Cutting Nukes: It’s the SANE thing to do 2/9/2012–Support the Smarter Approaches to Nuclear Expenditures Act
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On February 8th, 35 members of Congress introduced legislation that could reduce the billions of dollars our country wastes each year on maintaining an enormous nuclear weapons program.
The Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures (SANE) Act, H.R. 3974, would cancel, freeze or reduce more than a dozen nuclear programs. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Ed Markey (MA), would reduce the number of deployed nuclear warheads to no more than 1,000 and reduce the nuclear weapons budget by about $100 billion over the next 10 years.
Among the cuts the bill proposes are
Reducing the fleet of nuclear armed submarines from 14 to 8;
Canceling plans for the new F-35 jet, which could carry nuclear bombs;
Cancel plans for a new intercontinental ballistic missile system; and
Cancel plans to build a uranium processing facility in Oak Ridge, TN to make materials for new nuclear weapons.
FCNL sees this legislation as an important practical step in the direction of a world free of nuclear weapons. Please urge your representative to support this legislation. If he or she has already cosponsored the legislation, you will see a sample letter that thanks your representative for leadership on this bill
David CulpAsk Rep; Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures (SANE) Act, H.R. 3974. via A Green Road Blog
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1693739515355388462#editor/target=post;postID=6890075835630294972
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