Return of the Golden Rule

The Golden Rule in San Diego for the Veterans For Peace annual convention
Photo by Ellen Davidson

Veterans for Peace (and friends) have resurrected and restored the historic Golden Rule.  This 30-foot ketch and its crew ignited a movement to stop atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in 1958 when they attempted to sail into the Marshall Islands nuclear testing zone.

"Nuclear weapons are still with us and the threat of nuclear war is very real," said the Golden Rule's current captain David Robson, a Veterans For Peace member from Baltimore, Maryland.  "We are dismayed that the U.S. government plans to invest One Trillion Dollars into upgrading its nuclear arsenal, instead of reducing and eliminating nuclear weapons, as called for in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty."