[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 15999-16000]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                CALLING FOR ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, in the Hindu religion, Brahma, the 
Creator; Vishnu, the Preserver; and Shiva, the Destroyer exist 
simultaneously and represent the multiplicity of God.
  Today, we are going to be called upon to determine which of the 
principles, Creator, Preserver or Destroyer, shall work through each of 
us. If we continue to pursue nuclear proliferation embodied in the 
nuclear agreement with India, we will be open to the principles of 
destruction. At this moment when world tensions are rising and violence 
is cycling higher, we need to take the direction of preserving the 
peace and creating a new opening through abolishing all nuclear 
weapons.
  August 6, 2006, will mark the 61st anniversary of the bombing of 
Hiroshima which obliterated the city and killed about 140,000 people. 
Today, 30,000 nuclear weapons remain in the world. Many nuclear weapons 
are deployed. Any use of nuclear weapons would be unthinkable 
devastation. The only way to prevent the use of nuclear destruction is 
to abolish all nuclear weapons.
  To that end, I will be introducing legislation today.

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