RES 1982-52 - 00005987MMUnM ED. 52 -19M
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Fridley is entrusted with the
authority to define, prohibit, abate, and suppress all things detrimental to
the health, morals, comfort, safety, convenience and welfare of the
inhabitants of the city and all nuisances and causes thereof; and
WHEREAS, the detonation of a nuclear weapon in the Tfain Cities area would be
utterly destructive to the persons and property of the citizens of Fridley and
detrimental in the extreme to their health, safety and wefare; and
WHEREAS, the escalating international nuclear arms race substantially
increases the likelihood of an atomic war and the subjection of the citizens
of Fridley to the ravages of an atomic attack; and
WHEREAS, a freeze on the production and deployment of nuclear weapons is a
necessary first step toward de- escalation of the arms race and creation of a
stable, peaceful world truly safe from nuclear destruction;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Fridley
hereby calls upon the governments of the United States of America and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to adopt a mutual freeze on the testing,
production and deployment of nuclear weapons and of missiles and new aircraft
designed primarily to deliver nuclear weapons.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FRIDLEY THIS 7TH DAY OF
JUNE, 1962.
ILI,
VV
WILLIAM J. NEE i~R
ATTEST:
MR7- SO
1► I / I�i� M M �' '
81