In all the commentaries, they of course talk about how terrible the nuclear weapons are and how they endanger our existence. There are no demands on changing things.

Below see the letter that I sent to the Bulletin of Nuclear Scientists and Congressman Al Green. Please demand specific big changes. We will not survive with business as usual.

Sincerely,

The Statement

Global warming, poverty, wealth inequality, nuclear winter or environmental contamination will kill most life on our precious planet by 2100.

Nikita Khrushchev had it right when he said in a nuclear war that the survivors will envy the dead.

The staff at the Bulletin advocate war abolition itself, not just stopping a nuclear war. It is now just the hippies who have asked for war abolition. Many establishment people have advocated war abolition: Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Pope Paul VI, Henry Stimson, Albert Speer, Douglas MacArthur and now Pope Leo. Only Woodrow Wilson offered specific steps on getting there.

See this excerpt from General Douglas MacArthur’s address to the US Congress on April 19, 1951:

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. Various methods through the ages have been attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations. From the very start workable methods were found in so far as individual citizens were concerned, but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international scope have never been successful. Military alliances, balances of power, Leagues of Nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war now blocks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature, and all material and cultural developments of the past 2000 years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

The first step is for the two superpowers to keep 1,000 nuclear weapons each and decommission the rest. Invite military officers, scientists and reporters from many nations to witness this breathtaking event.

Freeze all nuclear weapons research.

Start a Second Marshall Plan to end poverty everywhere. Every human being would have food, shelter, medical care, education and a safe neighborhood. The Second Marshall Plan will provide resources for environmental projects that will reverse global warming.

Start a tracking system that will eventually show where every nuclear weapon is located. There will be a handful at first. With increasing trust and confidence, all nuclear weapons’ locations will be known. This should reduce the fear from a first strike.

In every country, make nuclear war an institutional response not one person’s responsibility. In the US, this would mean a committee of 5 senators and 6 congressmen would be responsible. To launch a nuclear strike, the President and a majority would have to agree.

Institute a world –wide income tax reform where the rich individuals and major corporations will pay taxes like they did when Eisenhower was president.

To achieve military victory over the Axis Powers, the Big Three transformed their economies and their societies to produce fighter aircraft, tanks, artillery, aircraft carriers, landing craft and everything else necessary to win the war.

Now it is our turn to step up to the plate to overcome menaces to our existence more diverse and more complicated than the Axis Powers ever were.

The only way to survive to have a steady state economy rather than the throw away economy that we have now.

We are all in the same lifeboat. There is no planet B. Nuclear winter, environmental contamination, environmental tipping points will doom everyone including the ONE PERCENT.

Winston Churchill sought Allied victory where everyone will walk in sunlit uplands. We at the Bulletin offer a world without poverty and without fear. Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, had it right, ‘’We are here to help each other.’’