Are You Worried About Inadvertent Proliferation?

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i hope youe collected enough background information to make your own informed judgment about whether you share kevin's concerns. There's a lot of concerning information here, but this horse is not out of the barn at all. We may actually be in a extremely propitious historic moment to dramatically slow and perhaps even put a stop to the most threatening activity that we've talked about to day. If you're from one of the 12 states i mentioned, here are your representatives on that sub committee.

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