To: President Donald Trump
President Obama: No New Missile Tests and Confer With the UN on Nuclear Weapons
Tell President Obama to cancel a provocative nuclear missile test of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile scheduled for September 26, and to attend the United Nations High-Level Meeting on nuclear disarmament--also scheduled for September 26.
Why is this important?
This Thursday, September 26 has special significance to those who want to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. It is the date for the UN High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament.
Instead of working in good faith to achieve nuclear disarmament, the United States chose to schedule two tests of its Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile on September 22 and September 26.
On the same day that most countries will send their head of state or foreign minister to New York for the UN’s first-ever High-Level Meeting on nuclear disarmament, the U.S. plans to send a Minuteman III missile from California to the Marshall Islands.
These missiles are designed to carry nuclear warheads capable of killing thousands of times more people than the chemical weapons used in Syria.
Urgent actions have helped stop Minuteman III tests before: in 2011 on the International Day of Peace, and in 2012 on the anniversary of the largest-ever nuclear weapon test conducted by the U.S. (Castle Bravo in the Marshall Islands).
Everyone’s signature is needed to try to stop the September 26 test as well. Send a message to President Obama, telling him to cancel this second provocative nuclear missile test and to attend the UN High-Level Meeting on September 26.
Instead of working in good faith to achieve nuclear disarmament, the United States chose to schedule two tests of its Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile on September 22 and September 26.
On the same day that most countries will send their head of state or foreign minister to New York for the UN’s first-ever High-Level Meeting on nuclear disarmament, the U.S. plans to send a Minuteman III missile from California to the Marshall Islands.
These missiles are designed to carry nuclear warheads capable of killing thousands of times more people than the chemical weapons used in Syria.
Urgent actions have helped stop Minuteman III tests before: in 2011 on the International Day of Peace, and in 2012 on the anniversary of the largest-ever nuclear weapon test conducted by the U.S. (Castle Bravo in the Marshall Islands).
Everyone’s signature is needed to try to stop the September 26 test as well. Send a message to President Obama, telling him to cancel this second provocative nuclear missile test and to attend the UN High-Level Meeting on September 26.