Stop Nuclear Bombers From Coming To Vermont

Vermont State Legislature

The U.S. Air Force intends to station the F-35 with our Vermont National Guard.
It’s part of the Pentagon’s plan to build a whole new generation of Nuclear Weapons.  
The Hiroshima bomb killed 150,000 people. Our current nuclear arsenal can destroy the world 10 times over.

That’s crazy.

It’s time to stand up and say “HELL, NO”

We refuse to participate in this insanity
We refuse to house any part of a nuclear weapons system in Vermont.
We refuse to kill civilians and destroy whole cities with these weapons of mass destruction.

And, we don’t want to be destroyed ourselves.

To: Vermont State Legislature
From: [Your Name]

We urge you to support the resolution in the statehouse to reject the basing of any part of a new nuclear weapons system in Vermont.

All new F-35As are being built with the capability to carry the B61-12 guided nuclear bomb, a weapon specially designed for the F-35A.  Existing F-35As will be eventually modified to carry this 50 kiloton nuclear weapon.  It has over 3 times the explosive power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, which killed approximately 150,000 civilians.
  
Experts have stated that the military had long planned to make the F-35A a nuclear weapon system.  However, this fact was never revealed to the public.  It was only because of recent articles in the military press that referenced the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review that this information was revealed. 
 
Both of Vermont’s senators have said they oppose building new nuclear weapons. Our current President has impulsively made statements about wanting to use nuclear weapons.
 
The particular bomb to be deployed on this bomber is a so-called “dial-a-yield.”  Because the yield can be adjusted, military planners refer to it as a “usable nuke” because they think they can use it and not create all-out nuclear war.