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In March, Congressmen Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Dan Lungren (R-CA) introduced the Global Security Priorities Resolution (H. Res. 1045). The resolution calls for reducing U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals to 1000 deployed/3000 total weapons each by 2015. It further stipulates that some of the financial savings from such a move would be redirected to the Nunn-Lugar program,
as well as $6.5B to "child survival, hunger, and universal education" programs worldwide in an attempt to address the root causes of terrorism.
Faithful Security, along with many of our partners, has endorsed the resolution whole-heartedly.
Though the resolution does not advocate
complete nuclear disarmament, it sets the proposed actions within the context of our NPT Article VI obligations to pursue nuclear weapons elimination. Moreover, the resolution falls
squarely within our policy priority of advancing security measures that will enable further disarmament. The resolution also links disarmament with human security in a
creative way that opens up support for our issue from a development/human rights standpoint.
Most importantly, the resolution represents a terrific step forward in the nonpartisan advancement of nuclear disarmament.
TAKE ACTION
Ask Your U.S. Representative to Cosponsor the Resolution - Send a quick email.
Your Representative already signed on as a cosponsor? Send a thank you.
RESOURCES
Copy of the resolution, H. Res. 1045 (PDF)
Current cosponsors of H. Res. 1045
Letter to the leadership of the House Foreign Affiars Committee asking for quick action on the resolution, from 24 religious and secular organizations. July 24, 2008
Letter on the Global Security Priorities
Resolution by Bishop Thomas Wenski,
Chairman, International Justice and Peace Committee, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Statement in support of the Global Securities Priorities Resolution by Mr. Marty Rendon, Vice President, U.S. Fund for UNICEF
U.S. Fund for UNICEF : Sample letter for constituents to send to Members of Congress,
and Backgrounder on H. Res. 1045
Statement in support of the Global Security Priorities Resolution by the Rev. Mark S.
Hanson, Presiding Bishop, Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America
Statement by Major General (ret)
William F. Burns in support of the resolution
Notable Individual
and
Organizational Endorsements
- U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- U.S. Fund for UNICEF
- William P. Clark, National Security Advisor/Reagan Administration
- Major General (ret.) William F. Burns, Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency/Reagan Administration; Chief Negotiator with Russian Federation on Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Initiative/George H. W. Bush Administration
The Global Security Priorities
Resolution (H. Res. 1045) calls for reducing U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals to 1000 deployed/3000 total weapons each by 2015.
- Dr. Lawrence J. Korb,
Assistant Secretary
of Defense/Reagan Administration;
Senior Advisor, Center for
Defense Information;
Senior Fellow,
Center for American Progress - Union of Concerned Scientists
- Leadership Conference of Women
Religious - Friends Committee on
National Legislation - Union for Reform Judaism
- Conference of Major Superiors of Men
- Evangelicals for Human Rights
- U.S. Coalition for Child Survival
- United Methodist Church -
General Board of Church and Society - Catholic Relief Services
- Friends of the World Food Program
- Faithful Security:
The National Religious
Partnership on the
Nuclear Weapons Danger - Council for a Livable World
- British American
Security Information
Council (BASIC) - Mennonite Central Committee
U.S./Washington Office - The Episcopal Church
- The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.),
Washington Office - Islamic Society of North America
- Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America
- Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
