The time to turn away from nuclear weapons is NOW.
But as I write, powerful members of Congress are working to pour even MORE money into the already-massive U.S. nuclear arsenal — heightening the possibility of a nightmare scenario: nuclear war.
With geopolitical tensions running high, it won’t be easy to push back, and that’s why we need you with us.
Can you donate $15 now to help us make sure Congress doesn’t greenlight one of the biggest expansions of nuclear weapons in years and pour fuel on the fire of a global arms race?
Together, we’ll stop this latest attempt to fund a new nuclear arms spree — because we can’t do it without you. Thanks for all you do to push for peace.
— Annika
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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), two powerful members of the congressional Armed Services committees, are working overtime to spend BILLIONS of dollars to expand the already-massive U.S. nuclear arsenal with more subs, bombers, and land-based missiles — unnecessary, apocalyptically dangerous weapons.
It’s this backward thinking that will do little to make us safe, and with the Doomsday Clock ticking closer toward midnight[1] and the risk of conflict between the United States and Russia increasing day by day, adding fuel to this fire only heightens the possibility of a nightmare scenario: nuclear war.
But thankfully, it’s not a done deal.
Right now, a fight is brewing in Congress over how and where BILLIONS of funds authorized for the Pentagon should be spent, and we’ve got just a few precious weeks to push back. We’re gearing up to double down during an incredibly urgent moment — raising the alarm in the media, and mobilizing our champions in Congress along with grassroots activists like you to stop this latest attempt to fund a new nuclear arms spree. And we need you with us.
As we step up, we need to ask if you can too. Can you make an urgent $15 donation to fuel our work to stop one of the biggest expansions of nuclear weapons in YEARS? Not everyone reading will donate, and if you are, we need you with us.
The reality is that building more nuclear weapons only entrenches a global arms race that could have devastating impacts on all of us.
The exorbitant amount of money nuclear weapons cost — well over a TRILLION dollars in the coming years — could, and SHOULD, be invested in the needs of our communities instead. Given this cost, as well as the dire threat they pose to millions of people around the globe, abandoning the development of new nuclear weapons should be an easy choice.
Instead, we’re seeing the acceleration of a new nuclear arms race. That looks like the Pentagon and their hawkish friends in Congress pitching hard to spend the additional BILLIONS Congress authorized late last year on a new generation of weapons.
That includes Trump's pet projects like the nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N) — a nuke that multiple presidents from George H.W. Bush to Obama chose to keep in storage or retire, and that experts say are a colossal waste of money.
Now, with tensions rising in Ukraine, hawkish members of Congress are seizing crises and conflicts as opportunities to expand the U.S. war machine, and getting set to fill the Pentagon’s nuclear weapons wishlist. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
We’ve got just a few critical weeks to pull out all the stops to keep the pressure on Congress to push them away from ANY nuclear weapons spending increases. But it won’t be easy, and that’s why we need you with us.
Can you donate $15 now to help us make sure Congress doesn’t greenlight one of the biggest expansions of nuclear weapons in years and pour fuel on the fire of a global arms race?
For the last three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set the Doomsday Clock at just 100 seconds to midnight.
It reflects the terrifying reality that we’re all too close to global catastrophe, and it’s fueled in no small part by our reliance on nuclear weapons. But doomsday is not a foregone conclusion, and second by second, we’re committed to turning it back.
Thank you for working for peace,
Faith, Shayna, Yint, and the Win Without War team
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[1] Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "At doom’s doorstep: It is 100 seconds to midnight"
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