Washington Against Nuclear Weapons statewide Pickets

Address the Nuclear Legacy

• Divest All Public Funds from Nuclear Weapons
  Every City, County, University, and Public Fund must stop investing and doing business  with the companies that profit off of nuclear weapons, following the lead of Spokane, WA
• Heal the Harms and Expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA)
  Provide medical treatment to people affected by radiation and nuclear testing. Clean up every war zone where depleted uranium weapons have been deployed and make restitution to all countries and individuals which have been harmed by nuclear weapons used by the United States military operations. 
• Contain and Clean Up Hanford, WA’s Leaking Radiation
  Congress must end the outstanding threats at the site of the nuclear arsenal’s development before it explodes. Expedite vitrification of all nuclear waste in the US and move to safe storage for 100,000 years.
• End the Threat of Nuclear Warhead Materials
  Plutonium is the main radioactive component of nuclear warheads; there are already 15 thousand of radioactive plutonium pits in storage. We must destroy these pits and stop the production of new ones before more sites like Hanford are made. 

• Stop the 1.6 Trillion Nuclear Arms Rebuild
  This enormous waste of taxpayer money will escalate the global arms race and move us away from peace toward nuclear war. Discontinue development of “Advanced Low Yield Nuclear Weapons” and adopt a policy of phase out instead of rebuild.
• Retire Obsolete Warheads
  These warheads can be permanently retired, not rebuilt. They are the low-hanging fruit of the nuclear arsenal. Rebuilding would cost billions. 
• Ensure Accountability
  End Presidential Sole Authority, Take Weapons off of Hair-Trigger Alert, and End the Policy of First Use. The fate of the world should rest on more than one individual. Further, the US policy of first use for any reason is immoral.
• Re-Negotiate START and other Nuclear treaties
  If the START Treaty expires, then there will be no limits on deployed nuclear weapons and arms escalation. We must continue our nuclear weapons treaty with Russia, and negotiate treaties to scale down arsenals around the globe. 
• Enter Bilateral Nuclear Agreement with China
  We need a nuclear weapons agreement with China to prevent more nuclear proliferation. 
• Dismantle All land-based ICBMs
  These static targets are not a necessary part of the nuclear posture and are not only difficult to maintain but dangerous to the vast area of middle America where they are based. 
• Just Transition from Nuclear Weapons jobs to civilian occupations
  Provide retraining and guarantees to any displaced weapons workers. 

• Enter Global Agreement to Scale Down to Minimum Deterrence
  While we do not believe that any nuclear weapons should exist, for the near term, even subscribers of this theory of nuclear deterrence believe that our thousands of nuclear weapons far exceed the minimum needed to deter a nuclear attack. 
• Sign and Ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
  Together we can build a world without nuclear weapons, joining the 93 countries that have signed and 68 who have ratified.