TAKE ACTION: Tell President Obama to reject plans for a new nuclear cruise missile

from the All Souls Nuclear Disarmament Task Force

The Air Force is pressing President Obama to request funding for a new nuclear cruise missile. That would be a terrible mistake:

• It is unnecessary: multiple redundancy is already built into the U.S. nuclear arsenal of submarines, bombers, and land-based missiles.
• The enormous cost (currently estimated at $20 billion, but that would certainly go up) would divert funds from civilian needs, and also from conventional defense and antiterrorism programs.
• It would be de-stabilizing: former Secretary of Defense William Perry warned yesterday that we are on the brink of a new nuclear arms race, possibly more dangerous than the Cold War.

TAKE ACTION: Email the White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Sample message:

Mr. President, please reject plans for a new nuclear cruise missile. The enormous cost is unnecessary, and the destabilizing effect would actually make our country less secure.

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