NCW Peace is the website of a group of North Central
Washington
citizens committed to ending war. Our group includes business
owners, students, Christians, military veterans, orchardists, retired
persons -
people just like you. We believe that mankind can,
and must,
learn to settle
differences by non-violent means. With this website, we hope
to
keep you informed of activities
for peace in the North Central
Washington area, provide articles and other resources
for peacemaking,
and provide you with links
to other peacemaking organizations.
The United States possesses ten thousand nuclear weapons,
enough to kill every man, woman, and child on Earth more than a
half-dozen times. Nuclear weapons aren't a legitimate
military weapon; they are not intended for use against military
targets. They are intended as destroyers of cities,
destroyers of millions of human lives. Are we as a nation
really capable of vaporizing millions of human beings in a blinding
flash? Have our moral standards really fallen so low?
If we are not willing to use these weapons to kill millions
of human beings, then why do we have them? To regain our
moral standing, to regain our humanity, we must eliminate these
weapons.
Please contact your elected representatives now and tell them
we
must dismantle our nuclear weapons.
"I
would
characterize current U.S.
nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary,
and dreadfully dangerous." - former USA defense secretary
Robert McNamara
