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Letter to Congressional Legislators

Physicians for Social Responsibility
Western North Carolina Chapter       
P.O. Box 17613   Asheville, N.C.  28816

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9/20/26
Letter sent by WNCPSR to Congressional Legislators    

The United States doesn’t have the right to threaten the extinction of humanity! Our unnecessarily large nuclear arsenal does that.

Stop the Sentinel Program.  Land-based weapons must be launched quickly in a potential crisis without time to gather more information.  Accidents happen.

Stop the Golden Dome.  No chance of ever working.  

Stop building new plutonium pits.  Unnecessary.  Encourages proliferation.

Stop Launch-on-Warning.  Accidents happen.

Stop the possibility of launch by a single human.  Accidents happen.

Cooperate in international efforts to diminish the number of nuclear weapons on earth.  A small number of nuclear weapons would not threaten to make humans extinct.  Accidents happen.

Human extinction would not happen painlessly or quickly.  It would be a very long process for those unlucky enough to survive the initial blasts.  It would include very much pain, (agonizing physical pain and mental desperation), hunger, disease and loss (electricity, clean water, cell phones, tv, internet, transportation, medicines, hospitals, clean water, …)  for all living people, including children.

Thanks,
WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility

Mission Statement

PREVENTING WHAT WE CANNOT CURE: Physicians for Social Responsibility is the medical and public health voice working to prevent the use or spread of nuclear weapons and to slow, stop and reverse global warming and the toxic degradation of the environment.