Petition Text: 22465-CS-NonDis-O

Humanity has faced the threat of mass destruction since the first nuclear weapons exploded fifty years ago. Even if all existing arms control treaties are fully implemented, 20,000 warheads will remain by the year 2003--the equivalent of 200,000 Hiroshima bombs or two tons of TNT for every man, woman, and child on the planet.

Nuclear weapons are a threat to human health and society wherever they exist or may be produced and deployed.

Therefore, the 1996 General Conference of The United Methodist Church:

1) Calls upon the nations of the world, and especially on the nuclear weapons states, to enter immediately into negotiations to permanently abolish nuclear weapons;

2) Calls upon these nations to complete these negotiations by the year 2000 so that we can enter the new millennium free of the threat of thermonuclear holocaust; and

3) Calls upon all nations to cease immediately the testing of nuclear weapons.

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Petition Text: 22465-CS-NonDis-O
1996 United Methodist General Conference