AFF/NUCLEAR: NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE HUGELY DESTRUCTIVE

NUCLEAR WEAPONS IMPERIL ALL CIVILIZATION, CAUSE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION, AND A MYRIAD OF OTHER HIDEOUS THINGS

Roche, Douglas (Member of Canadian Parliament 1972-84, Chair of UN Disarmament Committee 1988, Prof. Ca Univ. of Alberta) 1997, The Ultimate Evil: The Fight to Ban Nuclear Weapons//AN

New generations must understand what nuclear weapons do. They are not just an advanced form of weaponry: they have the power to decimate the natural environment that has sustained humanity since the beginning of time. Nuclear weapons:

*Cause death and destruction

*induce cancers, leukemia, keloids and related afflictions

*cause gastro-intestinal, cardiovascular, and related afflictions

*continue for decades to induce health-related problems

*cause congenital deformities, mental retardation, and Genetic damage

*Could cause nuclear winter

*contaminate and destroy the food chain

*Imperil the eco-system

*produce lethal levels of heat and blast

*produce radiation and radioactive fallout

*produce a disruptive electro-magnetic Pulse

*produce social disintegration

*imperil all civilization

*threaten human survival

*wreak cultural devastation

*threaten all life on the planet

*irreversibly damage environmental and other rights of future Generations

*exterminate civilian populations

*damage neighbouring states

*produce psychological stress and fear syndromes

NUCLEAR WEAPONS ALWAYS KILL CIVILIANS, POISON FUTURE GENERATIONS, AND POLLUTE THE ENVIRONMENT

COMMITTEE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, UK, 1997;

Because of the sheer scale of the destruction caused by even the smallest nuclear weapon, and because of the radioactive fallout that follows, they will always kill and injure civilians.

They also affect later generations. Pregnant women who are exposed to radiation will probably either miscarry or give birth to handicapped babies. Radioactive contamination of soil, water and vegetation lasts many years.

Nowhere on earth is remote enough for a nuclear weapon to be exploded safely.

EVEN THE SMALLEST NUCLEAR WEAPON WILL KILL MANY, MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

COMMITTEE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, UK, 1997;

Anyone who is prepared to use even the smallest nuclear weapons in any circumstances, has to accept that they will kill thousands of innocent people at the time, with many more dying later.