WHEREAS, a thermonuclear war would cause destruction beyond imagination; and

WHEREAS, fallout shelters would provide little protection against the blast and fire damage from a thermonuclear explosion; and

WHEREAS, national shelter programs would divert the creativity, energy and funds of the people to an essentially negative undertaking; and

WHEREAS, national shelter programs would foster the notion that thermonuclear war is tolerable — that such war could be won — they would create a climate in which nuclear war would be more likely;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association express grave doubts about national shelter programs, on moral, psychological and economic grounds, and urge that a nation's creativity, energy and funds be directed instead toward finding the means to settle international disputes without war of any kind.