Dennis Kucinich: “A nuclear sword of Damocles hangs over the world. Fear and ignorance have placed it there. Separation from our brothers…”

“A nuclear sword of Damocles hangs over the world. Fear and ignorance have placed it there. Separation from our brothers and sisters holds it there. Separation of our heads from our hearts leaves it there. We have a moral responsibility to our children, our grandchildren, and the entire world to create a world free of nuclear weapons. We have moral obligations to lead the way towards total nuclear disarmament and nuclear abolition, to wrest from the unsteady hand of crass casualty that nuclear sword of Damocles, and save this planet as a place where we work out our destiny. Only we can dissipate the advancing mushroom clouds by saying ``no'' to this bill, ``no'' to proliferation, ``no'' to nuclear testing, ``no'' to nuclear weapons, ``no'' to nuclear war, ``no'' to the destruction of our planet. The spirit of the Founders which inhabits this institution was a spirit that believed in unity. We must believe in human unity as firmly as we believe in the unity of the United States. We must believe in the imperative of human unity as we believe in the imperative of our next breath, the imperative of the first breath which issues from all new life to come. And we do this by pursuing international cooperation towards abandoning nuclear ambitions, not furthering them. For God's sake, stop this sleepwalk into the nuclear valley of shadows. Wake up and vote against this bill.”