A new START toward nuclear disaramament

Tyler Wigg Stevenson of the Ploughshares-funded Two Futures Project writes that the new START Treaty is a welcome step in the right direction, bringing U.S. and Russian deployed weapons down to 1,550 on each side.  Nonetheless, he points out, "it’s worth doing a reality check, too. Atomic wonks are wont to forget that nuclear war planning scenarios exist in the realm of fantasyland. The use of even one nuclear weapon would mean the end of the world as we know it...In terms of a cost-benefit analysis, this is crazy: what problem do we think that nuclear weapons would solve that would be worth this unimaginable death and suffering?"   Wigg-Stevenson calls on people of faith to take action to prevent nuclear disaster.  Visit the Two Futures Project website to tell your Senators to support ratification of the START Treaty.