Whereas, Human and environmental survival is threatened by the increasing risk of nuclear war, originating either accidentally or as a way of settling differences between national political goals; and,
Whereas, There is approximate parity between the NATO and Warsaw Pact countries in both nuclear and conventional
military capability; and,
Whereas, At the present time the nuclear and conventional military capabilities of both the NATO and Warsaw Pact countries provide an uneasy equilibrium, based on mutual assured destruction; and,
Whereas, 1986 having been the United Nations Year of Peace, it is desirable to maintain the momentum provided by that declaration; therefore be it,
RESOLVED, Following the United Nations Year of Peace, the National Council of Women of Canada urge the Government of
Canada to promote, among all nations, a mutual and verifiable world-wide freeze in the production, testing and
deployment of nuclear arms and delivery systems as a first step in the process of large-scale reductions in the stockpiles of nuclear weapons.