Tri-Valley CAREs works to strengthen global security by stopping the development of new nuclear weapons in the US and by promoting the elimination of nuclear weapons globally. Tri-Valley CAREs monitors nuclear weapons and environmental clean-up activities throughout the US nuclear weapons complex, with a special focus on the Lawrence Livermore Lab and surrounding communities.
U.S. needs to reduce its nuclear arsenal- A letter to the Editor by TVC member Stephan Kelley
Jan19
Date: January 19, 2012
Published in: The Oakland Tribune
By: Stephan Kelly
http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreviewonline/letterstotheeditor/ci_19768934
U.S. needs to reduce its nuclear arsenal
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I thought about the powerful things the civil rights leader had to say about war and this nation's priorities.
In 1967, he said, "The best brains in the highly developed nations of the world are devoted to military technology. The fact that most of the time human beings put the truth about the nature and risks of nuclear war out of their minds because it is too painful and therefore not 'acceptable,' does not alter the nature and risks of such war."
This situation persists, even at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, where thousands still work every day on nuclear weapons technology for our government at huge costs to taxpayers. President Barack Obama is pushing for a reduction in weapons, and this is a positive sign. We must support his efforts to eliminate these weapons before they eliminate us.
Stephan Kelly
Oakland