Back from the nuclear brink
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Letter to the editor in the NY Times:
When President-elect Donald Trump assumes office on Jan. 20, 2025, he will once again be the most powerful man in the world as he retakes control of our nuclear arsenals.
Your article offers a blueprint for Mr. Trump to save humanity and ensure a legacy to be among the greatest presidents ever by abolishing nuclear weapons.
Nearly 80 years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in the nuclear age, the world finds itself in the midst of a new arms race and arguably closer to nuclear conflict than at any time since.
The president-elect has acknowledged the danger, referring to the fire and fury of nuclear war and the fact that the world would never recover.
There is a grass-roots movement, Back From the Brink (I am on its steering committee), that calls on the United States, and by extension the president, to indeed step back.
Like your editorial, it calls on the United States to resume arms-control talks.
In addition, it calls for renouncing the first use of nuclear weapons, ending sole presidential authority to launch, canceling the rebuilding of our nuclear arsenal and ending hair-trigger launch alert.
The people are demanding these weapons be eliminated before they eliminate us. What is needed is the courage to act.
Ojai, Calif.
The writer sits on the national board of Physicians for Social Responsibility
posted by Rob Anderson @ 1:45 PM
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