To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
No TAX $ to UPGRADE B61 Nukes
Any day now our Congressional leaders could decide it's OK to spend $25 million a piece to upgrade 500 B61 gravity bombs- Cold War-era nuclear weapons we designed to protect the Europeans, who no longer want them. If you agree this is nuclear insanity, please sign my petition: No more tax dollars for nuclear weapons modernization, starting with the B61.
Why is this important?
I am of the generation who remember bomb drills in elementary school, when students innocently hid under their desks. Spending billions of tax dollars on Cold War era nuclear weapons in hopes of security is just as absurd, especially at a time when Congress is cutting the federal budget. Unless we change our course, nuclear weapons and their associated costs are projected to cost U.S. citizens $640 billion during the next 10 years.
I'm dead tired of seeing my tax dollars, paid by the work I do everyday as a teacher, high-jacked for weapons that have the capacity to destroy - many times over - everything I love and value. NUKES ARE NUTS!
Need more food for thought and action.The declassified video included with the first article is surreal reality check!
http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/31/debating-nuclear-deterrence/
http://www.wand.org/2013/11/22/a-look-into-gold-plated-waste-our-briefing-on-the-hill/
http://blogs.fas.org/security/2013/09/b61-12holland/
I'm dead tired of seeing my tax dollars, paid by the work I do everyday as a teacher, high-jacked for weapons that have the capacity to destroy - many times over - everything I love and value. NUKES ARE NUTS!
Need more food for thought and action.The declassified video included with the first article is surreal reality check!
http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/31/debating-nuclear-deterrence/
http://www.wand.org/2013/11/22/a-look-into-gold-plated-waste-our-briefing-on-the-hill/
http://blogs.fas.org/security/2013/09/b61-12holland/