NoFirstUse Global is an online platform bringing together a huge list of organizations that agree with Daisaku Ikeda! Here is their Open Letter to the States Parties of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty: Fulfil the NPT: From nuclear threats to human security. There is a link on the page where you can sign up in support of NFU, which I was happy to do.
If all the nuclear weapons states signed up to no-first-use, then we would be a big first step closer to nuclear disarmament. What is the point of having nuclear weapons if nobody is going to use them first?
However, the Open Letter honestly does make a point of the big problem with no-first-use for some nations: "If nuclear weapons are required to deter against a range of threats – not only nuclear weapons – then countries relying on nuclear deterrence will most likely not agree to eliminate the weapons while these other threats still exist."
Complicated, but that is the problem. What we need to overcome the roadblock is a massive global understanding that we live in a win-win (or lose-lose) world, not an us-vs them world.
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