Friends Committee on National Legislation: No New Nuclear Weapons

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For immediate release: November 29, 2007


Contact Devin Helfrich ([e-mail] or 202-903-2520) or Maureen Brookes ([e-mail] or 202-903-2530)


Thirty national arms control, religious, and environmental organizations joined together today to ask Sen. Byron Dorgan (ND) and Rep. Pete Visclosky (IN-1) to block funding for a new generation of nuclear weapons. Dorgan and Visclosky are the chairmen of the committees that control nuclear weapons funding.


The signing organizations highlighted the dangerous international nonproliferation consequences of developing new nuclear weapons, particularly the ability of the United States to curb other countries’ nuclear weapons programs.


"We urge you to delete all funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) from the upcoming omnibus appropriations bill…We believe it is important to consider the adverse international nonproliferation consequences of proceeding with RRW...If the United States does not appear to be serious about nonproliferation and disarmament, its ability to limit other nations’ development of nuclear weapons will erode,” the national organizations wrote in a letter that was released today by the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the Quaker lobby which coordinated the effort.


“The groups that came together around this issue are a broad cross-section of secular and faith-based organizations who have been working for months to stop this new warhead,” said Devin Helfrich, a Legislative Assistant for the Friends Committee on National Legislation.


A full copy of the letter and signatories can be found here: http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=3038&issue_id=2


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The Friends Committee on National Legislation, the oldest registered religious lobby in Washington, is a non-partisan Quaker lobby in the public interest. FCNL works with a nationwide network of tens of thousands of people from every state in the U.S. to advocate for social and economic justice, peace, and good government. For more information: http://www.fcnl.org

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