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August 29, 2000

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To: president@whitehouse.gov

Subject: Give our children a nuclear weapons-free world

Cc: Vladimir Putin, President, Russia

Tony Blair, Prime Minister, Britain (Fax +44-207-925-0918)

Jacques Chirac, President, France

Jiang Zemin, President, China

Ehud Barak, Prime Minister, Israel

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, India

Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan

Dear Mr. President,

About 350,000 people lived in Hiroshima when the United States

dropped an atomic bomb there on August 6, 1945. Nearly half were

dead by the end of the year. Some died more slowly.

Sadako Sasaki was exposed to the bomb at the age of two. She

appeared to grow up healthy, but when she was 12, she was diagnosed

with leukemia.

Cranes are a symbol of longevity in Japan. In an effort to get

well, Sadako began folding 1,000 paper cranes in her hospital bed.

Sadly, she died after eight months of struggle.

Sadako's story touched the hearts of children around the

world, who send folded paper cranes to Hiroshima's Peace Memorial

Park, as a symbol of peace and of hope for a world free of nuclear

weapons.

Please fulfill the hope of our children by leaving them a

nuclear weapons free world.

Sincerely yours,

[Your name, post address & country]

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Best regards,

Sue & Marvin Clark

Co-directors, Global Demilitarization

42 Maple Avenue, Troy, NY, 12180 USA

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