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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Public Action Needed to Reduce Nuclear War Risk<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--Report from the United Nations Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Beloved friends, Barbara and I just returned from a United Nations meeting of worldwide activists focused on avoiding nuclear war. Barbara chaired a workshop on Nuclear War Risk Reduction, a very influential event at which I presented information and analysis developed over months of email collaboration with activists from Australia to the US Air Force. I’ll be posting this on my website <span class=MsoHyperlink><a href="http://www.avoidingnuclearwar.com">www.avoidingnuclearwar.com</a></span> as I recover from the ordeal of the ten-day trip to New York City.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Consensus at the conference is that this is the most risky time in history for “accidental” nuclear war, because of escalating tensions and nuclear weapon threats between the US and Russia. All agreed that a major factor increasing the danger of all-destroying nuclear war is public disengagement from this issue. So, for my first report on this amazing event, I’m asking everyone to take a few minutes and call the US Congress (202)224-3121 in support of HR 921, Rep. Adam Smith’s one-sentence bill that could make us all a lot safer: “It is the policy of the United States to not use nuclear weapons first.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> I called this morning and was immediately connected with Rep. Jared Huffman’s office. I asked him to join our former representative, Rep. Mike Thompson, in co-sponsoring this vital bill. There is a worldwide effort to convince all nuclear-armed nations to join China and India in renouncing first-use of these weapons, which really are instruments of suicidal omnicide (destruction on all) which must never be used.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Heartfelt thanks to friends and family who supported our effort. It’s so great to return to Mendocino with the burgeoning life here! Let’s all make a little effort to keep it going. Love, John Lewallen <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>