General Butler's Speech to the National Press Club
International Generals and Admirals
Who Have Signed Statement Advocating
Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Made Public December 5, 1996
Canada
Major General Leonard V. Johnson (ret.)
Commandent, National Defense College
Denmark
France
Admiral Antoine Sanguinetti (ret.)
Former Chief of Staff, French Fleet
Ghana
General Emmanuel Erskine (ret.)
Former Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff,
UNTSO (Middle East) Commander UMFII (Lebanon)
Greece
Lt. General Richard Capellos (ret.)
Former Corps Commander
Major General Kostas Konstantinides (ret.)
Former Chief of Staff, Army Signals
Lt. General Georgios Koumanakos (ret.)
Former Chief of Operations
India
Major General Indar Jit Rikhye (ret.)
Former military advisor to U.N. Sec. Gen.
Dag Akmmerskjold and U Thant
Air Marshall N.C. Surt (ret.)
Japan
Vice Admiral Naotoshi Sakono (ret.)
Sr. Advisor Research Institute for Peace & Security
Lt. General Toshiyuki Shikata (ret.)
Sr. Advisor Research Institute for Peace & Security
Jordan
Major General Shafiq Ajeilat (ret.)
Vice President Military Affairs Múta University
Major General Mohammed K. Shiyyab (ret.)
Former Deputy Commander Royal Jordanian Air Force
Netherlands
Brig-Gen. Henny J. Van der Graaf (ret.)
RNA, Dir Ctr. Arms Control & Verification
Member, U.N. Advisory Board for Disarmament Matters
Norway
Vice Admiral Roy Breivik, Roy (ret.)
Former Representative to NATO
Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic
Pakistan
Major General Ihsun ul Haq Malik (ret.)
Commandant, Joint Services Committee
Portugal
Marshal Francisco da Costa Gomes (ret.)
Former Commander in Chief, Army
Former President of Portugal
Russia
General Vladimir Belous (ret.)
Department Chief, Dzerzhinsky Military Academy
Army General Makhmut Gareev (ret.)
Former Dep. Chief, Dept. of Gen. Staff USSR Armed Forces
Maj. General Victor Koltounov (ret.)
Former Dep. Chief, Dept. of Gen. Staff
USSR Armed Forces
Maj. General Larionov Valentin (ret.)
Professor, General Staff Academy
Maj. General Alexander Lebed (ret.)
Former Sec. of the Security Council
Major General Youri V. Lebedev (ret.)
Former Deputy Chief, Dept. of Gen. Staff
USSR Armed Forces
Major General Vadim Majarevsky (ret.)
Deputy Chief Kouibyshev Military Engineering Academy
Lt. General Vladimir Medvedev (ret.)
Chief, Center of Nuclear Threat Reduction
Colonel General Georgy Mikhailov (ret.)
Former Deputy Chief, Dept. of Gen. Staff
USSR Armed Forces
Major General Eugeny Nozhin (ret.)
Former Deputy Chief, Dept. of Gen. Staff
USSR Armed Forces
Lt. General Lev Rokhlin (ret.)
Chief, Duma Defense Committee
Former Commander
Russian 4th Army Corps
Lt. General Ivan Sleport (ret.)
Former Chief, Dept. of Gen. Staff USSR Armed Forces
Major General Simonyan Rair (ret.)
Head of Chair, General Staff Academy
General Boris T. Surikov (ret.)
Former Chief Specialist
Defense Ministry
Col. General Nikolay Tehervov (ret.)
Former Chief, Dept. of Gen. Staff
USSR Armed Forces
Lt. Gen. Michael S. Vinogradov (ret.)
Former Deputy Chief
Operational Strategic Center
USSR General Staff
Rear Admiral Radiy Zoubkov (ret.)
Chief, Navigation, USSR Navy
Sri Lanka
Maj. General Upali A. Karunaratne (ret.)
Maj. General C.A.M.N. Silva (ret.)
USF, U.S.A. WC
Tanzania
United Kingdom
General Sir Huge Beach (ret.)
Member, U.K. Security Commission
Field Mar. Lord Michael Carver (ret.)
Commander in Chief for E. British Army
(1967-69),
Chief of Gen. Staff (1971-73)
Chief of Defense Staff (1973-76)
Brigadier Michael Harbottle (ret.)
Former Chief of Staff
U.N. Peacekeeping Force, Cyprus
Air Commodore Alistair Mackie (ret.)
Former Director
Air Staff Briefing
United States
Lt. General Julius Becton (USA)(ret.)
Maj. General William F. Burns (USA)(ret.)
JCS Representative INF Negotiations (1981-88)
Special Envoy to Russia for Nuclear
Weapons Dismantlement (1992-93)
Rear Adm. Eugene J. Carroll, Jr. (USN)(ret.)
Dep. Director, Ctr for Defense Information
Lt. Gen. John H. Cushman (USA)(ret.)
Commander, I. Corps
(ROK/US) Group
(Korea) (1976-78)
General John R. Galvin
Supreme Allied Commander
Europe (1987-92)
Admiral Noel Gayler (USN)(ret.)
Former Commander, Pacific
General Charles A. Horner (USAF)(ret.)
Commander, Coalition Air Forces
Desert Storm (1991)
Former Commander, U.S. Space Command
Rear Adm. Robert G. James (USNR) (ret.)
General Robert C. Kingston (USA)(ret.)
Former Commander
U.S. Central Command
Vice Admiral John M. Lee (USN)(ret.)
General William E. Odom (USA)(ret.)
Director, National Security Studies
Hudson Institute
Dep. Asst. and Asst. Chief of Staff for
Intelligence (1981-85)
Director, Natl. Security Agency (1985-88)
General Andrew O'Meara (USA)(ret.)
Former Commander U.S. Army, Europe
Lt. General Robert E. Pursley (USAF)(ret.)
Vice Admiral William L. Read (USN)(ret.)
Former Commander, U.S. Navy Surface
Force, Atlantic Command
General Bernard W. Rogers (USA)(ret.)
Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
Lt. Gen. George M. Seighious II (USA)(ret.)
Former Director, Army Control &
Disarmament Agency
Vice Admiral John J. Shanahan (USN)(ret.)
Director, Center for Defense Information
General William Y. Smith (USAF)(ret.)
Former Deputy U.S. Commander
U.S. European Command
Vice Admiral James B. Wilson (USN)(ret.)
Former Polaris Submarine Captain
A similar Statement was issued simultaneously by:
General Lee Butler (USAF)(ret.)
Former Commander-In-Chief, Strategic Air Comand (1992-94)
General Andrew Goodpaster (USA)(ret.)
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (1969-74)