COUNTERPLAN/NUCLEAR ABOLITION

ADVANTAGE: BEST WAY TO PROTECT CITIZENS IS ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

THE BEST DEFENSE IS TO STOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS FROM EVER BEING BUILT

EDITORIAL; The Seattle Times, October 03, 1999, Pg. B10 HEADLINE: THE BEST NUCLEAR BOMB IS THE ONE NEVER BUILT// In-acs

Ensuring bombs are not built remains the best defense.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE THE BIGGEST SOURCE OF USA NATIONAL INSECURITY

David Krieger, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.  11.28.2000 A World Without Nuclear Weapons

Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll, the Deputy Director of the Center for Defense Information, argues, "American leaders have declared that nuclear weapons will remain the cornerstone of US national security indefinitely.  In truth, as the world’s only remaining superpower, nuclear weapons are the sole military source of our national insecurity.  We, and the whole world, would be much safer if nuclear weapons were abolished and Planet Earth was a nuclear free zone."

THERE ARE ALREADY 32 MILLION RADIATION VICTIMS IN THE WORLD

Kumkum Sangari, Neeraj Malik, Sheba Chhachhi, Tanika Sarkar , Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament, 2001, Why Women Must Reject Nuclearisation

In fact there are 32 million radiation victims all over the world -- workers in nuclear plants, the peoples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where bombs have been dropped, people in the Pacific islands where several tests have been conducted, the uranium miners, as well as the victims of nuclear weapons testing, waste dumping and the accidents that have happened all over the world.