To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Stop President Trump from starting a Nuclear War
Support Senate 200 and House 669 on Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017 by prohibiting the President from using the Armed Forces to conduct a first-use nuclear strike unless such strike is conducted pursuant to a congressional declaration of war expressly authorizing such strike.
Why is this important?
Whereas there are Bills pending in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs titled "Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017", WE THE PEOPLE support that these bills be enacted into law, which would prohibit the President from using the Armed Forces to conduct a first-use nuclear strike unless such strike is conducted pursuant to a congressional declaration of war expressly authorizing such strike.
"First-use nuclear strike" means a nuclear weapons attack against an enemy that is conducted without the President determining that the enemy has first launched a nuclear strike against the United States or a U.S. ally. These bills pertain only to a US first strike with nuclear weapons and not to any other relevant situations such as the use of nuclear weapons defensively while America is under attack by such weapons from another nation. In view of escalating world tensions around whether the President of the U.S. would use a first strike nuclear attack, there is an immediacy to move these bills with many co-sponsors to the floor of the Senate and the House for full discussion of the merits of preventing a world-wide nuclear holocaust.
"First-use nuclear strike" means a nuclear weapons attack against an enemy that is conducted without the President determining that the enemy has first launched a nuclear strike against the United States or a U.S. ally. These bills pertain only to a US first strike with nuclear weapons and not to any other relevant situations such as the use of nuclear weapons defensively while America is under attack by such weapons from another nation. In view of escalating world tensions around whether the President of the U.S. would use a first strike nuclear attack, there is an immediacy to move these bills with many co-sponsors to the floor of the Senate and the House for full discussion of the merits of preventing a world-wide nuclear holocaust.