Christian Democrats in the United States

Global Issues - Non-nuclear Strategy

We support a strong defensive strategy, but also a total elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world. A nuclear-armed terrorist cannot be deterred by a nuclear response. If the United States can get along with the overwhelming majority of nations, and deal with others through conventional force, aiming all this doomsday at the world's citizens only serves to make people feel threatened before they have ever offended or even cared about our society. The risk of accidental or terrorist use of nuclear arms increases every day. We must direct all efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons, but the United States must live up to its own standards and goals. We submit that if the United States takes the lead in nuclear disarmament, all civil nations of the world will follow voluntarily.

For power generation, nuclear fission (splitting uranium) is and always will be unsafe, because the waste products remain radioactive for so many centuries, potentially causing birth defects and diseases for hundreds of years. Nuclear fusion (how our sun works) is worth researching, because the potential higher power yield would leave much less radioactive waste.

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