During the 26th monthly citizen watch for the conversion of CEA Valduc, peace activists compared Vladimir Putin’s remarks targeting NATO to those of Donald Trump targeting North Korea.
Press release from the Bourgogne Franche-Comté collective for the abolition of nuclear weapons of March 24, 2022:
On March 24, 2022, in Dijon on Place Darcy, then in Moloy, near the site of the Commissariat for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies (CEA) in Valduc, which ensures the maintenance and modernization of the 290 French nuclear weapons, 14 launchers alert of the ‘Collectif Bourgogne Franche-Comté for the abolition of nuclear weapons’ unfurled banners. They call
– compliance by France with art. 6 of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which it acceded in 1992 and of which it blithely violates the spirit and the letter,
– France’s accession to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TIAN), which since January 22, 2021 has become the standard of international law,
– and the reconversion to these peaceful activities of the CEA-DAM sites, including that of Valduc.
The nuclear threat of V. Putin after that of D. Trump
Once again, Western nuclear weapons have been ineffective in deterring the master of the Kremlin from attacking Ukraine. On the contrary, Russian nuclear weapons made Putin feel in a strong position to attack Ukraine knowing that until he hit a NATO country, the United States would not intervene militarily. They therefore favored war, and not peace as asserted by the discourse on nuclear deterrence…
In the face of the resistance of the Ukrainians, which he had not anticipated, in the face of the unprecedented economic sanctions imposed unanimously by a Europe which he believed to be weak and divided, in the face of the condemnation of a large part of the international community , V. Putin brandishes the threat of nuclear weapons. On February 24, announcing the military invasion of Donbass on Russian television, he addressed those “who would try to interfere” with his army. “They must know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead to consequences you have never experienced before.” This sentence is a copy-paste of the threat sent by his friend Donald Trump on August 8, 2017 to North Korea, promising “fire and wrath, as the world has never seen before. »
On February 27, Vladimir Putin gave his Minister of Defense and his Chief of Staff the order to put the Russian deterrent forces on alert. Added to this blackmail are the intimidation shots by the Russian army, on the night of March 3 to 4, on a non-nuclear building of the Zaporijjia nuclear power station, the largest atomic power station in Europe. If the nuclear buildings had exploded, it would have been “10 times worse than Chernobyl”, according to the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmitry Kuleba. Russian aggression, like terrorism, questions the validity of the choice of civilian nuclear power: the reactors are so many targets and threats for the population…
Rather than pushing Western countries to reinforce an ineffective, dangerous, illegal, undemocratic, demotivating, immoral and ruinous nuclear arsenal, these events must on the contrary strengthen the determination of the French people and citizens of the whole world to abolish nuclear weapons. So that no manager, and in particular crazy or paranoid leaders, has the possibility of making use of it. France and Great Britain could play a decisive role in this direction.
How can citizens support the TIAN?
– Sign the petition to the President of the Republic for France to be an observer at the first meeting of States Parties to the TIAN in Vienna in June 2022. QR Code above.
– Write to your Mayor, so that your municipality signs the Call of the cities of ICAN for nuclear disarmament, to your Deputy and Senator so that France adheres to the TIAN.
– Question your bank on its financing of the atomic bomb by participating in the action campaign on this theme.
– Take an interest in nuclear weapons, international security issues and alternatives for the defense of democracy.
– Participate in citizen lookouts in Dijon or Valduc, in Paris and elsewhere;
The monitoring and non-violent actions carried out by the ‘Collectif Bourgogne Franche Comté for the abolition of nuclear weapons’ are part of ICAN, ‘International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’. , Nobel Peace Prize 2017, and in the wake of previous UN victories: banning biological weapons (1972), chemical weapons (1993), landmines (1997), and cluster bombs ( 2008).
Watch the video “The beginning of the end of nuclear weapons”.
Discover the history with photos of the actions in Dijon and Valduc since 2014.
Inform those around you about the seven vices of nuclear deterrence.
Read the study on French military nuclear waste.
The Bourgogne Franche-Comté collective for the abolition of nuclear weapons
http://abolitiondesarmesnucleaires.org – [email protected] – 06 14 24 86 96
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