Peace Action
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Peace Action is a peace organization formed through the merger of SANE (The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy) and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (also known as "The Freeze"). It has mobilized for peace and nuclear disarmament since 1957. As of 2004, Peace Action is focusing on preventing the deployment of nuclear weapons in space, weapons sales to countries abusing human rights, and promoting a new U.S. foreign policy based on common security and peaceful resolution to international conflicts.
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Accomplishments
- 1963 international treaty to ban above-ground nuclear weapons testing
- 1960s protested the war in Vietnam War
- 1996 signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
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At Peace Action we believe... ...that every person has the right to live without the threat of nuclear weapons. There are over 30,000 nuclear weapons in the world. The US and Russia still have thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at each other, ready to launch in minutes. While the Cold War may have ended, the nuclear threat has not. The only way to ensure that nuclear weapons will never be used - whether purposefully, or accidentally - is global abolition. We can build a nuclear weapons free world for future generations.From their website
Note
The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy, merged with the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign in 1987 and was the combined organization was named SANE/FREEZE; the organization adopted the name Peace Action in 1993.
A president emeritus of Peace Action is the Reverend William Sloane Coffin.
External link
- Peace Action official site (http://www.peace-action.org/)