibition” of nuclear weapons.  Partial measures are not enough.  As the spiritual leader that he is, he must be keenly aware that all of Creation, including humankind, is placed at risk by the more than 15,000 nuclear weapons still on our planet.  The Pope effectively dismisses nuclear deterrence as a justification for nuclear weapons.  He states, “An ethics and a law based on the threat of mutual destruction – and possibly the destruction of all mankind – are self-contradictory and an affront to the entire framework of the United Nations, which would end up as ‘nations united by fear and distrust.’”

    As someone who has worked for the abolition of nuclear weapons for more than three decades, I am greatly encouraged by the Pope’s resounding call for “complete prohibition.”  He did not mince his words.  He was clear and direct and spoke of the urgency that is necessary to accomplish the task.  Many others throughout the world seeking a world free of nuclear weapons must also be elated by Pope Francis’ call for nuclear weapons abolition, including the 117 countries that have signed the “Humanitarian Pledge,” initiated by Austria, to fill the legal gap that currently exists regarding possession of these weapons.  The tiny Republic of the Marshall Islands must be particularly encouraged by the Pope’s call for abolition as it is in the process of suing the nine nuclear-armed countries in the International Court of Justice and in US federal court for their failure to fulfill their obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and customary international law.

    Pope Francis is a wise and decent man.  His words of support for a “complete prohibition” of nuclear weapons should give heart to all who seek a world free of nuclear weapons, a goal that those of us now alive owe to our children and grandchildren and all generations that will follow us on the planet.

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  • Reason Is Not Enough

    Reason is not enough to halt the nuclear juggernaut that rumbles unsteadily toward catastrophe, toward omnicide.

    The broken heart of humanity must find a way to enter the debate.  The heart must find common cause with imagination.  We cannot wait until the missiles are in the air with the sand falling through the hourglass.  We must use our imaginations.  We must listen to the sad stories of those who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki and imagine the force of the winds, the firestorms rushing through our cities, the mushroom clouds rising, the invisible radiation spreading.  If we can’t imagine the death and destruction, we cannot combat it and we will never stop it.

    David KriegerWe are trapped by our myopia and lethargy, the forces that keep us impotent in the face of the nuclear threat.  I call these forces ACID: Apathy, Conformity, Ignorance and Denial.  ACID is corrosive to our common future.  ACID is the collection of obstacles to change that is preventing us from ending the nuclear weapons era and preserving the human future.

    Our challenge is to move from ACID to Action by changing apathy to empathy; conformity to critical thinking; ignorance to wisdom; and denial to recognition.

    Apathy is indifference, a recipe for maintaining the status quo.  Empathy is the result of imagining oneself in another’s shoes, in this case the shoes of those who were victims of the atomic bombings, either at Hiroshima or Nagasaki, or victims of atmospheric nuclear testing.

    Conformity is going along with the herd mentality, like lemmings over a cliff.  Critical thinking is a means of breaking with the herd, of seeing the dangers in what is commonly considered acceptable.  Apply critical thinking to nuclear deterrence theory and you find a theory that cannot be proven and is subject to failure.  Nuclear deterrence cannot, for example, stand up to terrorists, those who have no territory or are suicidal.  Nor can deterrence theory apply to leaders who are not rational, and most leaders are not fully rational in times of extreme crisis.

    Ignorance is not knowing, or thinking one knows that which is just plain wrong.  It is a result of disinterest or a warped perspective.  It bends toward extreme arrogance or hubris, and includes an absurd and dangerous belief in human infallibility.  Wisdom is grasping our human fallibility and acting to prevent it from leading to disaster.

    Denial is putting on blindfolds and failing to see a problem or threat that would otherwise be obvious.  It is countered by recognition of the threat, in the case of nuclear weapons by recognition of the threat to all humanity.

    We must move from ACID to action, from education to engagement, starting with the recognition that nuclear weapons undermine security, provide no physical protection, threaten civilization and complex life, and are subject to human fallibility.  They are the ultimate evil for they threaten all we love and cherish.

    What can you do?  Start with A-B-C.  Awaken.  Believe.  Contribute.  Awaken to the threat (be aware, attentive and active).  Believe you can make a difference on this most critical of issues.  Contribute time, talent, money, ideas.  Everyone has something they can contribute, and it will take many of us joining together to achieve the goal.  Beyond A-B-C, stand up, speak out and join in.  Be a nonviolent warrior for peace and a world free of nuclear weapons.  Choose hope and keep hope alive, and persevere and never give up.

  • The International Day of Peace

    Planet Earth from outer spaceOn this day, like any other,
    soldiers are killing and dying,
    arms merchants are selling their wares,
    missiles are aimed at your heart,
    and peace is a distant dream.

    Not just for today, but for each day,
    let’s sheathe our swords, save the sky
    for clouds, the oceans for mystery
    and the earth for joy.

    Let’s stop honoring the war makers
    and start giving medals for peace.

    On this day, like any other,
    there are infinite possibilities to change
    our ways.

    Peace is an apple tree heavy with fruit,
    a new way of loving the world.

    David Krieger is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

  • David Hartsough: An Inspiring Life

    I recently read this impressive autobiography by nonviolent activist David Hartsough, which I recommend highly.  David was born in 1940 and has been a lifelong participant and leader in actions seeking a more decent world through nonviolent means.  His guiding stars have been peace, justice, nonviolence and human dignity.  He has been a foe of all U.S. wars during his lifetime, and a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War.  He has lived his nonviolence and made it an adventure in seeking truth, as Gandhi did.  I will not try to recount the many adventures that he writes about, but they include civil rights sit-ins, blockading weapons bound for Vietnam, accompanying at-risk individuals in the wars in Central America and creating, with a colleague, a Nonviolent Peaceforce.

    Waging PeaceDavid has lived his life with compassion, commitment and courage.  He is principled, but also pragmatic.  He finds, “It is much easier to make friends than to fight enemies.”  He asks us to use our imaginations: “Imagine how the world would change if we recruited millions of people for the Peace Corps, nonviolent peace teams, and other constructive efforts, rather than for our military forces.  Think of how much safer we all would be if the world knew Americans as healers and teachers, builders of clinics and schools, and supporters of land reform, rather than as deadly dominators.”  Imagine what a different world that would be.

    In addition to telling his life story, David has a chapter on “Transforming Our Society from One Addicted to Violence and War to One Based on Justice and Peace with the World.”  He also included sections on: Proposal for Ending All War; Resources for Further Study and Action; Ten Lessons Learned from My Life of Activism; and much more.

    David Hartsough’s life is inspiring, and the lessons he draws from his experiences are valuable in paving the way to a world without war.  I encourage you to read his book on his lifelong efforts at Waging Peace.

    Hartsough, David with Joyce Hollyday, Waging Peace, Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist (Oakland, CA.: PM Press, 2014). Click here to purchase on Amazon.com.

  • Humanizar, no modernizar

    Traducción de Rubén Arvizu.

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    La Nuclear Age Peace Foundation celebra ahora 33 años de trabajar por la paz y por un mundo libre de armas nucleares. Buscamos estas metas para la gente de hoy, así como también para las del futuro. Para que todos podamos tener un planeta sano para vivir y disfrutar.

    La ciencia y tecnología han traído grandes beneficios a la humanidad en la forma de mejorar la salud, las comunicaciones, el transporte y muchas otras áreas de nuestras vidas. Una persona promedio en la actualidad tiene una vida mejor y más larga que la de reyes y nobles de épocas anteriores. Sin embargo, la ciencia y la tecnología no siempre han sido universalmente positivas. También nos han dado armas capaces de destruir la civilización y la vida más compleja en el planeta, incluyendo a nuestra propia especie.

    En la Era Nuclear, nuestra capacidad tecnológica para la destrucción ha superado nuestra capacidad espiritual y moral para controlar estas tecnologías destructivas. Nuestra Fundación es una voz para todos aquellos comprometidos con el ejercicio de la conciencia y la elección de un futuro decente para toda la humanidad.

    NAPF continúa en su papel de consultor de la República de las Islas Marshall (RIM) en sus valientes demandas de Cero nuclear contra los nueve Goliats que poseen ese armamento.  Los isleños de las Marshall, que han sido víctimas de las pruebas nucleares de Estados Unidos, conocen muy bien el dolor y el sufrimiento causado por esas pruebas. Sus demandas no buscan compensación monetaria, sino asegurar que los países con armas nucleares cumplan con sus obligaciones en virtud del derecho internacional del Tratado de No Proliferación Nuclear y las  negociaciones internacionales de buena fe para poner fin a las armas nucleares en una fecha próxima y así lograr el desarme nuclear en todos sus aspectos. Estamos orgullosos de apoyar a la RIM en estas demandas justas y necesarias.

    No existe forma de humanizar las armas que son inhumanas, inmorales e ilegales. Ellas deben ser abolidas, no modernizadas. Y, sin embargo, los nueve países con armas nucleares están involucrados en la modernización de sus arsenales nucleares.  EE.UU. está a la cabeza, y planea  gastar más de 1 billón de dólares en la mejora de este arsenal en los próximos tres decenios. Con este paso, está haciendo  que el mundo sea más peligroso y menos seguro.

    EE.UU. podría ser líder en la humanización en lugar de  la modernización mediante la reasignación de sus vastos recursos para alimentar a los hambrientos, los sin techo, proporcionando agua potable, asegurando una educación para los pobres, así como la limpieza del medio ambiente, el cambio a fuentes de energía renovables y reparando la infraestructura deteriorada.

    Únete a nosotros para hacer el cambio de en lugar de modernizar los arsenales nucleares, humanizar el planeta.

    David Krieger es Presidente de la Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

    Rubén Arvizu es Director para América Latina de la Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.