“We strongly condemn the Russian Government for developing new nuclear weapons. This is totally unacceptable at a time when most nations of the world are signing the United Nations treaty on the abolition of nuclear weapons,” Dr Hannah Middleton from the Anti-Bases Campaign said in Sydney today.
“However, we also hold the US responsible for its actions in relation to nuclear weapons.
“US allies like Australia have followed meekly behind the US while it has aggressively updated and miniaturised its own nuclear arsenal, threatening every country on our planet,” she continued.
The US threatens Russia with anti-missiles systems close to the borders of Russia while insisting the system is not aimed at them. The US ignores Russian complaints about the US building anti-missile systems in countries such as Poland and Romania.
“President Obama, despite winning a Nobel peace prize for his anti-nuclear work, went on o dedicate $1 trillion dollars to update US nuclear weapons systems,” Denis Doherty from the AABCC said.
“President Trump has continued this same tradition of talking peace while ratcheting up the dogs of nuclear war.
“Presidents Obama, Trump and Putin have taken us back to the era a nuclear arms race and of mutually assured destruction.
“The Australian Government concentrates on what North Korea is doing while ignoring the huge nuclear stockpiles owned by the US and Russian Governments. But the arsenals of the US and Russia make North Korea’s puny by contrast,” Mr Doherty said.
“No country is entitled to nuclear weapons as the destruction they would cause is of such a devastating nature that the whole humanity could be wiped out,” Dr Middleton added..
“It is an international criminal act to possess and threaten to use nuclear weapons.
“It is long past the time when both Australian political parties agree to sign the UN treaty banning all nuclear weapons from every country,” she continued.
“We call on the Australian Government to condemn both the US and Russia for plunging us back into the terror of nuclear holocaust through war or accident,” she concluded.
For more information:
Contact Hannah Middleton 0418 668 098 or Denis Doherty 0418 290 663
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