Religions for Peace works to create a sustainable future for all. The ongoing menace posed by the possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons is incompatible with such a future. Moreover, the claim of several states to a unique right to have and threaten to use these horrific devices is the greatest stimulus to their proliferation.

Only an unequivocal commitment to adhere to the legal commitments embodied in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, including those of the nuclear weapons states, to constrain the spread of nuclear weapons and obtain their universal and total elimination will set the world on a secure course. Otherwise, eventually by accident or design nuclear weapons will be used with devastating consequences to human life and the very fabric of civilization. We cannot be silent in the face of such peril.