In a joint statement, the military professionals and active clergy declared the human race could be exterminated by such weapons. It is one requiring the involvement of both military professionals and religious leaders. The news conference, which will launch a national education program to mobilize citizen action against nuclear arms, was organized by Washington National Cathedral. The education outreach program will provide free materials about the nuclear threat facing all humankind in the new millennium. The materials will be supplied to individual religious bodies for distribution, as they wish, to churches, synagogues and mosques.
Nuclear disarmament is the ultimate human rights issue.
People have a right to know that more than a decade after the Cold War ended, tens of thousands of nuclear weapons still exist with the power to destroy God's creation. We also have a right and responsibility to demand an end to this threat of annihilation. In this race there will be no winners, only losers. It is nothing but destruction, for humans and their environment. We must say to ourselves first and then to the world that we want a total and universal ban on the possession and production of nuclear weapons.