The successes of Proposition One to date are only small steps toward the solution of a very big problem. Because nuclear weapons are a global creation and concern, this success must be repeated many times in many places before it can become reality. Since then the laws of several French Republics, the Shah of Iran, Ferdinand Marcos, the Soviet Union, and many others have held sway and vanished. After ages of honing civilized legal processes,our nations are still unable or unwilling to break with greed or transcend subjective perceptions of reality. Thus, they breed violence, epitomized in the maldistribution of wealth and the genocidal making of weapons.
Fear continues to dominate the human environment.
Of course, genocidal weapons and the maldistribution of wealth are issues of universal magnitude, perhaps overwhelming on a personal level. On the local level, it has been shown that Proposition One offers an opportunity to begin building creative global agreements. It's apparent to nearly everyone that it's time for conversion of the war machines. Economic conversion is not a new idea. Instead of marching on Capitol Hill with our employers to fight military spending cuts, we helped write a conversion bill back in 1978.