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DRAFT LETTER TO U.S. SENATORS
US. Senate
Washington DC 20510

Dear Senator :

Please introduce into the Senate a mirror of the current House Bill "The Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act of 1999 " which Reps. Lynn Woolsey Cynthia McKinney and John Lewis co-sponsor with Eleanor Holmes Norton (see below).

This legislation is a timely vehicle by which Congress can signal its intent to abide by Article 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which will be coming up for renewal in May 2000 at the U.N.

With the revelations by retired generals and admirals that nuclear weapons are unsafe unnecessary and insane -- with the degenerating situation between the U.S. and Russia and China India and Pakistan - with the World Court decision that nuclear weapons could and should be illegal -- with the growing global pressure for abolition of nuclear fission and depleted uranium weapons - with constituents everywhere still looking for the "Peace Dividend" -- this bill's time has come.

HR-2545 is in the best interest of our state since it marks for conversion and cleanup those funds formerly needed to produce and deploy nuclear weapons. Since it goes into effect when ALL countries possessing nuclear weapons join the U.S. in nuclear disarmament and conversion of their war machines it offers very little security risk and a great deal of good public relations.

How this might work:

In June 1998 the Brookings Institute published a book "Atomic Audit " which proves that the U.S. government has spent over 5.8 trillion dollars on nuclear weapons (alone). Why not amortize $5.8 trillion into the future the first few years to be spent paying workers to retrain while arms manufacturers (of all varieties) retool their factories to mass-produce clean energy systems such as solar wind geothermal biomass hydrogen hydro and other quite marvelous devices which have already been built and proven?

Nuclear power plants can produce nuclear weapons grade materials for warheads and do produce waste which lasts for thousands of years. Fossil fuels are not the answer; some scientists predict that the world will run out of fossil fuels by the year 2050; that's about as long as it's been since the Y2K problem first started with computers. Whoever gets into the clean / renewable energy business(es) will make money just as the computer industry has. Government subsidies may be necessary for startup but taxpayers won't have to subsidize these new industries for long. If Lockheed and Marietta and GE etc. were to convert from making missiles to hi-tech clean-energy devices the problem would be nearly solved. Indeed a number of major arms and energy providers are doing basic research in renewable energy. What's needed though is legislation to lure those giants into mass-producing windmills and hydrogen fuel systems rather than missiles and guns.

We can start here in our own state. Please advise me that you will introduce into the Senate the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act of 1999." This bill can launch a peace dividend that will be emulated around the world.
Sincerely

(Name/Address)

Attachment:

PLEASE INTRODUCE INTO THE SENATE
A MIRROR BILL TO
U.S. House Bill HR-2545 (1999):

SEC. 1. The `Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act'

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND ECONOMIC CONVERSION.

    The United States Government shall--

       (1) disable and dismantle all its nuclear weapons and refrain from replacing them at any time with any weapons of mass destruction;

       (2) redirect resources that are currently being used for nuclear weapons programs to use--

          (A) in converting all nuclear weapons industry employees processes plants and programs smoothly to constructive ecologically beneficial peacetime activities during the 3 years following the effective date of this Act and

          (B) in addressing human and infrastructure needs such as housing health care education agriculture and environmental restoration;

       (3) undertake vigorous good faith efforts to eliminate war armed conflict and all military operations; and

       (4) actively promote policies to induce all other countries to join in these commitments for world peace and security.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall take effect when the President certifies to the Congress that all foreign countries possessing nuclear weapons have established legal requirements comparable to those set forth in section 2 and those requirements have taken effect.

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Ellen Thomas Director Proposition One Committee
PO Box 27217 Washington DC 20038 USA - prop1@prop1.org - http://prop1.org

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Ellen Thomas
Proposition One Committee
PO Box 27217 Washington DC 20038
202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389
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