ANTI-NUCLEAR QUESTIONNAIRE

* About This Questionnaire *

1. Q. Did you know, from 1940 to 1998 the U.S. spent $5.8 trillion on nuclear weapons (roughly the amount of the National Debt)?
a. Yes
b. No

2. Q. Did you know that at the May 2000 United Nations review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , the nuclear powers admitted they have an "unequivocal" responsibility to eliminate nuclear weapons?
a. Yes
b. No

3. Q. Are you aware that the U.S. has conducted a series of "subcritical" nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site, despite the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Don't care

4. Q. What do you think about your tax dollars being spent to develop the new burrowing nuclear bomb (despite the nuclear non-proliferation treaty)?
a. Disapprove
b. Don't care

5. Q. Do you know that more than a quarter trillion of your tax dollars goes to the Pentagon each year (with Congress consistently authorizing more than either President Clinton or the Pentagon requested)?
a. Oppose
b. Don't care

6. Q. Did you know that Gulf War veterans and their children are suffering from radiation poisoning from depleted uranium used in U.S. artillery shells? And so are the survivors of the Bosnia and Yugoslavia wars in 1996 and 1998?
a. Yes
b. No

7. Q. Do you think that you and your family would be safer if there were no nuclear weapons?
a. Safer without
b. Safer with
c. Need more information

8. Q. Would you be safer if there were no nuclear power plants?
a. Safer without
b. Safer with
c. Need more information

9. Q. What do you think about Department of Energy and Congressional desire to ship the nuclear waste (now over 120 nuclear power and research plants in the U.S.) to Nevada [on Western Shoshone land] for "temporary" storage at Yucca Mountain, which had a 4.0-Richter earthquake in September 1997?
a. Disapprove
b. Don't care
c. Need more information

10. Q. What do you think about the U.S. plans for eleven more launches of plutonium into space? (Cassini probe was lucky. Remember Challenger?)
a. Disapprove
b. Don't care

11. Q. Did you know the World Court ruled in 1996 that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is illegal?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Need more information

12. Q. Did you know that 62 retired generals and admirals issued a statement in 1996 that nuclear weapons are "unsafe" and "unnecessary" and should be eliminated as quickly as possible, and 100 heads of state (including President Carter) have also made this request?
a. Yes
b. No

13. Q. Did you know that 84 per cent of 1,006 Americans polled in 1997 wanted elimination of nuclear weapons?
a. Yes
b. No

14. Q. What do you think about the continuing funding cuts for education, health care, housing, food, while the Pentagon receives more money than it asks for?
a. Prefer spending cuts in Pentagon
b. Prefer spending cuts in education

15. Q. Do you as an individual think that you have the power to change what you don't like?
a. Yes
b. No

16. Q. Would you like to see the money currently spent on nuclear weapons used instead to convert the arms industries from mass-producing missiles, guns, or depleted uranium ammunition, into mass producing clean energy systems, such as solar, wind, geothermal, etc?
a. I sure would!
b. Need more information

17. Q. Would you support a United Nations convention devoted to abolishing all nuclear weapons worldwide?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Need more information

18. Q. Would you support a bill which has been in Congress since 1994, promoting global nuclear disarmament and conversion of the war machines?
a. Yes
b. No

19. Q. Would you be willing to contact your Representative and Senator? (202-225-3121)
a. I will
b. What should I say?
c. Here's a report on what we both said

20. Q. Would you be willing to donate some of your time each week to be a campus organizer for HR-2647 and other efforts for global nuclear disarmament?
a. Yes (How Many Hours? (mark one) : / / 2 hours -- / / 4 hours -- / / 8 hours -- / / more)
b. Here are some contacts


* Thank you for your time. This information is for our own survey purposes only. Proposition One Committee is a non-profit organization devoted to the elimination of nuclear weapons.

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