Petition: Stop the Reliable Replacement Warhead!

[rumpel]

Council For A Livable World
http://www.clw.org/

The development of new nuclear weapons would undermine U.S. efforts to prevent the spread and development of nuclear weapons by other countries and could provide a justification for current non-nuclear weapon states to seek the acquisition of such weapons. It is both hypocritical and counter-productive for the United States to build new nuclear weapons at the same time that it is trying to convince countries such as Iran and North Korea not to develop nuclear weapons of their own.

We oppose any funding for the development of new nuclear weapons such as the Reliable Replacement Warhead.

Multiple independent studies have shown that the U.S. nuclear stockpile will remain “safe and reliable” for at least another 50 years. A November 2006 study conducted by American weapons laboratories and reviewed by JASON, an independent government advisory body of nuclear scientists originally founded by members of the Manhattan Project, revealed that plutonium “pits,” the cores that trigger nuclear weapons, remain viable for at least 90 years, twice the earlier estimate of 45 years and three times the age of the oldest weapons in the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

The Reliable Replacement Warhead is both unnecessary and dangerous, and this program should be terminated immediately.

http://www.clw.org/action/petitions/stop_rrw