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OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BIDEN FROM VETERANS FOR PEACE<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear President Biden,<\/b><\/p>\n We, members of Veterans For Peace\u00a0<\/b>who are concerned about the growing possibility of nuclear war, have researched and written our own Nuclear Posture Review, with the goal of reducing the risk of nuclear war and ultimately eliminating all nuclear weapons. Because your own Nuclear Posture Review has not yet been released, we strongly encourage you to put it on hold while you review the Nuclear Posture Review of Veterans For Peace.<\/p>\n The war in Ukraine, with its relentless escalation toward a possible nuclear confrontation,<\/b>\u00a0is of great concern to the American public, including those in uniform and veterans who have experienced the chaos and trauma of war;\u00a0\u00a0so we are also eager to see your Nuclear Posture Review, Mr. President. We deserve a full accounting of your nuclear planning.\u00a0\u00a0We want to know what you and your advisers consider reasonable during this time of confrontation between the US and Russia, which between them hold the lion\u2019s share of the world\u2019s 15,000 nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n We need to know if you will be keeping nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Will you foreswear the First Use of nuclear weapons?<\/p>\n We need to know if you will rejoin the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty,<\/b>\u00a0unilaterally abandoned by President George W. Bush, and the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, unilaterally abandoned by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Will you contribute to an era of peaceful relations<\/b>, or will you pursue antagonistic polices toward China and Russia? Will you continue investing billions of dollars on new nuclear weapons?<\/b><\/p>\n Are you willing to risk a civilization-ending apocalypse by playing nuclear chicken<\/b>\u00a0with other nuclear-armed nations?\u00a0\u00a0Or will you lead us toward a planet that is free of nuclear weapons? We urge you to acknowledge and sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.<\/p>\n