Christian Democrats in the United States
Global Issues - Non-nuclear StrategyWe 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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No global government will ever bring about peace.Also, saying only that nuclear weapons should be abandoned forgets the truth: the world will not need any weapons at all, when God writes love in all our hearts. The lion will lie down with the lamb.
We do not need to unite the world. All we need is to unite America - to remember why people wanted a better place for you a long time ago.
No number of weapons will ever eliminate the perceived need for weapons, once you start down that path of thought. No "prompt global strike" strategy will ever unite the world, so no one should deceive themselves to think that is the goal of such a strategy. It would never work.
It's challenging to think after seeing violence that we are not trapped in the cycle. Most "official sources" would try to curb such free thinking, to excuse the violence perpetrated by authoritarian organization. They'd use the idea easily enough to put down dissenters by excluding them from society and turning a mob against the thinker. They would spur nutcases to take up the banner of that thought and then buy guns and plan to bomb a cop funeral, which is crazy; then people hear "Christian believer" and think something on a range from "wingnut" to "psycho."
They still won't acknowledge the thought: violence is not necessary in any form.
With extremely rare exceptions, people are capable of controlling their own actions, and of working out their problems. Yet, this is not what we teach children in school, but instead that they are bio-chemical automatons running programs like the computers we use to train them into mechanistic thought. Then we apply labels to those whose brains go haywire when jammed into such a box, autistic, ADHD, mentally ill, whatever, isolating the outliers and training a negative feedback loop in the brain when socially outcast.
Those rare exceptions who cannot control themselves, who cannot see their way out of the maze without violence, are the domain of the Lord, and until judgment day, the rest of us can cope with those cases without violence, without war, and without the death penalty. The only thing the world needs is freedom to think our way out of it. You can make that choice. Even if you do not figure it out, trying has better results than not trying. No one can tell you that you must make the choice to think, but it is possible that the entire world will end if you do not.
This doesn't fit within our normal everyday perceptions. People on the front lines of a war may feel unwilling to trust the other side to a mutual decision to lay down arms. Yet, peace is possible.
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