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The Eight Stupidest Things About Nuclear Weapons

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7. We're paying people piles of money for this, and they're buying our elections with it.

The owners of these sociopathic corporations are getting stinking rich putting all life on Earth at risk:

1. Aerojet Rocketdyne (United Kingdom, United States);
2. Airbus (France);
3. BAE Systems (France, United Kingdom, United States);
4. Bechtel (United States);
5. Bharat Dynamics (India);
6. Boeing (United Kingdom, United States);
7. China Aerospace Science and Technology (China);
8. Constructions Industrielles de la Me'diterrane'e (France);
9. Fluor (United States);
10. General Dynamics (United Kingdom, United States);
11. Honeywell International (United States);
12. Huntington Ingalls Industries (United States);
13. Jacobs Engineering (United States);
14. L3 Harris Technologies (United States);
15. Larsen & Toubro (India);
16. Leidos (United States);
17. Leonardo (France);
18. Lockheed Martin (United Kingdom, United States);
19. Northrop Grumman (United Kingdom, United States);
20. Raytheon Technologies (United States);
21. Rostec (Russian Federation);
22. Safran (France);
23. Textron (United States);
24. Thales (France), and;
25. Walchandnagar Industries Limited (India).

8. The solutions are painfully obvious

There's no great mystery what to do, how governments could do it, or how people could compel governments to do it. Yet it's not being done.

If you are the U.S. government:

  • You commit to not using nukes ever.
  • You join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
  • You immediately begin complying with it and with other treaties you're violating, so that people take it seriously.
  • You remove your nukes from other countries you've put them in.
  • You take the weapons off the missiles.
  • You dismantle and destroy the weapons, beginning with the land-based ones.
  • You facilitate the de-nuclearization of other countries by de-funding militarism in general and by investing in actually green energy.

If you are the U.S. public:

  • You work on divestment, education, agitation, and organization, learning from and building on the history of successful popular actions against nuclear madness.

You can also support the Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments and participate in these events:

June 12 noon ET: https://www.june12legacy.com

June 12 4 p.m. ET: https://defusenuclearwar.org

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