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RESOLUTION NO. 1982-/77
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RESOLUTION SUPPORTING A MUTUAL U.S .-SOVIET NUCLEAR WEAPON FREEZE
WHEREAS, the horror of a nuclear holocaust is universally
acknowledged; and
vt`=' WHEREAS , present medical and scientific evidence shows that nuclear
ar, seven a "limited" one, would result in death, injury, and disease on
scale unprecedented in human history; and
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WHEREAS , medical disaster planning for a nuclear war is meaningless,
pince, most hospitals would be destroyed, most medical personnel dead or
gnjured, most supplies unavailable, and those who survive initially would
soon 'die; and
WHEREAS , both the United States and the Soviet Union already have
the c4pacity to destroy each other's cities many times over; and
WHEREAS, the nuclear arsenal of the United States now includes
approximately 9 ,000 nuclear warheads and that of the Soviet Union
includes approximately 7 ,000; and
WHEREAS , it is estimated that expenditures for strategic nuclear
weapons alone with equal $200 billion over the next five years; and
WHEREAS , such spending for armaments takes funds away from needed
domestic programs;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY the City Council of Waterloo,
Iowa, does hereby go on record in support of an immediate U.S .-Soviet
mutual verifiable freeze on the testing, production and deployment of
nuclear weapons and of missiles and new aircraft designed to deliver
nuclear weapons. This is an essential, verifiable first step toward
lessening the risk of nuclear war and reducing the nuclear arsenals.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of Waterloo, Iowa,
urges the Congress to go on record in support of a mutual freeze and
urges the President to begin negotiations with the Soviet Union
immediately over the question of a mutual and verifiable freeze.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 10th day of May, 1982.
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Leo P . Rooff, May
ATTEST:
r y P. urger, Ci Clerk/Auditor