Calling on the Next U.S. President to Pursue Diplomacy with Other Nuclear-Armed States; Participate in Negotiations for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons; Cut Nuclear Weapons Spending and Redirection Funds to Meet the Needs of Cities

WHEREAS, the nuclear-armed countries are edging ever closer to direct military confrontation in conflict zones around the world, and the largest NATO war games in decades, involving 14,000 U.S. troops, and activation of U.S. missile defenses in Eastern Europe are fueling growing tensions between nuclear-armed giants, and according to former Defense Secretary William Perry: “The probability of a nuclear calamity is higher today, I believe, that it was during the cold war.”; and

WHEREAS, more than 15,000 nuclear weapons, most orders of magnitude more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, 94% held by the United States and Russia, continue to pose an intolerable threat to cities and humanity; ...

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the USCM calls on the next President of the United States, as an urgent matter, to pursue new diplomatic initiatives to lower tensions with Russia and China and to dramatically reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles

http://usmayors.org/resolutions/84th_Conference...

Призывая следующего президента США преследовать дипломатию с другими странами вооруженными с ядерным оружием.
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РЕШЕНО, что Конф.Мэр. США призывает следующего президента США, как срочное дело, преследовать новых дипломатических инициативов, чтоб снизить напряженности с РФ и Китаем и разительно уменьшить складов ядерного оружия США и РФ.