Shelter Programs
1962 General Resolution
WHEREAS, a thermonuclear war would cause destruction beyond imagination; andWHEREAS, 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.
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