Nuclear-Weapon-Free Italy

Watch at the trailer of Aviano Italia (half in English)

In Italy, everybody knows that there are ninety nuclear warheads, in violation of the spirit of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) signed by Italy, but almost no one worries.
They are not ours, we can not decide what to do with them. We can only accept the presence, the benefits (there are those who feel more secure with a nuclear bomb in the back yard ...) and the consequences.

In Caravana di Pace you can read the text of a draft law of a popular initiative to declare Italy "Nuclear Weapon Free Zone".
On 26 March it was announced that the fifty thousand signatures necessary to present the law have been collected, the result of a campaign that has worked in silence, thanks to small local groups. Political parties or large-membership international organizations refused to be involved. Small associations, fair trade shops, parishes and smaller unions have supported the initiative.

On 22 December 2005, a committee of citizens called the Government of the United States in the Civil Court of Pordenone requesting that the 50 atomic bombs present at Aviano be removed from Italian territory.

Bruno Picozzi (in translation)