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Collin Peterson votes for more nukes

Thursday night Rep. Collin Peterson voted with Republicans to give Donald Trump $65 million more for nuclear bombs. Although most Democrats voted for an ammendment by California Representative Barbara Lee to not fund the new nuclear weapons program, Peterson voted against the Lee amendment.

The Lee ammendment was an attempt to stop the United State from building an arsenal of so called “usable” nuclear bombs which are often called mini-nukes. These so-called mini-nukes are a number of times more powerful than the bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima Japan on August 6, 1945. That bomb, which was not only small but considered inefficient, killed between 70,000 and 80,000 people immediately. It wounded another 70,000, many of whom were terribly burned and died later.

Hiroshima Japan after a "small" and "usable" nuclear bomb
was dropped on the city in 1945
Thanks to Wikipedia
The bombs Congressman Peterson and his Republican colleagues voted for are not only larger but more “efficient” than the Hiroshima bomb. That is to say they will kill far more people. 

They are not small. They not mini. They are not “usable”. They are an atrocity and an affront to civilization.

Starting a bomb building program at a time when the United States claims to be seeking to eliminate nuclear bombs from Korea and Iran is the height of hypocrisy. How can we, the only country to ever use a nuclear bomb, expect them to disaem?

"Spending $65 million on a low-yield nuclear weapon – with unprecedented submarine-launch capability – heightens the risk of nuclear war," Barbara Lee said after her mmendment failed. "We should be de-escalating tensions with our allies, not provoking a new nuclear arms race.”

Lee wanted the money for the bomb program to be spent on halting the spread of nuclear weapons around the world.

"Given the instability in the world and in this White House, provoking nuclear brinksmanship is beyond reckless. Congress should be building peace and diplomacy, not inviting a miscalculation with nuclear consequences,” Lee told the on-line news source Common Dreams.

70,000 people were injured when the small nuclear
bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Many were burned
and died later from complications or radiation sickness.
Photo from Wikipedia
Please call Collin Peterson at 202-225-2165 and tell him you are horrified at his reckless vote.


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Comments

  1. UnknownOctober 13, 2019 at 6:53 PM

    Peterson thinks he has a get out of primary free card by pandering to his big corporate donors and the ignorance of his district. So far it is hard to argue with his success at representing the corporations who are not centered in our district; but the winds may change on his quisling like nature or his arm gets tired from holding his finger in the air to check the direction of that wind. He is such a tool.

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  2. Tim KingOctober 15, 2019 at 4:05 PM

    Agreed.

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