Full Petition
International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons pose the greatest immediate threat to survival, health, and sustainability. They are the worst weapons of terror. They poison human affairs, our bodies and the environment; consume vast resources; and threaten not only future generations but the future itself.
Any use of even one nuclear weapon would be catastrophic, and would pose profound and unpredictable risks of escalation. Use of nuclear weapons can never be justified, by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose.
Nuclear weapons do not enhance anyone's security, but threaten the security of all, including those who own them. The risk of their use by design or accident is growing. Proliferation is growing while disarmament has stalled. It is utopian to believe that nuclear weapons can be retained in perpetuity and never used, or that as long as some have them, others will not acquire them.
Any rationale for keeping nuclear weapons would evaporate if they were abolished. The obstacles are not technical or legal, but political. Like chemical and biological weapons, nuclear weapons can and must be abolished. Getting rid of nuclear weapons will greatly assist addressing many other important global challenges. We owe ourselves, our children, our planet, our future, nothing less.
I/we support the goal of the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons, the abolition of nuclear weapons.
I/we support a legally binding, verifiable, time-bound agreement - a Nuclear Weapons Convention, to achieve this.
I/we will work to educate ourselves and others about the need to abolish nuclear weapons, and to mobilise the groundswell of public pressure on political leaders needed to make it happen.
