From Vincent Kavaloski
Dodgeville
To the editor:
This year's Nobel Peace Prize has just been awarded to a grassroots coalition of non-governmental organizations in 100 countries. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (I CAN) helped to draft the United Nations treaty outlawing nuclear weapons which was passed by 122 nations, or two-thirds of the world's countries. Sadly, the U.S. and the other eight nuclear-armed nations boycotted the vote.
Why? Nuclear bombs and missiles have the power to obliterate human civilization by killing hundreds of millions of innocent people - men, women and children. It would be a global holocaust.
I CAN warned, "All nations should reject these weapons completely - before they are ever used again. This is a time of great global tension, when fiery rhetoric could all too easily lead us, inexorably, to unspeakable horror."
The present U.S. Administration is planning on spending a trillion dollars to upgrade our massive nuclear arsenal. This money could tremendously benefit U.S. citizens with improved health care, education, day care, poverty reduction disaster relief and environmental protection. It is time for citizens everywhere to raise their voices for sanity and survival.
Dodgeville
To the editor:
This year's Nobel Peace Prize has just been awarded to a grassroots coalition of non-governmental organizations in 100 countries. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (I CAN) helped to draft the United Nations treaty outlawing nuclear weapons which was passed by 122 nations, or two-thirds of the world's countries. Sadly, the U.S. and the other eight nuclear-armed nations boycotted the vote.
Why? Nuclear bombs and missiles have the power to obliterate human civilization by killing hundreds of millions of innocent people - men, women and children. It would be a global holocaust.
I CAN warned, "All nations should reject these weapons completely - before they are ever used again. This is a time of great global tension, when fiery rhetoric could all too easily lead us, inexorably, to unspeakable horror."
The present U.S. Administration is planning on spending a trillion dollars to upgrade our massive nuclear arsenal. This money could tremendously benefit U.S. citizens with improved health care, education, day care, poverty reduction disaster relief and environmental protection. It is time for citizens everywhere to raise their voices for sanity and survival.
