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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) TAKE N-WEAPONS OFF ALERT FOR Y2K: FAX YELTSIN, CLINTON NOW
Date: 01 Sep 1999 15:55:04 +1000

APPEAL: THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE IN THE WORLD BETWEEN NOW AND DECEMBER31

=46AX YELTSIN, CLINTON TO TAKE N-WEAPONS OFF ALERT OVER Y2K NOW.

SIGN THE NUKE WEAPONS DE-ALERTING LETTER TO YELTSIN/CLINTON
(TEXT at http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html to sign
email [e-mail])

PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN, [phone],
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, [phone],

Dear All,

You will be getting many messages of this kind because this is possibly the
most important single issue that can ever come your way between now and the
next year.

=46ollowing this appeal there are two sample letters, one from FOE Australia
and one from Bob Tiller of PSR USA.

I urge you to act on them. The fax campaign starts Sept 1, TODAY!

I am writing to urge you to fax Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton from today
onwards to take strategic nuclear weapons off alert before December, and to
ask that the de- alerting of strategic nuclear weapons be discussed at the
coming September 21 meeting of the G8.

Also if you are an organisation or a 'prominent' person, please sign the
big sign - on letter to Yeltsin and Clinton. It's already been faxed a few
times, and will be faxed again and again as it grows before December. The
text is on the website at
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html

To sign email THIS ADRESS. ([e-mail])

This is of absolutely vital importance.   Getting 5000 nuclear missiles off
alert status before the Y2k bug plays havoc with their command and control
systems is just about the most important thing anyone can possibly do.

Arguably there is simply no other issue this important between now and
December/January.
It might  be literally a matter of survival.

Can you get this appeal and the two sample letters out to your networks as
fast as you can and ask them to fax it immediately?

If people wish to customise from the two letters that is best.

It's important I think, to get it out as fast as possible.

Please use the fax numbers I have provided. The numbers here work. I've
just checked them. If they (especially Yeltsins one) seem not to work be
patient. I tries it just now, got busy then weird type telecommunication
noises, then a fax tone. Be patient. Keep trying. if they take these
numbers out of operation I will supply others but not until I am sure.)

Try and get everyone you know to do it.

If you are a large organisation please try and get all your members to do it=
=2E

Many thanks and may the fax gremlins smile on you!

John Hallam.


DRAFT MODEL LETTER TO YELTSIN AND CLINTON FOR GLOBAL FAX CAMPAIGN STARTING
SEPTEMBER 1

PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN, [phone],

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, [phone],

Dear Presidents Yeltsin, and  Clinton,
I am writing to you to convey my extreme concern over the possibility that
Y2K -related problems in the computerised command, control, and monitoring
systems of nuclear forces and weapon systems, may give rise to an
unacceptable risk of accidental nuclear war, as a result of incorrect data
and miscalculation.  I therefore urge you to solve the problem by taking
your nuclear forces off alert, or  by standing them down.

I ask that standing down nuclear forces in view of the problems  posed by
the 'Millennium Bug', be a matter for urgent priority discussions at the G8
Summit in Berlin on Sept 21.  As well asY2K considerations, taking nuclear
weapons off alert will increase strategic stability and confidence, and
eliminate  the possibility of accidental nuclear war.

I would remind you that your two countries have some 5000 strategic nuclear
weapons that are able to be fired within a time span of 15-30 minutes.

This must never happen. Should it do so, not only would your two countries
cease to exist, but it is entirely possible that human life  and maybe all
life life on the planet, could be terminated.

Any risk of this happening at any time, Y2K or otherwise, no matter how
small, is unacceptable.

However, the Y2K problem adds another layer of uncertainty to the risk that
already exists.

Taking nuclear forces off alert was strongly recommended by the Canberra
Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in 1996, and a number of
resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly have urged that it be
done.

Taking nuclear weapons off alert and placing them in a state in which hours
to days rather than minutes or seconds would be required to make them
launch ready, would effectively eliminate the risk of accidental nuclear
war due to the Y2K computer problem.  It would also make impossible the
many non-Y2K related problems that have many times brought us to within
minutes of a possible nuclear exchange.

De-Alerting will cost you nothing, and can be done by a simple executive
order to stand down nuclear forces.

The UK has already altered its 'notice to fire' from minutes to days.

We/I urge you to do likewise.

The stakes involved far outweigh any considerations of national pride,
national interest, or even national security. Indeed, the immediate stakes
are so high, and the potential for global catastrophe so clear that
mutually verified de- alerting must now take precedence over all other
considerations.

Signed...
etc

>-------------------------------------------
>Dear Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton:
>
>The Cold War ended years ago, but the nuclear danger endures, menacing
>us all.  Thousands of nuclear weapons remain on high-alert in the United
>States and Russia.  Although both countries have announced their
>"de-targeting" of the other, that step is virtually meaningless when
>both countries keep their weapons on alert and maintain a
>launch-on-warning posture.
>
>Keeping nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert does not add to the
>security of either nation; indeed it makes all of us less secure.  You
>are well aware of the various occasions when Russia and the U.S. came
>close to launching nuclear weapons because of misunderstanding or poor
>data.  Removing the weapons from hair-trigger alert would eliminate the
>risk of hasty reaction.
>
>Therefore I urge you to lessen the nuclear danger by removing all
>nuclear weapons from high-alert.  This can be accomplished in a matter
>of weeks without treaty negotiation or ratification.
>
>This approach has worked before.  In 1991 President George Bush took the
>bold step of removing hundreds of U.S. nuclear weapons from high-alert
>status, and in response Mikhail Gorbachev did the same with hundreds of
>Soviet weapons.  Now we need similar courageous leadership to finish the
>process that they started.
>
>De-alerting takes on added urgency this year.  When January 1, 2000
>arrives, no one will know if all of the Y2K computer problems have been
>fixed.  Why court disaster by having nuclear warheads on hair-trigger
>alert when we do not know how the computers in the nuclear system will
>function?
>
>Last year the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a
>resolution which calls on the nuclear weapons states to de-alert their
>weapons.  It is wise counsel.  For the sake of our children and
>grandchildren, please de-alert all nuclear weapons now.
>
>Sincerely,

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
=46ax(61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903

[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html






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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) GLOBAL FAX CAMPAIGN RE NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND Y2K
Date: 01 Sep 1999 20:35:21 +1000

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
=46ax(61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903

[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html


EMBARGOED TO 2/SEPT. 1999
=46RIENDS OF THE EARTH/AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE
 GLOBAL Y2K N-WEAPONS FAX CAMPAIGN
The 'Go Codes' were today sent out to commence a global fax campaign aimed
at persuading the presidents of the US and Russia to take strategic nuclear
weapons off hairtrigger alert over the Y2K 'rollover' period.

The campaign commences at the same time as there is mounting concern over
the effect of Y2K glitches on nuclear reactors in the US, Japan and Russia,
and as reports surfaced in New Zealand media that 14 of Australia's
=46remantle class patrol boats had been unable to deal with the rollover of
the Global Positioning System (GPS).

According to campaign coordinator John Hallam,
"There has been an astonishing global response both to the call for a
campaign to fax presidents Yeltsin and Clinton asking them to take nuke
weapons off hairtrigger alert over the y2K rollover period, and to the
sign- on letter to the two presidents, which we will be faxing repeatedly
before December."

"It doesn't take great genius to understand that having 5500 nuclear
weapons (3,500 in Russia and 2000 in the US) capable of being launched
within roughly 15/30 minutes, and controlled to a large extent by the
largest, oldest, and least Y2K compliant computer systems in the world is
not safe."

"Obviously, the US and Russia are taking some steps to remedy the
situation, and the joint strategic stability centre in Colorado is helpful.
However, it is less than reassuring that it is only scheduled to commence
operation on 27December, and the Russians have threatened several times on
account of Kossovo, to pull out of it. What if there is a four-day delay in
the schedule?"

According to Irene Gale(AM) of the Australian Peace Committee
"There is one failsafe and sure way to ensure that planetary catastrophe
simply cannot happen and that is to take all nuclear forces off hairtrigger
alert.
The UK has already made a start by changing the 'notice to fire' on its
submarine force from seconds to days. The US and Russia should follow that
example."

"Unless they do, then even if we manage to get through the Y2K bump, there
will still be the possibility hanging like a sword of damocles over the
whole planet that one day in a time of crisis, someone, somewhere, will
believe false warning signals produced by a malfunctioning piece of
hardware or software in Siberia or North Dakota, and make a miscalculation
that could, ultimately, set back the process of evolution by roughly two
billion years. This is a game of Russian Roulette with the whole planet
that just cannot be allowed."

Meanwhile, a monster sign on letter to Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton has
generated more than 350 organisational signatures, ranging from members of
the European Parliament and Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand MPs, to
development groups in Nicaragua,  to Russian peace groups to US
congresspeople Edward Markey and Cynthia mc Kinney, to Leichhardt,
Waverley, Darebin, Salisbury,  Uralla, Richmond Rivers and Mitcham local
governments.
Contact: John Hallam, [phone], h9810-2598,
Irene Gale, (APC) 08-8364-2291



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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) INSERTING THE GO-CODES FOR THE GLOBAL FAX CAMPAIGN
Date: 01 Sep 1999 20:57:04 +1000

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
Fax[phone] ph (61)(2)9517-3903

[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html


Dear Rob, Katie, Marion, Vladimir, Alice, Bob Tiller, Bill Santlemann,
Rennie Drielsma, Yukio, Paul Swann  and all,

It's an unmitigated pleasure to insert the 'go codes' sometimes!.

At least, on a global fax campaign to ensure that if the go codes ever do
get inserted, absolutely nothing happens!

The 'fax now' as distinct from the 'fax on Sept 1' alert went out earlier
today, for the global fax campaign.

I don't anticipate huge media for this, but put it out anyway.

In other developments:

The total sign ons for the 'Bill and Boris' letter are now at more than 350
and still growing.

However I have yet to crack the big celebrity barrier. I tried the Dalai
Lama yesterday but his fax machine kept on cutting out. He does not have an
email. (or i can't get it).

I have also faxed Tutu to no avail.

David Cortright signed on.

A number of local governments have signed on.

A further (much stronger) resolution is happening tomorrow in the Senate
but I think that Dorling will torpedo it, in spite of getting faxed and
phoned from all around the country (and not once from me).

A whole heap of parliamentary questions are happening. (esp on the patrol
boats, Rob!)

WCP and CND UK are faxing as are IPPNW-Berlin, PSR, PGS, TVC, GRACE,
Operation de-Alert, Global Response, Y2K-WASH, and other folk from
Kamchatka to Nicaragua.

Many thanks to all the wonderful people and organisations who are doing
this. There is never enough of us.

And one small detail which I hardly dare mention:
I need $2000 to keep on doing this, to pay FOE's fax bill. Other folk are
talking about up to $200,000 but I need just $2,000. But this is not an
ambit claim. I really do need $2,000. There are some people I can only
reach by fax, and I cannot run to a friendly politician every time I need
to make an ISD fax.


EMBARGOED TO 2/SEPT. 1999
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH/AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE
 GLOBAL Y2K N-WEAPONS FAX CAMPAIGN
The 'Go Codes' were today sent out to commence a global fax campaign aimed
at persuading the presidents of the US and Russia to take strategic nuclear
weapons off hairtrigger alert over the Y2K 'rollover' period.

The campaign commences at the same time as there is mounting concern over
the effect of Y2K glitches on nuclear reactors in the US, Japan and Russia,
and as reports surfaced in New Zealand media that 14 of Australia's
Fremantle class patrol boats had been unable to deal with the rollover of
the Global Positioning System (GPS).

According to campaign coordinator John Hallam,
"There has been an astonishing global response both to the call for a
campaign to fax presidents Yeltsin and Clinton asking them to take nuke
weapons off hairtrigger alert over the y2K rollover period, and to the
sign- on letter to the two presidents, which we will be faxing repeatedly
before December."

"It doesn't take great genius to understand that having 5500 nuclear
weapons (3,500 in Russia and 2000 in the US) capable of being launched
within roughly 15/30 minutes, and controlled to a large extent by the
largest, oldest, and least Y2K compliant computer systems in the world is
not safe."

"Obviously, the US and Russia are taking some steps to remedy the
situation, and the joint strategic stability centre in Colorado is helpful.
However, it is less than reassuring that it is only scheduled to commence
operation on 27December, and the Russians have threatened several times on
account of Kossovo, to pull out of it. What if there is a four-day delay in
the schedule?"

According to Irene Gale(AM) of the Australian Peace Committee
"There is one failsafe and sure way to ensure that planetary catastrophe
simply cannot happen and that is to take all nuclear forces off hairtrigger
alert.
The UK has already made a start by changing the 'notice to fire' on its
submarine force from seconds to days. The US and Russia should follow that
example."

"Unless they do, then even if we manage to get through the Y2K bump, there
will still be the possibility hanging like a sword of damocles over the
whole planet that one day in a time of crisis, someone, somewhere, will
believe false warning signals produced by a malfunctioning piece of
hardware or software in Siberia or North Dakota, and make a miscalculation
that could, ultimately, set back the process of evolution by roughly two
billion years. This is a game of Russian Roulette with the whole planet
that just cannot be allowed."

Meanwhile, a monster sign on letter to Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton has
generated more than 350 organisational signatures, ranging from members of
the European Parliament and Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand MPs, to
development groups in Nicaragua,  to Russian peace groups to US
congresspeople Edward Markey and Cynthia mc Kinney, to Leichhardt,
Waverley, Darebin, Salisbury,  Uralla, Richmond Rivers and Mitcham local
governments.
Contact: John Hallam, [phone], h9810-2598,
Irene Gale, (APC) 08-8364-2291



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From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Invitation to the October Meeting of the
Date: 01 Sep 1999 15:52:32 -0400

Happily, I plan to be at the October gathering in Ann Arbor.  Alan and
Odile Haber have my heartiest thanks for facilitating this.  I look forward
to discussion about current legislation -- what it is, what needs to be
done, who will do it.  Thanks for putting me on the registrant's list for
any and all events.  It will be great to see everyone again!

Ellen Thomas


PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE
P.O. Box 27217, Washington, DC 20038 USA
202-462-0757 (phone) | 202-265-5389 (fax)
http://prop1.org | [e-mail]

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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) A Celebration Of Life Party
Date: 02 Sep 1999 01:33:39 -0700 (PDT)

In December, I am planning to invite some friends to my house for a
Celebration Of Life party.  How should I word the invitation?


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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nuclear War Contigency Plans
Date: 02 Sep 1999 01:33:40 -0700 (PDT)

If a small nuclear war erupts anywhere in the world as a result of the Y2K
bug or just plain nationalism, what contingency plans does the Abolition
2000 movement have?  Does it have press releases all ready to be released in
case of a small nuclear war?

I ask because I believe that a small nuclear war would create an
unprecedented opportunity to mobilize public opinion against nuclear
weapons, but I fear that the hawks would use a small nuclear war to argue
that we need a Stars Wars system to defend against nuclear weapons, so I
believe that the Abolition 2000 movement needs to be able to dominate the
public debate before the hawks move in.


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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) NIF: $300 Million Cost Overrun
Date: 02 Sep 1999 09:10:40 -0700 (PDT)

Hello peace and environmental advocates: This is a very important story on
the National Ignition Facility's cost overrun and schedule slippage. It
provides key information not yet reported in the major newspapers. Please
note that Tri-Valley CAREs is calling for a Congressional investigation.
Plus, I am still digging. There will be even more to come! In the meantime,
enjoy...

Lab Laser: $300 Million Cost Overrun?

by Marylia Kelley
from Tri-Valley CAREs' September 1999 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

Last week, Mike Campbell resigned his position as Associate Director for
Lasers at  Livermore Laboratory. As A.D., Campbell had been head of the
Laser Directorate, including the $1.2 billion National Ignition Facility.
Lab Director Bruce Tarter issued a press statement on Friday claiming
Campbell had stepped down for personal reasons. Along with that
announcement, Lab management immediately began leaking information to the
press that Campbell had not received a Ph.D. from Princeton, as he had
claimed. That fact was widely reported in the media. End of story? Or,
titillating red herring?

Tri-Valley CAREs began conducting interviews last week with senior
scientific staffers at the three major nuclear weapons laboratories,
Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia. Knowledgeable, long-time employees at all
three of the labs said the real reason for the "shake up" is that the
nuclear fusion-based NIF, being built at Livermore Lab, is $300 million
over budget and one year behind schedule.

We were told NIF is mired in scientific and technical difficulties that
Livermore Lab and its parent agency, the Dept. of Energy, are trying to
hide from Congress and the public. There are three "show stopper" areas
where NIF is rapidly falling behind schedule and incurring cost
overruns-$300 million and rising, employees say.

* Target fabrication - This refers to the design and manufacture of the
cryogenic (frozen) balls containing the radioactive fuel that NIF's 192
laser beams are supposed to compress uniformly and instantly to achieve the
temperatures and other phenomena found in the later stages of an exploding
nuclear weapon.

* Diagnostics - This is the sophisticated array of equipment that is
required to provide a highly accurate record of what goes on in a NIF
target "shot." These results are to be fed into the nuclear weapons codes,
the software that is central to nuclear weapons design.

* Glass development and delivery - This refers to the refinement and
manufacture of exceedingly complex optics, special lenses and crystals that
comprise the basis for NIF - which is a glass laser. No glass means no
laser.

In essence, Livermore Lab officials have been spending the money as fast as
they get it, but have failed to accomplish the milestones those funds were
supposed to achieve.

Employees say the Lab has attempted to hide the overrun by pulling target
fabrication, diagnostics and glass delivery out of NIF's "project" budget.
That's how, say staffers, Mike Campbell justified standing on stage at the
target chamber  dedication in June boasting NIF was "on budget." Just
missing a few key ingredients, that's all. Very Clintonesque.

Since all those things will need to be purchased, Livermore Lab and the DOE
management plan to rob money from other programs at Livermore, Los Alamos
and Sandia labs to make up for the overrun, say scientists. NIF is the 800
pound gorilla poised and ready to squash many smaller, more worthy
projects.

NIF's technical difficulties have also caused its completion date to slip
by 12 months, say sources close to the program. While Lab and DOE officials
are still saying publicly that NIF will be on line in 2003, several months
ago the projected start date was secretly bumped backed to 2004, they say.

NIF is, at best,  half-built (according to the Lab's assessment). That it
could be this far over  budget and behind schedule is indicative of a
program in deep trouble, and one whose management  insisted on plunging
full speed ahead before key scientific problems were resolved. A $300
million cost overrun is particularly astonishing when one considers that
NIF's construction estimates have  nearly doubled, from $677 million to
$1.2 billion. How could NIF garner such huge budget increases and still
incur an overrun on top of that?

Tri-Valley CAREs is calling for a Congressional inquiry into NIF spending.
Top Lab and DOE management should be forced to come clean now, before any
new checks are cashed. NIF's overall budget for fiscal year 2000, which
starts on October 1, contains nearly half a billion dollars.

Congress should not risk throwing good money out after bad.





Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
weapons.



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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) THE MOST IMORTANT FAX YOU MIGHT EVER MAKE
Date: 03 Sep 1999 15:57:03 +1000

APPEAL: THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE IN THE WORLD BETWEEN NOW AND DECEMBER31

=46AX YELTSIN, CLINTON TO TAKE N-WEAPONS OFF ALERT OVER Y2K NOW.

SIGN THE NUKE WEAPONS DE-ALERTING LETTER TO YELTSIN/CLINTON
(TEXT at http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html to sign
email [e-mail])

PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN, [phone],
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, [phone],

Dear All,

You will be getting many messages of this kind because this is possibly the
most important single issue that can ever come your way between now and the
next year.

=46ollowing this appeal there are two sample letters, one from FOE Australia
and one from Bob Tiller of PSR USA.

I urge you to act on them. The fax campaign started Sept 1. IFyou or your
organisation has not yet faxed Yeltsin and or Clinton, do it in the next
few days.

I am writing to urge you to fax Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton from now
onwards to take strategic nuclear weapons off alert before December, and to
ask that the de- alerting of strategic nuclear weapons be discussed at the
coming September 21 meeting of the G8.

Also if you are an organisation or a 'prominent' person, please sign the
big sign - on letter to Yeltsin and Clinton. It's already been faxed a few
times, and will be faxed again and again as it grows before December. The
text is on the website at
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html

To sign email THIS ADRESS. ([e-mail])

This is of absolutely vital importance.   Getting 5000 nuclear missiles off
alert status before the Y2k bug plays havoc with their command and control
systems is just about the most important thing anyone can possibly do.

Arguably there is simply no other issue this important between now and
December/January.
It might  be literally a matter of survival.

Please use the fax numbers I have provided. The numbers here work. I've
just checked them. If they (especially Yeltsins one) seem not to work be
patient.  Keep trying. If they take these numbers out of operation I will
supply others but not until I am sure.

Try and get everyone you know to do it.

If you are a large organisation please try and get all your members to do
it. Include it in your newsletters.

Many thanks and may the fax gremlins smile on you!

John Hallam.


DRAFT MODEL LETTER TO YELTSIN AND CLINTON FOR GLOBAL FAX CAMPAIGN STARTING
SEPTEMBER 1

PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN, [phone],
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, [phone],

Dear Presidents Yeltsin, and  Clinton,
I am writing to you to convey my extreme concern over the possibility that
Y2K -related problems in the computerised command, control, and monitoring
systems of nuclear forces and weapon systems, may give rise to an
unacceptable risk of accidental nuclear war, as a result of incorrect data
and miscalculation.  I therefore urge you to solve the problem by taking
your nuclear forces off alert, or  by standing them down.

I ask that standing down nuclear forces in view of the problems  posed by
the 'Millennium Bug', be a matter for urgent priority discussions at the G8
Summit in Berlin on Sept 21.  As well asY2K considerations, taking nuclear
weapons off alert will increase strategic stability and confidence, and
eliminate  the possibility of accidental nuclear war.

I would remind you that your two countries have some 5000 strategic nuclear
weapons that are able to be fired within a time span of 15-30 minutes.

This must never happen. Should it do so, not only would your two countries
cease to exist, but it is entirely possible that human life  and maybe all
life life on the planet, could be terminated.

Any risk of this happening at any time, Y2K or otherwise, no matter how
small, is unacceptable.

However, the Y2K problem adds another layer of uncertainty to the risk that
already exists.

Taking nuclear forces off alert was strongly recommended by the Canberra
Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in 1996, and a number of
resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly have urged that it be
done.

Taking nuclear weapons off alert and placing them in a state in which hours
to days rather than minutes or seconds would be required to make them
launch ready, would effectively eliminate the risk of accidental nuclear
war due to the Y2K computer problem.  It would also make impossible the
many non-Y2K related problems that have many times brought us to within
minutes of a possible nuclear exchange.

De-Alerting will cost you nothing, and can be done by a simple executive
order to stand down nuclear forces.

The UK has already altered its 'notice to fire' from minutes to days.

We/I urge you to do likewise.

The stakes involved far outweigh any considerations of national pride,
national interest, or even national security. Indeed, the immediate stakes
are so high, and the potential for global catastrophe so clear that
mutually verified de- alerting must now take precedence over all other
considerations.

Signed...
etc

>-------------------------------------------
>Dear Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton:
>
>The Cold War ended years ago, but the nuclear danger endures, menacing
>us all.  Thousands of nuclear weapons remain on high-alert in the United
>States and Russia.  Although both countries have announced their
>"de-targeting" of the other, that step is virtually meaningless when
>both countries keep their weapons on alert and maintain a
>launch-on-warning posture.
>
>Keeping nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert does not add to the
>security of either nation; indeed it makes all of us less secure.  You
>are well aware of the various occasions when Russia and the U.S. came
>close to launching nuclear weapons because of misunderstanding or poor
>data.  Removing the weapons from hair-trigger alert would eliminate the
>risk of hasty reaction.
>
>Therefore I urge you to lessen the nuclear danger by removing all
>nuclear weapons from high-alert.  This can be accomplished in a matter
>of weeks without treaty negotiation or ratification.
>
>This approach has worked before.  In 1991 President George Bush took the
>bold step of removing hundreds of U.S. nuclear weapons from high-alert
>status, and in response Mikhail Gorbachev did the same with hundreds of
>Soviet weapons.  Now we need similar courageous leadership to finish the
>process that they started.
>
>De-alerting takes on added urgency this year.  When January 1, 2000
>arrives, no one will know if all of the Y2K computer problems have been
>fixed.  Why court disaster by having nuclear warheads on hair-trigger
>alert when we do not know how the computers in the nuclear system will
>function?
>
>Last year the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a
>resolution which calls on the nuclear weapons states to de-alert their
>weapons.  It is wise counsel.  For the sake of our children and
>grandchildren, please de-alert all nuclear weapons now.
>
>Sincerely,

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
=46ax(61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903

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From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Nuclear War Contigency Plans
Date: 03 Sep 1999 16:55:56 -0400

There can be no such thing as "a small nuclear war."   It is a mistaken idea, a
false construct, and we should not be using it.

Shalom,
Bob Tiller



Timothy Bruening wrote:

> If a small nuclear war erupts anywhere in the world as a result of the Y2K
> bug or just plain nationalism, what contingency plans does the Abolition
> 2000 movement have?  Does it have press releases all ready to be released in
> case of a small nuclear war?
>
> I ask because I believe that a small nuclear war would create an
> unprecedented opportunity to mobilize public opinion against nuclear
> weapons, but I fear that the hawks would use a small nuclear war to argue
> that we need a Stars Wars system to defend against nuclear weapons, so I
> believe that the Abolition 2000 movement needs to be able to dominate the
> public debate before the hawks move in.
>
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From: Hisham Zerriffi <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) BEIR VII letter and press release
Date: 03 Sep 1999 17:09:55 -0400

Dear Friends:  Here is the press release and final version of the letter
delivered by IEER to the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the
Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR VII).

IEER Letterhead

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For further information contact:
Arjun Makhijani or Lisa Ledwidge: 301-270-5500

PRESS RELEASE
70+ Signers Urge National Academy Panel to Study Genetic and Birth Defects
as Radiation Risks

Washington, DC, Sept. 3, 1999. More than 70 organizations and individuals
from around the world today called on a new National Academy of Sciences
(NAS) panel being set up to study the impacts of low-level radiation
exposure to consider a wide range of potential health effects including
birth defects and genetic damage in its deliberations. In a letter to the
NAS Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR VII),
the signers said

=93It is important that the BEIR VII process address the full range of risks
that have not been conclusively evaluated so far.  This should include
risks that have come to light since the BEIR V report (such as the combined
effects of radiation and hormonally-active agents, also called endocrine
disrupters) as well as issues that could have been addressed in BEIR V, but
were not.=94

Dr. Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research (IEER), handed the letter to the Committee for
consideration on behalf of the signatories.  =93The issue of the health
effects of radiation is far more complex than the range of effects
evaluated in the last BEIR committee report,=94 said Dr. Arjun Makhijani.
=93Moreover, some of the data, such as US worker dose data, used in radiatio=
n
studies is suspect or seriously flawed.  It is crucial that the committee
consider data integrity and quality questions and not accept results of
studies only because they have been published in peer-reviewed journals.=94

=93We have compiled a list of some of the most crucial issues that we believ=
e
you should address, like radiation's effects on the development of ova,
which are formed once per lifetime during females' fetal development,=94 sai=
d
Lisa Ledwidge, Outreach Coordinator of IEER.  =93We also are requesting that
the committee publish and update frequently a list of the publications that
it is reviewing so that the public may be able to follow the review and add
to that list as needed.=94

The letter makes some highly specific suggestions for research.  David
Close, a professor of physics at East Tennessee State University who
specializes in the effects of radiation on DNA, noted that when radioactive
atoms, such as those of carbon-14, become part of the DNA, they change the
chemical composition of that piece of DNA when they decay.  =93Carbon-14
becomes nitrogen-14 when it decays,=94 said Dr. Close.  =93We need to know
whether the genetic change that results from such a transmutation in the
DNA can produce adverse health effects, and if so what these health effects
are.=94

IEER requested that the committee treat the issues in the letter with the
same seriousness had a member of the committee raised them.

--30--

****************************************************************************
**************
IEER Letterhead

September 3, 1999

Richard R. Monson M.D., Chair
c/o Rick Jostes, Staff Officer
Committee on the Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing
Radiation (BEIR VII)
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.  20418

Dear Dr. Monson,
We are writing in connection with your committee's work on assessing the
effects of low-level radiation in the form of the Biological Effects of
Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) VII review.=20

We are pleased that the BEIR VII Committee has set out to "consider a large
amount of published data =85 concerning the risks to humans of exposure to
low levels of ionizing radiation" (BEIR VII Project Scope). We expect that,
as part of this work, the Committee will examine conflicting evidence and
interpretations in the process of identifying biological effects and risk
factors.  We look forward to following closely the Committee's
deliberations throughout this important process and to participating in=
 them.

The work of past BEIR Committees has been influential in setting the tone
and terms of the scientific debate on the issue and in the radiation
standard-setting process.  Therefore, we believe it is crucial that the
full range of information and issues regarding the health effects of
ionizing radiation be considered.  The BEIR V report considered only risks
of cancer, some aspects of genetic damage (though it did not estimate risks
of =93diseases of complex genetic origin, which are thought to comprise the
largest category of genetically-related diseases,=94 p. 4) and mental
retardation arising from in-utero exposure.

It is important that the BEIR VII process address the full range of risks
that have not been conclusively evaluated so far.  This should include
risks that have come to light since the BEIR V report (such as the combined
effects of radiation and hormonally-active agents, also called endocrine
disrupters) as well as issues that could have been addressed in BEIR V, but
were not.  We have compiled a list of some of the most crucial issues that
we believe you should address.  These issues are as follows:

*Effects of radionuclides that cross the placenta: This should include
consideration of the effects on the developing fetus itself (e.g.
miscarriages, malformations, and developmental effects other than mental
retardation) and the effects on relevant organs at critical periods of
fetal development.  This study of health effects on the developing fetus
should specifically include effects on development of specific organs, and
the indirect effects of harm to organs such as the thyroid.  We are
especially concerned about radionuclides such as iodine-131, carbon-14, and
tritium that could become part of the fetus in ways that could profoundly
affect its well being.  For instance, tritium, being a form of hydrogen,
combines with oxygen to form water.  Tritiated water behaves chemically
like ordinary water. If ingested, a fraction of it becomes incorporated
into the cells of the body, including genetic material.  Such radioactive
water also crosses the placenta.  The potential for the resultant in-utero
exposure to cause miscarriages, birth defects, and other health problems
needs to be examined.  The BEIR VII committee's evaluation of the risks of
low-level radiation should include all such radionuclides and effects.  If
there are gaps in present knowledge, these should be identified clearly and
their implications should be spelled out.

*Effects of radiation on female fetuses: Considering that ova are formed
once per lifetime during females' fetal development, the Committee should
evaluate the effects of radiation on the reproductive system of female
fetuses and the possible effect of such radiation on the children of
females irradiated in this way.

*Effects of organically-bound radionuclides: Radionuclides such as tritium
or carbon-14 can become part of the DNA.  Upon radioactive decay, they
transmute into other elements.  (Tritium becomes helium-3 and carbon-14
becomes nitrogen-14.)  Such transmutation events could adversely affect the
DNA.  The potential health effects of such transmutations need to be
evaluated. =20

*Synergistic effects: Exposure to radiation is sometimes coupled with
exposure to other hazardous substances.  The Committee should consider
health effects caused by combined exposure to radioactive and
non-radioactive substances.  Special attention should be given to
substances such as hormonally active agents that affect the hormonal system
and the possibility that such disruption might increase the risk of cancer
and other diseases arising from radiation exposure.  Conversely, radiation
exposure might damage the endocrine system, thereby increasing
vulnerability to other disease-producing agents in the environment.  The
possibility of variability of such risks depending on age of exposure (and
whether exposure takes place in-utero) should also be considered.

*Data integrity and quality: Worker dose records of the U.S. Department of
Energy, and its predecessor agencies, are deeply flawed.  The environmental
contamination records are similarly deeply flawed.  We know these things
about the United States because much of the raw data record has become
public through lawsuits, Freedom of Information Act requests, etc.  Use of
studies that accept official US worker or offsite dose estimates without
evaluation of the raw data is highly questionable to say the least.  Since
the raw data in other countries are still largely secret, there is even
less reason to accept them at face value.  For instance, there is evidence
that the health data in the former Soviet Union are questionable. The
Committee should review these and related fundamental questions of data
integrity and address whether any of this record is suitable at all for
assessing the risks of low-level radiation, and if so how it should be
used.  The Committee should also address what criteria of data quality it
will apply to the information contained in the studies it reviews.  In this
context, we do not believe that it will be enough to simply accept
peer-reviewed studies as correct if they have not evaluated the soundness
of the underlying official dose and health data.  Finally the impact of
misclassification of radiation exposures and health outcomes and
health-related selection factors, should be considered in interpreting all
epidemiological studies, including studies of A-bomb survivors.

*Effects on various populations: The concept of "standard man" or "average"
is often used to set radiation protection standards.  Given the potential
large variability of actual health effects of radiation in various
populations, the Committee should assess the errors in risk estimates
produced by the use of this concept.  For instance, the age-dependence of
the dose response relationship for various health effects should be
explicitly spelled out, not only for children, but also for older age
groups.  Another example is the potential variation in sensitivity to
low-level radiation among individuals who are otherwise of similar
demographic make-up.

In many of these areas, it may be that there is simply not enough knowledge
to come to reliable scientific conclusions.  In such cases, the Committee
should clearly and frankly say so and recommend a research agenda.  If
possible, this should be accompanied by qualitative discussions of the
mechanisms of potential health effects.  It is of crucial importance to us
that all areas where risk cannot be reliably calculated are clearly
identified.  If the types of risk can be qualitatively ascertained, the
risks should be spelled out.  If even the qualitative risks cannot be
assessed, that conclusion would also be very material.

We have not discussed cancer-related issues above because we are presuming
that the Committee will address the full range of relevant literature in
regard to carcinogenic effects.  It would be helpful if the committee
published and updated frequently a list of the publications that it is
reviewing, so that we may be able to follow the review and add to that
list, should we feel that to be necessary or desirable.

We look forward to providing scientific input throughout the BEIR VII
process and expect that the Committee will fully address the issues we have
raised as seriously as it might were those same issues raised by a member
of the Committee.=20

We appreciate the opportunity for public comment and ask that it be
expanded as needed to fully accommodate the issues and evidence that we
want to put forth.  We look forward to your response. Do let us know if you
have any questions or need more information.  Please address your questions
or responses to Lisa Ledwidge or Arjun Makhijani.  Thank you very much.

Sincerely,



Lisa Ledwidge                 Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D.
Outreach Coordinator                President=09
[e-mail]                    [e-mail]

Other signatories:
David E. Adelman, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C., USA
Glenn Alcalay, Co-chair, National Committee for Radiation Victims, New
York, New York, USA
Jennifer Aldrich, Executive Director, Physicians for Social
Responsibility/Oregon, Portland, Oregon, USA
Dave Andrews, Vice Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Wales, UK
Didier Anger, le CRILAN, Les Pieux, France
Paulette Anger, le CRILAN, Les Pieux, France
Caron Balkany, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety*, Santa Fe, New
Mexico, USA
Dan Becker, Director, Global Warming and Energy Programs, Sierra Club,
Washington, D.C., USA
Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH, President, International Institute of Concern
for Public Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Patricia T. Birnie, Chair, GE Stockholders' Alliance, and Chair,
Environment Committee, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Philippe Brousse, Secr=E9tariat du R=E9seau "Sortir du nucl=E9aire," Lyon,=
 France
Elizabeth Brown, East Bay Peace Action, Albany, California, USA
Kateri Caron, Spokane, Washington, USA
Vina Colley, Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and
Security, McDermott, Ohio, USA
David Close, Professor, Department of Physics, East Tennessee State
University, USA
Mary Byrd Davis, Uranium Enrichment Project of Earth Island Institute,
Georgetown, Kentucky, USA
Cyndy deBruler Executive Director, Columbia River United, Hood River,
Oregon, USA
Greg deBruler, White Salmon, Washington, USA
Anushka Drescher, Ph.D., Berkeley, California, USA
Gordon Edwards, Ph.D., President, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear
Responsibility, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nader Entessar, Professor of Political Science & International Studies,
Spring Hill College*, Mobile, Alabama, USA
Cathey E. Falvo, M.D., M.P.H., Program Director, International & Public
Health Graduate School of Health Sciences, New York Medical College*,
Valhalla, New York, New York, USA
Ansar Fayyazuddin, Assistant Professor of Physics, Stockholm University,
Stockholm, Sweden
Martin Forwood and Janine Allis-Smith, CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a
Radioactive Environment), Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, UK
Michel Fremont, le CRILAN, Courcy, France
Surendra Gadekar, ANUMUKTI, Vedchhi, India
Sanghamitra Gadekar, ANUMUKTI, Vedchhi, India
Ann Harris, Director, We The People, Inc., of Tennessee, and Executive
Director, Alliance for Public Health & Safety, Ten Mile, Tennessee, USA
Ruth M. Heifetz, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Lecturer, Department of Family and
Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California-San
Diego*, San Diego, California, USA
Ira Helfand, M.D., Co-Founder and Past President, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, USA
Felicity Hill, Director, U.N. Office for Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom, New York, USA
Laura Hunter, Environmental Health Coalition, San Diego, California, USA
Joe Jaffe, retired physicist, San Diego, California, USA
Carol Jahnkow, Executive Director, Peace Resource Center of San Diego, San
Diego, California, USA
Chuck Johnson, Director, Center for Energy Research, Salem, Oregon, USA
Judith Johnsrud, Director, Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power, State
College, Pennsylvania, USA
Deb Katz, Citizens Awareness Network, Shelbourne Falls, Massachusetts, USA
Robin Klein, President, Hanford Action of Oregon, Portland, Oregon, USA
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Koehnlein, President, German Society for Radiation
Protection, and Institut fuer Strahlenbiologie, Westfaelische
Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany
Cathy Lemar, Military Toxics Project, Lewiston, Maine, USA
Bernard Lindberg, Chairperson, Mankato Area Environmentalists, Mankato,
Minnesota, USA
John Loretz, Executive Editor, Medicine and Global Survival*, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA
Michael J. Manetas, Department of Environmental Resources Engineering,
Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, USA
Robert A. McFarlane, M.D., Clinical Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Oregon
Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Janot Mendler, Director for Operations, GEF/UNDP International
Waters:LEARN*, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Robin Mills, Director, Maryland Safe Energy Coalition, Baltimore, Maryland,
USA
Giorgio Nebbia, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Economics, University of
Bari*, Italy
Dale D. Nesbitt, Staff scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Retired,
California, USA
Andi Nidecker, Associate Professor, University of Basel, and Executive
Council, Swiss Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Switzerland
Baku Nishio and Hideyuki Ban, Co-directors, Citizens' Nuclear Information
Center, Tokyo, Japan
Rudi H. Nussbaum, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Portland State University, for
Northwest Radiation Health Alliance, Portland, Oregon, USA=20
Sonya Ostrom, Metro New York Peace Action Council, Brooklyn Heights Peace
Action, Eastside Peace Action, Flatbush Peace Action, Greenwich Village
Coalition for Peaceful Priorities, NOBSAC (North Bronx Social Action
Committee), Shorefront Peace Committee, SNAP (Stop Nuclear Arms
Proliferation), and Westside Peace Action, New York, New York, USA
David Ozonoff, M.D., M.P.H., Professor and Chair, Department of
Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA
Perline, Ph.D., engineer and physicist, Paris, France
Carolyn Raffensperger, Science and Environmental Health Network, Windsor,
North Dakota, USA
Bruce Reznik, Executive Director, San Diego BayKeeper, San Diego,
California, USA
Norman Rubin, Director of Nuclear Research and Senior Policy Analyst,
Energy Probe, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gladys Schmitz, Vice-chairperson, Mankato Area Environmentalists, Mankato,
Minnesota, USA
Betty Schroeder, Co-Chair, Arizona Safe Energy Coalition, Tucson, Arizona,
USA=20
Monique Sen=E9, GSIEN, Orsay, France
Victor W. Sidel, M.D., Professor of Social Medicine, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
Pamela Sihvola, Co-chair, Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste, California, USA
Norma Sullivan, retired college English professor, San Diego, California,=
 USA
Dr. Jinzaburo Takagi,  Citizens' Nuclear Information Center, Tokyo, Japan
Tim Takaro, M.D., Chair, Hanford Task Force, Washington Physicians for
Social Responsibility, Seattle, Washington, USA
Alyn Ware, Consultant at Large, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, New
York, New York, USA
Harvey Wasserman, Citizens Protecting Ohio, Bexley, Ohio, USA
Carroll Webber, Ph.D., Greenville, North Carolina, USA
David Crockett Williams, Coordinator, Global Peace Walk Project, and
Initiator, Global Emergency Alert Response, Tehachapi, California, USA
Steve Wing, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University
of North Carolina*, Chapel Hill, USA
Alexei Yablokov, Center for Russian Environmental Policy and Program for
Radioactive and Nuclear Safety by International Socio-Ecological Union,
Moscow, Russia
Alla Yaroshinskaya, Yaroshinskaya Ecological Charity Fund, Moscow,  Russia

*Affiliation provided for identification purposes only


Cc:    Members of BEIR VII Committee
    Dr. Evan B. Douple, Director, Board on Radiation Effects Research
    Dr. Stephen L. Simon, Board on Radiation Effects Research
    Dr. E. William Colglazier, Executive Officer, National Academy of Sciences
    Dr. Jerome Puskin, Radiation Studies Branch, Environmental Protection=
 Agency
    Dr. Richard B. Setlow, Chair, BEIR VII Phase I Committee
    Mr. Charles Meinhold, President, National Council on Radiation Protection
and         Measurements
    Professor R.H. Clarke, Chairman, International Commission on Radiological
Protection






  =20
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Project Scientist   =20
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
6935 Laurel Ave. Suite 204, Takoma Park, MD  20912   =20
Phone: [phone]       Fax:   [phone] =20
E-mail: [e-mail]    Web:    http://www.ieer.org=20
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From: "Robert J. Jackson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) events! DOE database/Nix MOX, more
Date: 03 Sep 1999 19:26:23 -0700

Marylia:
These are just some thoughts which occurred when reading your e-mail.
Something to chew on.

In the body of your e-mail you recommend contacting Gore to convince him
to convert the plutonium to a ceramic instead of making MOX. I thought
MOX is already a ceramic.

I thought MOX reactor fuel it is made by mixing uranium oxide powder
with plutonium oxide powder and sintering the material into a ceramic
pellet.  If this is correct the MOX material should be much less
attractive for subversive uses than the pure plutonium in the plutonium
pit.  Also the ceramic form would be less apt to contaminate the
environment it is is just stored as radioactive waste.

If, instead it is burned up in a reactor the resulting spent fuel from
mixed oxide would contain some new plutonium and other fission products
which, without reprocessing, is considered nuclear waste.  So without
reprocessing, additional nuclear waste is created if MOX is used in
reactors. With reprocessing the amount of nuclear waste from reactors is
a small fraction of high level waste created without reprocessing.

There is some trade-off here.  Store humongous quantities of plutonium
as a high level waste material or  burn it in reactors and reprocess to
reduce the material to a  smaller amount of unusable high level waste.


marylia wrote:
>
>MOX stands for "mixed oxide
> fuel" and is made by mixing uranium (the common fuel source in nuclear
> reactors) with plutonium.


The U.S. and Russia are embarking on a dangerous
> path: using surplus nuclear weapons plutonium in their reactors. Vice
> President Al Gore has been the chief U.S. negotiator, and the resulting
> agreement, in which U.S. money goes to support the Russian MOX program, is
> causing problems in both countries. Call the White House comment line and
> ask Al Gore to support a program for immobilizing plutonium (e.g., in a
> ceramic matrix) and keeping it out of the environment instead of MOX.



--
Robert J. Jackson
Richland, WA 99352
Phone [phone], Fax   [phone]
e-mail [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: URGENT : re: Raytheon
Date: 05 Sep 1999 03:45:43 EDT

Dear Stuart,
I just got back from two weeks out of town and don't know anything about a
location of Raytheon there in Ireland. I will send copies of this to a couple
of contact lists, which might have someone who can help.
Glad to have your note, only sorry I can be so little help.
Fraternally,
David McReynolds

<< Subj:     URGENT : re: Raytheon
 Date:  8/24/99 10:24:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:  [e-mail] (Pat Finucane Centre)
 To:    [e-mail]

 Dave --

    I'm writing you from the Pat Finucane Centre in Derry, Ireland (North) --
we've just gotten word that a major defense company is setting up shop here
and we need more background info on them.  While this, of course, is
problematic -- it is particularly so in this part of the world.  Any info
would be greatly appreciated.

                                            thanks --

                                                stuart  (for the PFC)


 ps -- I'm also w/ the US socialist group, Solidarity -- you may have gotten
this request via the Solidarity list as well

  >>

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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nuclear War Terminology Questions
Date: 05 Sep 1999 01:15:41 -0700 (PDT)

At 04:55 PM 9/3/99 -0400, Bob Tiller <[e-mail]> wrote:
>There can be no such thing as "a small nuclear war."   It is a mistaken idea, a
>false construct, and we should not be using it.

What term should I use for a nuclear war in which only a few nuclear weapons
are used, as opposed to an all out nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia?
What term should I use for a "regional" nuclear war (like between India and
Pakistan)?


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) A Message from East Timor (urgent)
Date: 05 Sep 1999 14:44:59 EDT

From John Miller, a WRL key person, who is now in East Timor.

Please take note of this post.

David McReynolds


 -----------------
 Forwarded Message:
 Subj:  A Message from East Timor
 Date:  9/5/99 9:37:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:  JohnM85747
 To:    [e-mail] (Mike Ede)
 To:    [e-mail], [e-mail]
 To:    JenLynnMac, JMahoneyP, [e-mail] (Judith)

 Mike please send to the ETAN/NY e-mail list. Jimmy send to relatives e-mail.
Judith to WRL folk.

 John's Message from East Timor
 (Please redistribute widely)

 There are the makings of a bloodbath here. Many have fled. Many have died. I
can see smoke of fires of homes set ablaze in the distance. I have heard
gunfire in the distance. The Indonesian military and its creation the
militias have refused to accept the democratically expressed wish of the East
Timorese to move towards independence.

 I have seen East Timorese defy militia and military violence to go vote on
August 30 and I have seen their fearful faces. Several days ago, the women
hosting us in Becora (just outside Dili) received an early morning phone call
and woke us at 4:30 am to tell us we had to move out of where were staying
for our own safety. I have since heard reports of many houses burned and
people killed in that neighborhood. Another Dili neighborhood I spent time
in, Balide, next to the U.N.'s East Timor headquarters is ablaze. Timor Aid,
the organization which provided assistance to the parliamentary delegation I
worked with to monitor the ballot has been looted of its rice and ransacked.
There have also been many reports of people being forced onto vehicles and
taken to West Timor, perhaps to bolster an argument for East Timor's
partition or worse.

 There have been many calls for U.N. or other peacekeepers. These may arrive
too late. More guns aren't necessarily what East Timor needs. What is very
clear is that the military could shut down the violence relatively quickly.
The military is in control. It is they that can stop the killing.

 The U.S. and other governments still have tremendous leverage with
Indonesia. They must use it all. Statements of serious "consequences." I saw
President Clinton's mealy-mouthed statement and it doesn't go nearly far
enough. The global community - governments, others, you - must be clear about
what these consequences are to let the Indonesian military know that
continued violence in East Timor is unacceptable.

 Please contact President Clinton and members of Congress now. Urge them to
immediately

 a) suspend all military shipments to Indonesia, including spare parts and
ammunition
 b) suspend all non-humanitarian bi-lateral aid and loans to Indonesia
 c) work to suspend all multi-lateral loans and aid, including form the IMF
and World Bank.

 Call the White House comment line at 202-456-1414.  Urge President Clinton
to immediately suspend all further military and financial aid to Indonesia
until the military and paramilitary violence is stopped. The U.S. must show
strong support for East Timor's democratic decision to break away from
Indonesia.

 Sept. 5, 1999
 Dili, East Timor
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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE moves, expands nuke complex
Date: 05 Sep 1999 09:19:54 -0700 (PDT)

Hi. Several people have sent me email notes asking if I have written a
succinct article on DOE's "megastrategy" to move and expand key aspects of
the nuclear weapons complex. Here is a piece I did for this month's
Tri-Valley CAREs newsletter. Feel free to adapt it for your newsletter --
or any other public education-type use. Please credit our organization, if
possible. Thanks. Peace, Marylia

New Plan to Expand Nuclear Weapons Activities Revealed:
Plutonium from Los Alamos Lab to be Moved to Livermore

by Marylia Kelley
from Tri-Valley CAREs' September 1999 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

Note -- In last month's Citizen's Watch, we made public DOE's plan to ship
some of Rocky Flat's plutonium to Livermore Lab. Now we have uncovered a
proposal to bring plutonium from Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico to Livermore.
Read on ...

The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) is poised to make major changes in its
nuclear weapons program and move more plutonium work to the Livermore Lab,
according to materials used by DOE to brief high-level Clinton
administration officials on the plan.

Tri-Valley CAREs obtained the briefing papers from the federal Office of
Management and Budget and released them to the media and the public in
August. The proposed changes will have far-reaching, negative consequences
for Bay Area public health and safety, for national efforts to reign in the
escalating nuclear weapons budget and for international nuclear
non-proliferation and disarmament goals.

DOE will give Livermore Lab plutonium pit work now performed at Los Alamos
Lab in New Mexico. A "pit" refers to the plutonium core of a nuclear
weapon. This plan will include moving nuclear weapons to Livermore for
plutonium pit surveillance. Additionally, the workload for the W80
submarine and air launched cruise missiles is slated to move to Livermore
Lab from Los Alamos. This, too, will mean more plutonium pits at Livermore
Lab.

Until now, this plan has gone forward in secret, and the public has been
inappropriately excluded from any knowledge or decision-making role.
Earlier this year, DOE and Livermore Lab hosted a public meeting at which
officials testified that no major changes were contemplated to the Lab's
operations over the next 5 years. On that basis, DOE and Livermore Lab
decided, in March 1999, not to conduct a new site-wide environmental
review. Put simply, they lied.

Tri-Valley CAREs and its colleague organizations in the Bay Area are
demanding full environmental review and public hearings before any money is
allocated or any nuclear materials are moved.

Moreover, the DOE plan extends beyond shifting "Stockpile Stewardship"
functions between labs. It expands the so-called "Stewardship" program and
further enhances U.S. nuclear capability -- demonstrating once again a "do
as I say and not as I do" proliferation policy on the part of the U.S. That
hypocrisy will not go unnoticed by other nations, some of whom will use it
to justify their own pursuit of new nuclear weapons capabilities. The
result will be an increase in environmental risks locally and proliferation
dangers worldwide.

                                                        Major Changes Proposed

*  DOE will "move promptly" the W80 nuclear warhead workload from Los
Alamos Lab in Mew Mexico to Livermore Lab in California. This will increase
the plutonium pit work at Livermore. The briefing papers also reveal what
appear to be changes in the warhead that go far, far beyond mere
maintenance procedures to preserve the existing weapon's "safety" or
"reliability" while it remains in the arsenal. The W80 "upgrade" proposed
here is sufficiently extensive to raise new questions about DOE plans to
(re)design nuclear weapons in the 21st century. The W80 was originally
designed by Los Alamos, and this plan marks the first time that
responsibility for a nuclear weapon designed by one of the labs will be
shifted to the other.

*  DOE will also "move promptly" the plutonium pit surveillance mission and
workload from Los Alamos to Livermore. DOE expressly says one of the aims
is to give Livermore Lab more plutonium work. This means pits from weapons
besides those of the W80 discussed above will come to Livermore, where the
Lab already has about 880 pounds of plutonium and is slated to get more
from Rocky Flats.

*  Los Alamos Lab's Appaloosa program will be expanded. Appaloosa is the
code name for a new hydrodynamic test program wherein, essentially,
high-explosives and surrogate pits (including with plutonium 242) are set
off inside above-ground tanks.

*  DOE will consolidate hydrodymamic testing at Los Alamos, although
administration officials have been told by DOE that Livermore Lab will hang
on to its hydrodynamic test program, including the new "Contained Firing
Facility," now under construction at Livermore Lab.

*  DOE will build a huge, new 50 gigaelectron volt proton accelerator at
Los Alamos Lab. The existing LANCE facility will become merely an injector
beamline for the new mega-machine, according to DOE.

*  DOE will conduct additional underground subcritical nuclear tests for
the W80 and W88 programs. The briefing papers specify that additional
subcritical shots will involve "weapon relevant shapes."

*  DOE will move ATLAS and Pegasus from Los Alamos Lab to Nevada. ATLAS is
a new fusion facility being constructed at Los Alamos. Pegasus is an older
machine. These two programs will be used to develop technology that will
allow for "explosively driven pulse power for future special nuclear
material [i.e., plutonium] experiments in U1A." The U1A is the underground
tunnel complex where subcritical nuclear experiments are detonated. These
pulse power  tests are of a new type.

*  DOE will build a new "infrastructure for weapons microsystem components
...MESA" at Sandia Lab in New Mexico. This capability will "support future
AF&F (arming, firing and fusing) needs."

Collectively, these plans substantially ratchet up U.S. nuclear weapons
activities. We must act swiftly to counter this.

The DOE briefing papers make it clear that one of plan's "drivers" is the
desire to keep Livermore Lab operating as a full-service nuclear weapons
design lab -- with a robust plutonium workload to match its weaponeers'
fusion aspirations, fueled by the National Ignition Facility.

Tri-Valley CAREs is preparing a letter outlining our objections. Call the
office for details, or come to our meeting on September 23rd to discuss
next steps.

(For those groups receiving this article by email, just let me know if you
can sign on. An electronic copy of the letter will be available by mid
week. Let me know if you wish to see a copy. --Marylia)

Don't just get mad -- get organized with us!


Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Y2K Nuclear Items please read and digest
Date: 06 Sep 1999 13:22:36 +1000

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
=46ax(61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903

[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html

Dear Y2K and antinuclear groups,
I am sending you this material  forwarded from Carol Moore in Washington. I
urge you to read it.

Of course, while US government officials are happy to say how much of a
problem Y2K is going to be in Russia, tney will not admit to its having at
least as much potential for catastrophe in the US. A recent internal report
from the US navy revealed that at least 150 US cities might be without
power and light as a result of y2K problems.

And in Australia, all our navy patrol boats lost navigation capability over
the GPS 'rollover' period.

I think it makes it more important than ever to get nuclear weapons off aler=
t.

And it is all the more important to send your letters to Yeltsin and
Clinton, asking them to take nukes off hairtrigger alert, at least for the
Y2K rollover period. (especially in view of the doubts over the strategic
stability facility in Colorado)

The relevant fax numbers:
PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN, [phone],
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, [phone],


(From Carol Moore)
=46ound this recently:

British Memo Warns of Y2K Catastrophe
July 4, 1999

British embassy in Moscow has warned diplomats about inviting friends and
family to Russia during the upcoming New Year, Britain's Sunday Independent
reports today.

=46earing the implications of the Y2K millenium bug, an internal embassy mem=
o
leaked to the Independent underscored British concerns that Russia is
"considered one of the countries most vulnerable to Y2K problems."....

An American Chamber of Commerce report issued by Terralink, an IT firm
specializing in millennium bug issues, found that Russia could suffer
catastrophic consequences because it was "very likely that major
infratructure providers upon whom everybody depends, will experience Y2K
failures".

Notably, experts have pointed to concerns about Russia's nuclear power
stations, fearing a meltdown similiar to Chernobyl, if the power grid fails.
=2E...
lg

*** Russia mulls Y2K missile monitoring***
WASHINGTON (AP) - Russia has agreed to consider a U.S. proposal for
placing Russian representatives at a monitoring center in Colorado
designed to reassure Moscow the Year 2000 computer glitch won't
trigger unintended U.S. missile launches, Pentagon officials said
Thursday. Defense Secretary William Cohen is expected to discuss the
proposal with his Russian counterpart during a trip to Moscow in
mid-September. One official said it appeared likely the Russians
would agree to participate in the monitoring project. The Pentagon
had invited Moscow to send representatives to the Y2K Center for
Strategic Stability in Colorado Springs, but the dialogue was
interrupted when Moscow froze contacts during the NATO air war
against Yugoslavia. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=3D2560984335-655
 ++++++++++++

    The sooner the Russians get over their righteous anger
over the bombing of Yugoslavia, the better for all the
world.  It should be noted that at this time this cooperation
is only supposed to last for a couple of months, while the
possibility of Y2K-related false missile alerts may continue
for years.
     I found one official Russian e-mail address and you
might write to them and encourage cooperation.  (And
feel free to apologize for US/NATO aggression against
Yugoslavia.)
    NYC Russian Consulate <[e-mail]>
 Also:    Bill Clinton <[e-mail]>,

[e-mail]
http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/C&C-News.html

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990902/tc/russia_usa_1.html


Thursday September 2 1:11 PM ET

Russia, U.S. To Discuss Y2K Missile Fears
By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia has agreed to resume talks on a proposed
joint center in the United States aimed at dodging any missile miscues
caused by the 2000 computer glitch, U.S. officials said Thursday.

The talks on the temporary ``early warning'' center are to take place in

Moscow on Sept. 13 during a visit to Russia by Defense Secretary William

Cohen, the officials said.

Don Meyer, spokesman for the special Senate panel on the 2000 technology
problem, said they were expected ``to yield an agreement that will bring
the Russians back into the fold'' on the center, already being set up in
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Moscow froze contacts on, among other things, Y2K -- coding glitches
that could boggle computers at year-end -- in late March over U.S.-led NATO
bombing of Serbia, a Russian ally.

Cohen will meet his Russian counterpart Igor Sergeyev, to discuss Y2K,
nuclear weapons treaties and U.S. wishes to modify the 1972
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Russian officials said Monday.

The Pentagon has not yet formally announced the trip and did not respond
to a request for on-the-record comment. Cohen is to spend two days in
Moscow, a U.S. military officer said.

Air Force Major Perry Nouis, a spokesman for the North American
Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs, said, ``Sept. 13 is
supposed to be decision day'' on Russian participation in the so-called Cent=
er
for Y2K Strategic Stability.

U.S. officials are eager to get Moscow on board for fear that
Y2K-related glitches could shut down or confuse Russia's own early warning
system
and somehow spark a preemptive Russian missile launch.

Russia and the United States, each with about 2,500 nuclear-armed
missiles poised for immediate firing, are alone among world powers able to
trigger a nuclear holocaust on very short notice.

John Koskinen, President Clinton's chief Y2K advisor, said Sunday that
the United States was discussing with Russia ``the status of their early
warning system.''

``If it goes down and they 'blind' in effect, then the level of anxiety
could increase, so we're trying to make sure that doesn't happen,'' he
said in an interview on CNN.

Russia's economic woes, Koskinen added, were a major obstacle to
completing Y2K preparations, and ``we think they're going to have more
difficulties'' than China.

The joint center, at Peterson Air Force Base, would seat a handful of
U.S. and Russian officers side-by-side for a few days during the date switch
to monitor blips on screens fed by U.S. satellites and ground sensors.

The officers would be in direct touch with their so-called national
command authorities -- those with fingers on the nuclear button -- in both
countries.

The missile-launch data would flow to them directly from the NORAD
combat operations center burrowed into nearby Cheyenne Mountain.

Senators Robert Bennett, a Utah Republican who heads the Senate Y2K
panel, and Vice Chairman Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, had joine=
d
the Pentagon in nudging Russia to sign on to the joint center.

In a July 14 letter to then Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin,
they urged Moscow to look at practical collaborative efforts necessary to
prevent Y2K-related disruptions.

Assuming the Russians eventually join, the original plan was to begin
specialized training on Dec. 1 for the future staffers. The center would
be fully operational for a week or so starting Dec. 27.

Copyright =A9 1996-1999 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

###

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: MILLENIUM MOBILIZATION
Date: 06 Sep 1999 01:48:30 EDT

In a message dated 8/26/99 3:10:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Subj:     MILLENIUM MOBILIZATION
 Date:  8/26/99 3:10:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:  [e-mail] (Jan Lonn)
 Sender:    [e-mail]
 To:    [e-mail]

 The Millennium Forum at the UN 22-26 May 2000 will be an important
 opportunity for Abolition 2000 organizations to interact with the rest of
 the NGO community. The Millennium Mobilization is part of the preparations
 for the Millennium Forum and the Millennium Summit of the UN General
 Assembly.

 - >>

Jan, can I get more information on this proposal, what groups are working on
it, etc.

Peace,
David McReynolds
War Resisters League

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: A Message from East Timor (urgent)
Date: 06 Sep 1999 01:49:25 EDT

In a message dated 9/6/99 1:23:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Subj:     Re: A Message from East Timor (urgent)
 Date:  9/6/99 1:23:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:  [e-mail] (Miriam Taylor)
 To:    [e-mail]

 it is getting worse by the minute now that bishop belo's house is under
 siege with 6000 refugees in his yard and militia in his house. the un is far
 too slow. australian airforce is bringing out up to 500 people today mostly
 un staff but some locals, leaving the rest to slaughter. only connection we
 have is with expats in darwin who are just in terror for their relatives.
 there is nothing at this point other than lobbying and protesting that we
 small folk can do, i reckon.
 miriam
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) ETAN Emergency Alert: Severe Violence Escalates in East Timor
Date: 06 Sep 1999 03:43:58 EDT

I am sending on the ETAN post that came in early this morning, just after I'd
sent out the NYC suggestions.

We should take our lead from this group which is surely organizing something
for immediate action.

Fraternally,
David McReynolds

<< Subj:     ETAN Emergency Alert: Severe Violence Escalates in East Timor
   Date:    9/6/99 1:07:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time
   From:    [e-mail] (Eric S. Piotrowski)

   East Timor Action Network/U.S.
   EMERGENCY ALERT

   SEVERE VIOLENCE ESCALATES IN EAST TIMOR AS MOST FOREIGN REPORTERS EVACUATE
   MAKE 3 CALLS . . . AND DEMONSTRATE!

   Less than 24 hours after the UN announced that more than 78% of registered
   voters in East Timor voted to reject Indonesia's autonomy package,
   Indonesian military and paramilitary forces sharply escalated their
   campaign of terror.  Remaining International Federation for East Timor
   observers report widespread shooting by both paramilitary forces and TNI
   (Indonesian military forces), including the Kopassus Special Forces, known
   for its atrocious human rights abuses.  The Becora neighborhood of Dili has
   been particularly targeted, with 77 bodies reported scattered throughout
   the streets.  Many children are among the dead.  Paramilitary forces roam
   the streets of Dili unimpeded, while joint militia/army roadblocks block
   entrance to and exit from the capitol. The paramilitaries and TNI are
   systematically targeting buildings which house refugees.

   With the evacuation of UN staff and media from outlying towns, foreign
   observers are unable to confirm the extent of violence outside Dili, but it
   is believed to be severe.  But, we do know that hundreds of houses have
   been burned and dozens killed in Maliana alone.  Thousands more East
   Timorese are now refugees. The presence of foreign media is critical to
   report this horror to the world's governments.  They must be encouraged to
   stay.

   Time has run out!  TNI must withdraw immediately from East Timor.

   The paramilitaries must be immediately disbanded. The U.S. must offer full
   support for increased UN personnel and an expanded UN mission mandate. The
   UN must be granted control of administration and security in East Timor.

   The U.S. should cut off all military and financial assistance immediately!

   + CALL your senators and representative.  Urge them to call Secretary of
   State Madeleine Albright, President Clinton, and Secretary of Defense
   William Cohen directly.  The Congressional switchboard number is
   202-224-3121 or check www.congress.gov for contact information on
   individual offices.

   + CALL Assistant Secretary of State Stanley Roth at 202-647-9596.  Don't
   let the staff transfer you to the Indonesia desk. You want this message to
   reach Roth himself.  The Indonesia desk officers are already doing what
   they can.

   + CALL the press.  Thank them for their coverage of East Timor so far, but
   explain your concern about journalists pulling out of East Timor.  Without
   international reporting, we can expect even worse atrocities against East
   Timorese from the uncontrolled paramilitaries.  Also refer them to ETAN and
   the International Federation for East Timor (IFET) for interviews with
   recent and current observers on the island.

   Reuters at 800-537-6865
   Associated Press at 202-776-9400
   Agence France Press (AFP) at 202-466-7890, 202-289-0700
   Interpress (IPS) at 202-662-7160
   CNN at 404-827-1500
   BBC at 202-223-2050, 202-223-0110
   New York Times at 212-556-1234
   Washington Post at 202-334-7400

   For more information, contact Karen at the New York ETAN office at
   914-428-7299 or [e-mail], or Brad Simpson at IFET at 773-255-7949.

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Subject: (abolition-usa) TIMOR HORRORS
Date: 06 Sep 1999 17:06:29 +1000




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From: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Space Command Practices War with China
Date: 06 Sep 1999 16:50:00 -0400 (EDT)

BILL GERTZ
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
September 05, 1999

SIMULATED ATTACK ON THE U.S. BY FIVE ICBMS SHOWS AMERICANS ARE DEFENSELESS

Pentagon trackers hone in on China's nuke missile threat



COLORADO SPRINGS - It was only a simulation, but tension filled the
Pentagon's Cheyenne Mountain Complex here when soldiers watched China's
long-range nuclear missiles streak northward, heading toward the United
States.

The oversized computer screen at the complex, known as the "Mountain," lit up
as red lines showed the flight path of the Chinese missiles as they traveled
over the globe to targets in the United States.

Hit: areas near Seattle, Colorado Springs, Chicago, New York and Washington.

"Sir, for the exercise, we have multiple missile launches," a voice announced
through speakers inside the Mountain. "Stand by for target report."

"Intel indicates the probable launch of five ICBMs (intercontinental
ballistic missiles) from China," an officer says. "Intel assesses this to be
combat against North America."

That was the scenario played out Friday in the U.S. Space Command's dimly lit
command bunker, located nearly a mile beneath the Rocky Mountains.

If China had actually launched a nuclear missile attack on the United States,
the soldiers inside this command center, who monitor missile launches around
the world, 24 hours a day, would have been the first to know.

The exercise highlights that Russia is not the only strategic nuclear threat
to the United States. China has a small arsenal of about 24 CSS-4 long-range
missiles capable of hitting all of the United States except parts of southern
Florida.

Last year the CIA reported secretly within the U.S. government that 13 of
them were targeted at U.S. cities.

China, however, is building three new ICBMs, including two road-mobile
systems that the CIA believes will be the first to incorporate stolen U.S.
missile technology and small warhead design information.

U.S. relations with China have grown tense since NATO's accidental bombing of
the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade last spring. China cut off all military
contacts with the United States in response and stepped up a propaganda
campaign.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin criticized the United States during a speech in
Bangkok yesterday. He said Washington's "gunboat diplomacy" and "economic
colonialism" are threats to world peace and international security.

China's increased tensions with Taiwan also are a potential flash point. In
1995, Chinese Gen. Xiong Guongkai told a former Pentagon official that the
United States would not intervene to defend Taiwan from a Chinese attack
because it "cares more about Los Angeles than Taipei."

The remark was reported to the White House at the time as a threat to use
nuclear weapons against the United States. The Pentagon responded by saying
China would be foolish to attack America with nuclear weapons because it
would face retaliation from the much larger U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Ten years ago, this exercise in the command center probably would have shown
long red lines from Soviet missile fields heading toward the United States.

Air Force Col. Allen Baker, director of operations for the North American
Aerospace Command, said once the missile launches are confirmed with
ground-based radar, he'd be "telling the president how many minutes until
Washington, D.C., is gone."

When asked if the military has anything that can knock the missiles down,
Col. Baker said, "Absolutely nothing."

So why track them?

"We're tracking them so we can tell our commanders exactly what is happening
so they can figure out what their response is going to be," he said. "If they
take out Washington, D.C., do we want to take out Beijing? I don't know.
That's their decision."

If the United States deploys a limited national missile defense, "that system
will be able to destroy incoming missiles," Col. Baker said.

President Clinton signed legislation earlier this year stating that it is
U.S. policy to deploy a missile defense as soon as technologically possible.
But the president has said there is no decision yet on whether to build a
limited defense against long-range missile attack. A deployment decision is
expected next June.

Earlier, in a briefing, Canadian Air Force Brig. Gen. William Calbfliesch,
deputy commander of the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, said the Wyoming
center could provide about 35 minutes advance notice before the Chinese
missiles would impact.

The space command is not involved in retaliation. That job is carried out by
another military base, the U.S. Strategic Command, located at Offutt Air
Force Base in Nebraska.

There have been two war scares at the mountain in the past. Col. Baker said
in 1979 a simulation tape of a massive incoming Soviet strategic missile
attack was mistaken for a real attack. The false warning data was sent out to
other command centers and the response was "Oh my God, there's an attack," he
said.

National security officials in the Carter administration were informed that
some 2,000 missiles were on their way. Under U.S. strategic doctrine, a
retaliatory nuclear attack must be ordered before the first missile hits.

Col. Baker said the mishap nearly led to the launch of U.S. nuclear missiles
against Russia.

"I was a captain in the Air Force in Grand Forks, North Dakota, sitting 60
feet underground in a silo when the first one happened," Col. Baker said.
"And there was enough time that we actually prepared the nuclear warhead
capsule for launch, we actually put in launch keys, we actually pulled out
our authentication system and strapped our chairs down and strapped ourselves
in and prepared for launch."

"No launches occurred, however," he said. "We all wouldn't be sitting here if
it did. But we were ready to go."

Army Maj. Michael Birmingham said a second alarming incident took place
several months later in June 1980 when a computer chip "went haywire,"
showing a missile launch.

After radar ground stations showed no incoming missiles, "that's when they
realized it was a multiplexer in the system," Maj. Birmingham said. A
multiplexer is a computer chip.

The computer systems were upgraded afterward to prevent any further mishaps,
he said.

About 1,200 troops work the Cheyenne Mountain, which has been operating
nonstop since 1967. The complex uses space sensors and ground radar to
monitor all aircraft flying over North America, to warn of incoming missiles
- both long-range missiles targeted at the United States and short-range
missiles fired abroad. The Mountain also has a center that tracks objects in
space. An intelligence center also operates in the mountain. Officials said
the center is closely watching North Korea in anticipation of a long-range
missile test.

"We are rarely surprised," Col. Baker said.

In a separate center in the complex, the U.S. Space Command keeps
around-the-clock tabs on the nearly 9,000 objects circling the globe in
space. The objects include about 700 active satellites and the rest is
orbiting material that ranges in size from metal pieces of defunct spacecraft
to discarded rocket boosters up to 30 feet long.

"We're mostly tracking space junk," said Air Force Lt. David Levy, the
center's director.

What about space aliens?

The center's computer system can weed out fast moving objects, such as
meteors, and other unidentified objects are analyzed. Most turn out to be
manmade objects, Lt. Levy said.






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From: peter weiss <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Standardized Logo for Abolition 2000
Date: 04 Sep 1999 06:52:57 -0400

Dear Carah, As a trademark lawyer by profession, I feel obliged to
caution that a sunflower logo has become identified with the Hague
Appeal for Peace, so it would be nice if Aolition 2000 could come up
with something that wouldn't cause confusion between the two
organization.
                Regards, Peter

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation wrote:
>
> Dear Friends and Activists,
>
>      I am currently in the process of updating and revising letterhead and
> brochures for Abolition 2000.  To date, there is not a standardized logo
> for Abolition 2000 and we would like to have one that incorporates the
> sunflower.  I would appreciate as many suggestions and submissions as
> possible. I encourage you to be creative and use your imagination.  I look
> forward to receiving your submission and I thank you in advance for your
> contribution to the Network.
>
> In Peace,
> Carah
>
> Carah Lynn Ong
> Coordinator, Abolition 2000
> Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
> 1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
> Santa Barbara CA 93108
>
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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) 3 ACTIONS/de-alert, BMD, subcriticals
Date: 07 Sep 1999 00:08:34 -0700 (PDT)

Hi peace and enviro advocates. Here are three easy actions you can take,
two without leaving home. All three are cosponsored by Tri-Valley CAREs
with many allies across the country and around the globe. Working together
we are making a difference! And by participating in one or more actions --
you are helping! Peace, Marylia

T H R E E   E A S Y   A C T I O N S

by Marylia Kelley and Sally Light
from Tri-Valley CAREs' September 1999 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

Just the fax:

Concerned that Year 2000-related computer failures in nuclear systems could
lead to nuclear war by accident or miscalculation? So are many experts.
But, what can you do? Tri-Valley CAREs joins with groups around the world
to ask you to fax Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin this month urging them to
take nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert. Your letter and both
Presidents' fax numbers follow below. Please print, then sign the letter
and fax it today.

Phone-y defense:

Think that abrogating the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is a mistake?
Dislike spending the national treasury on a faulty concept? Believe that
Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) schemes won't work -- and should be
relegated to the dust bin of history? Welcome to the club. Join your
colleagues on  Sept. 13, 14 and 15 in an international phone-in to protest
BMD. Just call the White House comment line at [phone] or your
favorite Congressperson at [phone].

Rally 'round Bechtel:

DOE says there will be another "subcritical" nuclear test detonated
underground in Nevada this month (September 1999). The exact date, however,
is still under wraps. Tri-Valley CAREs will sponsor a protest at Bechtel
Headquarters at 50 Beale St., just off Market St., in San Francisco at noon
on the day of the test. Bechtel manages the Nevada Test Site for DOE. Call
our office to check for the test date and rally details.


Here is the de-alerting letter mentioned in ACTION number one above. Please
print it out, sign and send.

Fax President Bill Clinton today: 1-202-456-2461
Fax President Boris Yeltsin today: 011-7-095-205-4330

Dear Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin:

I am sending this letter to join with citizens around the world in
conveying an urgent message: Take all nuclear weapons off hair-trigger
alert.

Thousands of nuclear weapons are kept by the U.S. and Russia in a state of
high-alert. This "launch on warning" posture does not add to the security
of either nation. Indeed, it makes the whole world less secure.

Last year, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a
resolution calling on the nuclear-armed states to de-alert all nuclear
weapons. The international Canberra Commission recommended de-alerting in
1996, as did subsequent international statements by scores of Generals,
Admirals and civilian world leaders.

The time has come to implement de-alerting. When January 1, 2000 arrives,
we may find computer-related failures in the U.S. or Russian nuclear
systems -- or in the systems of both nations. This raises the specter of
nuclear war by accident or miscalculation.

At the dawn of the new millennium, will the U.S. and Russia enter like two
blind gunfighters, each with an itchy, nervous finger on the nuclear
trigger? I ask you, instead, to remove all warheads from missiles and store
them separately, or to employ other, similarly significant, measures to
increase the time it would take to launch a nuclear attack from a matter of
minutes to one or more days. This will provide a crucial margin of safety
the world needs.

De-alerting can be accomplished well before the year's end -- if you each
exercise courageous leadership and begin now.

Nuclear weapons can be removed from hair-trigger alert without treaty
negotiation or ratification. This approach has worked before. In 1991
President George Bush removed hundreds of U.S. warheads from high-alert
status, and, in response, Mikhail Gorbachev did the same with hundreds of
Soviet weapons. I call upon you both to finish the job. Deactivate the
5,000 nuclear weapons still on hair-trigger alert.

For the sake of all our children and grandchildren, please do it now!

Sincerely,

Name:

Address & Country:

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
weapons.



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From: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Star Wars Call-In Days Reminder
Date: 07 Sep 1999 09:58:39 -0400 (EDT)



STAR WARS INTERNATIONAL CALL-IN DAYS
SEPTEMBER 13-15, 1999
NO BMD!
NO WEAPONS IN SPACE!



Congress has voted to allow the Pentagon to move forward with the Ballistic=
=20
Missile Defense (BMD) system as "soon as technically feasible".  The Clinto=
n=20
administration is now beginning negotiations with Russia in hopes of gettin=
g=20
their "agreement" for the U.S. to circumvent the 1972 ABM Treaty that outla=
ws=20
the development of weapons systems like the BMD.  Clinton is scheduled to=
=20
make a deployment decision on the BMD in June, 2000.  U.S. military officia=
ls=20
have been heard to remark that while the BMD is supposedly to be used for=
=20
"defensive" purposes, it=92s "dual use for offensive purposes is clear."

In order to immediately increase worldwide opposition to plans for the=20
weaponization of space the Global Network has called for the International=
=20
Call-In Days on Star Wars.  We picked the mid-September dates because the=
=20
Pentagon is scheduled to perform a Star Wars test over the Pacific Ocean on
September 29 from Vandenberg AFB.  (The Global Network is organizing a
protest at Vandenberg on September 25). =20

Please call the White House and Congress at the numbers listed below during=
=20
our call-in days.  For our friends outside the U.S. we ask you to contact t=
he=20
U.S. Embassy in your country as well as send a message to President Clinton=
=20
and V-P Al Gore.  Demand an end to Star Wars and the waste of our tax=20
dollars! =20


White House Phone #            [phone]
White House Fax #                [phone]
President Clinton=92s E-Mail:   [e-mail]
V-P Al Gore=92s E-Mail:           [e-mail]
Congressional Switchboard:  [phone]



Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 90083 * Gainesville, Fl. 32607 * [phone] * [e-mail]
www.globenet.free-online.co.uk






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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: ETAN Post-Vote Alert #2: U.S. Government Inaction Results in
Date: 07 Sep 1999 17:21:58 EDT

In a message dated 9/7/99 4:59:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Subj:     ETAN Post-Vote Alert #2: U.S. Government Inaction Results in
MoreDeath as Wave After Wave of Violence Sweeps East Timor
 Date:  9/7/99 4:59:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:  [e-mail] (Eric S. Piotrowski)

 East Timor Action Network (ETAN)
 URGENT ACTION ALERT

 Post-Vote Alert #2: U.S. Government Inaction Results in More Death as Wave
 After Wave of Violence Sweeps East Timor

 Call Today to Demand an End to the Killing. Your action can save lives!

 Less than 24 hours after the UN announced that more than 78% of registered
 voters in East Timor voted to reject Indonesia's autonomy package,
 Indonesian military and paramilitary forces sharply escalated their
 campaign of terror.  All observers from the International Federation for
 East Timor Observer Project (IFET-OP) have been forced to evacuate East
 Timor due to rampant violence by both paramilitary forces and TNI
 (Indonesian military forces), including the Kopassus Special Forces, known
 for its atrocious human rights abuses.  Dili is burning; the streets are
 deserted and refugees are amassing in churches and other relief centers.
 Many children are among the dead.  Paramilitary forces roam the streets of
 Dili unimpeded, while joint militia/army roadblocks block entrance to and
 exit from the capitol. The paramilitaries and TNI are systematically
 targeting buildings which house refugees.

 With the evacuation of UN staff and media from outlying towns, foreign
 observers are unable to confirm the extent of violence outside Dili, but it
 is believed to be severe.  Hundreds of houses have been burned and dozens
 killed in Maliana alone.  Reports have come in of mutilated bodies
 littering the road to West Timor. Thousands more East Timorese are now
 refugees, many of them forced onto trucks headed for unknown destinations.

 TNI must withdraw immediately from East Timor.

 The U.S. must offer full support for increased UN personnel and an expanded
 UN mission mandate. The UN must be granted control of administration and
 security in East Timor.

 The U.S. must cut off all military and financial assistance immediately!

 ** CALL Defense Secretary William Cohen at 703-692-7100 (fax:
 703-697-9080). Demand that the United States cut off all remaining military
 aid to Indonesia until it removes its troops from East Timor and disbands
 the paramilitary groups roaming the streets.

 ** CALL World Bank President James Wolfensohn at 202-458-2907 (fax:
 202-522-0355).  Urge him to suspend financial assistance to Indonesia
 unless it complies immediately with UN demands to end the violence in East
 Timor.  Also call the Executive Director for the United States to the World
 Bank, Ms. Jan Piercy at 202-458-0110 (fax: [phone]).  Demand that the
 U.S. support the suspension of assistance to Indonesia.

 ** CALL your senators and representative.  Urge them to call Secretary of
 State Madeleine Albright, President Clinton, and Secretary of Defense
 William Cohen directly.  The Congressional switchboard number is
 202-224-3121 or check www.congress.gov for contact information on
 individual offices.

 ** CALL Assistant Secretary of State Stanley Roth at 202-647-9596.  Don't
 let the staff transfer you to the Indonesia desk. You want this message to
 reach Roth himself.  The Indonesia desk officers are already doing what
 they can.

 For more information, contact Karen at the New York ETAN office at
 914-428-7299 or [e-mail], or Brad Simpson at IFET at 773-255-7949.

 END

 ____________________________________________________________________________
 | Eric S. Piotrowski ____________________| "The  oppressed  cannot  remain |
 | IFET-OP U.S. Interim Coordinator ______| oppressed forever. The urge for |
 | [e-mail] ____________________| freedom  will eventually come." |
 | http://www.atlantic.net/~altin ________| - Dr. Martin  Luther  King, Jr. |
 |________________________________________|_________________________________|
    Support the International Federation for East Timor's Observer Project
                             http://etan.org/ifet
                    Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]


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From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Nuclear War Terminology Questions
Date: 07 Sep 1999 18:01:22 -0400

That's a fair question.  I don't have a set of words to describe such a scenario.

I doubt that there will ever be a nuclear war in which only a few nuclear weapons
are used, unless it is an attack by a nuclear power on a non-nuclear power (e.g. if
the U.S. uses a few nuclear weapons against Libya or Sudan).

In the unlikely event that only a "few" nuclear weapons were used in a war between
nuclear states (e.g. China and Russia, or China and U.S.), perhaps we could use
terms like "less-than-all-out" or "unexcessive" -- though I think I would find
myself reluctant to use such terms to describe a war in which millions of people
were killed and millions more were injured.

I guess that "regional" might work to describe a nuclear war that is limited to
India and Pakistan, but it would not be very descriptive.

Shalom,
Bob Tiller



Timothy Bruening wrote:

> At 04:55 PM 9/3/99 -0400, Bob Tiller <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >There can be no such thing as "a small nuclear war."   It is a mistaken idea, a
> >false construct, and we should not be using it.
>
> What term should I use for a nuclear war in which only a few nuclear weapons
> are used, as opposed to an all out nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia?
> What term should I use for a "regional" nuclear war (like between India and
> Pakistan)?
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) DE-ALERT RESOLUTION IN EUROPEAN PARLT - 24 HOURS TO LOBBY
Date: 08 Sep 1999 13:23:31 +1000

Dear people,

The Greens, Green-Left Coalition, and the Socialists are sponsoring a
resolution on de-alerting nuke weapons over Y2K in the European Parliament.

It comes up for the first debate on Thursday at roughly midday Brussells
time. The Christian Democrats and other more righ- wing groups are likely
to resists its being listed as an urgancy motion at that time.

If it's not listed we will have to wait till october.

Ernst Gulcher (as per these emails below) tells me there is roughly 24
hours left to lobby the EP.

I suggest the way to do it is to email the EP list that I have, with SHORT
messages, expressing support for the EP resolution. (list is below at the
very end of this email)

You could also FAX THE FOLLOWING NUMBERS:

MAJ -BRITT THEORIN:  32 2 284 96 61 and in Strasbourg 33 3 88 17 96 61.

ELIZABETH SCHROEDTER: BRUSSELLS 32-2-284-9234 STRASBOURG 33-3-881-79234

HEIDI HAUTALA BRUSSELLS 32-2-284-9446 STRASBOURG 33-3-881-79446.

The suggested message is as follows.

"Dear Member of the European Parliament,
I have heard that a resolution on taking nuclear weapons off alert over the
Y2K rollover period is being considered for submission as as urgency motion
on Thursday.

My group considers this motion to be of very highest importance.

Considerable concern has recently been expressed by a number of respected
analysts in the Brookings Institute, the British-American Security
Information Council, and the Federation of American Scientists, over the
possibility of accidental launches of nuclear missiles based on
misinformation from malfunctioning computer systems over the Y2K rollover
period.

If nuclear weapons are taken off hairtrigger alert over the Y2K rollover
period, it will ensure positively that accidental nuclear missile launches,
whose consequences are at least potentially disastrous for the entire
planet, are not possible.

In any case, the taking of nuclear forces off alert, or standing down, was
strongly reccommended by the Canberra Commission in 1996, and by subsequent
resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, as essential steps
toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.

With or without the  Y2K problem, taking nuclear forces off alert is a good
idea. In the face of possible Y2K computer glitches, it is sheer
commonsense, costs nothing, and makes the world a safer place.

We urge you to support this essential and comonsense resolution being
listed as an urgency motion on thursday, and to vote in favour of it.

John Hallam,  Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Sydney,

Next comes a 'pruned' list of some 40% of the EP. it is largely the
Socialist greenleft and green factions.

If anyone has fax or email adresses for any other factions please use them
and please send them to me!

Dear Member of the European Parliament,
I have heard that a resolution on taking nuclear weapons off alert over the
Y2K rollover period is being considered for submission as as urgency motion
on Thursday.

My group considers this motion to be of very highest importance.

Considerable concern has recently been expressed by a number of respected
analysts in the Brookings Institute, the British-American Security
Information Council, and the Federation of American Scientists, over the
possibility of accidental launches of nuclear missiles based on
misinformation from malfunctioning computer systems over the Y2K rollover
period.

If nuclear weapons are taken off hairtrigger alert over the Y2K rollover
period, it will ensure positively that accidental nuclear missile launches,
whose consequences are at least potentially disastrous for the entire
planet, are not possible.

In any case, the taking of nuclear forces off alert, or standing down, was
strongly reccommended by the Canberra Commission in 1996, and by subsequent
resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, as essential steps
toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.

With or without the  Y2K problem, taking nuclear forces off alert is a good
idea. In the face of possible Y2K computer glitches, it is sheer
commonsense, costs nothing, and makes the world a safer place.

We urge you to support this essential and comonsense resolution being
listed as an urgency motion on thursday, and to vote in favour of it."

(Signed etc...)


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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Get This message to This list within 24 hours
Date: 08 Sep 1999 19:54:19 +1000

 John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
 Fax[phone] ph (61)(2)9517-3903
 [e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html

DEAR PEOPLE
IF YOU POSSIBLY CAN, BY EMAIL AND FAX, GET THIS MESSAGE OUT
(BELOW)
TO THE LIST BELOW THAT.

YOU HAVE 24 HOURS. (Noon Thursday Brussels time) (it should take about 20
minutes).

NO problem if you want to improve on the message just do it.


Dear Member of the European Parliament,

I have heard that a resolution on taking nuclear weapons off alert over the
Y2K rollover period is being considered for submission as as urgency motion
on Thursday.

My group considers this motion to be of the very highest importance.

Considerable concern has recently been expressed by a number of respected
analysts in the Brookings Institute, the British-American Security
Information Council, and the Federation of American Scientists, over the
possibility of accidental launches of nuclear missiles based on
misinformation from malfunctioning computer systems over the Y2K rollover
period.

If nuclear weapons are taken off hairtrigger alert over the Y2K rollover
period, it will ensure positively that accidental nuclear missile launches,
whose consequences are at least potentially disastrous for the entire
planet, are not possible.

In any case, the taking of nuclear forces off alert, or standing down, was
strongly reccommended by the Canberra Commission in 1996, and by subsequent
resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, as essential steps
toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.

With or without the  Y2K problem, taking nuclear forces off alert is a good
idea. In the face of possible Y2K computer glitches, it is sheer
commonsense, costs nothing, and makes the world a safer place.

The UK has already altered its 'notice to fire' from seconds to days. This
is undoubtedly a move in the right direction.

A resolution on Y2k and nuclear weapons was passed unanimopusly in the
Australian Senate recently, and I understand that one is being prepared for
the US Congress.

We urge you to support this essential and comonsense resolution being
listed as an urgency motion on thursday, and to vote in favour of it.

....TO THIS LIST

(EMAILS HERE FAX NUMBERS RIGHT AT THE BOTTOM)

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You could also FAX THE FOLLOWING NUMBERS:

MAJ -BRITT THEORIN:  32 2 284 96 61 and in Strasbourg 33 3 88 17 96 61.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: East Timor information and action
Date: 08 Sep 1999 21:54:09 EDT

This is a discouraging post. I'm glad  Alyn noted the sources for information
and I hope people follow up on it. But this is a replay of what we had during
the Kosova war. And it is a replay of the Hauge Appeal - "let's discuss any
war but the one in front of us".

My take may be desperately off base, but the exclusion of serious political
discussion from the Abolition list (and the many very minor posts which do
appear on it) makes it increasingly less useful. I sense my days on this list
will soon end as too much of the material bears absolutely no relationship to
the real world most of us live in.

More later.

Peace,
David McReynolds
NYC

<< Subj:     East Timor information and action
 Date:  9/8/99 9:40:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:  [e-mail] (Alyn Ware)
 Sender:    [e-mail]
 To:    [e-mail] (abolition caucus)

 Dear Abolitionists,

 Many of you are probably shocked about the horrific events in East Timor and
want to know more information or what you can do about it.

 The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee today affirmed that the abolition
caucus list-serve should be used as intended as a forum for the abolition of
nuclear weapons, and not as a forum for other issues of peace or violence.

 For those of you who want information on East Timor and what you can do,
contact:

 East Timor Action Network, 110 Maryland Avenue NE #30, Washington DC 20002.
Phone [phone], or (1) 914 428 7299
 Email: [e-mail] Website:http://www.etan.org

 International Federation for East Timor, Phone: [phone]  Fax: (1)
831-761-1401
 Email: [e-mail]. Website: http://www.etan.org/ifet

 Peace Brigades International East Timor Project, 76 Virginia Road, Wanganui,
Aotearoa-New Zealand. Phone [phone]
 Email: [e-mail], or [e-mail], Website:
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) EMAIL THESE PEOPLE TO SUPPORT DE-ALERTING RESOLUTION
Date: 09 Sep 1999 13:37:03 +1000

DEAR DE-ALERTERS,
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO MOST NEED TO BE EMAILED RE-  THE DE-ALERTING
RESOLUTION COMING UP TODAY.

THERE'S ABOUT 8 HOURS TO DO IT IN.

I'LL GET FAX NOS ASS SOON AS I CAN.

JOHN H.


Patrick  COX
Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the European
Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party in the European Parliament.

[e-mail]

Herrn Hans-Gert POETTERING
Group of the European People's Party
(Christian-Democratic Group), Chairman
[e-mail]

Dear Patrick Cox and Hans-Gert Poettering,

I have heard that a resolution on taking nuclear weapons off alert over the
Y2K rollover period is being considered for submission as as urgency motion
on Thursday.

My group considers this motion to be of the very highest importance.

Considerable concern has recently been expressed by a number of respected
analysts in the Brookings Institute, the British-American Security
Information Council, and the Federation of American Scientists, over the
possibility of accidental launches of nuclear missiles based on
misinformation from malfunctioning computer systems over the Y2K rollover
period.

If nuclear weapons are taken off hairtrigger alert over the Y2K rollover
period, it will ensure positively that accidental nuclear missile launches,
whose consequences are at least potentially disastrous for the entire
planet, are not possible.

In any case, the taking of nuclear forces off alert, or standing down, was
strongly reccommended by the Canberra Commission in 1996, and by subsequent
resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, as essential steps
toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.

With or without the  Y2K problem, taking nuclear forces off alert is a good
idea. In the face of possible Y2K computer glitches, it is sheer
commonsense, costs nothing, and makes the world a safer place.

The UK has already altered its 'notice to fire' from seconds to days. This
is undoubtedly a move in the right direction.

A resolution on Y2k and nuclear weapons was passed unanimopusly in the
Australian Senate recently, and I understand that one is being prepared for
the US Congress. A similar resolution was introduced the day before
yesterday in the Canadian Senate, by Senator Doug Roche.

We urge you to support this essential and comonsense resolution being
listed as an urgency motion on thursday, and to vote in favour of it.

John Hallam
Nuclear Campaigner
Friends of the earth Sydney Australia.




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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) DE-ALERTING RESOLUTION TO BE DEBATED FOR EP AGENDA IN FOUR HOURS
Date: 09 Sep 1999 18:13:51 +1000

DEAR DE-ALERTERS,

DECISION TIME ON EP RESOLUTION IN FOUR HOURS

At Noon Strasbourg time (ie four hours from now), the EP will decide
whether to accept the resolution on de-alerting of nuclear weapons over Y2K
as an 'urgency motion'. if it does it wil then be voted on today week.

THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO MOST NEED TO BE FAXED/EMAILED RE-  THE DE-ALERTING
RESOLUTION COMING UP TODAY.


JOHN H.


Patrick  COX
Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the European
Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party in the European Parliament.

[e-mail]  FAX [phone]

Herrn Hans-Gert POETTERING
Group of the European People's Party
(Christian-Democratic Group), Chairman
[e-mail]  FAX [phone].

Dear Patrick Cox and Hans-Gert Poettering,

I have heard that a resolution on taking nuclear weapons off alert over the
Y2K rollover period is being considered for submission as as urgency motion
on Thursday.

This motion is of the very highest importance.

Considerable concern has recently been expressed by a number of respected
analysts in the Brookings Institute, the British-American Security
Information Council, and the Federation of American Scientists, over the
possibility of accidental launches of nuclear missiles based on
misinformation from malfunctioning computer systems over the Y2K rollover
period.

If nuclear weapons are taken off hairtrigger alert over the Y2K rollover
period, it will ensure positively that accidental nuclear missile launches,
whose consequences are at least potentially disastrous for the entire
planet, are not possible.

In any case, the taking of nuclear forces off alert, or standing down, was
strongly reccommended by the Canberra Commission in 1996, and by subsequent
resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, as essential steps
toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.

With or without the  Y2K problem, taking nuclear forces off alert is a good
idea. In the face of possible Y2K computer glitches, it is sheer
commonsense, costs nothing, and makes the world a safer place.

The UK has already altered its 'notice to fire' from seconds to days. This
is undoubtedly a move in the right direction.

A resolution on Y2k and nuclear weapons was passed unanimopusly in the
Australian Senate recently, and I understand that one is being prepared for
the US Congress. A similar resolution was introduced the day before
yesterday in the Canadian Senate, by Senator Doug Roche.

We urge you to support this essential and comonsense resolution being
listed as an urgency motion on thursday, and to vote in favour of it.

(signed) etc.



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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) FAXED TO DOUG ROCHE RE CANADIAN DE-ALERTING RESOLUTION
Date: 09 Sep 1999 19:36:25 +1000

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH AUSTRALIA / AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE

ATTN SENATOR DOUG ROCHE 1-613 943-9561

Dear Senator  Doug Roche,
I am writing to you to congratuate you on your submitting of a de-alerting
resolution to the Canadian Senate on 7 Sept.

It is surely no coincidence that the European Parliament will debate
whether to put a de-alerting resolution on the agenda for next week in
roughly four hours.

As you have signed the De-alerting sign on letter to Yeltsin and Clinton,
it is also entirely appropriate that those in the European Parliament who
have signed the same letter are also in the forefront of getting it on the
agenda there.

These initiatives are essential for the security of the whole world.
Taking nuclear weapons off hairtriggger alert in the face of possible
misinformation and miscalculation resulting from the Y2K problem is simple
comonsense.

Yet the fact is that some people continue to resist the idea and claim that
we are saying that the sky is falling.

Friends of the Earth Australia and the Australian Peace Committee
completely supports you in this endeavour. Furthermore, it is clear that
all those who have signed the De-Alerting letter to Yeltsin and Clinton,
which now amounts to some 380 organisations worldwide, support the idea of
taking nuclear forces off alert.

I urge you to use the De-Alerting letter to demonstrate the global support
that exists for your initiative. Parliamentarians, trade-unions, NGOs,
Church groups, and Peace and Environment groups accross the planet have
shown that they believe that nuclear forces should be stood down. The
Canberra Commission and at least two resolutions of the UNGA have urged
that this be done. Commonsense demands it be done. Sheer survival demands
that it be done. Canada has a good record in this area, and a resolution to
this effect would definitely be helpful in urging Yeltsin and Clinton to do
as we suggest and stand down nuclear forces.

I urge you to proceed with this excellent initiative and wish you complete
success with it.

John Hallam Nuclear Campaigner Friends of the Earth Sydney, Coordinator,
De-Alerting Letter.
Irene Gale A.M., Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide.

>Roche, Douglas: SEN wrote:
>Press Release
>
 A Motion calling on the Government of Canada to urge all
nuclear powers to de-alert their nuclear weapons as soon as possible was
introduced in the Senate of Canada September 7, 1999 by Senator Douglas
Roche.
>
There are currently 5,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert,
meaning they could be fired within minutes.  Taking these weapons off
alert status would be done by physically separating the warheads from the
>delivery vehicles.
>
 The motion is aimed at the five declared nuclear weapons States,
the United States,  Russia, the U.K., France and China and the three nuclear
weapons capable States, India, Pakistan and Israel.
>
"These powerful States could make a great gift to humanity for
the new Millennium by removing the possibility of nuclear accidents,"
Senator Roche said.
>
Senator Roche noted growing concern that the failure of computers to
recognize the year 2000 date change could infect command, control,
communication and intelligence systems of nuclear forces.  However, he
said, "the Motion is not directly dependent on the Y2K problem.  The
year 2000 date change highlights the existing danger to the world
because of the ongoing alert status of nuclear forces."

Several incidents of false signals of missile attacks have
triggered a process in which national leaders had to decide in only a few
minutes
whether to fire nuclear weapons.

 Russia and the United States are now discussing a proposed joint
center in the U.S. which would seat a  handful of U.S. and Russian
officers side-by-side for a few days during the 2000 date switch to monitor
blips
on nuclear screens.  The officers would be in direct touch with their
respective national command authorities to alleviate any concern about blips
that may occur on the date change.

"This shows that the U.S. and Russia are concerned about a possible
problem,"  Senator Roche said, "but their response is inadequate.  The
world needs the safety that de-alerting would ensure -- not just on New Year's
Eve but throughout every day of every year."

Senator Roche noted that the U.K. government has relaxed the
notice to fire its nuclear weapons from minutes to days.  Also, the Government
of Canada, following the  recommendations of the Standing Committee on
Foreign Affairs and International Trade,  supports the concept of
de-alerting and other measures which contribute to the safety and
security of nuclear
arsenals and the stability of U.S.-Russian strategic nuclear relations.

 Senator Roche's Motion reads: "That the Senate recommends that
the Government of Canada urge the nuclear weapons States plus India,
Pakistan and Israel to take all of their nuclear forces off alert status as
soon
as possible."

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From: Peace through Reason <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Today! 1 pm 9/9/99 Las Vegas NV, Nuclear Projects Commission
Date: 09 Sep 1999 07:53:34 -0400

Company Press Release

State of Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects Meeting

CARSON CITY, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept.
8, 1999--Governor Kenny Guinn has been invited to
attend the Thursday, September 9, 1999, meeting of
the State of Nevada Commission on Nuclear
Projects. The Commission will meet at 1:00 p.m. at the Clark County
Commission Chambers in Las Vegas.

Additionally, Wendy R. Dixon, Assistant Manager, U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) Office of Environment, Safety & Health will present an
update of DOE's draft Environmental Impact Statement.

Staff from the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects will furnish
updates of the Agency's oversight program. Also, Local Government and
Tribal Leaders may be present to provide program updates.

The public is invited to attend and welcome to comment.

Contact:

     State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects
     Robert R. Loux, 800/366-0990 (toll free in Nevada) or
                     775/687-3744

September 8, 11:03 am Eastern Time

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990908/nv_commssn_1.html


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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: WAND Capitol Hill Action Alert
Date: 09 Sep 1999 13:25:51 -0400

Dear Friends,
Below is an urgent request for you to make some phone calls demanding that the
US take immediate action against the terrible slaughter in East Timor.  Please
take a few minutes to call Congress, Cohen, the White House and tell them to
stop playing real politique with human lives!!  Thanks.  Alice Slater

>Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 11:03:26 -0400
>Subject: WAND Capitol Hill Action Alert
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Welcome to the WAND Capitol Hill e-mail action for the week beginning
>September 13, 1999.
>
>East Timor Action Network (ETAN)
>URGENT ACTION ALERT
>
>U.S. Government Inaction Results in More Death
>as Wave After Wave of Violence Sweeps East Timor
>
>Call Today to Demand an End to the Killing.
>
>Your action can save lives!
>
>Less than 24 hours after the UN announced that more than
>78% of registered voters in East Timor voted to reject
>Indonesia's autonomy package, Indonesian military and
>paramilitary forces sharply escalated their campaign of terror.
>
>All observers from the International Federation for East Timor
>Observer Project (IFET-OP) have been forced to evacuate
>East Timor due to rampant violence by both paramilitary
>forces and TNI (Indonesian military forces), including the
>Kopassus Special Forces, known for its atrocious human rights
>abuses.
>
>Dili is burning; the streets are deserted and refugees are
>amassing in churches and other relief centers.
>
>Many children are among the dead.  Paramilitary forces roam
>the streets of Dili unimpeded, while joint militia/army roadblocks
>block entrance to and exit from the capitol. The paramilitaries
>and TNI are systematically targeting buildings which house
>refugees.
>
>With the evacuation of UN staff and media from outlying towns,
>foreign observers are unable to confirm the extent of violence
>outside Dili, but it is believed to be severe.
>
>Hundreds of houses have been burned and dozens killed in
>Maliana alone.
>
>Reports have come in of mutilated bodies littering the road to
>West Timor. Thousands more East Timorese are now
>refugees, many of them forced onto trucks headed for
>unknown destinations.
>
>TNI must withdraw immediately from East Timor.
>
>The U.S. must offer full support for increased UN personnel
>and an expanded UN mission mandate. The UN must be
>granted control of administration and security in East Timor.
>
>The U.S. must cut off all military and financial assistance
>immediately!
>
>** CALL Defense Secretary William Cohen at 703-692-7100
>(fax: [phone]). Demand that the United States cut off all
>remaining military aid to Indonesia until it removes its troops
>from East Timor and disbands the paramilitary groups roaming
>the streets.
>
>** CALL World Bank President James Wolfensohn at
>202-458-2907 (fax: [phone]).  Urge him to suspend
>financial assistance to Indonesia unless it complies immediately
>with UN demands to end the violence in East Timor.  Also call
>the Executive Director for the United States to the World
>Bank, Ms. Jan Piercy at 202-458-0110 (fax: [phone]).
>Demand that the U.S. support the suspension of assistance to
>Indonesia.
>
>** CALL your senators and representative.  Urge them to call
>Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, President Clinton, and
>Secretary of Defense William Cohen directly.  The
>Congressional switchboard number is 202-224-3121
>or check http://www.congress.gov for contact information
>on individual offices.
>
>** CALL Assistant Secretary of State Stanley Roth at
>202-647-9596.  Don't let the staff transfer you to the
>Indonesia desk. You want this message to reach Roth himself.
> The Indonesia desk officers are already doing what they can.
>
>For more information, contact Karen at the New York ETAN
>office at 914-428-7299 or [e-mail], or Brad Simpson
>at IFET at 773-255-7949.
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) sign-on letter/DOE weapons "megastrategy"
Date: 09 Sep 1999 10:58:58 -0700 (PDT)

 * IMPORTANT SIGN ON LETTER *
Dear peace and enviro allies: Please take a minute to look at this sign on
letter, and get your organization to sign on PLEASE. We are looking for
sign ons from all public interest groups -- large and small -- across the
country and around the globe. We need your name, your title (or an
indication you are empowered to sign on your group's behalf) and your
group's complete address (including state and/or country). The purpose of
this letter is to oppose the DOE's "megastrategy," which is a plan to
EXPAND U.S. nuclear weapons activities at the labs and the test site,
including by building new facilities, enlarging several weapons programs
and moving some of them around to new sites. The three original sponsors of
this letter are Tri-Valley CAREs of Livermore, CA USA, Western States Legal
Foundation of Oakland, CA USA and Physicians for Social Responsibility -
Greater San Francisco Bay Area  Chapter in Berkeley, CA. We WELCOME your
sign-on. We are hoping to get many, many groups!!!! Yours can help!!!!
Reply to my address on this message, or to Tri-Valley CAREs' nuclear
program analyst Sally Light at <[e-mail]>  Here is the
letter...

                                                September 21, 1999

US Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585

Attn: Gilbert Weigand, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Weapons Research &
Development

Re: Department of Energy's Plans for Major Changes in Nuclear Weapons Complex


Dear Mr. Weigand,

We are writing on behalf of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a
Radioactive Environment), Western States Legal Foundation and Physicians
for Social Responsibility - Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.  All
three organizations have a long-time interest in public health and safety
issues concerning Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and other
facilities within the nuclear weapons complex.

Tri-Valley CAREs is a 16-year-old environmental group that "watchdogs"
LLNL.  Among other things, it holds two US Environmental Protection Agency
Technical Assistance Grants to monitor environmental cleanup at LLNL.
Western States Legal Foundation has been deeply involved in monitoring
nuclear weapons programs and environmental activities at LLNL since 1982.
The San Francisco Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility has kept
watch over LLNL worker and community issues for a number of years.

Further, this letter represents the interests and concerns of the public
interest organizations who have joined us in sending this letter, listed on
signatory pages that follow.

We have recently obtained information concerning the Department of Energy's
(DOE) plans to reconfigure, expand, enhance and/or move certain aspects of
the nuclear weapons program carried out by the various facilities within
the nuclear weapons complex.  This information is from briefing papers,
obtained from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which we
understand you used to brief high-level Clinton administration officials on
the DOE plan.

Changes proposed by DOE include the following:

1.  DOE will "move promptly" the W80 nuclear warhead workload from Los
Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory.  This would involve more plutonium pit work at LLNL.  The
briefing papers reveal what appear to be changes in the warhead that go
far, far beyond any maintenance procedures that may be necessary to
preserve the existing weapon's "safety" or "reliability" while it remains
in the arsenal.

2.  DOE will also "move promptly" the plutonium pit surveillance mission
and workload from LANL to LLNL.   DOE expressly says that one goal is to
give Livermore Lab more plutonium workload, which means that pits from
weapons, in addition to those of the W80 program discussed in #1 above,
will come to Livermore.  Further, the plan suggests that some or all of the
surveillance work for each of the US weapon types will come to Livermore
Lab, which means nuclear weapons components would be taken apart and
"destructively tested" at Livermore.

Concerning both # 1 and #2 above, Livermore Lab already has about 880
pounds of plutonium, and also has a history of accidents, spills, leaks and
plutonium safety violations.  In fact, its plutonium facility was recently
shut down on the recommendation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety
Board, and is only now "restarting."  We are worried that the DOE's
proposed changes will result in increased risks to worker and public health
and safety.

3.  LANL's Appaloosa program would be expanded.  Appaloosa is the code-name
for a  hydrodynamic test program wherein high explosives and surrogate bomb
cores, called pits, (including with plutonium 242) are detonated in
above-ground tanks.

4.  DOE will consolidate its hydrodynamic program at LANL, although the
Clinton administration has been informed that LLNL will still keep its
hydrodynamic program, including the new "Contained Firing Facility" now
under construction at Livermore.

5.  A huge proton accelerator is to be constructed at LANL.

6.  DOE will conduct additional underground subcritical nuclear tests for
the W80 and W88 programs.  The briefing papers also indicate that
additional subcritical tests will involve "weapon relevant shapes."

7.  DOE will move the ATLAS and Pegasus programs from LANL to Nevada.
(ATLAS is a new fusion facility under construction at LANL, and Pegasus an
older machine.)  These two programs would be used to develop the technology
allowing for "explosively driven pulse power for future SNM [special
nuclear material - i.e., plutonium] experiments in U1A."  U1A is the
underground complex of tunnels and rooms where subcritical nuclear
experiments are now detonated at the Nevada Test Site.

8.  DOE will build a new "infrastructure for weapons microsystems
components ... MESA" at Sandia Lab in New Mexico, supporting "future AF&F
(arming, firing and fusing) needs."  This aspect of the plan is reported to
cost $300 million.

Although these are major moves and expansions of nuclear weapons
activities, the DOE has failed to discuss technical or policy
justifications for them.  DOE also fails to discuss overall proliferation
impacts, costs or environmental impacts.   Nor does DOE indicate any
intended public disclosure or process for public review and comment.

This plan has gone forward in secret, and the public has been
inappropriately excluded from any knowledge or decision-making role.
Earlier this year, DOE and Livermore Lab held a public meeting at which
officials testified that no major changes were contemplated to Livermore
Lab's operations over the next 5 years.  Based on this, DOE and Livermore
Lab decided on March 10, 1999 not to conduct a new site-wide environmental
review.  In view the above proposed changes, it is difficult for us not to
think that DOE and LLNL may have acted in bad faith at that public meeting.

We are outraged by these decisions and demand that a new Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with
full public hearings and disclosure be part of the process to decide
whether any funding should be requested/expended.  Certainly, this EIS must
be done before any of these changes occur, and before anything is moved.
There should be no repeat of the situation at Paducah and Portsmouth, where
both workers and the public were misled for years, and revelations about
plutonium contamination are just now becoming public.

Further, the DOE has completed a Stockpile Stewardship & Management
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SSM PEIS) which is silent on
this plan.  In fact, some of the SSM PEIS' siting elements actually ran
contrary to the latest DOE scheme described above.  OMB is on record
stating that DOE must undertake a revision of the SSM PEIS before moving
forward.  DOE, however, has already requested initial monies from Congress
to begin, according to a Senate report.  It appears to us that a
Supplemental EIS, with public hearings held across the country, is
necessary as well.

We hope to have your response in the very near future.  If you should have
any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting us.

Sincerely,

Marylia Kelley
Executive Director,
Tri-Valley CAREs


Robert Gould, M.D.
President,
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Greater San Francisco Bay Area


Jacqueline Cabasso
Executive Director,
Western States Legal Foundation



Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
weapons.



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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) sign-on letter/DOE weapons "megastrategy"
Date: 09 Sep 1999 15:26:41 -0400

Hi Marylia,
Please sign me on.  Hope it helps!!  Alice
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Job announcement
Date: 09 Sep 1999 18:34:38 -0400

We have a job opening at the national PSR office.   Please circulate and
repost the following job announcement as widely as you can.

Thank you.  Shalom,
Bob Tiller

*******************************************
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

Physicians for Social Responsibility, a national membership organization

committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, is seeking an Associate
Director of Security Programs, who will have responsibilities in two
broad areas:

Research and Policy:
     *Provide research and expertise on a broad range of nuclear weapons

issues, including: plutonium disposition, MOX fuel, cleanup of  DOE's
nuclear weapons complex, nuclear waste disposition, nuclear
weapons-related public health matters, the Stockpile Stewardship
program, tritium production, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,
and the ABM treaty.
     *Monitor and report on legislative matters and executive branch
developments in issue areas.
     *Prepare fact sheets, articles and other materials for
decision-makers and for activists.
     *Assist in developing action strategies and advocacy initiatives.
     *Conduct special projects.

Organizing and Education:
     *Enlarge and strengthen PSR's activist network on nuclear issues.
     *Produce educational materials for activists and chapters,
including voter education materials and a bimonthly newsletter.
     *Maintain regular communication with PSR chapters, activists and
physician experts.
     *Mobilize activists for action.
     *Assist in coordinating national advocacy campaigns.
     *Maintain and update the nuclear portion of PSR's website.
     *Assist in drafting media statements.
     *Assist in planning and organizing conferences, training programs
and other education events.

Qualifications:
     -Commitment to abolition of nuclear weapons
     -Knowledge of nuclear weapons issues
     -Experience in working with grassroots activists
     -Strong writing and speaking skills
     -Ability to handle multiple tasks and to meet deadlines
     -Ability to work both independently and cooperatively
     -Minimum Bachelor's degree, Master's degree preferred
     -Minimum of three years of relevant experience

To apply, send resume to Robert Tiller, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, 1101 14th St. N.W., Washington D.C. 20005.  E-mail
<[e-mail]>
Deadline is October 1, 1999.



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From: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) STAR WARS PROTEST AT VANDENBERG NEWS RELEASE
Date: 09 Sep 1999 19:37:30 -0400 (EDT)




PROTEST PLANNED AT VANDENBERG AGAINST STAR WARS TEST



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                      =
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                                        SEPTEMBER 7, 1999


    CONTACT:   Bruce Gagnon [phone]  (Global Network)
               Andrew Page [phone]  (Northern Ca. Peace Action)
               Danielle Babineau [phone]  (Southern Ca. Peace=20
               Action)


The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space has announced a=
=20
demonstration at Vandenberg AFB, California on Saturday, September 25 to=20
oppose the first-ever test of the National Missile Defense (NMD) system.  T=
he=20
non-violent demonstration will begin at 1:00 PM and be held at the Vandenbe=
rg=20
main gate (Route 1).

The missile test is scheduled to be launched from Vandenberg on September 2=
9=20
and is supposed to be impacted by a second missile launched from a Kwajalei=
n=20
island in the Pacific Ocean.  Data during the test will be gathered by=20
orbiting Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) and fed to the Battle Manageme=
nt=20
Center, which will send steering commands via satellite.

Congress has voted to allow the NMD system to move forward as "soon as=20
technically feasible".  The Clinton administration is now beginning to=20
consider circumventing the 1972
ABM Treaty that outlaws the development of weapons systems like the NMD. =
=20
Clinton is scheduled to make a final deployment decision on the NMD system =
in=20
June, 2000.  Over $120 billion has been spent to date on Star Wars planning=
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by the Pentagon.

Coming from Florida for the protest will be Global Network Coordinator Bruc=
e=20
Gagnon who said, "We are holding this important action at Vandenberg becaus=
e=20
Star Wars must be stopped.  People all over the planet are now organizing=
=20
against this launch.  We cannot allow the U.S. to unilaterally decide to mo=
ve=20
the arms race into space.  U.S. Space Command documents say they intend to=
=20
=91control and dominate space=92.  We intend to organize to keep space for =
peace."

Among the California groups endorsing and participating in the September 25=
=20
protest are:  California Peace Action; Southern California Federation of=20
Scientists; Grandmothers for Peace International; American Friends=20
Service Committee (Pacific S.W. Office); Ventura County Green Party; and
Abolition 2000.

Check the Global Network website at:  http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk

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Subject: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS-NATIONAL MEETING
Date: 09 Sep 1999 17:34:42 -0700 (PDT)







US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS -  NATIONAL MEETING

TO:   All activists who are working for the abolition of nuclear weapons and a
positive peace and justice policy in the United States

FROM:  The Facilitator's Group and Working Group Convenors of the US
CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS (partial list depleted by August
vacations, including but not limited to):
John Burroughs, Lawyer's Committee on Nuclear Policy, New York; Jackie
Cabasso and Andy Lichterman, Western States Legal Foundation,  California;
Alan Haber, Peace and Environment Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear
Weapons and Megiddo Peace Project,  Michigan; Odile Haber, Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section; Jan Harwood,
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section and
Abolition 2000 Coalition, Santa Cruz, California; Sally Light, Tri-Valley
Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, California; Pamela Meidell,
The Atomic Mirror, California; Bob Musil and Bob Tiller, Physicians for
Social Responsibility, Washington, DC; Carah Ong, Abolition 2000 Global
Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons; Esther Pank, Peace Links, Washington,
DC; Richard Salvador, Pacific Island Association of NGOs, Hawaii; Susan
Schaer, Women's
Action for New Directions, Washington, DC; Alice Slater, Global Resource
Action Center for the Environment, New York

WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU to participate in a national meeting of the US
CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS  which will take place on October 9, 10
and 11, 1999, in Ann Arbor, Michigan in connection with a nuclear abolition
teach-in and community forum at the University of Michigan.  We also
encourage you to come early and stay late for the teach-in and related
community forum activities! (see below)

We are continuing to develop plans for a coordinated US campaign in
furtherance of the MISSION STATEMENT and DECLARATION adopted at the
February 1999 meeting of some 60 organizations in Santa Barbara,
California, (see enclosed), and in recognition of the linkages between
democracy, power and nuclear weapons. The campaign will utilize the working
groups identified in Santa Barbara and resources provided by the
cooperating organizations. A brief
outline of the working groups is included.  We encourage you to contact the
convenors if you are interested in getting involved.

We hope that you and your organization will join us in this unified effort
to eliminate nuclear weapons and build towards a more peaceful and just
future. Please return the enclosed registration form right away! If you
have questions or would like to offer proposals for the agenda or the
campaign's structure or activities, or if you'd like to submit a working
paper, please respond to Carah Ong by September 15, if possible.  A
follow-up mailing is planned, which will include a meeting agenda,
proposals, and final teach-in schedule. (Carah's
contact information can be found on the registration form.)









US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
NATIONAL MEETING

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9: 9 a.m.:  Meeting activities begin; meeting continues all
day.  Agenda will include introductions, updates and reports, including
from the working groups, and reflections on the responses of the government
to questions from the community. The goal of the meeting is to lay the
foundation for and develop a national campaign for the abolition of nuclear
weapons. A full agenda will follow in a separate mailing. An informal
reception is scheduled in the evening at an historic building in downtown
Ann Arbor

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10:  Meeting continues all day

MONDAY, OCTOBER 11/INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY: 2 p.m.: Meeting ends (afternoon
activity may follow)


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMMUNITY FORUM/TEACH-IN

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1999

12:45 p.m. - Panel: Nuclear Proliferation
Peace Science Society Panelists: Russell Leng, Middlebury College; Mike Simon,
University of Iowa.  Moderator: J. David Singer, University of Michigan.

2:45 p.m.- Presentation: Chances of Accidental Nuclear Launch
Speaker: Bruce Blair, Brookings Institution

3:30 p.m. - Presentation: Environmental and Public Health Hazards of Nuclear
Weapons Production
Speaker: Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy & Environmental Research

4:15 p.m.-  Presentation: Serpent River First Nation People (tentative)

7:15 p.m.- Presentation: The Case Against Nuclear Weapons Abolition
Speaker: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Hoover Institution at Stanford University

8:15 p.m.- Presentation: The Need for International Agreements to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons.
Speaker: Merav Datan, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War

9:00 p.m.- Panel Discussion
Panelists: Blair, Makhijani, Bueno de Mesquita, and Datan

For information on the October 8 Community Forum:
www.nuclearabolition.research.umich.edu












FORUM ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS

- Monday evening October 11, 7-9 p.m. at the community college.  This not
part of our program but a separate event hosted by Representative Lynn
Rivers. Questions about the Monday evening forum should be directed to Lynn
Rivers office, [phone]; [e-mail]

The local Peace and Environmental Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear
Weapons is working to organize other events and activities prior to and
during the weekend of October 8-10.
Beginning October 4, programs are projected to include the politics of
abolition, the international abolition movement, nukes in space, stockpile
stewardship, new weapons,  weapons and energy, ethics, the environment,
affected peoples,  international law and terms of an abolition treaty, low
level radiation, health questions, depleted uranium, Israel, the bomb and
Mordechai Vanunu, India-Pakistan, Korea, Russia, NATO, new frontiers of
peace research,  the science of peace, and others.  Many schools and
departments of the University have been asked to host programs relevant to
their areas of knowledge. A film and video program is also being planned.
(Suggestions welcomed.)  Opportunities will be sought for the various
working groups of the US CAMPAIGN to 'report to the community' the state of
thought and work on
particular aspects of the nuclear question, such as direct action, civil
society, and indigenous people's concerns.  For further information and
inquiries about participation, please contact Alan Haber, [phone],
[e-mail]. A fuller schedule will be circulated in our follow up
letter.


LODGING IN ANN ARBOR

HOTEL: A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Hampton Inn at the
rate of $65 + tax per night, either single or double occupancy, including
continental breakfast. A shuttle will provide transportation to and from the
conference.

HOME STAYS: The local coalition is arranging home stays. Those who would
like to stay as a guest in the home of an Ann Arbor peace activist should
contact Shana Milkie by e-mail at [e-mail] or by phone at
734-332-1106.  E-mail is preferred.

A $25 suggested minimum donation is requested to help cover material and
location expenses, although no one will be turned away for inability to
contribute to conference costs.  Please include a check or money order with
your registration form. Make your check payable to "Abolition USA", and
write "conference donation" on the memo line.









US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
OCTOBER 9, 10 AND 11, 1999 MEETING REGISTRATION FORM

___  Yes, I plan to attend the meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  I have
enclosed a check or money order for $25 and my complete registration
information is below.

___  Yes, I plan to attend the meeting in Ann Arbor and am enclosing an
additional contribution of  $___   to help expand diversity at the meeting
and defray additional meeting expenses.

___  No, I cannot attend the meeting, but enclosed is my contribution of
$___   for a successful meeting and campaign launch.

Name                         ______________________________
Organization        ______________________________
Address                    ______________________________
                                      ______________________________
Phone                        ______________________________
Email                        ______________________________

__ Please reserve a room for me at the group rate of $65.00 s/d at the
Hampton Inn.  I understand that there is limited availability at the group
rate so I have provided my credit card number to reserve my room.  I
understand that there will be no charges to my credit card until I check
into my room but there is a 72 hour cancellation policy, so I must send
Carah Ong  my  cancellation notice at least three days prior to my
scheduled arrival.

___   I would like to share a room with:
(name)____________________________________________.

___   Please help me find a room mate, if possible.

I plan to arrive on (date) __________ and leave on (date)__________.
Please reserve
my room for (number)_____ nights.

Credit Card (circle one):  Visa  Mastercard  American Express  Discover
Diner's Card
Number  ____________________________________________________
Expiration Date  ___________________
Authorized Signature  __________________________________________

___   I will contact Shana Milkie by E-mail [e-mail] or by phone at
(734)332 -1106 and let her know I am interested in a home stay arranged by the
local coalition of Ann Arbor peace activists.

___   I will make my own arrangements for accommodations.

PLEASE RETURN THIS COMPLETED FORM, WITH YOUR VOLUNTARY
CONTRIBUTION, TO:

Carah Ong
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Rd., Suite 1
Santa Barbara, California 93108
Phone [phone] Fax [phone] E- mail: [e-mail]










US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
MISSION STATEMENT

To ensure a just, secure, healthy and sustainable world for our children,
grandchildren, all future generations and all living things, we aim to
educate public opinion and mobilize persistent popular pressure to move the
United States government to take prompt and unequivocal actions to
eliminate nuclear weapons.

These actions must include halting continued development of new and
modified nuclear weapons, de-alerting nuclear forces, addressing the
environmental degradation and human suffering arising from testing,
production, deployment and use of nuclear weapons, and undertaking
negotiations with other countries on a treaty for their elimination.

Our objective is nothing less than the universal, complete, verifiable, and
enduring abolition of nuclear weapons.

SANTA BARBARA DECLARATION

 From all corners of this land, representing diverse constituencies and
traditions, including indigenous nations, we have come together in common
cause, determined to end the threat to all life posed by nuclear weapons.

We recognize that nuclear weapons and the nuclear fuel cycle have caused
widespread suffering, death and environmental devastation.  We further
recognize that resources used for nuclear arms need to be redirected to
meeting human and environmental needs.

The United States bears special responsibility as the only country to use
nuclear weapons in war.  It continues to spend vast sums on its massive
nuclear weapons complex, and its current policies would upgrade and
maintain a huge nuclear arsenal far into the future.

The conference has initiated a campaign tailored to address the unique
obstacles in the United States to achieving nuclear weapons abolition.  Our
campaign builds upon the foundations laid by Abolition 2000 and other
efforts to abolish nuclear arms.  We commit our hearts, our spirits, and
our energy to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons and invite all
people of
goodwill to join us.
                                                                --  Santa
Barbara, February 14, 1999










WHY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN?

Statement by Alan Haber, US Campaign Liaison to the Michigan Peace and
Environmental Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

Our purpose in initiating and hosting this community forum, teach-in and
national action meeting is to assert the relevance and urgency  of public
education and policy change on the nuclear question.

We seek to bring the full intellectual, and knowledge resources of the
university and the community generally to the consideration of the nuclear
question, especially the urgency to embrace a policy change, directed to
the elimination of nuclear weapons, their removal from the world's
arsenals,  along with all other weapons of mass destruction, as well as
adopting  more affirmative peacemaking policies.

Leading work has gone on at the university in the study of peace and war,
conflict resolution, and transformation, general systems theory, social
organization, etc. an opportunity should be made available, in and of
itself to showcase this work, and  especially so in the  context of
considering changes in America's current strategic defense policies.

The weapons side of the nuclear question is our first focus. Ultimately all
aspects of the nuclear question are related.  The University of Michigan is
eminent in nuclear engineering; our previous president is a nuclear
engineer.  The post war  idea of "atoms for peace" virtually began at the
University of Michigan  and continues in the Phoenix laboratories on north
campus.  This is an appropriate,  knowledgeable environment in which to
consider and debate the nuclear question.

Nuclear waste is a byproduct of nuclear weapons, a well as of nuclear
energy. And how to deal with nuclear waste and clean it up is a matter of
national debate and  made especially urgent and relevant by the continuing
concern about nuclear waste and leaky kegs by Lake Michigan, and  the
distressed, dangerous Fermi2 plant by Lake Erie,  and also  the citizen
initiative for restoring the Great Lakes nuclear free zone embracing the
whole great lakes area in which
Michigan is central.

The first "teach-in" occurred at the University of Michigan, March 24,
1965,  and spread the debate about foreign policy, then concerned with the
Vietnam war,  across the country's campuses, and then to Washington, to
debate the government.  The high government officials we sought to reach
subsequently acknowledged in their memoirs and tapes that the questions,
the inter-university committee for debate on foreign policy, as it had come
to be called, were asking were the right questions  and they, the
government,  should have faced them more honestly, and directly then.

We hope this occasion also will propel debate across the country, and a
continuing interrogation of the government, on why it holds to a dangerous
destabilizing deterrence policy of nuclear and space age high tech weapons
in violation of treaty obligations , common sense and common humanity. We
believe the end of the cold war gives us a gift of time to get rid of these
weapons, before they somehow or other, bring catastrophe. Holocaust still
haunts the horizon.

The overwhelming leadership of the United States gives us opportunity here
to turn the tide.  America now is the main block to adopting a
comprehensive convention for the elimination of nuclear weapons.  We call
on the United States government to take a leadership in the world campaign
for the abolition of nuclear weapons.



US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS WORKING GROUPS

STAR WARS/ABM: This group was formed initially to respond quickly to the
legislation pending at the time of the Santa Barbara meeting authorizing
further research and limited  deployment of an anti-ballistic missile
system by the United States.  Ballistic missile defense continues to be a
key issue of concern for advocates of nuclear weapons abolition, due to
continuing development of the system, its potential to revive a
multilateral nuclear arms race,  and the controversy over its possible
extension in the Western Pacific.
*Convenor: Janet Michelle Cuevas (Promoting Enduring Peace, New York)
[e-mail]
=====================================================================
CIVIL SOCIETY CAMPAIGN TO ENROLL ORGANIZATIONS IN A BRIEF ABOLITION
STATEMENT AND CITY DIALOGUES ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT WITH PROMINENT MOVERS
AND SHAKERS WORKING GROUP: This working group covers several related
efforts aimed at mobilizing opinion via existing groups in civil society
and campaigns aimed at
elected officials in municipalities.  It includes various efforts to get
mayors and city and town governing bodies to endorse abolition statements,
as well as similar efforts aimed at non-governmental civic groups.
Campaigns represented within this working group include A campaign aimed at
creating discussion forums among "opinion leaders" in major cities on
nuclear weapons and their abolition; a campaign aimed at convincing a wide
range of civic groups to
endorse an abolition statement; and the campaign to obtain endorsement of
the Abolition 2000 statement by municipalities.
*Convenors: Pamela Meidell (The Atomic Mirror) [e-mail]; [phone];
Ed Aguilar (Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Philadelphia)[phone]
=====================================================================
CONGRESSIONAL FOCUS (Originally Congress and Administration, now split in
two):        This working group will focus on initiatives relevant to
nuclear weapons abolition in the US Congress.  Examples include the pending
Markey and Woolsey resolutions, aimed respectively at scaling back US
nuclear weapons research and production programs and at encouraging the
Administration to engage in meaningful negotiations to achieve abolition.
Its work encompasses
grassroots efforts to mobilize widespread attention to particular measures
and issues pending in Congress.
*Convenors: to be determined.
=====================================================================
ADMINISTRATION FOCUS:  This group will work to focus attention on the
nuclear weapons policies and activities of the Executive branch, trying in
particular to create forums for discussion and criticism of nuclear weapons
policies.  Its current initiative is a teach-in at the University of
Michigan on nuclear weapons issues, with the organizers hoping to get
administration officials to participate and to publicly debate critics of
existing  nuclear  weapons policies.  If the teach-in model works the hope
is to extend it to other campuses.
*Convenor: Alan Haber (Michigan Coalition of Peace and Environmental
Organizations)  [e-mail]; [phone]
====================================================================
YOUTH/CAMPUSES: This working group aims to raise the level of awareness among
young people about nuclear weapons and efforts to abolish them.  It will
work on the
teach-ins discussed in the Administration focus working group above.  It
will also attempt to gather and broaden the distribution of existing
nuclear weapons abolition materials aimed at a youth and campus audience.
*Convenor: Odile Haber  (Michigan Coalition of Peace and Environmental
Organizations) [e-mail]; [phone]






DIRECT ACTION:  Nonviolent direct action long has been a central part of the
movement to abolish nuclear weapons.  Despite a lack of media coverage,
direct action
continues at weapons and government  facilities around the country, from
the Nevada Test Site, to the weapons laboratories in Livermore, California
and Los Alamos, New Mexico, to Washington D.C. and the  newly opened Waste
Isolation Pilot Plant, also in New Mexico.   This working group will be a
place for people involved in particular direct action campaigns to raise
national awareness of their activities and  to exchange ideas and
information.  It also will try to provide resources which will be broadly
useful, for example nonviolence training materials and lists of nonviolence
trainers.
*Convenor: Matteo Ferreira (Shundahai Network) [e-mail];
[phone]
====================================================================
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ORGANIZING AND CONCERNS: The cycle of nuclear materials
mining and nuclear weapons testing and production always has had a
disproportionate impact on indigenous people world-wide.  Nuclear weapons
testing has occurred for the most part on the lands of indigenous peoples,
without regard for their sovereign rights, and with devastating effects on
people and their lands.  Indigenous people have taken the lead in many
parts of the globe both in making the connections between nuclear weapons
and the effects of the entire cycle of nuclear materials, nuclear power,
and nuclear weapons production, and in advocating for nuclear weapons
abolition.  This working group will provide a focus for making
these voices heard both inside and outside the movement.
*Convenors: Michele Xenos (Shundahai Network), [e-mail];
[phone]; Richard Salvador (Pacific Islands Association of NGOs)
[e-mail]; [phone]
====================================================================
NATO: This working group initially focused on the NATO 50th anniversary
meeting in Washington, D.C. in April, and the likelihood that NATO nuclear
weapons policies would be debated there. There has been interest in
continuing this as a working group, since the controversy over NATO nuclear
weapons policies, including a refusal to renounce first use, a potential
counter-proliferation role for nuclear weapons, and the expansion of NATO's
military scope to include broad out-of-area combat roles is likely to
continue for a long time.
*Convenors: to be determined
=====================================================================
INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS AND ISSUES: This working group aims at
coordinating the abolition campaign in the United States with efforts
world-wide, including Abolition 2000 and other efforts in particular
nations and regions to eliminate nuclear weapons.  With the emergence of a
new nuclear weapons and ballistic missile race in South Asia, growing
controversy over possible theater and domestic ballistic missile
deployments, and the stagnation of arms control negotiations, this working
group will help the abolition campaign in the US remain aware of the
effects US nuclear weapons and military policies have on efforts to achieve
abolition in other nuclear weapons states and globally.
*Convenors: Alice Slater (Global Resource Action Center for the
Environment) [e-mail]; [phone]; Richard Salvador
(Pacific Islands Association of NGOs) [e-mail]; [phone]or
3691;  David Krieger (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation) [e-mail];
[phone]











 AFFECTED COMMUNITIES:  Communities across the country have been affected
by half a century nuclear weapons research, testing, and production. They
range from workers at
DOE facilities to people who live downwind from those facilities to armed
services veterans exposed to nuclear tests.  Many of these groups already
have organized to put pressure on the Federal government to clean up the
environmental damage, to perform meaningful health and environmental
studies, and to provide compensation.  These groups share many of our
concerns, and often already are committed to abolition of nuclear weapons.
This working group will focus attention on the destructive legacy of
nuclear weapons, and will work to integrate these communities and their
concerns into the broader  campaign.
*Convenor: Joseph Gerson (American Friends Service Committee) [e-mail];
[phone]
=====================================================================
RESEARCH FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX:  This group will
focus on the activities of the nuclear weapons and production complex, and
will explore the impacts of continuing nuclear weapons research on the
global test ban and nonproliferation regime and on efforts to achieve
abolition.   It will also examine the overlap between nuclear weapons
research technologies and other emerging arms races which affect chances
for abolition, including anti-ballistic missile technologies, space
weaponry, and possible next-generation nuclear weapons.  The group will be
both a means to coordinate research efforts and to distribute relevant
information within the campaign and to a wider public.
*Convenors: Jackie Cabasso  (Western States Legal Foundation),
[e-mail],
[phone]; Sally Light (Tri-Valley CAREs), [e-mail],
[phone]
=====================================================================
MEDIA/CAMPAIGN LAUNCH:  This working group will be a place to develop and share
media strategies.  An initial  focus will be efforts to coordinate a
campaign launch that is cohesive and nationally visible.
 *Convenor: Steve Kent (Kent Communications) [e-mail];
[phone]
====================================================================
BOTTOM UP ORGANIZING (local movement building and making the connection to
other issues):  Through discussing and organizing around the way nuclear
weapons are connected to other social ills and injustices, from local
ecological devastation, distorted government  spending priorities,  and a
culture of violence which stretches from the state to the street to global
inequality, we can deepen our own understanding of what must be done to
achieve abolition of nuclear weapons,  as well as the understanding of
those we hope to persuade.
We then open up the possibility that we will become part of a larger
movement which can make the changes which could make abolition possible.
This working group will explore ways to make connections on the local level
with other organizing efforts which share some of our concerns, and by
doing so to help create the social movement needed to achieve the abolition
of nuclear weapons.
*Convenor: Andrew Lichterman (Western States Legal Foundation),
[e-mail]; [phone]
====================================================================
DEMOCRACY, POWER AND NUCLEAR WEAPONRY DRAFTING COMMITTEE: This working
group has taken responsibility for following through on the commitment made
in Santa
Barbara to develop a carefully thought out statement on the relationships
between democracy, power and nuclear weapons. A draft statement is
currently being prepared, to be circulated for comment in the near future.
*Temporary convenor: Carah Ong (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation),
[e-mail];  [phone]





Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
Santa Barbara CA 93108

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From: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Letter from Caldicott/Kaku/McReynolds
Date: 09 Sep 1999 21:01:24 -0400 (EDT)




September 7, 1999

Dear Friends:

We write to you out of a great sense of urgency.  Congress and the Clinton=
=20
administration are moving rapidly toward an early, dangerous and colossally=
=20
expensive deployment of the Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system.  In Jun=
e,=20
2000 Clinton is expected to give permission to the Pentagon to deploy BMD. =
=20
Star Wars is back!

The Congressional vote just months ago gave the green light to deployment o=
f=20
BMD "as soon as technically feasible".  Many Democrats joined with=20
Republicans in pushing the legislation through.  The prospects for an=20
immediate turn around of this decision look difficult.

There remains one thing for us to do.  We must rapidly re-ignite the moveme=
nt=20
that shut down Reagan=92s Star Wars efforts in the 1980=92s.  We are writin=
g to=20
ask for your participation and support in such an effort..

What is needed now is a global grassroots mobilization to stop this new rou=
nd=20
of creating an arms race in space.  The U.S. plans to involve nations like=
=20
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Israel and even NATO in the weaponization of=20
space.  For us to effectively block the deployment of space based weapons,=
=20
our strategy must be international.

In recent months members and staff of the Global Network have been travelin=
g=20
across the U.S. and throughout Europe to promote this grassroots effort. We=
=20
invite you to join us as endorsers of our call to action.  The Global Netwo=
rk=20
is now organizing a series of actions in 2000 that are intended to escalate=
=20
the level of opposition to this new arms race.

The centerpiece of our 2000 plan is a series of international activities in=
=20
Washington DC on April 14-17, 2000.  Because of Clinton=92s expected June, =
2000=20
deployment decision on BMD, we believe that it is important that we bring o=
ur=20
grassroots outrage to the capitol.  We hope that you will help us make the=
=20
following events a success:

=B7 FRIDAY, APRIL 14:  We will hold a non-violent rally on the steps of the=
=20
Treasury Department to illustrate the enormous waste of our tax-dollars on=
=20
Star Wars.  To date over $100 billion has been spent on space weapons=20
development while social spending is under relentless attack.  Following th=
e=20
rally we will move next door to the White House to deliver our "No BMD, No=
=20
Star Wars" message to Clinton.

=B7 SATURDAY, APRIL 15:  "Star Wars Revisited: An International Conference =
on=20
Preventing an Arms Race In Space".  This day long event will focus on shari=
ng=20
information about the latest developments in the U.S. plan to become the=20
"Master of Space".  Leaders in the international movement to keep space for=
=20
peace will be the featured speakers.

=B7 SUNDAY, APRIL 16:  In order to bring our message to Congress effectivel=
y,=20
we will provide a lobby training in the morning.  Following this training w=
e=20
will hold a meeting of the Global Network to plan international strategies =
to=20
Stop Star Wars.

=B7 MONDAY, APRIL 17:  This will be our opportunity to deliver to Congress =
the=20
message about our growing international movement to prevent a new arms race=
=20
in space.  We will be joined by representatives of peace groups around the=
=20
world and we will hold a day long vigil on the Capitol steps.

It is important to acknowledge that we have no illusion that our April 14-1=
7=20
events will themselves solve the problem.  We must all be clear that we now=
=20
face a serious escalation in the arms race and that we must all act locally=
,=20
as well as internationally, to rebuild a strong peace movement.  This will=
=20
take time and patience but we must act with a sense of purpose and urgency.

Between now and the April, 2000 events in Washington DC, the membership of=
=20
the Global Network will be working hard to educate the public and to create=
=20
pressure on the Congress and the White House.  We know that there are many=
=20
important issues to be worked on but we hope that your local organizations=
=20
will connect the space issue into your on-going work.  Please help us by=20
promoting the April 14-17, 2000 events in your newsletters.  And please let
us know if your local organization would like to be listed as an endorser o=
n
our promotional materials.

The U.S. Space Command, in their publication called "Vision for 2020", call=
s=20
for "domination" of the earth and space in order to protect U.S. interests=
=20
and investments.  The BMD system, while touted as a "defensive" system, wil=
l=20
open the door to the research, development and deployment of space based=20
weapons that will be used to achieve global dominance.  We hope that you wi=
ll=20
join with us in building the international grassroots movement that will be=
=20
necessary to prevent the U.S. from carrying the bad seed of war with us int=
o=20
space.

Let us hear from you soon.  We look forward to being with you in Washington=
=20
DC in April, 2000.

For Peace in Space,


Dr. Helen Caldicott       Dr. Michio Kaku         David McReynolds
Pediatrician              Professor Physics       War Resisters League*
Australia                 CUNY                    New York, N.Y.
                          New York, N.Y.         =20
                                                  * For identification
                                                  purposes only





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From: Jan Harwood <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) sign-on letter/DOE weapons "megastrategy"
Date: 09 Sep 1999 19:16:29 -0700

Dear Marylia:  Please sign us on.

WILPF Santa Cruz Committee for Abolition 2000.



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From: hcaldic <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) sign-on letter/DOE weapons "megastrategy"
Date: 09 Sep 1999 20:12:50 -0400

marylia wrote:
>
>  * IMPORTANT SIGN ON LETTER *
> Dear peace and enviro allies: Please take a minute to look at this sign on
> letter, and get your organization to sign on PLEASE. We are looking for
> sign ons from all public interest groups -- large and small -- across the
> country and around the globe. We need your name, your title (or an
> indication you are empowered to sign on your group's behalf) and your
> group's complete address (including state and/or country). The purpose of
> this letter is to oppose the DOE's "megastrategy," which is a plan to
> EXPAND U.S. nuclear weapons activities at the labs and the test site,
> including by building new facilities, enlarging several weapons programs
> and moving some of them around to new sites. The three original sponsors of
> this letter are Tri-Valley CAREs of Livermore, CA USA, Western States Legal
> Foundation of Oakland, CA USA and Physicians for Social Responsibility -
> Greater San Francisco Bay Area  Chapter in Berkeley, CA. We WELCOME your
> sign-on. We are hoping to get many, many groups!!!! Yours can help!!!!
> Reply to my address on this message, or to Tri-Valley CAREs' nuclear
> program analyst Sally Light at <[e-mail]>  Here is the
> letter...
>
>                                                 September 21, 1999
>
> US Department of Energy
> 1000 Independence Avenue, SW
> Washington, D.C. 20585
>
> Attn: Gilbert Weigand, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Weapons Research &
> Development
>
> Re: Department of Energy's Plans for Major Changes in Nuclear Weapons Complex
>
> Dear Mr. Weigand,
>
> We are writing on behalf of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a
> Radioactive Environment), Western States Legal Foundation and Physicians
> for Social Responsibility - Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.  All
> three organizations have a long-time interest in public health and safety
> issues concerning Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and other
> facilities within the nuclear weapons complex.
>
> Tri-Valley CAREs is a 16-year-old environmental group that "watchdogs"
> LLNL.  Among other things, it holds two US Environmental Protection Agency
> Technical Assistance Grants to monitor environmental cleanup at LLNL.
> Western States Legal Foundation has been deeply involved in monitoring
> nuclear weapons programs and environmental activities at LLNL since 1982.
> The San Francisco Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility has kept
> watch over LLNL worker and community issues for a number of years.
>
> Further, this letter represents the interests and concerns of the public
> interest organizations who have joined us in sending this letter, listed on
> signatory pages that follow.
>
> We have recently obtained information concerning the Department of Energy's
> (DOE) plans to reconfigure, expand, enhance and/or move certain aspects of
> the nuclear weapons program carried out by the various facilities within
> the nuclear weapons complex.  This information is from briefing papers,
> obtained from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which we
> understand you used to brief high-level Clinton administration officials on
> the DOE plan.
>
> Changes proposed by DOE include the following:
>
> 1.  DOE will "move promptly" the W80 nuclear warhead workload from Los
> Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Lawrence Livermore National
> Laboratory.  This would involve more plutonium pit work at LLNL.  The
> briefing papers reveal what appear to be changes in the warhead that go
> far, far beyond any maintenance procedures that may be necessary to
> preserve the existing weapon's "safety" or "reliability" while it remains
> in the arsenal.
>
> 2.  DOE will also "move promptly" the plutonium pit surveillance mission
> and workload from LANL to LLNL.   DOE expressly says that one goal is to
> give Livermore Lab more plutonium workload, which means that pits from
> weapons, in addition to those of the W80 program discussed in #1 above,
> will come to Livermore.  Further, the plan suggests that some or all of the
> surveillance work for each of the US weapon types will come to Livermore
> Lab, which means nuclear weapons components would be taken apart and
> "destructively tested" at Livermore.
>
> Concerning both # 1 and #2 above, Livermore Lab already has about 880
> pounds of plutonium, and also has a history of accidents, spills, leaks and
> plutonium safety violations.  In fact, its plutonium facility was recently
> shut down on the recommendation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety
> Board, and is only now "restarting."  We are worried that the DOE's
> proposed changes will result in increased risks to worker and public health
> and safety.
>
> 3.  LANL's Appaloosa program would be expanded.  Appaloosa is the code-name
> for a  hydrodynamic test program wherein high explosives and surrogate bomb
> cores, called pits, (including with plutonium 242) are detonated in
> above-ground tanks.
>
> 4.  DOE will consolidate its hydrodynamic program at LANL, although the
> Clinton administration has been informed that LLNL will still keep its
> hydrodynamic program, including the new "Contained Firing Facility" now
> under construction at Livermore.
>
> 5.  A huge proton accelerator is to be constructed at LANL.
>
> 6.  DOE will conduct additional underground subcritical nuclear tests for
> the W80 and W88 programs.  The briefing papers also indicate that
> additional subcritical tests will involve "weapon relevant shapes."
>
> 7.  DOE will move the ATLAS and Pegasus programs from LANL to Nevada.
> (ATLAS is a new fusion facility under construction at LANL, and Pegasus an
> older machine.)  These two programs would be used to develop the technology
> allowing for "explosively driven pulse power for future SNM [special
> nuclear material - i.e., plutonium] experiments in U1A."  U1A is the
> underground complex of tunnels and rooms where subcritical nuclear
> experiments are now detonated at the Nevada Test Site.
>
> 8.  DOE will build a new "infrastructure for weapons microsystems
> components ... MESA" at Sandia Lab in New Mexico, supporting "future AF&F
> (arming, firing and fusing) needs."  This aspect of the plan is reported to
> cost $300 million.
>
> Although these are major moves and expansions of nuclear weapons
> activities, the DOE has failed to discuss technical or policy
> justifications for them.  DOE also fails to discuss overall proliferation
> impacts, costs or environmental impacts.   Nor does DOE indicate any
> intended public disclosure or process for public review and comment.
>
> This plan has gone forward in secret, and the public has been
> inappropriately excluded from any knowledge or decision-making role.
> Earlier this year, DOE and Livermore Lab held a public meeting at which
> officials testified that no major changes were contemplated to Livermore
> Lab's operations over the next 5 years.  Based on this, DOE and Livermore
> Lab decided on March 10, 1999 not to conduct a new site-wide environmental
> review.  In view the above proposed changes, it is difficult for us not to
> think that DOE and LLNL may have acted in bad faith at that public meeting.
>
> We are outraged by these decisions and demand that a new Environmental
> Impact Statement (EIS) for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with
> full public hearings and disclosure be part of the process to decide
> whether any funding should be requested/expended.  Certainly, this EIS must
> be done before any of these changes occur, and before anything is moved.
> There should be no repeat of the situation at Paducah and Portsmouth, where
> both workers and the public were misled for years, and revelations about
> plutonium contamination are just now becoming public.
>
> Further, the DOE has completed a Stockpile Stewardship & Management
> Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SSM PEIS) which is silent on
> this plan.  In fact, some of the SSM PEIS' siting elements actually ran
> contrary to the latest DOE scheme described above.  OMB is on record
> stating that DOE must undertake a revision of the SSM PEIS before moving
> forward.  DOE, however, has already requested initial monies from Congress
> to begin, according to a Senate report.  It appears to us that a
> Supplemental EIS, with public hearings held across the country, is
> necessary as well.
>
> We hope to have your response in the very near future.  If you should have
> any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting us.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Executive Director,
> Tri-Valley CAREs
>
> Robert Gould, M.D.
> President,
> Physicians for Social Responsibility, Greater San Francisco Bay Area
>
> Jacqueline Cabasso
> Executive Director,
> Western States Legal Foundation
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
> 2582 Old First Street
> Livermore, CA USA 94550
>
> <http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!
>
> [phone] - is our phone
> [phone] - is our fax
>
> Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
> CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
> Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
> international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
> weapons.
>
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    Marylia, please add my name and denote me as Founding President of
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Helen Caldicott



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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) EP DEALERTING RESOLUTION NEW DEADLINE 4PM MONDAY STRASBOURG TIME
Date: 10 Sep 1999 17:08:47 +1000

Dear ALL,
THE NEW DEADLINE FOR LOBBYING MEPS RE THE DELALERTING RESOLUTION APPEARS TO
BE 4PM MONDAY, STRASBOURG TIME.

THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ARE THE MAIN GROUP THAT SHOULD BE LOBBIED AT THIS STAGE.

You may know that a resolution on de-alerting nuclear weapons and shutting
down nuclear reactors for Y2K is being submitted by the greens, social
democrats and green/left coalition. Initially the de-alerting resolution
was drafted by myself and Rob green, but it looks as if it is being
modified to include the reactor- based concerns of Y2K WASH.

You would have been getting emails both from me and from Mari takenouchi
from Y2K WASH, on this matter.

A decision was to have been made as to whether to list it as an urgency
motion yesterday (Thursday), but it now looks like it will be made Monday
4pm.

It seems as if the majority Christian Democrats are unlikely to support it.

However, the liberal democrats, whose chairperson is Mr Pat Cox, may well
do so.

He needs to be lobbied.

I think the best thing to do is to fax him with a request that he support
the de-alerting/shutdown resolution, on the following numbers:

CORK IRELAND (HE IS LIKELY TO BE THERE NOW) 353-21-278-350
BRUSSELLS 32-2-284-9363
STRASBOURG 33-3-8817-9363.

You could also email him on: [e-mail], [e-mail]

These fax numbers and email adresses have been tested and work.

I'm appending a couple of sample letters, one from Rob Green and one from me.

NO problem if you want to improve on the message just do it.


Dear Pat Cox,

I have heard that a resolution on taking nuclear weapons off alert over
the Y2K rollover period is being considered for submission as as urgency
motion on Thursday.

My group considers this motion to be of the very highest importance.

Considerable concern has recently been expressed by a number of
respected analysts in the Brookings Institute, the British-American Security
Information Council, and the Federation of American Scientists, over the
possibility of accidental launches of nuclear missiles based on
misinformation from malfunctioning computer systems over the Y2K
rollover period.

If nuclear weapons are taken off hairtrigger alert over the Y2K rollover
period, it will ensure positively that accidental nuclear missile
launches, whose consequences are at least potentially disastrous for the entire
planet, are not possible.

In any case, the taking of nuclear forces off alert, or standing down,
was strongly reccommended by the Canberra Commission in 1996, and by
subsequent resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, as essential
steps
toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.

With or without the  Y2K problem, taking nuclear forces off alert is a
good idea. In the face of possible Y2K computer glitches, it is sheer
commonsense, costs nothing, and makes the world a safer place.

The UK has already altered its 'notice to fire' from seconds to days.
This is undoubtedly a move in the right direction.

A resolution on Y2k and nuclear weapons was passed unanimopusly in the
Australian Senate recently, and I understand that one is being prepared
for the US Congress.

We urge you to support this essential and comonsense resolution being
listed as an urgency motion on thursday, and to vote in favour of it.



Dear Patrick Cox and Hans-Gert Poettering,

Greetings from nuclear-free Aotearoa/New Zealand. We send this message as
the leaders of the US, Russia and China plus US allies Japan, Australia and
Canada assemble in Auckland for APEC this weekend.

We strongly urge you to support the European Parliament resolution calling
for all nuclear forces to be taken off hair-trigger alert before the year
2000 (Y2K) computer problem can cause the accidental launch of nuclear
weapons.

The world's media are gathering here for APEC, which is why we are sending
an Open Letter to President Clinton, Prime Minister Putin and President
Jiang drawing their attention to the urgent need for de-alerting. It would
enormously strengthen the impact if we could announce that the European
Parliament has adopted this resolution by an overwhelming majority.

With or without the Y2K problem, taking nuclear forces off alert is a good
idea. In the face of possible Y2K computer glitches, it is sheer
commonsense, costs nothing, and makes the world a safer place.

The UK has already relaxed the notice to launch its nuclear weapons from
minutes to days. However, there is a desperate need to persuade the US and
Russia to take their nuclear forces off "launch on warning", which is still
recklessly maintained ten years after the end of the Cold War.

A resolution on Y2K and nuclear weapons was passed unanimously in the
Australian Senate recently, and one is being prepared for the US Congress.
A similar resolution was introduced the day before yesterday in the
Canadian Senate, by Senator Douglas Roche.

We urge you to support this resolution being listed as an urgency motion,
and to vote in favour of it.

Best wishes,

Kate Dewes and Commander Robert Green RN (Ret'd)


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

            Commander Robert D Green, Royal Navy (Retired)
                   Chair, World Court Project UK

                   Disarmament & Security Centre
                           PO Box 8390
                          Christchurch
                      Aotearoa/New Zealand

                    Tel/Fax: [phone]

                Email: [e-mail]

    [The DSC is a specialist branch of the NZ Peace Foundation]
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *




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From: News <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Today! 910/99 - Governors' Meetings in Denver CO, Columbia SC,
Date: 10 Sep 1999 15:24:53 -0400

Nuclear Clean-Up Meeting Today -

Colorado Briefs, Yahoo News, September 10, 1999
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/local/state/colorado/story.html?s=v/rs/
19990910/co/index_1.html#5

(DENVER) -- Governor Bill Owens will join several other governors in Denver
today to discuss ways to clean-up nuclear weapons sites with U-S Secretary
of Energy Bill Richardson. South Carolina Governor James Hodges, Tennessee
Governor Don Sundquist and Washington Governor Gary Locke, whose states all
contain major cleanup sites, will also be in Denver for the meeting.

-----------

Waste Committee Meets - (COLUMBIA), SRS Site Cleaned Up - (AIKEN)

South Carolina Briefs, Yahoo News, September 10, 1999
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/local/state/south_carolina/story.html?s
=v/rs/19990910/sc/index_1.html#6

The governor's Nuclear Waste Task Force is meeting this morning in
Columbia. A number of issues are on the agenda including the possibility of
rejoining the Southeast Compact Commission. That would keep waste from all
over the country from being shipped to the Barnwell low-level nuclear waste
dump. South Carolina withdrew from the Compact in 1995 when North Carolina
failed to build an alternative dump.

SRS Site Cleaned Up - (AIKEN) -- Savannah River Site workers are examining
the site of last week's contamination. Seven workers were exposed to
plutonium. It's still going to take several weeks to determine if the
plutonium entered their bodies. S-R-S officials say none of the radioactive
metal made it out of the plant.

 -----------


____________________________________________________________

* Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org -Convert the War Machines! *
____________________________________________________________

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From: "Olson, Inga" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) Re: East Timor information and action
Date: 10 Sep 1999 13:45:06 -0700

I agree with David on this.

> ----------
> From:     [e-mail][SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Reply To:     [e-mail]
> Sent:     Wednesday, September 08, 1999 6:54 PM
> To:     [e-mail]; [e-mail];
> [e-mail]; [e-mail];
> [e-mail]; [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> Subject:     (abolition-usa) Re: East Timor information and action
>
> This is a discouraging post. I'm glad  Alyn noted the sources for
> information
> and I hope people follow up on it. But this is a replay of what we had
> during
> the Kosova war. And it is a replay of the Hauge Appeal - "let's discuss
> any
> war but the one in front of us".
>
> My take may be desperately off base, but the exclusion of serious
> political
> discussion from the Abolition list (and the many very minor posts which do
>
> appear on it) makes it increasingly less useful. I sense my days on this
> list
> will soon end as too much of the material bears absolutely no relationship
> to
> the real world most of us live in.
>
> More later.
>
> Peace,
> David McReynolds
> NYC
>
> << Subj:     East Timor information and action
>  Date:  9/8/99 9:40:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>  From:  [e-mail] (Alyn Ware)
>  Sender:    [e-mail]
>  To:    [e-mail] (abolition caucus)
>
>  Dear Abolitionists,
>
>  Many of you are probably shocked about the horrific events in East Timor
> and
> want to know more information or what you can do about it.
>
>  The Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee today affirmed that the
> abolition
> caucus list-serve should be used as intended as a forum for the abolition
> of
> nuclear weapons, and not as a forum for other issues of peace or violence.
>
>  For those of you who want information on East Timor and what you can do,
> contact:
>
>  East Timor Action Network, 110 Maryland Avenue NE #30, Washington DC
> 20002.
> Phone [phone], or (1) 914 428 7299
>  Email: [e-mail] Website:http://www.etan.org
>
>  International Federation for East Timor, Phone: [phone]  Fax:
> (1)
> 831-761-1401
>  Email: [e-mail]. Website: http://www.etan.org/ifet
>
>  Peace Brigades International East Timor Project, 76 Virginia Road,
> Wanganui,
> Aotearoa-New Zealand. Phone [phone]
>  Email: [e-mail], or [e-mail], Website:
> http://www.igc.org/pbi
>
>
>
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From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) You Can Help Vieques Now! : Call for Action and Calendar of Events
Date: 10 Sep 1999 14:10:45 -0700 (PDT)


 This e-mail includes the following texts:
 1. CALL THE WHITE HOUSE ON VIEQUES
 2. New York City Calendar of Events
 3. LLAMA A LA CASA BLANCA SOBRE VIEQUES



 1. CALL THE WHITE HOUSE ON VIEQUES

 This information comes from the Committe for the Rescue and Development
 of Vieques, PO Box 1424 Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765, [phone],
 e-mail: [e-mail].

 PRESIDENT CLINTON WILL SOON MAKE A DECISION REGARDING
 WHETHER THE US
 NAVY STAYS IN OR LEAVES VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO.  PLEASE CALL
 THE WHITE
 HOUSE TODAY, AND AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN DURING THE NEXT
 SEVERAL DAYS, TO
 TELL PRESIDENT CLINTON TO "ORDER THAT THE US NAVY LEAVE
 VIEQUES NOW".

 BY FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW, YOUR COMMENTS WILL
 ACTUALLY BE
 RELAYED TO PRESIDENT CLINTON.  THE WHITE HOUSE COMMENT
 LINE OPERATOR
 WILL ASK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT AND WHAT STATE YOU ARE
 CALLING FROM.
 PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO OTHERS.  THANK YOU.

 INSTRUCTIONS:

 1) Dial [phone] Monday to Friday between 9:00AM and 5:00PM EST.
 If you are using a touch tone phone, just press "0" as soon as the taped
 message comes on and you'll be connected to a White House Comment Line
 Operator (if you are using a rotary phone, just stay on the line after the
 taped message comes on).

 2) Tell the White House Comment Line Operator that you are calling on
 behalf of millions of people in Puerto Rico, and millions more in the United
 States
 and elsewhere, to demand that President Clinton order that the US Navy
 leave Vieques now.  The Operator will write down your comment and then
 ill ask you what state you are calling from.

 It' that simple.  The time to call is now!  Thank you.



 2. New York City Calendar of Events

 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1999
 12:00 noon - Press Conference
 Steps of City Hall

 10:00PM-4:00AM - Concert
 King Chang≤ Por Vieques at Club Monaco
 323 W. 44th Street b/w 8th & 9th Ave.
 $10 donation to support the ComitΘ Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques

 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1999
 12:30-4:00PM
 Fact Finding Hearing
 Council Chambers, City Hall
 * Come here the people of Vieques as they testify to federal, state and
   local elected officials

 5:30-7:00PM
 Victory March in El Barrio
 Meeting in front of Julia de Burgos, 106th St & Lexington Ave.
 Come celebrate the history-making release of some of the Puerto Rican
 Freedom Fighters!  RAIN OR SHINE.  Bring your flags, musical instruments &
 spirit!!

 6:00-9:00PM
 Taller Boricua Gallery presents Dead Time = Tiempo Muerto
 work by Antonio Martorell, Elizam Escobar & Dread Scott.
 We will continue the celebration of the Victory March here and all over El
 Barrio.

 6:00-8:00PM - Concert for Vieques
 Eugenio Marφa de Hostos Community College
 500 Grand Concourse, Main Theater, Room C140
 Guests: Johnny Pacheco, Yomo Toro & Canario


 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1999
 4PM - Mass
 Ecumenical Prayer Service for Peace & Justice in Vieques
 at St. Cecilia's Church, 106th Street
 (bt. Park & Lexington Avenue)

 The Archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Roberto Gonzßlez Nieves,
 presiding.  Reflections by Rev. Jesse Jackson. Hymns by Danny Rivera.

 All are welcomed to this historic event

 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1999
 10:00AM
 City Council Hearings
 Council Chambers, City Hall


 All above dates, times and events (except the Victory March) are subject
 to change so please call 212-631-4620 for confirmation.




 3. LLAMA A LA CASA BLANCA SOBRE VIEQUES

 Esta informaci≤n proviene del ComitΘ Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de
 Vieques, Apartado 1424, Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765,  [phone],
 e-mail: [e-mail].

 EL PRESIDENT CLINTON TOMAR┴ UNA DECISI╙N EN LOS PR╙XIMOS
 D═AS EN TORNO A SI LA MARINA DE GUERRA DE LOS ESTADOS
 UNIDOS SE QUEDA O SE RETIRA DE LA ISLA DE VIEQUES, PUERTO
 RICO.  FAVOR DE LLAMAR A LA CASA BLANCA HOY, Y CUANTAS VECES
 PUEDAS DURANTE LOS PR╙XIMOS D═AS, Y D═LE AL PRESIDENTE
 CLINTON QUE ORDENE QUE LA MARINA SE VAYA DE VIEQUES YA
 ("ORDER THAT THE US NAVY LEAVE VIEQUES NOW").

 SIGUIENDO LAS SIGUIENTES INSTRUCCIONES, SUS COMENTARIOS LE
 SER┴N COMUNICADOS AL PRESIDENTE CLINTON.  LA OPERADORA DE
 LA L═NEA DE COMENTARIOS DE LA CASA BLANCA ("WHITE HOUSE
 COMMENT LINE OPERATOR"), TE PREGUNTAR┴ CU┴L ES TU
 COMENTARIO, Y DE QU╔ ESTADO LLAMAS.  FAVOR DE PASARLE ESTE
 MENSAJE A OTROS.  GRACIAS.

 INSTRUCCIONES:

 1) Marca [phone] de lunes a viernes, de 9:00AM a 5:00PM EST.  Si
 tienes un telΘfono teleteclas, aprieta el "0" tan pronto oigas el mensaje
 grabado, y te conectarßn directamente a la Operadora de la Lφnea de
 Comentarios de la Casa Blanca (si no tienes un telΘfono teleteclas,
 mantΘnte en lφnea despuΘs que oigas el mensaje grabado).

 2) Dφle a la Operadora de la Lφnea de Comentarios de la Casa Blanca que
 estßs llamando a nombre de millones de personas en Puerto Rico y millones
 mßs en los Estados Unidos y el mundo entero, para exigir del Presidente
 Clinton que ordene que la Marina ("Navy") se vaya de Vieques ya.  La
 Operadora copiarß tu mensaje y te preguntarß de quΘ estado llamas.

 Asφ de fßcil es.  íLlama ahora!  Gracias.


Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
Santa Barbara CA 93108

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From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Date: 10 Sep 1999 14:58:00 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Friends and Activists,

If you plan on attending the meeting for US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear
Weapons in Ann Arbor, please note that the Detroit Metro Airport is the
closest arrival destination and is aproximately one half hour outside of
Ann Arbor.  From Detroit Metro there are options to take a shuttle or taxi
to Ann Arbor.  If you are unable to schedule a flight into Detroit Metro, a
second option would be the Lanzing, Michigan Airport, aproximately one hour
from Ann Arbor.  Please make flight arrangements as soon as possible to
ensure the best rate.   Best wishes!

In Peace,
Carah


Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
Santa Barbara CA 93108

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Date: 10 Sep 1999 20:26:07 EDT

Hi,

Re name and logo.

Abolition 2000 has been around for while now and a great deal of good work
has gone into it. Why do you think there are not millions in the streets
demanding as end to deterrence and the nuclear weapons that back it up?

could it be the name and the logo both of which need explaining? Why not
choose the universally recognized circle with a bar across, the bar over a
picture of a mushroom cloud?
We are not about winning design prizes, we are about appealing to the widest
area of the public as possible.

With the review of the NPT coming up next spring we need to be fully
mobilized and have an easily understood message.

in peace,

Colby Lowe


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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Last Sunlight Of 1999, 1st Sunlight Of 2000
Date: 11 Sep 1999 01:17:03 -0700 (PDT)

Which place on Earth will receive the last sunlight of 1999, and which place
on Earth will receive the first sunlight of 2000?


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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) HAVE YOU FAXED YELTSIN AND CLINTON YET?
Date: 12 Sep 1999 19:21:01 +1000

HAVE YOU FAXED YELTSIN AND CLINTON TO TAKE NUKE WEAPONS OFF ALERT YET?
APPEAL: THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE IN THE WORLD BETWEEN NOW AND DECEMBER31

FAX YELTSIN, CLINTON TO TAKE N-WEAPONS OFF ALERT OVER Y2K NOW.

SIGN THE NUKE WEAPONS DE-ALERTING LETTER TO YELTSIN/CLINTON
(TEXT at http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html to sign
email [e-mail])

PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN, [phone],
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, [phone],

Dear All,

Sorry for sending this so many times but it really is important. If you or
your organisation hasn't made this important fax yet, please try to do it
in the next few days.

You will be getting many messages of this kind because this is possibly the
most important single issue that can ever come your way between now and the
next year.

Following this appeal there are two sample letters, one from FOE Australia
and one from Bob Tiller of PSR USA.

I urge you to act on them. The fax campaign started Sept 1. IFyou or your
organisation has not yet faxed Yeltsin and or Clinton, do it in the next
few days.

I am writing to urge you to fax Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton from now
onwards to take strategic nuclear weapons off alert before December, and to
ask that the de- alerting of strategic nuclear weapons be discussed at the
coming September 21 meeting of the G8.

Also if you are an organisation or a 'prominent' person, please sign the
big sign - on letter to Yeltsin and Clinton. It's already been faxed a few
times, and will be faxed again and again as it grows before December. The
text is on the website at
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html

To sign email THIS ADRESS. ([e-mail])

This is of absolutely vital importance.   Getting 5000 nuclear missiles off
alert status before the Y2k bug plays havoc with their command and control
systems is just about the most important thing anyone can possibly do.

Arguably there is simply no other issue this important between now and
December/January.
It might  be literally a matter of survival.

Please use the fax numbers I have provided. The numbers here work. I've
just checked them. If they (especially Yeltsins one) seem not to work be
patient.  Keep trying. If they take these numbers out of operation I will
supply others but not until I am sure.

Try and get everyone you know to do it.

If you are a large organisation please try and get all your members to do
it. Include it in your newsletters.

Many thanks and may the fax gremlins smile on you!

John Hallam.


DRAFT MODEL LETTER TO YELTSIN AND CLINTON FOR GLOBAL FAX CAMPAIGN STARTING
SEPTEMBER 1

PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN, [phone],
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, [phone],

Dear Presidents Yeltsin, and  Clinton,
I am writing to you to convey my extreme concern over the possibility that
Y2K -related problems in the computerised command, control, and monitoring
systems of nuclear forces and weapon systems, may give rise to an
unacceptable risk of accidental nuclear war, as a result of incorrect data
and miscalculation.  I therefore urge you to solve the problem by taking
your nuclear forces off alert, or  by standing them down.

I ask that standing down nuclear forces in view of the problems  posed by
the 'Millennium Bug', be a matter for urgent priority discussions at the G8
Summit in Berlin on Sept 21.  As well asY2K considerations, taking nuclear
weapons off alert will increase strategic stability and confidence, and
eliminate  the possibility of accidental nuclear war.

I would remind you that your two countries have some 5000 strategic nuclear
weapons that are able to be fired within a time span of 15-30 minutes.

This must never happen. Should it do so, not only would your two countries
cease to exist, but it is entirely possible that human life  and maybe all
life life on the planet, could be terminated.

Any risk of this happening at any time, Y2K or otherwise, no matter how
small, is unacceptable.

However, the Y2K problem adds another layer of uncertainty to the risk that
already exists.

Taking nuclear forces off alert was strongly recommended by the Canberra
Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in 1996, and a number of
resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly have urged that it be
done.

Taking nuclear weapons off alert and placing them in a state in which hours
to days rather than minutes or seconds would be required to make them
launch ready, would effectively eliminate the risk of accidental nuclear
war due to the Y2K computer problem.  It would also make impossible the
many non-Y2K related problems that have many times brought us to within
minutes of a possible nuclear exchange.

De-Alerting will cost you nothing, and can be done by a simple executive
order to stand down nuclear forces.

The UK has already altered its 'notice to fire' from minutes to days.

We/I urge you to do likewise.

The stakes involved far outweigh any considerations of national pride,
national interest, or even national security. Indeed, the immediate stakes
are so high, and the potential for global catastrophe so clear that
mutually verified de- alerting must now take precedence over all other
considerations.

Signed...
etc

>-------------------------------------------
>Dear Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton:
>
>The Cold War ended years ago, but the nuclear danger endures, menacing
>us all.  Thousands of nuclear weapons remain on high-alert in the United
>States and Russia.  Although both countries have announced their
>"de-targeting" of the other, that step is virtually meaningless when
>both countries keep their weapons on alert and maintain a
>launch-on-warning posture.
>
>Keeping nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert does not add to the
>security of either nation; indeed it makes all of us less secure.  You
>are well aware of the various occasions when Russia and the U.S. came
>close to launching nuclear weapons because of misunderstanding or poor
>data.  Removing the weapons from hair-trigger alert would eliminate the
>risk of hasty reaction.
>
>Therefore I urge you to lessen the nuclear danger by removing all
>nuclear weapons from high-alert.  This can be accomplished in a matter
>of weeks without treaty negotiation or ratification.
>
>This approach has worked before.  In 1991 President George Bush took the
>bold step of removing hundreds of U.S. nuclear weapons from high-alert
>status, and in response Mikhail Gorbachev did the same with hundreds of
>Soviet weapons.  Now we need similar courageous leadership to finish the
>process that they started.
>
>De-alerting takes on added urgency this year.  When January 1, 2000
>arrives, no one will know if all of the Y2K computer problems have been
>fixed.  Why court disaster by having nuclear warheads on hair-trigger
>alert when we do not know how the computers in the nuclear system will
>function?
>
>Last year the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a
>resolution which calls on the nuclear weapons states to de-alert their
>weapons.  It is wise counsel.  For the sake of our children and
>grandchildren, please de-alert all nuclear weapons now.
>
>Sincerely,

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
Fax[phone] ph (61)(2)9517-3903

[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) VARIOUS Y2K ITEMS
Date: 13 Sep 1999 14:11:03 +1000

>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-09/11/094l-091199-idx.h=
tml
>
>U.S., Russia Agree to Establish Y2K Center
>Team Will Watch For False Alarms
>
>By Stephen Barr
>Washington Post Staff Writer
>Saturday, September 11, 1999; Page A09
>
>U.S. and Russian defense officials have agreed to set up a joint center
>in
>Colorado to watch for any false alarms of missile attacks caused by Year
>
>2000 computer problems, the Defense Department said yesterday.
>
>Defense Secretary William S. Cohen and his Russian counterpart, Defense
>Minister Igor Sergeyev, will sign an agreement establishing the center
>during Cohen's visit to Moscow next week, a senior defense official told
>
>reporters.
>
>For the last year, U.S. officials have said the Year 2000 computer
>glitch,
>known as Y2K, will not cause nuclear missiles to launch. They have
>portrayed the joint center as a prudent step to avoid confusion in the
>event
>early-warning systems or launch detection equipment malfunctioned.
>
>Yesterday, the official, who spoke on condition that he not be
>identified,
>said the Pentagon wanted to be clear that neither side was "teetering on
>the
>edge of a potential false launch or anything of the sort. We just think
>it is a
>very useful thing to extend our cooperation in areas of this nature. . .
>.
>
>"And at this time of Y2K transition, were there to be some sort of
>problem, it would certainly be useful to have our people in direct
>contact
>and direct communications with one another," the official said.
>
>The official said up to 20 Russian military officers would be assigned
>to the
>Center for Strategic Stability and Y2K, at the U.S. Space Command
>headquarters in Colorado Springs, during late December and early
>January.
>
>Discussions to set up the center began last year but broke off after
>NATO
>bombed Serbia, a Russian ally. The Pentagon official said the talks
>resumed last month.
>
>Cohen and Sergeyev also will discuss creating a permanent missile early
>warning system center in Moscow--an idea supported by Presidents
>Clinton and Boris Yeltsin.
>
>The Year 2000 problem stems from the use in many computer systems of
>two-digit date fields, which may cause some software and microchip
>systems to interpret "00" as 1900, not 2000. The confusion could cause
>the computers to malfunction or stop.
>
>Shortly before the Pentagon announcement, members of Congress who
>have studied the Y2K problem held a news conference urging the federal
>government, states and localities to step up the pace of computer fixes
>and
>tests.
>
>They also suggested that international air travel could face disruptions
>
>because of Y2K problems. "I have no fear of flying on January 1 within
>the
>United States. But I think the safety of air travel abroad has yet to be
>
>determined," Rep. Jim Turner (D-Tex.) said. Rep. Constance A. Morella
>(R-Md.) said she has "grave concerns about what's happening outside of
>the United States."
>
>At the urging of Rep. Stephen Horn (R-Calif.), the Transportation
>Department released a list of 35 nations who had not responded as of
>Thursday to a survey by the International Civil Aviation Organization
>(ICAO). The international aviation group had requested nations to submit
>
>Year 2000 computer assessments by July 1.
>
>The nations not responding to the ICAO survey were: Albania, Angola,
>Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Burundi, Cambodia, Comoros,
>Cook Islands, Democratic Republic of Congo, Fiji, Guinea, Iraq,
>Kiribati,
>Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Libya, Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru,
>Nicaragua, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Russia, Samoa, San
>Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Solomon
>Islands, Tajikistan, Tonga and Vanuatu.
>
>Dave Smallen, the U.S. Transportation Department Y2K spokesman, said:
>"This is simply a list of countries that did not respond to the ICAO
>survey.
>I don't think that you can read anything specific into the fact that any
>
>country didn't respond."
>
>Smallen said the Transportation Department and the Defense Department
>were conducting a review of Y2K readiness and would post information
>on Transportation's Web site (www.dot.-gov/fly2k) by the end of this
>month.
>
>=A9 Copyright 1999 The Washington Post Company


Two items on 9/9/99 from Friday's Guardian, followed by a copy of my letter
to the editor - unlikely to be published as there are much more pressing
issues to cover such as (today) missing sparrows and plastic wine bottle
corks.

Paul


http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,80980,00.html

Germans fluff their date with destiny

Jill Treanor and John Cassy
The Guardian
=46riday September 10, 1999


Technical problems at the German futures and options exchange yesterday
fuelled fears in City dealing rooms that the markets could face crisis
as a result of the millennium computer bug.

The computer glitches, which prevented some firms from trading and
running the risk of potential losses, took place yesterday - numerically
written 9.9.99. Market regulators and computer experts had seen
yesterday, while not quite a dry run for the turn of the year, as a test
for systems ahead of the real millennium bug.

Yesterday was significant because the date - 9.9.99 - was used in old
computer conventions to indiciate to programs that they should stop
performing certain tasks.

Any hiccups which emerge after yesterday's trading will send severe
warnings to the markets about the potential for meltdown in trading
early in the new year if computers fail to recognise the last two digits
of the year 2000.

Dealers fear that if computers stop working they will not be able to
trade, which might leave them exposed to enormous losses.

The rumours of problems were not confined to the German exchange. The
internal message board at one leading investment bank in London warned
of problems with price information received from Simex, the Singapore
futures exchange. The message, posted as a warning by the bank's traders
in Singapore, said that the problems were caused by 9/9/99 glitches.

The Eurex exchange in Frankfurt insisted that problems incurred by its
clients first thing yesterday morning were not connected to the 9/9/99
computer problem. However, brokers claimed that in response to their
initial inquiries, the exchange had blamed the date problem.

Some users of the electronic German exchange had been forced to re-start
their computers yesterday because they had stalled overnight. A
spokesman for Eurex said: "The problems which occurred were not related
to Y2K or the 9/9/99 problem."

Eurex said the problem, quickly resolved, was caused by the failure of
some computers to receive a signal, which could have happened on any day
of the week.

One source in London insisted yesterday: "Eurex admitted to members
early on that it was having 9/9/99 problems."

The City regulator, the Finanial Services Authority, had asked the firms
it regulates to alert it to any problems encountered, but had not been
told of any.

Guardian Unlimited =A9 Guardian Newspapers Limited 1999

_____________________________________________________


http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,80967,00.html

Maybe it's time to head for the hills

Alex Brummer, Financial Editor
The Guardian
=46riday September 10, 1999

The ninth day of the ninth month of 1999 was another of those landmarks
along the way to Y2K. If the old soothsayer Nostradamus had known about
microcircuitry, he would almost certainly have labelled it an end of the
world day. It was not quite like that on the financial markets yesterday
but there were enough strange happening to put down some markers for the
end of the year.

London traders checking prices on the Simex, the Singapore futures
exchange immortalised by Nick Leeson, arrived at their screens to find
there was no prices feed as a result of the 9/9/99 problem. Unimportant,
one might think, except in global markets where dealers trade in real
time, being blindsided on a prices range could mean lost arbitrage
options or even potential open positions with unknown counterparties.
When one considers it was Singapore trades which brought down Barings
Bank in 1995, one starts to realise how no systems glitch can be
ignored.

There was some satisfaction in the City that Eurex, the Frankfurt-based
futures market which has been giving the UK's Liffe a run for its money,
was also having trading difficulties. The claim in Germany was that
systems problems were nothing to do with the date, which brought a
sceptical response in London.

The cost/opportunity cost of such systems glitches is almost impossible
to quantify. But these problems, together with those seen in the euro
switchover, do post a warning. We now know that the far simpler
changeover to the euro resulted in large bank payments going astray and
a serious liquidity problem in the Euroland money markets, which
required large injections of cash. The tendency is to believe that Y2K
is a great deal of hype, but one only has to look at UK computer
glitches - from the Passport Office to the social security payments
system - to realise the potential for difficulties in a global financial
system driven by computer software. At a meeting this year of the White
House economic committee set up by President Clinton to help smooth the
transition to Y2K, each of the members was polled on where they would
prefer to be as the clocks ticked towards 2000. Most opted to be in
their survivalist cottages in the hills, as far away from
computer-driven civilisation as possible.

snip

Guardian Unlimited =A9 Guardian Newspapers Limited 1999
_____________________________________________________


Paul Swann
Y2K-Nuclear Citizens Action Network
14 Beacon Hill
London
N7 9LY

Tel/fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]


Sir,

Commenting on the 9/9/99 computer glitches, Alex Brummer notes "the
potential for difficulties in a global financial system driven by computer
software" (Maybe its time to head for the hills, September 10).  Nuclear
reactors, reprocessing plants and weapons systems are also driven by
computer software, as are the power and telecommunications systems on which
their safety depends.

In the interests of global security, public safety and environmental
protection, the government must insist at the forthcoming G8 Special
Conference  on Y2K Contingency Planning in Berlin that (1) the nuclear
states take their  weapons systems off hair-trigger alert, and (2) extra
back-up generators are  installed with an adequate supply of fuel at all
nuclear facilities.

The public have been lulled into a false sense of security about the
millennium bug. There is still time for the government to start telling the
truth and to advise the public to make sensible preparations for the
potentially  serious consequences. In a nuclear world, heading for the
hills is not much of  an option.

Sincerely,

Paul Swann
Y2K-Nuclear Citizens Action Network


Hardly conducive to a positive outcome to the US-Russia Y2K discussions
planned for Monday...


http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,81205,00.html

US bid to alter arms treaty alarms Russia's military

Jonathan Steele in Moscow
The Guardian
Saturday September 11, 1999


As the US stepped up its attempts to get President Boris Yeltsin to
agree to amendments to its anti-ballistic missile agreement with Moscow,
the Russian military this week has been sending clear signs it considers
the move unacceptable.

While Strobe Talbott, the US deputy secretary of state, left Moscow on
Thursday declaring he was "satisfied" with disarmament talks, it is
clear that there is now a greater threat of nuclear escalation than at
any time since the cold war ended a decade ago.

The US wants Moscow to accept an American exemption from part of the
anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty of 1972, and to that end the Clinton
administration has begun to pile pressure on Mr Yeltsin's beleaguered
regime.

Mr Clinton's hour-long phone call with Mr Yeltsin on Wednesday was part
of the plan, saying in effect "We will support you in spite of the
money-laundering scandal, if you give us what we want on ABM".

Next week, William Cohen, the US defence secretary, visits the Russian
capital in the hope of brow-beating the Russian military. Further
pressure will be applied when Mr Clinton meets Vladimir Putin, the
Russian prime minister, at an Asia-Pacific summit next week.

But the Russian military, along with politicians from a variety of
parties, are not falling for the American blandishments, although there
are fears that Mr Yeltsin may. "With the present weakness of the regime,
there is a danger of unjustified concessions," Sergei Karaganov,
director of the Council for Defence and Foreign Policy Studies, said.

Colonel-General Vladimir Yakovlev, the commander of Russia's strategic
rocket forces, was quoted in Thursday's newspaper Izvestiya as saying
that if the Americans abandoned the ABM treaty "Russia has worked out
asymmetric measures, including the option of giving the intercontinental
Topol-M missiles independently targetable warheads". These warheads were
expressly forbidden by the Start-2 treaty. It has never been ratified by
the Russian parliament.

Timed to coincide with General Yakovlev's warning was an interview in
another Russian paper with Yuri Solomonov, the head of the rocket team
which is making the Topol-M.

"We have a number of technical options for breaking through the
prospective American ABM system," he said. "These include making the
missile manoeuvrable during the active part of its flight."

Beyond mere words, the air force literally fired a shot across Mr
Talbott's bows. Four days before he reached Moscow, it launched the
latest Topol-M model, hitting its target in the Russian Far East "with a
high degree of accuracy", General Yakovlev said.

Mr Talbott, as had other American officials before him, was trying to
convince Moscow that its aim in "modifying" the ABM treaty was to build
a national missile defence only against "rogue' states such as North
Korea, Iran or Iraq. The US says the system is not intended to be
sophisticated enough to be able to shoot Russian missiles down.

One proposal is to move the main battle-management radar system from
North Dakota to Alaska. The ABM treaty forbids such radars from being
sited on the edge of either signatory.

Pavel Podvig, Russia's top civilian expert on ABM systems, said this
week that the Russian military feared the new system "could be the basis
for a more robust missile defence scheme later". "The US could link this
Alaska-based radar with just a few interceptor rockets for use against
North Korea, but then quickly add hundreds of interceptors."

It takes five to 10 years to build a large phased-array radar
installation, allowing time for the other side to build better missiles
to counteract it, Mr Podvig explained. "If the US scheme goes ahead as
though it is just a regional defence, then Russia loses the lead-time."

The Russian military was not, however, seriously worried that its
missiles would lose their deterrent power, Mr Podvig said, since no ABM
system could ever give the US a guarantee of hitting Russia without
having to worry about successful retaliation. "The worry is partly
finanical. It will force Russia to keep upgrading its missile systems.

"It is also conceptual. The ABM treaty helps to bring about a reduction
in offensive weapons. As the Clinton administration used to say, it is
the cornerstone of nuclear arms reduction."


Guardian Unlimited =A9 Guardian Newspapers Limited 1999

Russia, U.S. confront Y2K nuclear risks
September 11, 1999

BY LISA HOFFMAN SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON--U.S. and Russian nuclear-weapons
officers will ring in the New Year together in
Colorado Springs to make sure any Y2K computer
glitches don't trigger Armageddon, the
Pentagon said Friday.
Between 10 and 20 Russians will set up shop at
Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs in late December.

No one thinks "we're teetering on the edge of
a potential false launch," a U.S. official
said Friday, discussing plans for the Y2K
Center for Strategic Stability. However, if
there were some sort of problem, both sides
feel it would be useful to have people in
direct contact with each other, said the
official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Y2K problem involves computer programs
that might fail Jan. 1 because they would
misread the digits "00" as 1900 instead of 2000.

Although applauding the U.S.-Russian accord,
two senators who have been most vocal in their
concerns about possible nuclear-related Y2K
glitches--Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and
Robert Bennett (R-Utah)--are calling for China
and other nuclear nations to be invited to
participate as well.

But Pentagon officials said none of the other
countries with the bomb have an early-warning
system and don't pose the same threat.

The nightmare scenario is that if Russia's
early-warning missile-launch computer systems
crash or otherwise malfunction because of the
"millennium bug," its nuclear-weapons command
 might think an American attack is under way
 and order a counterstrike.

    U.S., RUSSIA TO ASSIGN Y2K MISSILE MONITORS

Reuters

September 11, 1999

WASHINGTON The United States and Russia will sign
an agreement next week for their military officers
to jointly staff a center in Colorado as the new
year dawns to watch for false warnings of missile
attacks sparked by year 2000 computer bugs, the
Pentagon said Friday.
     --------
Defense Secretary William Cohen and Russian
Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev will sign the
agreement to set up the temporary center Monday
during talks in Moscow to improve military
cooperation, a senior Pentagon official told reporters.

The official said up to 20 Russian officers would
be assigned to the "Center for Strategic Stability
and Y2K" between late December and early January
at U.S. Space Command headquarters at Colorado Springs.

The confidence-building operation will use U.S.
early-warning satellites and advanced computers,
and could reassure Moscow if Y2K computer problems
in Russia mistakenly signaled a missile launch somewhere in the world.

Both Russia and the United States have thousands
of long-range nuclear missiles and officials on
both sides are eager to avoid an unlikely but
potentially disastrous mistake.

The official, who briefed reporters on Cohen's
two-day visit to Russia Monday and Tuesday,
cautioned that neither side felt that "we are
teetering on the edge of a potential false launch
or anything of the sort," but that the step was a
sign of cooperation.

=46ormal agreement for the center was reached
quietly in late August as U.S.-Russian relations
improved following strains over Moscow's strong
opposition to NATO bombing of Serbia, the official said.


Y2K Concerns Continue to Bug Utilities, Nuclear Plants

WASHINGTON, DC, September 9, 1999 (ENS) - U.S. utilities
survived the date changeover to 9/9/99, seen as a test of
computer readiness for the Year 2000 (Y2K) computer bug ,
but Energy Secretary Bill Richardson says there are still
eight major electric utility providers that are not yet
Y2K ready. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says all U.S.
nuclear power plants are now Y2K ready, but critics say
serious safety problems remain.

After extensive testing, utilities nationwide had
considered it unlikely that their computer systems would
mistake the string of nines in today=D5s date with a stop
program command, as some computer experts had feared.
Utilities used the occasion for a nationwide drill,
coordinated by the North American Electric Reliability
Council (NERC), to test backup systems for the January 1,
2000 rollover.

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (Photo       [richardson]
courtesy DOE)

Utilities simulated electric outages to test
communications under emergency circumstances, and iron out
procedures for utilities and federal and state agencies to
follow. Extra computer experts and safety staff were on
hand at the 200 utilities participating in the drill, but
no glitches occurred.

But Richardson expressed concern yesterday about the
number of electric utilities that are not Y2K ready, or
have exceptions to their preparations. Eight major
electric utility providers are not ready, or have limited
exceptions, and an additional 16 municipal utilities and
rural cooperatives have not reported their progress to the
American Public Power Association and the National Rural
Electric Cooperative Association. There are about 3,000 utilities in North
America.

"With just over 100 days until the year 2000, those
suppliers that haven't yet stepped up to the plate need to
be especially aggressive to prepare for the rollover,"
Richardson said. "All power providers, regardless of their
level of preparedness, must continue to test all their
systems to ensure consumers that their lights will stay on into the next
millennium."

Chairman Gregory Nesbitt and president David
Eppler of the Central Louisiana Electric Company,
one of eight utilities that says it is not Y2K ready
 (Photo courtesy CLECO)

A full list of all utilities with continued Y2K problems
can be found at:
http://home.doe.gov/news/releases99/seppr/pr99235.htm

Richardson has directed the DOE to conduct an additional
20 reviews of randomly selected electric utilities over
the coming months to augment audits of 36 such utilities
already undertaken by the department. The DOE says the
audits completed to date generally confirm the information
received through the industry survey process.

On Tuesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
announced that it has confirmed through onsite reviews
that there are no Y2K related problems which affect the
performance of systems needed to safely shut down any of
the 103 U.S. nuclear power plants.

The results are outlined in a report, "Year 2000 Readiness
in U.S. Nuclear Power Plants," that integrates the results
of NRC's onsite reviews with utilities' July 1 reports of
Y2K readiness. The report is available on NRC's Y2K
website at: www.nrc.gov/NRC/NEWS/year2000.html.

While all plants report Y2K readiness for safety systems
used for shutdown, some plants are still completing Y2K
readiness activities for systems not required to safely
shut down the plants.

The Comanche Peak Unit #1 nuclear plant in      [comanche]
Texas is scheduled to be Y2K ready by November
30, 1999 (Photo courtesy NRC)

Among the systems that may not be ready are those that
provide backup power in case primary systems fail. Diesel
generators provide backup at many power plants, yet these
systems are notoriously unreliable. In addition, some fear
that the seven day fuel supply required for the generators
might not be sufficient in cases of significant computer breakdowns.

"Nuclear reactors depend on another source of electricity
to insure that vital monitoring and cooling systems
operate," says Paul Gunter, director of the Nuclear
Information Resource Service (NIRS) Nuclear Reactor Watch
Dog Project. "These systems are essential, even if the reactor is off line."

"Our research shows that back up diesel generators are not
as reliable as people have a right to expect, given that
Y2K failures may cause local and regional power outages,"
Gunter continues. "Diesel generators have mechanical
failures, fuel problems, are prone to overheating, and in
some cases, vulnerable to the Y2K bug itself!"

NIRS, a coalition of nuclear energy and environmental
activists, petitioned the NRC last December asking the
agency to require that nuclear facilities have a 60 day
fuel supply to provide backup power during the Y2K
transition, and have alternate renewable means of backup
power available. The NRC denied this petition saying
current regulations require sufficient redundant backup
power sources of onsite emergency power.

"The NRC considers the current seven day fuel supply on
site at nuclear power plants to be sufficient to handle
operation of diesel generators in the event that offsite
power is lost," responded the NRC. "As part of Y2K
preparations, licensees are putting arrangements in place
to replenish the fuel supply, if needed. However, Y2K
problems are not expected to prolong the duration of a
loss of offsite power for longer than that assumed in the
licensee's normal emergency plans."

The Citizens Nuclear Summit, a coalition of environmental
and nuclear activist groups, has launched a World Atomic
Safety Holiday (WASH) campaign, calling for all nuclear
reactors to be taken offline on December 1, 1999, as a
safety precaution. Reactors should not be restarted until
after January 1, 2000, and each facility must show it
meets Y2K compliance criteria with testing and
verification before restart, the campaign asserts.

WASH warns that systems used to cool pools of water used
to store used reactor fuel have no backup power generators
at all. WARN says these pools contain, on average, five
times as much radiation as the reactor core and have no
containment systems. If the water in these pools is not
cooled, the fuel rods could boil the water off, causing a
radioactive steam plume. The rods could even, potentially,
reach critical meltdown temperatures if left uncooled for
long enough.

The reactors were originally designed thinking that the
used fuel rods would be removed from the site and
reprocessed. Hazards associated with that procedure caused
the nuclear industry to abandon reprocessing, so most of
the used fuel rods remain in cooling pools awaiting the
opening of a permanent high level nuclear waste
repository. Such a repository has been proposed for Yucca
Mountain in Nevada, but safety questions have delayed
approval of the storage site.

=A9 Environment News Service (ENS) 1999. All Rights Reserved. [ ]
[E-Wire]
Environmental Press Releases

News Story
Nuke Plants Need Y2K Fixes
By: David McGuire, Newsbytes
September 13, 1999
URL: http://www.currents.net/newstoday/99/09/13/news1.html

All of the nation's 103 nuclear power plants are prepared to operate safely
during the Jan. 1 date rollover, but a number of plants still require Y2K
fixes to their administrative and operational support systems, according to
the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) latest Y2K report.

Of the 28 plants reporting that they are not yet Y2K-compliant, all but
three say that they will complete Y2K-remediation efforts before November.
All of the plants will be 100 percent Y2K compliant before year's end,
according to the NRC.

Alabama's Farley 2 plant is the only nuclear power facility that has set a
December date for completing its Y2K remediation efforts.

Today's findings echo last month's comments by NRC Chair Greta Dicus. The
date rollover, "will not adversely effect the continued safe operation, or
if necessary, the safe shut down, of nuclear power (plants)," she said at an
August press conference.

As early as July, the NRC was reporting that all nuclear plant safety
systems were fully Y2K-compliant.

In recent public appearances, John Koskinen, chair of the President's
Council on Year 2000 Conversion, has expressed growing optimism that the
nation's nuclear power facilities - and its electric power systems in
general - will be more than ready to face the date rollover.

The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) reported in August
that if the year 2000 date rollover happened tomorrow, the nation's power
companies would be ready for the change, and could provide uninterrupted
service to substantially all of the nation's citizens.

More than 99 percent of the nation's roughly 3,000 power companies are
actively participating in the NERC's Y2K readiness efforts, and nearly all
participating firms have completed Y2K remediation efforts on their mission
critical systems, according to a recent NERC report.

Starting at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Dec. 31, the NERC and the nation's
power companies will be in a full state of alert. While no outages are
anticipated by the NERC, power stations will be staffed with additional
personnel and reserve generators will be up-and-running to guard against any
unforeseen glitches.

Power authorities will also observe heightened readiness on Jan. 3, 2000 -
the first business day of the New Year, and Feb. 29, 2000 - the leap year
day.

As an added safeguard, some nuclear plants may ratchet down their energy
outputs around the time of the rollover.

A full list of Nuclear power plants and their expected Y2K-remediation dates
is located on the NRC's Website at
http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/gmo/nrarcv/99-191.htm .




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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [y2k-nuclear] US bid to alter arms treaty alarms Russia's
Date: 13 Sep 1999 09:08:06 -0400

>Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 19:19:01 -0400
>Subject: [y2k-nuclear] US bid to alter arms treaty alarms Russia's military
>To: [e-mail]
>Cc: [e-mail]
>X-FC-Forwarded-From:=20
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>Hardly conducive to a positive outcome to the US-Russia Y2K discussions
>planned for Monday...
>
>
>http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,81205,00.html
>
>US bid to alter arms treaty alarms Russia's military
>
>Jonathan Steele in Moscow
>The Guardian
>Saturday September 11, 1999
>
>
>As the US stepped up its attempts to get President Boris Yeltsin to
>agree to amendments to its anti-ballistic missile agreement with Moscow,
>the Russian military this week has been sending clear signs it considers
>the move unacceptable.
>
>While Strobe Talbott, the US deputy secretary of state, left Moscow on
>Thursday declaring he was "satisfied" with disarmament talks, it is
>clear that there is now a greater threat of nuclear escalation than at
>any time since the cold war ended a decade ago.
>
>The US wants Moscow to accept an American exemption from part of the
>anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty of 1972, and to that end the Clinton
>administration has begun to pile pressure on Mr Yeltsin's beleaguered
>regime.
>
>Mr Clinton's hour-long phone call with Mr Yeltsin on Wednesday was part
>of the plan, saying in effect "We will support you in spite of the
>money-laundering scandal, if you give us what we want on ABM".
>
>Next week, William Cohen, the US defence secretary, visits the Russian
>capital in the hope of brow-beating the Russian military. Further
>pressure will be applied when Mr Clinton meets Vladimir Putin, the
>Russian prime minister, at an Asia-Pacific summit next week.
>
>But the Russian military, along with politicians from a variety of
>parties, are not falling for the American blandishments, although there
>are fears that Mr Yeltsin may. "With the present weakness of the regime,
>there is a danger of unjustified concessions," Sergei Karaganov,
>director of the Council for Defence and Foreign Policy Studies, said.
>
>Colonel-General Vladimir Yakovlev, the commander of Russia's strategic
>rocket forces, was quoted in Thursday's newspaper Izvestiya as saying
>that if the Americans abandoned the ABM treaty "Russia has worked out
>asymmetric measures, including the option of giving the intercontinental
>Topol-M missiles independently targetable warheads". These warheads were
>expressly forbidden by the Start-2 treaty. It has never been ratified by
>the Russian parliament.
>
>Timed to coincide with General Yakovlev's warning was an interview in
>another Russian paper with Yuri Solomonov, the head of the rocket team
>which is making the Topol-M.
>
>"We have a number of technical options for breaking through the
>prospective American ABM system," he said. "These include making the
>missile manoeuvrable during the active part of its flight."
>
>Beyond mere words, the air force literally fired a shot across Mr
>Talbott's bows. Four days before he reached Moscow, it launched the
>latest Topol-M model, hitting its target in the Russian Far East "with a
>high degree of accuracy", General Yakovlev said.
>
>Mr Talbott, as had other American officials before him, was trying to
>convince Moscow that its aim in "modifying" the ABM treaty was to build
>a national missile defence only against "rogue' states such as North
>Korea, Iran or Iraq. The US says the system is not intended to be
>sophisticated enough to be able to shoot Russian missiles down.
>
>One proposal is to move the main battle-management radar system from
>North Dakota to Alaska. The ABM treaty forbids such radars from being
>sited on the edge of either signatory.
>
>Pavel Podvig, Russia's top civilian expert on ABM systems, said this
>week that the Russian military feared the new system "could be the basis
>for a more robust missile defence scheme later". "The US could link this
>Alaska-based radar with just a few interceptor rockets for use against
>North Korea, but then quickly add hundreds of interceptors."
>
>It takes five to 10 years to build a large phased-array radar
>installation, allowing time for the other side to build better missiles
>to counteract it, Mr Podvig explained. "If the US scheme goes ahead as
>though it is just a regional defence, then Russia loses the lead-time."
>
>The Russian military was not, however, seriously worried that its
>missiles would lose their deterrent power, Mr Podvig said, since no ABM
>system could ever give the US a guarantee of hitting Russia without
>having to worry about successful retaliation. "The worry is partly
>finanical. It will force Russia to keep upgrading its missile systems.
>
>"It is also conceptual. The ABM treaty helps to bring about a reduction
>in offensive weapons. As the Clinton administration used to say, it is
>the cornerstone of nuclear arms reduction."
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RUSSIAN NUKE CAMPAIGNER THREATENED WITH ARREST  PLEASE SIGN
Date: 14 Sep 1999 12:30:55 +1000

Dear People,

VLADIMIR Sliviak, Russias most prominent antinuclear campaigner is being
threatened with blackmail and arrest by the Moscow police, working for the
FSB.  He needs your support urgently. (See Vladimirs press release below).

I would like to fax this within the next 48 hours.

If you could all sign it for Vladimir that would be most helpful.

TO:
MINISTRY OF POLICE RUSSIA, 7-095-239-08-62
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE RUSSIA, 7-095-916-2903
MOSCOW CHIEF OF POLICE 7-095-200-93-05
F.S.B, MOSCOW, 7-095-975-24-70
cc
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
Laurie Brereton, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs
Alexander Downer Minister for Foreign Affairs
Joschka Fischer, German Minister for Foreign Affairs
Maj-Britt Theorin, European Parliament
Ernst Gulcher, European Parliament
U.S. State Department, Russia Desk

Dear Minister of Police, Minister for Justice, FSB, and Chief of Police Moscow,
We are
writing out of deep concern for a friend and colleague, Vladimir
Sliviak, Director of the antinuclear campaign of Ecodefense,  who
we
understand was temporarily arrested and released recently outside his
Moscow home and who appears to be the object of police harassment.

Mr. Sliviak's beliefs and actions concerning nuclear energy and other
policies of the Russian government may not be to the liking of some elements in
your government but his beliefs and commitment are widely shared around the
world.

We understand that he was stopped outside his home on September 6, by
members of the Moscow police, (MUR) who said they were investigating an
explosion of August 31, 1999. It seems that Vladimir was shown marijuana,
and told
that if he did not cooperate it would be placed in his bag and he would
then be arrested and jailed for three years. He was released after 1.5
hours.

We also understand another colleague of his, Mr. Kozlov, was similarly
threatened.

Vladimir Sliviak is well known to the environmental community worldwide,
and respected. There is no way that he could be involved in activities of
the type with which the police seem to wish to associate him.

The right to protest and to question and oppose government policies,  is
enshrined in the democratic tradition and is an integral part of civil
society. It is also enshrined in a number of United Nations conventions. It
is not a luxury, to be dispensed with in times of difficulty.

The environmental movement in the U.S., Australia, and Europe is held in high
respect even by those it opposes. Green political parties have prominent
representation in many European parliaments and in the European Parliament,
and the German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is from the Green Party.
Other political parties have largely adopted parts of the environment
movements agenda.

 You may be sure that the activities of the Moscow police and authorities
with respect to
 Mr. Sliviak are being very well observed by a large and sympathetic
 worldwide community.

 We trust that these incidents were in error and will not be
repeated, that the law will be respected and enforced above all by those
whose duty it is to do so.

John Hallam,
Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Sydney.

Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Washington, DC

Reply-To: "Vladimir Slivyak" <[e-mail]>

For immediate release
Moscow

EXPLOSION DETAILS
While all newspapers and TV channels discuss "Chechen", "Dagestan" and
"revolutionary writers" versions of the explosion at Manezh square, provided
by intelligence services, these services themselves persecute ecologists and
look for whom to blame among the witnesses of another notorious political
process.

People from Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (MUR) captured Vladimir
Slivyak, Director of Antinuclear campaign of Socio-Ecological Union (SEU).
The formal reason for the arrest was documents control, while the real
reasons were investigation actions within Manezh square explosion suit.

People in civilian stopped the activist of environmental movement when he
was going out of his house; they refused to introduce themselves and to
explain the reason of the arrest. After documents control and numerous
questions about Slivyak's job, environmental organizations and environmental
movement in general, senior lieutenant of MUR 6th department A.S. Kosterov
(the only person whose documents were possible to look at) stated that he
"deals with terrorists" including investigation of circumstances of the
explosion at Manezh square. At the place of detention Kosterov took a
package with marijuana and threatened to "find it in the bag" of the
Director of Antinuclear campaign if he does not facilitate actively enough
"the course of the investigation". It appeared that MUR staff is interested
in Kochkarev Yakov Vladimirovich who must appear here in the nearest future
according to intercepted phone call.

REFERENCE: Y.V. Kochkarev is a witness for the defense in so called
"Krasnodar suit", notorious political process in the beginning of which it
was repeatedly stated about "prevention of murderous assault at Krasnodar
kray governor Nikolay Kondratenko". In the course of investigation of this
suit searches and interrogations of witnesses were performed with numerous
violations of Criminal and Judicial Procedure Code of RF. However the suit
broke up and the inquest failed to prove the accusation in political
terrorism.

Obviously intelligence services were not satisfied with the results
achieved. In the "conversation" with the detained Director of Antinuclear
campaign and then with other persons of this organization arrived to the
place of the event, senior lieutenant Kosterov stated that he personally
deals with "Krasnodar suit" from its very beginning and is absolutely
confident in the relationship between this suit and recent explosion at
Manezh, as well as that "all traces lead to environmental organizations".
Kosterov also stated that he knows for sure who committed this act of
terrorism.

Obviously the scandal "Krasnodar suit" is early to consider finished. There
is direct evidence of its transition to probably even more notorious
"terrorist trial". Apparently its main canvas has not been "knitted" yet -
that is why the method of shaking marijuana packages before one's face and
"conversations" without proceedings are again applied: the information
obtained in this way can be later filed there in the way the most suitable
for the inquest.

During "Krasnodar suit" "criminal group" was searched among informal groups
with radical views, but nothing serious came out of it, except that someone
lost
laurels of the main fighter with terrorists. Probably bodies investigating
explosion at Manezh believe that ecologists are more serious people and thus
can be accused of more serious plot? Apparently working out of this scenario
took place during "Krasnodar suit", already then they tried to have up many
ecologists as witnesses.

LATEST NEWS:
September 7th FSB people contacted via phone A.Yu. Kozlov, representative of
Voronezh division of SEU Antinuclear Campaign. They demanded him to come for
"informal conversation" on the topic of antinuclear camp took place in
September in vicinity of Novovoronezh nuclear power plant. As an argument
for his coming they stated: "Your Moscow colleagues have problems, you do no
want the same, do you?". Obviously the "problems" meant marijuana package in
hands of MUR officer Kosterov, because official accusations to the Director
of Antinuclear campaign have never been brought. Only at parting MUR
officers said to him: "If we do not capture Kochkarev, consider yourself
arrested".

Information on activities of Antinuclear campaign and about the camp near
Novovoronezh nuclear power plantcan be found
in the Internet:
www.ecoline.ru/antinuclear

About "Krasnodar suit":
www.ecoline.ru/actions/bomba
www.ipclub.ru/identity/pres/

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
Fax[phone] ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html





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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nuclear Waste Remediation DOE Appeal
Date: 13 Sep 1999 19:51:57 -0700

<[e-mail]>

As most of you know, neutralizing radioactive waste fuel from
nuclear reactors using the low-energy nuclear transmutation process
has been repeatedly demonstrated in Salt Lake City by Hal Fox
and others. The process would be far cheaper and safer than
geologic storage in Nevada's Yucca Mountain.

The Department of Energy continues to be stupid about not
investigating the proven alternative of low-energy nuclear transmutation
in an honest and straightforward manner. Furthermore, there
continue to be hints and accusations of hidden protection of the profits
to be earned by large corporations with current expensive waste
handling, transportation, and storage methods. I have also been
told by one cynical friend that the only way to catch the attention of
the Nevada Congressional delegation is to provide at least one of
them with a $1,000 political campaign contribution.

A few days ago, I received a letter from Nevada Congressman
Jim Gibson stating that he has sent a letter to Chairman Ron Packard
of the Subcommittee on Eenrgy and Mineral Sources requesting
$6 million to be spent on transmutation research over the next three
years. A copy of the Packard letter was inadvertently left out of
Gibson's letter. So I am currently retrieving the Packard letter from
Gibson's office. To my knowledge, this is the first time any Nevada
congressperson has done something meaningful to push for
transmutation research as an alternative to Yucca Mountain.

I will still have to see Gibson's letter to Packard. In the meantime, I h=
ave
been warned that what may happen is that the $6 million (a drop in the
bucket compared to the billions being spent on Yucca Mountain) may
go to the national laboratories to be spent on impractical, unproven
transmutation methods, and nothing will essentially be accomplished.

What is shameful about this is that the people like Hal Fox who HAVE
developed the practical, proven method of low-energy nuclear transmutatio=
n
are receiving not one penny of federal funding of their research.

Yesterday's Las Vegas Review-Journal Sunday newspaper had
an article by one of my e-mail correspondents, reporter Keith Rogers,
which gave me an idea. The first paragraph reads:

"Governors from four states signed an unprecedented agreement
Friday to clean up nuclear wastes after Energy Secretary Bill
Richardson acknowledged that the federal government hasn't
done a good job."

Another  paragraph states:

"Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, South Carolina Gov. James Hodges,
Tennessee Gov. Don Sundquist, and Washington Gov. Gary Locke
said the statement of principles sets the foundation for a cooperative
working relationship."

The next paragraph explains:

"Previously, the Energy Department worked with eeach state individually
on the cleanup."

Elsewhere, Keith wrote that Nevada's Gov. Kenny Guinn refused to
sign the agreement because the agreement didn't contain explicit
language on Yucca Mountain.

Keith also wrote:

"Richardson said the states will be asking for nearly $7 billion through
2001. He said he's already obtained a commitment of $5.6 billion
from the Office of Management and Budget through next year."

While we should continue to educate the feds on proven practical and
cheaper alternatives, I suggest we focus more on educating the
four aforementioned state governors as they ought to be more
accessible than the DOE. A few of you live in the State of Washington.
I suggest you guys bother Governor Locke about using low-energy
nuclear transmutation. LENT is particularly suited for cheaply
and safely neutralizing the huge TEMPORARY tanks of highly
radioactive liquid waste on the Hanford nuclear facility which WILL
eventually seep into the Columbia River.

Gary

<[e-mail]>

I just got this e-mail:


Dear Mr. Vesperman,

I apologize for not enclosing the letter from Congressman Gibbons to
Congressman Packard in regards to transmuting radioactive waste. Enclosed=
 is
a copy of this letter. If you have any problems retrieving this letter,
please email me at [e-mail]. I will send you a copy or =
fax
it to you.

Thank you,
David O'Mara
Legislative Correspondent
Congressman Jim Gibbons


(Letter to Packard follows:)


September 13, 1999

Chairman Ron Packard
Energy and Water Development Appropriations
B2362 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C.   20515

Dear Chairman Packard:

Scientists from my state are part of a team of experienced scientific
researchers from several universities and corporations carrying out a sco=
pe
of work which will directly impact a major international problem =97 the
management of the nation=92s nuclear waste legacy.  American Technologies=
,
Inc. (ATG), a California based company, has sponsored a research program =
at
the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for the past 3 years.  T=
he
work accomplished at Caltech on high energy particle beam technology has
demonstrated the significant potential for practical applications of
cluster/laser interactions to produce neutrons.

The particle beam, composed of deuterium droplets, has the capability of
producing neutrons that can transmutate nuclear waste.  The beam is at le=
ast
100 times less costly than the currently proposed neutron source from Oak
Ridge National Labs.  ATG=92s beam is irradiated by a femtosecond laser,
resulting in fusion of deuterons and the production of neutrons in a
precisely controlled manner.  ATG has at its disposal, a scientific team
with the highest credential and track record in the field, to develop thi=
s
novel neutron source and clearly demonstrate its efficacy in the
transmutation of nuclear wastes (See attachment for further details.).

It is clear that upon the successful generation of neutrons as a result o=
f
the currently proposed research a number of end-user customers, both
governmental and commercial, will be interested.  The ATG team has select=
ed
as a goal for their research the important opportunity of the destruction=
 of
nuclear waste, realizing the uncertainties related to the basic nuclear f=
uel
cycle, chemical separation processes, and waste repository design criteri=
a
all provide difficulty in finding the correct =93target=94 isotopes.  How=
ever,
the benefits of another option to the current reactor technologies for th=
e
transmutation of nuclear waste are overwhelming whether the targets are
fission products, transuranics or certain actinides.  Other national and
commercial interests may be served by the production of neutrons.  Fusion
energy, tritium and medical isotope production and the production of
interaction product radiations such as extreme ultra-violet (EUV), soft
x-rays and x-rays which potentially have unique medical diagnostic and
treatment application, are all of great importance.

An unsolicited proposal was submitted to the Department of Energy for
=93Ultrafast Laser Irradiation of Deuterium Droplets for the Production o=
f
Neutrons=94 in June, 1998.  This proposal was for a period of 3 years at =
a
total cost of just under $6 million.

In February of 1999, the DOE responded to ATG=92s unsolicited proposal.  =
The
following comments were received from DOE principals:

=95 The ATG proposal was one of the best it has ever seen.
=95 The technology proposal was innovative in its approach to producing
neutrons.
=95 The proposal team, personnel and associations were outstanding.

In spite of the positive technical review, budget limitations and the nee=
d
to produce near-term clean up results prevented DOE from funding the
unsolicited research proposal.

Frankly, it is my view that the recent GAO criticism of the DOE could not=
 be
more appropriate than in this case.  Congress mandated the DOE to explore
and find alternative technologies but the DOE continues to resist.  A rec=
ent
publication (Journal of Science, March, 1999) by Dr. William D. Phillips,
Nobel Laureate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
indicates the ATG researchers are on the right track but maybe in the wro=
ng
Agency.

The team and technology I have identified in this letter are real and
deserving of funding.  I ask your assistance in including $6 million for
this project in the DOE, Energy Research and Environmental Management,
and/or Department of Commerce, Physics Research Division appropriations. =
 I
have included some suggested bill language for your consideration.

Thank you for your hard work and help in crafting the Energy and Water
Development Appropriations bill.  If I can be of any assistance to you
regarding this or any other issue please let me know.

Sincerely,


JIM GIBBONS
Member of Congress

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Please circulate, Global Peace Walk Benefit in Berkeley 26SEP99
Date: 13 Sep 1999 22:03:08 -0700

Please help circulate this information about a gathering and concert, to
benefit Global Peace Walk2000, which takes place at the Berkeley Communit=
y
Center, Sunday evening September 26, 1999.  Below is initial flyer text a=
nd
press release for details.  This will be a very important event to suppor=
t
this global  peace and environment project, so please help pass the word =
to
those you know who can attend.   http://www.globalpeacenow.org
_ _ _________________________________________

initial flyer

Living on the Globe with All Our Friends
Global Peace Walk 2000 Benefit Concert
San Francisco, CA - Washington DC - New York
1/15/2000 - 10/9/2000 - 10/24/2000
www.globalpeacenow.org
[e-mail]
PO Box 170245, San Francisco, CA 94117
415-267-1877

featuring

Bernie Worrell & The WOO Warriors
P-Funk Guest Star Extravaganza

Dr. Loco=92s Rockin=92 Jalape=F1o Band
Funky Latino Ritmos of SF and East LA
with the gritty Tex-Mex Blues

Chaksam-Pa
Tibetan Dance & Opera Company

All Nation=92s Singers & Dance Group
Traditional Native American Singers & Dancers

Will Scarlett
Harmonica Player with the =93original=94 Hot Tuna Toured with Brownie McG=
ee

=93Global Peace Now=94 Human Resolve Ceremony
Rev. Yusen Yamato, Global Peace Walk Initiator

Berkeley Mayor Shirley Dean

Dennis Jennings - MC
Native American Activist, Artist & Cultural Leader

Navajo Rug Sale & Raffle
Benefits Hopi & Navajo Resistance
At Big Mountain, Arizona

Berkeley Community Theater
1930 Allston Way / Martin Luther King Jr. Way

Sunday, September 26th, 1999
7 - 11:00pm, Doors open: 6pm

Bring Donations:
Food, Survival Supplies, Cash/Checks, Support Vehicles, Cell Phones, Camp=
ing
Goods, Clothing & Shoes, Office Equipment, Lap Top Computers

Kids Welcome (12 & under FREE)

Tickets: $20 (balcony); $25 (lower floor)
Ticket Locations & Info: 415-267-1877

___________________________________________

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Global Peace Walk - 415-863-2084

Living on the Globe with All Our Friends

Global Peace Walk 2000 Benefit Concert

Living on the Globe with All Our Friends, Global Peace Walk 2000 Benefit
Concert will be at the Berkeley Community Theater on Sunday, September 26=
th,
1999 from 6 - 11pm. Featured artists are:  Bernie Worrell & The WOO
Warriors,
P-Funk Guest Star Extravaganza; Dr. Loco=92s Rockin=92 Jalape=F1o Band, R=
ockin'
musical cruise blending the funky Latino ritmos of San Francisco and East
L.A. with the gritty Tex-Mex blues; Chaksam-Pa, Tibetan Dance & Opera
Company; All Nation=92s Singers & Dance Group, Traditional Native America=
n
Singers & Dancers; and Will Scarlett, Harmonica Player, recorded with the
=93original=94 Hot Tuna & toured with Brownie McGee.

There will be a =93Global Peace Now=94 Human Resolve Ceremony by Rev. Yus=
en
Yamato, Global Peace Walk Initiator. Berkeley=92s Mayor Shirley Dean will=
 make
an appearance. MC for the event will be Dennis Jennings, Native American
activist, artist & cultural leader. There will also be a Navajo Rug Sale =
&
Raffle that benefits Hopi & Navajo Resistance at Big Mountain, Arizona.

Tickets are $20 (balcony); $25 (lower floor). Kids are welcome (12 & unde=
r
FREE). Tickets will be available at BASS outlets as well as other locatio=
ns.
For ticket information as well as for other information, call 415-267-187=
7.

The Public is encouraged to bring donations for Global Peace Walk 2000:
Food, Survival Supplies, Cash/Checks, Support Vehicles, Cell Phones, Camp=
ing
Goods, Clothing & Shoes, Office Equipment, and Lap Top Computers. Those w=
ho
would like to be a part of Global Peace Walk 2000 in any way and voluntee=
r,
can contact us at: 415-267-1877, PO Box 170245, San Francisco, CA 94117;
[e-mail]; www.globalpeacenow.org

Global Peace Walk 2000 will take its first step from the War Memorial
Building in San Francisco on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.=92s Birthday on
January
15, 2000 bringing out the prayer of =93Global Peace Now!=94 as a universa=
l human
resolve to spread across the United States.

Along the way, the Peace Walkers will be carrying petitions, messages &
information to educate & network with people & groups on the following
issues:  Abolition 2000 - A Call to Ban Nuclear Weapons Worldwide;
Protecting
our Land & Life & other Environmental & Social issues; Native American
issues
(e.g., Leonard Peltier, Big Mountain AZ, Ward Valley CA); Sustainable
Global Economy (e.g., Permaculture, Hemp); Creating a Culture of Peace an=
d a
Spiritual United Nations; the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace
Movement; as well as other issues that people bring to us along the way.

On October 9, 2000 (Columbus Day), the Global Peace Walk will arrive in
Washington DC and bring the petitions and a =93Message of Peace=94 to our
governmental leaders. The walk will arrive in New York City at the United
Nations on October 24th, 2000 (United Nations Day) bringing the petitions=
 &
a
=93Message of Peace=94 to our world government leaders, and reaffirm the
original
principle of the United Nations Charter, to =93save succeeding generation=
s
from
the scourge of war=94 and to =93reaffirm faith in the dignity of human ri=
ghts=94
and to =93live together in peace.=94

Since the Global Peace Walk project was initiated in 1995 walking from Ne=
w
York City to San Francisco for the United Nations 50th anniversary, the
Global Peace Walk has received hundreds of  letters and proclamations of
support from religious, political, community and cultural leaders towards
the
creation of a worldwide Global Peace Zone.

Global Peace NOW!

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Moving Gently on East Timor
Date: 14 Sep 1999 08:48:48 -0400

>Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:09:31 -0400
>Subject: Moving Gently on East Timor
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
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>
>Moving Gently on East Timor
>By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
>
>The Clinton administration's shamefully slow response to the savagery
>unleashed by the Indonesian military and militia on the people of East
>Timor allowed a vicious slaughter to take place. East Timor's capital,
>Dili, now lies in ruins, hundreds or quite likely thousands of Timorese
>have been killed since they voted overwhelmingly for independence on
>August 30, and tens or hundreds of thousands of Timorese are now hiding in
>the mountains facing starvation and fearing possible attacks by Indonesian
>armed forces.
>
>Under pressure from grassroots activists, Congress and foreign governments
>and aroused by the sheer savagery of the Indonesian attack on the
>Timorese, the administration has now ratcheted up its rhetoric of
>condemnation, announced meaningful cuts in military aid, and watched
>approvingly as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank suspended
>new loans. And as a result of international pressure, Indonesia has agreed
>to allow a peacekeeping force into East Timor.
>
>For all this slow progress, until the Australian-led peacekeeping
>operation lands in East Timor, there remains the substantial possibility
>of a new round of bloodletting. Even stronger pressure from the United
>States, as well as other international powers, will be needed to assure
>that calamity does not occur.
>
>Leaving aside the ghastly history of U.S. military and diplomatic support
>for the brutal and illegal Indonesian occupation of East Timor -- a
>24-year occupation in which an estimated 200,000 Timorese were killed --
>why has the U.S. response to the unfolding butchery in East Timor been so
>laggardly?
>
>The New York Times went a long way to answering this crucial question in a
>September 9 front-page story titled, "With Other Goals in Indonesia, U.S.
>Moves Gently on East Timor."
>
>"We have myriad interests" in Indonesia, explained State Department
>spokesperson Jaime Rubin in one of his daily briefings, "and what our job
>is is to try to balance those various interests."
>
>Others in the government and chattering class, such as Eleanor Clift of
>Newsweek, echoed this basic sentiment. The United States should be
>"realistic" in setting its policy on East Timor, they urged, noting the
>multiple U.S. "interests" in Indonesia and the importance of promoting
>"stability."
>
>Since the prescription was to balance these "interests" in "stability"
>against the lives of the Timorese, it is worth identifying what they are.
>
>"We have a business interest," said Rubin in identifying competing U.S.
>interests in Indonesia. That is, the U.S. government wants to protect U.S.
>investments in Indonesia -- Nike's subcontractor factories, the mines of
>Freeport McMoRan, the oil drilling of Texaco, Chevron and Mobil. Strong
>diplomatic pressure on Indonesia might conceivably have led to the
>revocation of concessions and privileges for U.S. corporations, worried
>the practitioners of realpolitik.
>
>Worse, from this point of view, was the possibility that support for the
>Timorese will somehow flare up Indonesian separatist movements in Aceh
>(where Mobil is heavily invested) and Irian Jaya (where Freeport McMoRan
>runs the world's largest gold mine).
>
>A broader U.S. business interest was in maintaining the flow of IMF and
>World Bank money to Indonesia, so the country maintains its commitment to
>the "structural adjustment" policies which require it to remove
>restrictions on foreign investment, further orient its economy to exports,
>privatize government enterprises and cut subsidies to the poor.
>
>Additionally, given the precarious state of the Indonesian economy, and
>the success of the IMF in deepening Indonesian dependence on foreign money
>flows, a sudden cut off of IMF and Bank monies might in fact send a
>harmful shock to the economy (whatever the long-run benefits of severing
>ties with the international financial institutions). The announced cut off
>of funds is actually a suspension of future monies not yet allocated, and
>is only temporary, so the feared effect on the international markets has
>been muted.
>
>Of course, it would be misleading to say the U.S. government was slow to
>act in Indonesia/East Timor only because it wanted to protect Nike and
>other U.S. multinationals. In addition to the commercial and broader
>economic stability issues, the U.S. foreign policy and military
>establishments attach great geopolitical importance to maintaining good
>ties with the Indonesian government and especially the Indonesian military
>(viewed as a counterweight to China and a dependable regional ally).
>
>Still, there is no doubt that the U.S. "business interest" played a
>significant role in the decision to "move gently" on East Timor in the
>early days of the post-election slaughter. Even the New York Times
>acknowledged a U.S. government concern that a threatened IMF and aid cut
>off "could also harm American corporations that have large investments in
>Indonesia."
>
>In time, we'll know how many Timorese died in the weeks following their
>vote for independence, in part because of U.S. government concern about
>"our business interest" in Indonesia.
>
>Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime
>Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based
>Multinational Monitor. They are co-authors of Corporate Predators: The
>Hunt for MegaProfits and the Attack on Democracy (Monroe, Maine: Common
>Courage Press, 1999; http://www.corporatepredators.org)
>
>(c) Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Reflections on East Timor
Date: 14 Sep 1999 14:27:31 EDT

So much of what needed to be said on East Timor was being said so well by
others that I attended to catching up on back mail. A bit of what follows is
new.

Not widely known is the role played by two members of War Resisters League -
John Miller and Charles Scheiner. Both have been working on East Timor for
years, long before it was a "cause" known to the West. Many others have
played a role, and I don't want to do what neither John nor Charlie would
want - to single them out for special treatment when the real daily risks
were taken by the East Timorese. But I know enough about this situation to
know that John and Charles were central and key, along with others such as
Amy Goodman and Alan Nairn. (Alan suffered a severe beating in an earlier
effort to cover events there).

Noam Chomsky merits mention as one who has, for years, pointed to East Timor
as an example of a genocide ignored by the West (and by Australia and Japan
as well). Not widely known, because it happened over a generation ago, was
the  extraordinary massacre in 1965 of Indonesian Communists by Suharto. (I
am using the Microsoft Encarta version of the facts). At that time there was
an allegation the Communists plotted a coup - in this case, pro-Chinese
Communists. There was an attack by someone on the top Indonesian military
leadership, though whether that was actually a Communist coup or an internal
palace struggle isn't clear. What is clear is that between 300,000 and one
million people were killed - one of the most terrible mass killings in recent
times. The Communist Party was virtually erased from Indonesia. In addition
hundreds of thousands were arrested - only 800 received a trial and there
have been periodic executions with the last of the prisoners not yet released.

The West was silent on this. No word that I know of from Washington. When you
label people "Communists" or "Fascists" or "Jews" or "Niggers" it becomes
remarkably easy to totally overlook the massacre of 300,000 to a million of
them. To Washington, the importance of Indonesia as a non-Communist bastion
in Asia (at a time of turmoil in Indochina) was so important that the
killings were ignored. Or, not totally ignored, the Prime Minister of
Australia put the death toll at 500,000 and said it was a good thing! (Fate
had its way - he later drowned in a swimming accident).

East Timor had been a Portugese colony until 1975 when Portugal withdrew. A
group termed "leftist" by the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia (Fretilin) which
had led a long struggle for independence was left in control of East Timor
and declared East Timor to be independent. Indonesia invaded - its occupation
of East Timor has never been recognized by the international community but
was tacitly accepted by the US, Japan, Great Britain, and Australia, all of
whom have extensive trade with Indonesia and, particulary the US and Great
Britain, have supplied Indonesia with virtually unlimited weapons. It is
estimated that at least 100,000 and possibly 200,000 were killed by Indonesia
when they took over East Timor. Again, silence from Washington DC.

As most of you know, two of the leaders of East Timor, Bishop Carlos Ximenes
Belo and Jose Ramos Horta, Timorese dissidents, received the 1996 Nobel Peace
Prize for their efforts at peace. Violence continued up to the  UN-conducted
vote on independence, which proved an almost unanimous victory for the
independence forces. And which then led to the Indonesian army's involvement
in the recent terrible slaughters.

East Timor does not have a huge population. The capital, Dili, is not a
massive city. The killings have wiped out a large percentage of the
population and through all these years no one in the West except for the East
Timor Action Network (ETAN) in which John and Charlie played so key a role,
and Noam Chomsky, who has hammered at this issue,  seemed to care.

I cite this as one more example of reason to doubt Clinton's concern with
human rights. East Timor was there when he entered office. It has been there
the whole time. US political leaders had too many commercial and military
ties to Indonesia to care. In Kosova Clinton saw issues "clearly" - in East
Timor he was blind.

An irony is that we were told (by Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, etc.) that the
NATO action in Kosova would help prevent similar situations from occuring
elsewhere. So what happened in East Timor? Was no one in Indonesia following
the "lesson" just taught by NATO?
(Perhaps a greater and more terrible irony is that while a relative handful
of people in the West could champion the cause of East Timor and help pave
the way for the UN-mandated election, they could not, once Indonesia attacked
after the vote, defend the people of East Timor).

The US has no interests in East Timor - but it does have substantial
interests in Indonesia, which accounts for the close cooperation between the
US and Indonesia military up to and after the UN vote.

I have stayed away from the discussion of whether or not to intervene with a
UN force because the chances were too good that everyone would be dead before
that could be achieved (for one thing, without Indonesia's cooperation, China
would almost certainly have vetoed any UN action). My own position has been
and remains that a really powerful position by the US (and Britain, Japan and
Australia) would force Indonesia to control the "militias" which have clearly
been permitted to operate by the Indonesian military. And this seems to be
happening.

I wouldn't spend too much time trying to call Clinton but I would strongly
urge continued pressure on members of Congress, both House and Senate.

The matter of UN forces really needs a full and separate discussion because
what will be sent in are not "peace keepers" trained in riot control, medical
care, mediation, etc., but regular military who will land with guns in hand.
However, legally the case for UN forces is enormously clearer here than in
Kosova, where NATO acted illegally and unilaterally.
In East Timor, the vote was conducted by the UN, the Indonesian annexation of
East Timor had never been accepted by the UN. Following the vote there is a
legal sense in which the Indonesian Army becomes the invader (it always had
been - but after the vote their position as an illegal occupying force was
abundantly clear). So any UN forces sent in will be acting to contain and
repel an invasion of territory which is sovereign in its own right.

I doubt there will be any enthusiasm by Clinton, Blair and company for
potential war crimes trials of Indonesian leaders - unlike Serbia, where the
US had no ties, the US has far too many with Indonesia to risk the exposure
any such trials would produce.

Moral in brief: never underestimate what a handful of individuals can do, as
Charlie and John and a handful of people scattered across the US and the
world have done with ETAN. Never underestimate the moral blindness of the
State where it has economic or military interests it considers more urgent
than human rights. And finally, don't underestimate the value of pressure on
Congress - and pressure by demonstrations in the street to demand much
stronger action by Clinton.

Peace,
David McReynolds

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Subject: (abolition-usa) Action proposals & ideas for US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Date: 14 Sep 1999 21:00:06 +0100



Dear friends,

The Facilitators Group of the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
invites you to submit your creative ideas and action proposals as part of
the process of the October 8-11 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  The
conference will culmanate in the Campaign's launch.

All input is welcome, from formal proposals to specific ideas, even if you
cannot attend the conference.

Please e-mail your responses to either Alan Haber at [e-mail] or
Sally Light at [e-mail].

We look forward to hearing from you in the very near future!


In peace & solidarity,

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Subject: (abolition-usa) abolition program 9/26 atlantic city
Date: 14 Sep 1999 23:50:19 -0400



  ATLANTIC CITY AREA FRIENDS MEETING-QUAKERS

>                                      INVITES YOU TO ITS
> MEDITERRANEAN MEAL FUNDRAISER                      FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS
> ABOLITION  WHEN:  SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1999  -  5:30 to  8:30 WHERE:
> at Quaker Meetinghouse, W. side of Pitney Road    1/4  mile S. of Jim
> Leeds Road traffic light in Galloway Twp. WHAT:  Charles F. Peterson,
> Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's volunteer group working on the
> Abolition 2000 world-wide movement for  total nuclear disarmament will
> discuss its spiritual basis at 7:00 P. M.         After sampling
> dishes from the French Provence, Spain, Italy, Greece, Africa and the
> Middleast, enjoy an inspirational message and open discussion on our
> world's most pressing and dangerous issue. SUGGESTED CONTRIBUTION: $10
> ea (youngsters $5)                             Come for part of or the
> entire program
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> Norm Cohen
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> MEAL       Learn about the World-wide Movement to Abolish Nuclear
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> 26                                   5:30 to 8:30 P. M.      Quaker
> Meetinghouse, West side of Pitney Road, Galloway
> Township                       1/4 mile south of Jimmie Leeds Road
> traffic light         At 7 pm Charles F. Peterson* will speak on the
> spiritual basis for nuclear disarmament and America's special
> responsibility for achieving this goal.         This is a fundraiser
> for the peace and social concerns work of Atlantic City Area Friends
> Meeting.  There will be no appeal for funds made during or after the
> dinner.  Voluntary contributions will be accepted at the door
> (suggested:  $10 eaor $5 for youngsters), but all welcome for dinner
> or speaker or both. *Member of Abington Friends Meeting, Clerk of
> Abolition 2000 Working Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the
> Religious Society of Friends (PYM) and formerly Clerk of PYM's Peace
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) FRIENDS OF THE EARTH Y2K PRESS RELEASE RE MONITORING CENTRE / Y2K
Date: 15 Sep 1999 18:03:09 +1000

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
=46ax(61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903

[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html

Dear friends,

The following includes a press release on the Y2K Strategic Stability
Centre, agreement for which was initialled on Sept 13, and a number of Y2K
- nuclear related items, including the press covering the US/Russia Y2K
agreement.  The  item by Rick T Vanelli on the US/Russian Y2K agreement not
only mentions at length the letter coordinated by FOE Sydney, but gives the
url, which is of course the one above. If your organisation has not yet
signed that letter please do so by emailing me at [e-mail]

John Hallam

Enjoy!


AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE/FRIENDS OF THE EARTH PRESS RELEASE 15/9/1999
US/RUSSIA MONITORING AGREEMENT SHOWS Y2K NUKE RISK SERIOUS

The risk of Y2K-induced accidental nuclear war, that on Aug. 6th impelled
nearly 300 (now nearly 400) environment, peace, disarmament, union, church,
and other groups to write to presidents Yeltsin and Clinton, asking for
nuclear forces to be taken off hairtrigger alert, has been shown to be
serious by the US/Russian joint monitoring agreement initialed Sept. 13 in
Moscow by Russian Defence minister Igor Sergeyev and US Secretary of
defence William Cohen.

According to FOE Sydney nuclear campaigner John Hallam, who coordinated the
global letter to Yeltsin and Clinton, and the Australian peace Committee's
Irene Gale,
"The very fact that this agreement has been signed shows that deep down
both the US and Russia know that there is a real risk  that in the absence
of such measures, that confusion created by Y2K related computer glitches
could indeed lead to what Senator Bennett in the US calls 'unintended
deadly consequences'. While it is perfectly true that missiles cannot
launch themselves, it is entirely possible under the current 'launch on
warning' doctrines held by both the US and Russia, for a commander who
believes that his country is under nuclear attack, to initiate retaliation
when the supposed 'attack' is nothing more than computer-generated false
data. This has already occurred on a number of occasions, both in the US
and in Russia."

"The joint monitoring centre obviously does help  reduce the risk of an
accidental Armageddon. However it is certainly worrying that it will
commence operation only on December 27, and will not operate through
=46ebruary. It is simply better than nothing. And even without Y2K, there is
always the risk of catastrophic accident as long as there are 5,500
silo-based ICBMs primed for instant launch."
"The only measure that will ensure that every day is not a game of Russian
roulette with the entire planet is to stand down or de-alert, nuclear
forces. This was recommended strongly by the Canberra Commission in 1996,
and by subsequent resolutions of the UN General Assembly. De-Alerting is a
no risk, no cost measure that will immeasurably improve US/Russian
relations and will make the planet a safer place as well as paving the way
for the elimination of weapons of universal destruction."

Meanwhile, the global letter to Yeltsin and Clinton has now 380
organizations signed on to it including Waverley, Leichhardt, Mitcham,
Richmond Rivers, Uralla, Darebin, and Salisbury city councils, 14 federal
parliamentarians, 10 major international NGOs, 10 members of the European
Parliament, 12 Russian NGOs, 29 New Zealand groups, 85 US groups, 65
European groups, and 26Canadian groups.

Contact: John Hallam, 9517-3903, h9810-2598.
Irene GaleA.M., A.P.C., 08-8364-2291



US and Russia team up to combat Y2K in missile systems

US and Russian defence ministers have agreed to jointly monitor missile
launch data as a safeguard against Y2K-related mishaps in a modest step
toward improving strained relations between the world's two nuclear
heavyweights.

US Defence Secretary William Cohen and Russian Defence Minister
Igor Sergeyev signed a joint statement establishing a centre in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, where US and Russian officers will
monitor missile launch data from late December to early January as a
safeguard against Y2K-related computer failures.

The Pentagon proposed the centre to prevent misunderstandings if
Russia's early warning satellites are blinded by computer outtages
with the advent of the year 2000, a date which some computer
systems could misread.

Mr Cohen said the head of the Russian strategic forces had accepted
a US invitation to visit the US Strategic Command, which is
responsible for the US nuclear missile force, in the fall.

"That's another good step forward," he said.

This Bulletin: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 2:58 AEST
YEAR 2000 NEWS

Russia Agrees to Joint Nuclear Monitoring Center

By Rick T. Vannelli                           September 14, 1999

In March 1998, John Koskinen, Presidential Advisor and Chairman
of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, was claiming
that the concern with nuclear missiles was not that they would
actually go off, but that a computer malfunction could trigger a
false alarm of a missile attack. What he failed to specify was
that such a false alarm, occurring as a result of incorrect data
or miscalculations, could give rise to accidental nuclear war.

The "launch on warning" policy utilized by the United States and
Russia requires a commander who believes a nuclear attack has
occurred to retaliate immediately.

The risk of such a launch gave rise to the creation of a joint
letter to U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President
Boris Yeltsin from almost 300 organizations around the world
expressing their grave concerns about this possibility. (See
letter at
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html). The
bold letter warns that according to Alexandr Arbatov, of the
Defense Committee of the Russian State Duma, "U.S.- Russian
relations are at the worst, most acute and most dangerous
juncture since the U.S.-Soviet Berlin and Cuban missile crises."

Given (1) this current adversarial situation, (2) several past
events evidencing that spurious data can falsely alert
commanders of enemy missile launches, and (3) the fact that none
of the nuclear nations can guarantee that their nuclear systems
are Y2K compliant, the signatories strongly urged the two
presidents "to remove all strategic and tactical nuclear weapons
from 'hair trigger' alert, and place them in a status in which
at least hours and preferable days would be required to launch
them."

The chance of the United States and Russia taking nuclear forces
off alert before December 31, 1999 is slim, since the two
countries have just formed an agreement about the joint warning
center that was proposed in September 1998 as part of the
post-Cold War plan to share early warning missile-launch data.

The Center for Y2K Strategic Stability, located at the Peterson
Air Force Base in Colorado, would solve the problem of a
combination of Y2K failures, inaccurate early warning data, and
potentially compromised command centers, by putting the United
States and Russia in direct communication with each other. The
center would be staffed with both American and Russian teams
that would watch for missile launches and Y2K problems by
monitoring satellite data, ground sensors, and data flowing from
the nearby North American Aerospace Defense Command (which can
track missile launches worldwide).

Discussions about the center were suspended when Russia froze
all military-to-military cooperation during the U.S.-led NATO
bombing of Yugoslavia. Subsequent and repeated invitations to
commence further talks went unanswered. Finally last month, the
Russians agreed to post officers at the center, and a formal
meeting to pound out the details was scheduled for September 13,
1999. U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen flew to Russia to
meet with Russian Defense Minister General Igor Sergeyev, and
according to Voice of America's Peter Heinlein, the September 13
meeting went well. The center will operate 24 hours a day
starting late December 1999 and continuing through January 2000.

Unfortunately, the United States and Russia are only two of the
eight major nuclear weapon nations. The other six countries are
the United Kingdom, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and France.
Moreover, there is widespread nuclear weapon proliferation in
other areas. John D. Holum, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of
State for Arms Control and International Security, recently
stated that although Iraq's nuclear weapons program was
dismantled six years ago, "Iraq continues to hide documentation
and equipment relating to key aspects of its past nuclear
activities. Moreover, the Iraqi government has yet to document
that it no longer has nuclear weapon ambitions." Likewise,
although North Korea agreed to work toward nonproliferation with
its weapons program, delays and other concerns with the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) make it unclear
when this objective will be reached. Furthermore, the DPRK "is
developing missiles of increasingly longer range -- missiles
eventually capable of striking parts of the United States."
Countries such as Egypt and Syria are importing missiles from
North Korea. Finally, Iran "continues a procurement pattern for
nuclear technologies=C9and is pursuing a nuclear weapon capability
under the guise of a complete nuclear fuel cycle."

Of the estimated 36,000 - 43,000 nuclear weapons existing in the
world, about 5,000 are on "high alert" status (they can be fired
within 15 minutes and reach their target city within 30
minutes). Although the U.S.-Russian Center for Y2K Strategic
Stability greatly decreases the chance of an accidental hostile
weapons launch, it does not completely eradicate the potential
for global nuclear disaster.


[Federal Computer Week]

SEPTEMBER 13, 1999 . . . 13:10 EDT

Russians agree to Y2K warning center

BY DANIEL VERTON ([e-mail])

More than six months after negotiations began, U.S. and
Russian Federation officials today signed a statement
supporting the creation of a joint warning center that
would help avoid an accidental launch of nuclear weapons
that could result from system malfunctions caused by Year
2000-related computer problems.

Defense Secretary William Cohen and Russian Federation
Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev signed the agreement today
in Moscow, after extensive delays caused by increasing
tensions over the war in Yugoslavia.

The new Center for Year 2000 Strategic Stability will be
located at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs,
Colo., and will be staffed by Russian and U.S. military
representatives during the Year 2000 transition period
from late December 1999 through mid-January 2000. Military
officers from both countries will sit side by side and
exchange information related to Year 2000 in an effort to
avoid misperceptions surrounding the status of each
other's nuclear forces. The center also will be linked via
voice communications networks to other command centers in
the United States and Russia.

 The creation of the joint warning center stems from
 concerns that Year 2000 failures could cause some nuclear
 command and control systems to crash, which could be
 interpreted as the sign of an impending first strike.
 However, Defense Department officials and officials from
 the U.S. Strategic Command have assessed the likelihood of
 an accidental launch as "extremely remote," adding that
 nuclear missiles cannot be launched by a computer alone.

 -----------------------------------------------------------

[deseretnews.com]

 Deseret News, Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 12:00 AM MDT

 Russians are coming =D1 to ensure missiles don't

 Bennett says Y2K center will guard against false alarms

 By Lee Davidson
 Deseret News Washington correspondent

 WASHINGTON =D1 Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, praised Russia Monday for agreeing
 to send officials to a Colorado Springs command center designed to detect
 false missile attack alarms caused by the year 2000 computer bug.

 "The greatest Y2K danger comes not from the threat of an accidental launch
 but from the threat of Y2K glitches being misinterpreted by personnel on
 either side of the Atlantic," said Bennett, chairman of a special Senate
 Y2K committee.

 So the military is establishing a command center where Russia and the
 United States can share information and monitoring before and after New
 Year's Day.

 Of course, the Y2K bug comes because older programs stored only two digits
 for a four-digit year. So the "00" when the year 2000 arrives would be
 interpreted as 1900 and could make systems crash.

 "To successfully weather Y2K, we must cooperate to avoid human errors that
 could have unintended deadly consequences, " Bennett said. "The
 establishment of the Colorado Springs center is a well-written insurance
 policy against Y2k-induced conflict among the preeminent nuclear powers."

 Bennett and Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., the ranking Democrat on the Y2K
 committee, said they support keeping the Colorado Springs center
 operational until March.

 It is now scheduled to close Jan. 15. They say that is too soon. Dodd
 said, "The effects of Y2K will be felt long after January."

 Defense Secretary William Cohen and his Russian counterpart, Defense
 Minister Igor Sergeyev, are expected to sign a formal agreement
 establishing the Colorado Springs Center in Moscow this week. Russia
 earlier threatened to withdraw participation in protest of U.S. policy in
 Kosovo.
                      --------------------------------

The Real Nuclear Risk of Y2K

By Chris Gilbey and Jan Wyllie               September 9, 1999

                 [Chris Gilbey] Y2K nuclear issues that have been raised in =
the
                                press have substantially related to a potent=
ial
                 for accidental nuclear strike as a result of computer failu=
re.
                 However the Y2K czars have used the opportunity to deny the
                 probability of this happening to derail debate about the
                 broader issues of Y2K and nuclear energy.

                 The critical issue is that supply chain failures in the ene=
rgy
                 sector will create a very real potential for there to be ri=
sk
                 to the power supply and grid stability. (See "The Millenniu=
m
                 Reckoning," September 1999 Update
--http://www.trendmonitor.com
                 -- for a full report). In the event that such a supply fail=
ure
                 should happen there will be no fail-safes in place in nucle=
ar
                 generation installations. This is a very real and all too
                 possible scenario. If it should come to pass it would impac=
t
                 everyone in Europe and ultimately also in the rest of the
                 world. Unfortunately they are not yet aware of the real
issues.

                 In brief here are some of the key facts that are dealt with=
 in
                 The Millennium Reckoning report in detail:

                    * According to Russian experts it is almost certain
that the
                      Russian natural gas pipeline that supplies both Easter=
n
                      and Western Europe will be interrupted.
                    * Oil stops flowing at freezing temperatures.
                    * It will be very difficult to start the gas flowing aga=
in
                      with sub-zero temperatures and an uncertain electricit=
y
                      supply.
                    * This means that pipelines and refineries are at risk,
even
                      if there are relatively short power outages. (In the
U.S.,
                      where the energy sector is far ahead of Russia in
                      preparations, major oil companies are reportedly adopt=
ing
                      a fix on fail (FOF) policy on wells, pipelines and
                      refineries).
                    * The bottom line is that if electricity fails, some
nuclear
                      plants may have difficulty cooling their cores if
they are
                      to be shut down, creating a real danger of accidental
                      meltdowns.

                 The economic, environmental and social implications of the
                 failure of the Russian gas and oil pipeline network are
                 enormous -- for Europe and the rest of the world.

                 Since Europe has a significant dependency on Russian oil an=
d
                 gas, at minimum, the countries and people of Europe are at
risk
                 of having to deal with the consequences of severe energy
                 shortages and subsequent energy price increases. At the oth=
er
                 end of the scale is the unthinkable -- one or more nuclear
                 accidents of the magnitude of Chernobyl. There is one
                 difference though. Having had one Chernobyl, and knowing th=
at
                 Y2K is almost upon us, and taking an actuarial approach, ho=
w
                 can we conceive that a meltdown could be described as an
                 accident? If we can predict it to any extent it can't be
          [Image]described as an accident.

                 Although it is not certain that this scenario will come tru=
e
                 the seriousness of the multiple risks warrant immediate
                 emergency action on a "just in case" basis. Regardless of t=
he
                 cost, an investment in sustainable energy systems is requir=
ed
                 both for deployment around nuclear sites and within
                 communities. The task could be doable in the time remaining=
 if
                 an international crash program were implemented in the
next few
                 weeks. What is critical is to communicate the facts to as m=
any
                 people as possible in order to leverage governments to rele=
ase
                 the money in order to secure the future. This needs to be
                 accomplished very quickly.

                 The breadth of this problem is well known, but there is a
                 continuing tendency to ignore the issues of supply chain
                 failure that have become visible as a result of Y2K. The
                 problems are complex. No one would argue that. However the
                 continuing denial of the possible magnitude of the risk to =
key
                 energy systems by governments and even the media is a
clear and
                 present danger. It stands in the way of people and companie=
s
                 making contingency preparations at a macro level. It stands=
 in
                 the way of ordinary people making contingency plans at a mi=
cro
                 level. (It is truly amazing how many companies are making
                 contingency plans for possible failure of critical
supplies for
                 business continuity but neglect to educate their employees
that
                 similar plans need to be made at a personal level.) It woul=
d
                 also seem totally reasonable that the same businesses that
have
                 already come to understand the potential for damage to thei=
r
                 industries and the economy as a whole should lobby governme=
nts
                 to try to enact changes at a global level.

                 By acknowledging the challenge and acting, not only would a
                 short-term problem be solved, but the implementation of an
                 economical long-term solution could also be accomplished
within
                 a time that is reasonable. By not acting each individual, e=
ach
                 company and each government is putting at risk the global
                 economy, the environment and every one on the planet.

                 Jan Wyllie is a principal of Trend Monitor, one of the lead=
ing
                 trend analysis companies in Europe.


                       --------------------------------------------------

News Story
Avoid Y2K Complacency
By: David McGuire, Newsbytes.
September 13, 1999
URL: http://www.currents.net/newstoday/99/09/13/news15.html

Sept. 9 has come and gone, and as another Y2K-related milestone passes
without incident, Y2K experts are warning people not to get overly
complacent about the upcoming millennial date roll over.

"No one should think this success means the work on Y2K is done," Bruce
McConnell, director of the International Y2K Cooperation Center told
Newsbytes today. "It just underscores the importance of (making)
comprehensive preparations before these rollover events happen."

Like the most recent Y2K related milestone date - the fiscal Year 2000
rollover that occurred earlier this summer for many state governments -
9/9/99 caused few if any real problems, reports from around the world
indicate. Sept. 9 was a "non-event," McConnell said.

Y2K observers had expressed concern that because certain programmers had
used sets of nines to trigger "end file" commands, the date 9/9/99 could
cause a slew of computer failures.

But FY 2000 and 9/9/99 are to Jan. 1, 2000 what a light breeze is to a full-
fledged hurricane, experts say.

=46Y 2000 threatens only easily fixed budgetary systems and 9/9/99 posed, at
most, a localized problem that was readily spotted and remediated,
President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion Chair John Koskinen said earlier
this week.

The Y2K bug, by contrast, has the potential to wreak havoc on all types of
computer systems, including those governing power grids, financial
transactions, nuclear fail-safe devices and a slew of other critical
systems.

While US and International Y2K authorities have lately begun expressing
increasing optimism that mission critical systems and infrastructures - at
least in developed countries - will survive the date roll-over, much work
remains to be done, McConnell said.

The primary danger in the uneventful passages of 9/9/99 and FY 2000 is that
the governments and entities which have done the least work on Y2K
remediation may begin to get complacent, he added.

"Those who aren't ready will be sorry," McConnell said.








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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) FRIENDS OF THE EARTH Y2K PRESS RELEASE RE MONITORING CENTRE/Y2K
Date: 15 Sep 1999 17:58:41 +1000

John Hallam
=46riends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
=46ax(61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903

[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html

Dear friends,

The following includes a press release on the Y2K Strategic Stability
Centre, agreement for which was initialled on Sept 13, and a number of Y2K
- nuclear related items, including the press covering the US/Russia Y2K
agreement.  The  item by Rick T Vanelli on the US/Russian Y2K agreement not
only mentions at length the letter coordinated by FOE Sydney, but gives the
url, which is of course the one above. If your organisation has not yet
signed that letter please do so by emailing me at [e-mail]

John Hallam

Enjoy!


AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE/FRIENDS OF THE EARTH PRESS RELEASE 15/9/1999
US/RUSSIA MONITORING AGREEMENT SHOWS Y2K NUKE RISK SERIOUS

The risk of Y2K-induced accidental nuclear war, that on Aug. 6th impelled
nearly 300 (now nearly 400) environment, peace, disarmament, union, church,
and other groups to write to presidents Yeltsin and Clinton, asking for
nuclear forces to be taken off hairtrigger alert, has been shown to be
serious by the US/Russian joint monitoring agreement initialed Sept. 13 in
Moscow by Russian Defence minister Igor Sergeyev and US Secretary of
defence William Cohen.

According to FOE Sydney nuclear campaigner John Hallam, who coordinated the
global letter to Yeltsin and Clinton, and the Australian peace Committee's
Irene Gale,
"The very fact that this agreement has been signed shows that deep down
both the US and Russia know that there is a real risk  that in the absence
of such measures, that confusion created by Y2K related computer glitches
could indeed lead to what Senator Bennett in the US calls 'unintended
deadly consequences'. While it is perfectly true that missiles cannot
launch themselves, it is entirely possible under the current 'launch on
warning' doctrines held by both the US and Russia, for a commander who
believes that his country is under nuclear attack, to initiate retaliation
when the supposed 'attack' is nothing more than computer-generated false
data. This has already occurred on a number of occasions, both in the US
and in Russia."

"The joint monitoring centre obviously does help  reduce the risk of an
accidental Armageddon. However it is certainly worrying that it will
commence operation only on December 27, and will not operate through
=46ebruary. It is simply better than nothing. And even without Y2K, there is
always the risk of catastrophic accident as long as there are 5,500
silo-based ICBMs primed for instant launch."
"The only measure that will ensure that every day is not a game of Russian
roulette with the entire planet is to stand down or de-alert, nuclear
forces. This was recommended strongly by the Canberra Commission in 1996,
and by subsequent resolutions of the UN General Assembly. De-Alerting is a
no risk, no cost measure that will immeasurably improve US/Russian
relations and will make the planet a safer place as well as paving the way
for the elimination of weapons of universal destruction."

Meanwhile, the global letter to Yeltsin and Clinton has now 380
organizations signed on to it including Waverley, Leichhardt, Mitcham,
Richmond Rivers, Uralla, Darebin, and Salisbury city councils, 14 federal
parliamentarians, 10 major international NGOs, 10 members of the European
Parliament, 12 Russian NGOs, 29 New Zealand groups, 85 US groups, 65
European groups, and 26Canadian groups.

Contact: John Hallam, 9517-3903, h9810-2598.
Irene GaleA.M., A.P.C., 08-8364-2291



US and Russia team up to combat Y2K in missile systems

US and Russian defence ministers have agreed to jointly monitor missile
launch data as a safeguard against Y2K-related mishaps in a modest step
toward improving strained relations between the world's two nuclear
heavyweights.

US Defence Secretary William Cohen and Russian Defence Minister
Igor Sergeyev signed a joint statement establishing a centre in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, where US and Russian officers will
monitor missile launch data from late December to early January as a
safeguard against Y2K-related computer failures.

The Pentagon proposed the centre to prevent misunderstandings if
Russia's early warning satellites are blinded by computer outtages
with the advent of the year 2000, a date which some computer
systems could misread.

Mr Cohen said the head of the Russian strategic forces had accepted
a US invitation to visit the US Strategic Command, which is
responsible for the US nuclear missile force, in the fall.

"That's another good step forward," he said.

This Bulletin: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 2:58 AEST
YEAR 2000 NEWS

Russia Agrees to Joint Nuclear Monitoring Center

By Rick T. Vannelli                           September 14, 1999

In March 1998, John Koskinen, Presidential Advisor and Chairman
of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, was claiming
that the concern with nuclear missiles was not that they would
actually go off, but that a computer malfunction could trigger a
false alarm of a missile attack. What he failed to specify was
that such a false alarm, occurring as a result of incorrect data
or miscalculations, could give rise to accidental nuclear war.

The "launch on warning" policy utilized by the United States and
Russia requires a commander who believes a nuclear attack has
occurred to retaliate immediately.

The risk of such a launch gave rise to the creation of a joint
letter to U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President
Boris Yeltsin from almost 300 organizations around the world
expressing their grave concerns about this possibility. (See
letter at
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html). The
bold letter warns that according to Alexandr Arbatov, of the
Defense Committee of the Russian State Duma, "U.S.- Russian
relations are at the worst, most acute and most dangerous
juncture since the U.S.-Soviet Berlin and Cuban missile crises."

Given (1) this current adversarial situation, (2) several past
events evidencing that spurious data can falsely alert
commanders of enemy missile launches, and (3) the fact that none
of the nuclear nations can guarantee that their nuclear systems
are Y2K compliant, the signatories strongly urged the two
presidents "to remove all strategic and tactical nuclear weapons
from 'hair trigger' alert, and place them in a status in which
at least hours and preferable days would be required to launch
them."

The chance of the United States and Russia taking nuclear forces
off alert before December 31, 1999 is slim, since the two
countries have just formed an agreement about the joint warning
center that was proposed in September 1998 as part of the
post-Cold War plan to share early warning missile-launch data.

The Center for Y2K Strategic Stability, located at the Peterson
Air Force Base in Colorado, would solve the problem of a
combination of Y2K failures, inaccurate early warning data, and
potentially compromised command centers, by putting the United
States and Russia in direct communication with each other. The
center would be staffed with both American and Russian teams
that would watch for missile launches and Y2K problems by
monitoring satellite data, ground sensors, and data flowing from
the nearby North American Aerospace Defense Command (which can
track missile launches worldwide).

Discussions about the center were suspended when Russia froze
all military-to-military cooperation during the U.S.-led NATO
bombing of Yugoslavia. Subsequent and repeated invitations to
commence further talks went unanswered. Finally last month, the
Russians agreed to post officers at the center, and a formal
meeting to pound out the details was scheduled for September 13,
1999. U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen flew to Russia to
meet with Russian Defense Minister General Igor Sergeyev, and
according to Voice of America's Peter Heinlein, the September 13
meeting went well. The center will operate 24 hours a day
starting late December 1999 and continuing through January 2000.

Unfortunately, the United States and Russia are only two of the
eight major nuclear weapon nations. The other six countries are
the United Kingdom, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and France.
Moreover, there is widespread nuclear weapon proliferation in
other areas. John D. Holum, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of
State for Arms Control and International Security, recently
stated that although Iraq's nuclear weapons program was
dismantled six years ago, "Iraq continues to hide documentation
and equipment relating to key aspects of its past nuclear
activities. Moreover, the Iraqi government has yet to document
that it no longer has nuclear weapon ambitions." Likewise,
although North Korea agreed to work toward nonproliferation with
its weapons program, delays and other concerns with the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) make it unclear
when this objective will be reached. Furthermore, the DPRK "is
developing missiles of increasingly longer range -- missiles
eventually capable of striking parts of the United States."
Countries such as Egypt and Syria are importing missiles from
North Korea. Finally, Iran "continues a procurement pattern for
nuclear technologies=C9and is pursuing a nuclear weapon capability
under the guise of a complete nuclear fuel cycle."

Of the estimated 36,000 - 43,000 nuclear weapons existing in the
world, about 5,000 are on "high alert" status (they can be fired
within 15 minutes and reach their target city within 30
minutes). Although the U.S.-Russian Center for Y2K Strategic
Stability greatly decreases the chance of an accidental hostile
weapons launch, it does not completely eradicate the potential
for global nuclear disaster.


[Federal Computer Week]

SEPTEMBER 13, 1999 . . . 13:10 EDT

Russians agree to Y2K warning center

BY DANIEL VERTON ([e-mail])

More than six months after negotiations began, U.S. and
Russian Federation officials today signed a statement
supporting the creation of a joint warning center that
would help avoid an accidental launch of nuclear weapons
that could result from system malfunctions caused by Year
2000-related computer problems.

Defense Secretary William Cohen and Russian Federation
Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev signed the agreement today
in Moscow, after extensive delays caused by increasing
tensions over the war in Yugoslavia.

The new Center for Year 2000 Strategic Stability will be
located at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs,
Colo., and will be staffed by Russian and U.S. military
representatives during the Year 2000 transition period
from late December 1999 through mid-January 2000. Military
officers from both countries will sit side by side and
exchange information related to Year 2000 in an effort to
avoid misperceptions surrounding the status of each
other's nuclear forces. The center also will be linked via
voice communications networks to other command centers in
the United States and Russia.

 The creation of the joint warning center stems from
 concerns that Year 2000 failures could cause some nuclear
 command and control systems to crash, which could be
 interpreted as the sign of an impending first strike.
 However, Defense Department officials and officials from
 the U.S. Strategic Command have assessed the likelihood of
 an accidental launch as "extremely remote," adding that
 nuclear missiles cannot be launched by a computer alone.

 -----------------------------------------------------------

[deseretnews.com]

 Deseret News, Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 12:00 AM MDT

 Russians are coming =D1 to ensure missiles don't

 Bennett says Y2K center will guard against false alarms

 By Lee Davidson
 Deseret News Washington correspondent

 WASHINGTON =D1 Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, praised Russia Monday for agreeing
 to send officials to a Colorado Springs command center designed to detect
 false missile attack alarms caused by the year 2000 computer bug.

 "The greatest Y2K danger comes not from the threat of an accidental launch
 but from the threat of Y2K glitches being misinterpreted by personnel on
 either side of the Atlantic," said Bennett, chairman of a special Senate
 Y2K committee.

 So the military is establishing a command center where Russia and the
 United States can share information and monitoring before and after New
 Year's Day.

 Of course, the Y2K bug comes because older programs stored only two digits
 for a four-digit year. So the "00" when the year 2000 arrives would be
 interpreted as 1900 and could make systems crash.

 "To successfully weather Y2K, we must cooperate to avoid human errors that
 could have unintended deadly consequences, " Bennett said. "The
 establishment of the Colorado Springs center is a well-written insurance
 policy against Y2k-induced conflict among the preeminent nuclear powers."

 Bennett and Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., the ranking Democrat on the Y2K
 committee, said they support keeping the Colorado Springs center
 operational until March.

 It is now scheduled to close Jan. 15. They say that is too soon. Dodd
 said, "The effects of Y2K will be felt long after January."

 Defense Secretary William Cohen and his Russian counterpart, Defense
 Minister Igor Sergeyev, are expected to sign a formal agreement
 establishing the Colorado Springs Center in Moscow this week. Russia
 earlier threatened to withdraw participation in protest of U.S. policy in
 Kosovo.
                      --------------------------------

The Real Nuclear Risk of Y2K

By Chris Gilbey and Jan Wyllie               September 9, 1999

                 [Chris Gilbey] Y2K nuclear issues that have been raised in =
the
                                press have substantially related to a potent=
ial
                 for accidental nuclear strike as a result of computer failu=
re.
                 However the Y2K czars have used the opportunity to deny the
                 probability of this happening to derail debate about the
                 broader issues of Y2K and nuclear energy.

                 The critical issue is that supply chain failures in the ene=
rgy
                 sector will create a very real potential for there to be ri=
sk
                 to the power supply and grid stability. (See "The Millenniu=
m
                 Reckoning," September 1999 Update
--http://www.trendmonitor.com
                 -- for a full report). In the event that such a supply fail=
ure
                 should happen there will be no fail-safes in place in nucle=
ar
                 generation installations. This is a very real and all too
                 possible scenario. If it should come to pass it would impac=
t
                 everyone in Europe and ultimately also in the rest of the
                 world. Unfortunately they are not yet aware of the real
issues.

                 In brief here are some of the key facts that are dealt with=
 in
                 The Millennium Reckoning report in detail:

                    * According to Russian experts it is almost certain
that the
                      Russian natural gas pipeline that supplies both Easter=
n
                      and Western Europe will be interrupted.
                    * Oil stops flowing at freezing temperatures.
                    * It will be very difficult to start the gas flowing aga=
in
                      with sub-zero temperatures and an uncertain electricit=
y
                      supply.
                    * This means that pipelines and refineries are at risk,
even
                      if there are relatively short power outages. (In the
U.S.,
                      where the energy sector is far ahead of Russia in
                      preparations, major oil companies are reportedly adopt=
ing
                      a fix on fail (FOF) policy on wells, pipelines and
                      refineries).
                    * The bottom line is that if electricity fails, some
nuclear
                      plants may have difficulty cooling their cores if
they are
                      to be shut down, creating a real danger of accidental
                      meltdowns.

                 The economic, environmental and social implications of the
                 failure of the Russian gas and oil pipeline network are
                 enormous -- for Europe and the rest of the world.

                 Since Europe has a significant dependency on Russian oil an=
d
                 gas, at minimum, the countries and people of Europe are at
risk
                 of having to deal with the consequences of severe energy
                 shortages and subsequent energy price increases. At the oth=
er
                 end of the scale is the unthinkable -- one or more nuclear
                 accidents of the magnitude of Chernobyl. There is one
                 difference though. Having had one Chernobyl, and knowing th=
at
                 Y2K is almost upon us, and taking an actuarial approach, ho=
w
                 can we conceive that a meltdown could be described as an
                 accident? If we can predict it to any extent it can't be
          [Image]described as an accident.

                 Although it is not certain that this scenario will come tru=
e
                 the seriousness of the multiple risks warrant immediate
                 emergency action on a "just in case" basis. Regardless of t=
he
                 cost, an investment in sustainable energy systems is requir=
ed
                 both for deployment around nuclear sites and within
                 communities. The task could be doable in the time remaining=
 if
                 an international crash program were implemented in the
next few
                 weeks. What is critical is to communicate the facts to as m=
any
                 people as possible in order to leverage governments to rele=
ase
                 the money in order to secure the future. This needs to be
                 accomplished very quickly.

                 The breadth of this problem is well known, but there is a
                 continuing tendency to ignore the issues of supply chain
                 failure that have become visible as a result of Y2K. The
                 problems are complex. No one would argue that. However the
                 continuing denial of the possible magnitude of the risk to =
key
                 energy systems by governments and even the media is a
clear and
                 present danger. It stands in the way of people and companie=
s
                 making contingency preparations at a macro level. It stands=
 in
                 the way of ordinary people making contingency plans at a mi=
cro
                 level. (It is truly amazing how many companies are making
                 contingency plans for possible failure of critical
supplies for
                 business continuity but neglect to educate their employees
that
                 similar plans need to be made at a personal level.) It woul=
d
                 also seem totally reasonable that the same businesses that
have
                 already come to understand the potential for damage to thei=
r
                 industries and the economy as a whole should lobby governme=
nts
                 to try to enact changes at a global level.

                 By acknowledging the challenge and acting, not only would a
                 short-term problem be solved, but the implementation of an
                 economical long-term solution could also be accomplished
within
                 a time that is reasonable. By not acting each individual, e=
ach
                 company and each government is putting at risk the global
                 economy, the environment and every one on the planet.

                 Jan Wyllie is a principal of Trend Monitor, one of the lead=
ing
                 trend analysis companies in Europe.


                       --------------------------------------------------

News Story
Avoid Y2K Complacency
By: David McGuire, Newsbytes.
September 13, 1999
URL: http://www.currents.net/newstoday/99/09/13/news15.html

Sept. 9 has come and gone, and as another Y2K-related milestone passes
without incident, Y2K experts are warning people not to get overly
complacent about the upcoming millennial date roll over.

"No one should think this success means the work on Y2K is done," Bruce
McConnell, director of the International Y2K Cooperation Center told
Newsbytes today. "It just underscores the importance of (making)
comprehensive preparations before these rollover events happen."

Like the most recent Y2K related milestone date - the fiscal Year 2000
rollover that occurred earlier this summer for many state governments -
9/9/99 caused few if any real problems, reports from around the world
indicate. Sept. 9 was a "non-event," McConnell said.

Y2K observers had expressed concern that because certain programmers had
used sets of nines to trigger "end file" commands, the date 9/9/99 could
cause a slew of computer failures.

But FY 2000 and 9/9/99 are to Jan. 1, 2000 what a light breeze is to a full-
fledged hurricane, experts say.

=46Y 2000 threatens only easily fixed budgetary systems and 9/9/99 posed, at
most, a localized problem that was readily spotted and remediated,
President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion Chair John Koskinen said earlier
this week.

The Y2K bug, by contrast, has the potential to wreak havoc on all types of
computer systems, including those governing power grids, financial
transactions, nuclear fail-safe devices and a slew of other critical
systems.

While US and International Y2K authorities have lately begun expressing
increasing optimism that mission critical systems and infrastructures - at
least in developed countries - will survive the date roll-over, much work
remains to be done, McConnell said.

The primary danger in the uneventful passages of 9/9/99 and FY 2000 is that
the governments and entities which have done the least work on Y2K
remediation may begin to get complacent, he added.

"Those who aren't ready will be sorry," McConnell said.








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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Ted Turner's e-mail, and Y2K
Date: 15 Sep 1999 02:52:04 -0700 (PDT)

Does Ted Turner have an e-mail address?  I would like to e-mail him about
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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) CTBT Letter
Date: 15 Sep 1999 03:23:21 -0700 (PDT)

Below is the start of a CTBT letter.  How should I continue it?

Re: Battle looms on nuke test ban (September 1, Sacramento Bee)

I am overjoyed that the Clinton administration is finally pushing to get the
three year old Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).  I agree with Clinton
that without the treaty, "Countries all around the world will feel more
pressure to develop and test weapons in ever more destructive verities and
sizes, threatening the security of everyone on Earth."  I believe that the
CTBT would reduce the danger of nuclear proliferation by banning all nuclear
weapons tests, and that the intent is to pave the way for the abolition of
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RUSSIAN POLICE HARRASS N-CAMPAIGNER PLEASE SIGN PROTEST LETTER
Date: 15 Sep 1999 21:02:56 +1000

Dear People,

VLADIMIR Sliviak, Russias most prominent antinuclear campaigner is being
threatened with blackmail and arrest by the Moscow police, working for the
FSB.  He needs your support urgently. (See Vladimirs press release below).

I would like to fax this by end thursday Australian time (US time is 15-21
hours behind Sydney time)

If you could all sign it for Vladimir that would be most helpful.

TO:
MINISTRY OF POLICE RUSSIA, 7-095-239-08-62
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE RUSSIA, 7-095-916-2903
MOSCOW CHIEF OF POLICE 7-095-200-93-05
F.S.B, MOSCOW, 7-095-975-24-70
cc
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
Laurie Brereton, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs
Alexander Downer Minister for Foreign Affairs
Joschka Fischer, German Minister for Foreign Affairs
Maj-Britt Theorin, European Parliament
Ernst Gulcher, European Parliament
U.S. State Department, Russia Desk

Dear Minister of Police, Minister for Justice, FSB, and Chief of Police Moscow,
We are
writing out of deep concern for a friend and colleague, Vladimir
Sliviak, Director of the antinuclear campaign of Ecodefense,  who
we
understand was temporarily arrested and released recently outside his
Moscow home and who appears to be the object of police harassment.

Mr. Sliviak's beliefs and actions concerning nuclear energy and other
policies of the Russian government may not be to the liking of some elements in
your government but his beliefs and commitment are widely shared around the
world.

We understand that he was stopped outside his home on September 6, by
members of the Moscow police, (MUR) who said they were investigating an
explosion of August 31, 1999. It seems that Vladimir was shown marijuana,
and told
that if he did not cooperate it would be placed in his bag and he would
then be arrested and jailed for three years. He was released after 1.5
hours.

We also understand another colleague of his, Mr. Kozlov, was similarly
threatened.

Vladimir Sliviak is well known to the environmental community worldwide,
and respected. There is no way that he could be involved in activities of
the type with which the police seem to wish to associate him.

The right to protest and to question and oppose government policies,  is
enshrined in the democratic tradition and is an integral part of civil
society. It is also enshrined in a number of United Nations conventions. It
is not a luxury, to be dispensed with in times of difficulty.

The environmental movement in the U.S., Australia, and Europe is held in high
respect even by those it opposes. Green political parties have prominent
representation in many European parliaments and in the European Parliament,
and the German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is from the Green Party.
Other political parties have largely adopted parts of the environment
movements agenda.

 You may be sure that the activities of the Moscow police and authorities
with respect to
 Mr. Sliviak are being very well observed by a large and sympathetic
 worldwide community.

 We trust that these incidents were in error and will not be
repeated, that the law will be respected and enforced above all by those
whose duty it is to do so.

John Hallam,
Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Sydney.

Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Washington, DC

Reply-To: "Vladimir Slivyak" <[e-mail]>

For immediate release
Moscow

EXPLOSION DETAILS
While all newspapers and TV channels discuss "Chechen", "Dagestan" and
"revolutionary writers" versions of the explosion at Manezh square, provided
by intelligence services, these services themselves persecute ecologists and
look for whom to blame among the witnesses of another notorious political
process.

People from Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (MUR) captured Vladimir
Slivyak, Director of Antinuclear campaign of Socio-Ecological Union (SEU).
The formal reason for the arrest was documents control, while the real
reasons were investigation actions within Manezh square explosion suit.

People in civilian stopped the activist of environmental movement when he
was going out of his house; they refused to introduce themselves and to
explain the reason of the arrest. After documents control and numerous
questions about Slivyak's job, environmental organizations and environmental
movement in general, senior lieutenant of MUR 6th department A.S. Kosterov
(the only person whose documents were possible to look at) stated that he
"deals with terrorists" including investigation of circumstances of the
explosion at Manezh square. At the place of detention Kosterov took a
package with marijuana and threatened to "find it in the bag" of the
Director of Antinuclear campaign if he does not facilitate actively enough
"the course of the investigation". It appeared that MUR staff is interested
in Kochkarev Yakov Vladimirovich who must appear here in the nearest future
according to intercepted phone call.

REFERENCE: Y.V. Kochkarev is a witness for the defense in so called
"Krasnodar suit", notorious political process in the beginning of which it
was repeatedly stated about "prevention of murderous assault at Krasnodar
kray governor Nikolay Kondratenko". In the course of investigation of this
suit searches and interrogations of witnesses were performed with numerous
violations of Criminal and Judicial Procedure Code of RF. However the suit
broke up and the inquest failed to prove the accusation in political
terrorism.

Obviously intelligence services were not satisfied with the results
achieved. In the "conversation" with the detained Director of Antinuclear
campaign and then with other persons of this organization arrived to the
place of the event, senior lieutenant Kosterov stated that he personally
deals with "Krasnodar suit" from its very beginning and is absolutely
confident in the relationship between this suit and recent explosion at
Manezh, as well as that "all traces lead to environmental organizations".
Kosterov also stated that he knows for sure who committed this act of
terrorism.

Obviously the scandal "Krasnodar suit" is early to consider finished. There
is direct evidence of its transition to probably even more notorious
"terrorist trial". Apparently its main canvas has not been "knitted" yet -
that is why the method of shaking marijuana packages before one's face and
"conversations" without proceedings are again applied: the information
obtained in this way can be later filed there in the way the most suitable
for the inquest.

During "Krasnodar suit" "criminal group" was searched among informal groups
with radical views, but nothing serious came out of it, except that someone
lost
laurels of the main fighter with terrorists. Probably bodies investigating
explosion at Manezh believe that ecologists are more serious people and thus
can be accused of more serious plot? Apparently working out of this scenario
took place during "Krasnodar suit", already then they tried to have up many
ecologists as witnesses.

LATEST NEWS:
September 7th FSB people contacted via phone A.Yu. Kozlov, representative of
Voronezh division of SEU Antinuclear Campaign. They demanded him to come for
"informal conversation" on the topic of antinuclear camp took place in
September in vicinity of Novovoronezh nuclear power plant. As an argument
for his coming they stated: "Your Moscow colleagues have problems, you do no
want the same, do you?". Obviously the "problems" meant marijuana package in
hands of MUR officer Kosterov, because official accusations to the Director
of Antinuclear campaign have never been brought. Only at parting MUR
officers said to him: "If we do not capture Kochkarev, consider yourself
arrested".

Information on activities of Antinuclear campaign and about the camp near
Novovoronezh nuclear power plantcan be found
in the Internet:
www.ecoline.ru/antinuclear

About "Krasnodar suit":
www.ecoline.ru/actions/bomba
www.ipclub.ru/identity/pres/

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
Fax[phone] ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html





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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [y2k-nuclear] Re: FRIENDS OF THE EARTH Y2K PRESS RELEASE
Date: 16 Sep 1999 13:32:42 +1000

At 2:44 AM +1000 16/9/1999, Robyn Wolf wrote:

Dear Alan and dear Robyn

I'm afraid that I still consider that what I put in the release is accurate
and is the line that we should be pushing. In fact I think it is absolutely
essential that we stress that de-alerting is cvost and risk-free, and
politically highly counterproductive (and inaccurate) to do otherwise.

It is not correct that there are risks involved in de- alerting. This is
precisely the argument used by the other side and it is NOT accurate.

It is also NOT the case that de- alerting or standing down nuclear forces
necessareily involves separation of warheads at all.

It may be no more than the removal of electrical leads and or the pinning
open of switches.

In fact, the removal of warheads at this stage is probably NOT what we
should be asking for with only 108 days to Y2K, and I have very carefully
not asked for it.  I doubt that removal and separation of arheads can be
done at all in 100 days.

It is probably correct to say that at this point there is not the time to
do it, and this particular option is indeed also involving significant cost.

To repeat myself, that is why I have not asked for that option.

I do NOT consider the issue of verifiability to be one that has the
significance in practical terms that our opponents say it has. The change
in the 'notice to fire' in the UK nuclear forces is NOT verifiable. It
would certainly be better if it was, but the fact is that verifiable or
not, the UKs initiative on this matter is the opposite of destabilising.
Do we suggest that because the UK option is not verifiable that they should
not have done it at all? That would be utterly perverse, and its precisely
the kind of utterly dishonest argument that our opponents might use. No, we
ask for such verification as is possible to take place, noting that even if
it does not we are still much much better off!

The same is true of Chinese forces. We understand that chinese rockets are
kept without fuel, and that days would be required to change this status.
This is NOT verifiable. But it really doesn't matter, or if it does its
still better to have them (unverifiably) in this status, than on
hairtrigger alert. (and in this status, LOW is impossible)

Even vague rumours that one side or the other MIGHT have de-alerted without
telling anyone would be quite the opposite of destabilising. They would in
fact serve to lower rather than increase the alert status of the other side.

Official statements that reductions in alert status had taken place even if
not verifiable would in the real world have an immmense stabilising effect.
Not as much maybe as the verifiable removal of warheads but still immense.

Finally, I have to say that the position I am advocating is also not
distunguishable in practical terms from 'no-low'.

I fail completely to see -( indeed I declare that there is nothing at all
to see)- what could be the practical real world difference between an
'quick n dirty' de-alert as per the UK, and No-LOW.

All we are doing is placing nuclear forces in a position where it will take
days rather than seconds to launch.

That is certainly no- LOW.

You say that you have written before on the 'difference' between NO-LOW and
de-alerting.

I think you are dead wrong about this.

In practical terms, in the terms of the kind of measures that can be
adopted between now and the end of the year there IS NO DIFFERENCE WORTH
TALKING ABOUT BETWEEN NO-LOW AND DE-ALERTING!

The sooner we realise that we are actually talking about the same thing the
sooner this rather silly debate will cease.

I reiterate that de- alerting is indistinguishable in practical terms from
NO-LOW, and that not only is it cost and risk free but that it is our
responsibility to keep saying so.

Otherwise we are going to accept the arguments of those who want to see
nuclear weapons systems kept on hairtrigger alert for the rest of all
eternity.

John Hallam



>Dear Alan, I've read your comments twice and agree co-heartedly witht what
>you say and encourage you to be persistent with your message.  And mahalo
>for your participation in this essential task to create a world where
>nuclear weapons are a thing of the past.  My heart sings when I even think
>that thought.   My message is for adults to create their lives as the heroic
>adventure that we be heroes and sheroes for our youth and children.   The
>peace of the blue sky to you.  Robyn Wolf
>----------
>>From: [e-mail]
[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail]
>>Subject: [y2k-nuclear] Re: FRIENDS OF THE EARTH Y2K PRESS RELEASE
>>Date: Wed, Sep 15, 1999, 6:43 AM
>>
>
>>With great respect and admiration for John Hallam's work and Friends of the
>>Earth, I have to make this comment.  I have written before on the difference
>>between "de-alerting" and "no launch on warning".
>>
>>I note that Friends of the Earth say in the body of their press release:
>>"De-Alerting is a no risk, no cost measure...".
>>
>>This is not true.  The costs and risks are small compared with the huge
>>costs
>>and risks of maintaining nuclear deterrence, but they are not near zero.
>>
>>The risk is that one of the former superpowers might see an opportunity
>>for a
>>"disarming first strike", banking on the unavoidable delay before launching
>>for the non-cheating side, and the vulnerability of the process.  Military
>>men have worked the whole of their professional careers on the basis that
>>any
>>delay in the ability to retaliate would be an invitation to the enemy.
>>
>>The cost of arranging to remove war-heads or other components, and storing
>>them safely at a distance with facilities for prompt return and
>>re-installation, would not be small.
>>
>>The cost of setting up and maintaining verification would be very
>>substantial
>>in civilian terms, but I do not know whether it would be millions or
>>billions
>>of dollars.  And until they take the next steps towards abolition, there
>>would be little reduction in the current cost of maintaining "deterrence".
>>
>>On the other hand, I believe that "No Launch-on-Warning" is almost free of
>>risk, and would have little or no cost - maybe even savings.  So as an
>>interim step (this year) we could say that No L-o-W "is a no risk, no cost
>>measure...".
>>
>>We certainly should press for full de-alerting (with the verification
>>that is
>>the least the military will insist upon), and it will make the world a much
>>safer place.  But let us try to be accurate, and not over-state our position.
>>
>>Best wishes to all,
>>Alan Phillips.
>>Physicians for Global Survival, Canada.
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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) NIF problems corroborated/Laser Focus World
Date: 16 Sep 1999 10:27:07 -0700 (PDT)

Good morning peace and enviro advocates.

Please note that the following article from "Laser Focus World," September
15, 1999, corroborates the evidence I have amassed from scientists and
engineers at the Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia labs regarding the
serious, unresolved technical difficulties at the National Ignition
Facility. It is these problems that are the real cause of the $300 million
(and growing) cost overrun. Laser Focus World's sources come from industry.

-- Marylia Kelley, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs, Livermore, CA.

Laser Focus World
Article Date:  September 15, 1999
                BREAKING NEWS: DOE takes aim as NIF stumbles

LIVERMORE, CA - On September 3, US Department of Energy (DoE) Secretary
Bill Richardson announced a six-point program to address the administrative
causes of cost overruns and scheduling delays in the construction of its
National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(LLNL). At the same time, Richardson declared, "The underlying science at
the NIF remains sound." Based on an investigative report by an antinuclear
watchdog group and discussions with industry sources, however, the real
science at NIF -- in terms of thorough and objective inquiry and
observation -- may be just about to begin. And so far the most likely
hypotheses seem to be coming from the rumor mill.

At the time of this writing, the DoE had not given official figures for the
scope of the problems at NIF, but newspapers were estimating cost overruns
of up to $300 million and schedule delays of a year or more. Richardson
blamed the problems on "project-management issues" and proposed addressing
them "with aggressive and tighter management action from this department."
Richardson's proposed reforms would contract out major assembly and
integration at NIF instead of performing it in house and appoint an
independent panel to analyze technical options and make recommendations.
The reforms would also handle cost issues within budget funding guidelines
for LLNL and DoE defense programs, withhold at least $2 million from a $5.6
million performance fee payable to the University of California for project
management, and subject NIF to monthly review and compliance reporting. A
complete management review is also intended.

While Richardson's statement strongly criticized what appears to have been
a poorly managed NIF construction effort, it also raised troubling
questions as to what the real problems were and whether they will be
effectively addressed. For instance, E. Michael Campbell, "the laboratory
official responsible for NIF, has already resigned due to nonrelated
personal issues," said Richardson. Campbell, the former associate director
for laser programs at LLNL and a fellow of the American Physical Society
had won a number of awards for his work in the laser-assisted
inertial-confinement-fusion technology that NIF is based on. The
"nonrelated personal issue" that removed him from the scrutiny of a
management review just days before the scandal broke was the revelation --
which seems to have previously eluded security checking procedures for
officials at his level -- that he didn't really have a Ph.D. At the same
time, two other senior staff members at NIF were reassigned to other
projects in the DoE national lab system.

Ironically, the void in credibility created by the Campbell issue is being
filled quite neatly at present by a highly critical report from an anti-NIF
watchdog group based in Livermore. In a press release dated September 2,
Tri-Valley CAREs (Citizens Against a Radioactive Environment) charged that
the problems at NIF are due to technological as opposed to administrative
problems. CAREs' executive director Marylia Kelley, who authored the
report, listed three areas of significant technical difficulty "that
Livermore Lab and its parent agency, the Department of Energy, are trying
to hide from Congress and the public." These problem areas are target
fabrication (the cryogenic balls containing radioactive fuel), diagnostics
(monitoring equipment), and glass development and delivery (optics, lenses,
and crystals).

Kelley said her information was obtained through confidential interviews
with scientists working on NIF and related inertial-confinement-fusion
research at Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM) and Sandia
National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA), which implies
that the problems may have been widely known and that alleged mismanagement
may have originated from a level higher than LLNL.

After being presented with the gist of Kelley's allegations, a DoE
spokesperson replied, "At this point, I do not have anything to add to the
statement issued by the Secretary last week." But confidential discussions
conducted by this publication with industry sources seemed to corroborate
the implication of a significant technological lag. While the NIF project is
based on exciting science, a significant portion of it may still be too far
out on the leading edge to produce reliable devices in accordance with the
NIF construction schedule.

Kelley said that scientists working on various aspects of
inertial-confinement-fusion research expressed concern that major portions
of their funding and effort were being diverted to tackle the problems at
NIF. "NIF is the 800-pound gorilla poised and ready to squash many smaller,
more worthy projects at the labs," she said. Kelley added that CAREs will
push for Congress to make the NIF "come clean now, before it starts cashing
its fiscal-year 2000 budget checks on October 1."

This may be easier said than done, however. According to Richardson's
statement on September 3, "seven scientific and four management reviews,
including a congressionally mandated review completed this spring," had
previously failed to note the budgetary and scheduling problems at NIF.
Evidently NIF may still be in need of sound science, in the evaluation
process.    -HJ-B

end

Note: HJ-B is Laser Focus World's West Coast Editor, Hassaun Jones-Bey.
This article can be found at <www.lfw.com>              --Marylia


Marylia Kelley
Executive Director,
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA 94550
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
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From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Swackhamer Peace Essay Contest
Date: 16 Sep 1999 10:45:23 -0700 (PDT)

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Dear Friends and Activists,

     Each year the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation sponsors an essay contest
for high school students which awards $3,000 in prizes.  Topics for the
Swackhamer Peace Essay Contest vary each year and encourage students to
seek constructive approaches and solutions to issues of war and peace.

     The topic for the 1999 contest challenged international students to
suggest actions that young people can take to help the Abolition 2000
Network achieve its goal of an international treaty by the year 2000 for
the planned elimination of nuclear weapons by early in the next century.
The winning essay, written by Catherine Chou, 14, of Northridge,
California, is attached to this email.  The essay, along with excerpts from
the two (tied) second place winners, can also be accessed on the NAPF
website at
http://www.wagingpeace.org/swakrules.html

    Considering that the year 2000 has been proclaimed the International
Year for the Culture of Peace by the United Nations General Assembly, the
contest topic for the year 2000 challenges students to write an essay
making recommendations for specific actions that young people can take to
help build a culture of peace. The essay topic and guidelines for the year
2000 can be accessed at the NAPF website.

     It is our hope that you will share this information with as many high
school students and teachers as possible in order to encourage students to
become aware and proactively  participate in urgent issues concerning war
and peace.

     If you have any questions or comments about the essay contest, please
feel free to email the Foundation at [e-mail].

     Thank you for your time and continued support in our common endeavor
to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Yours In Peace,

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Staff


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Achieving Peace Through Today's Youth
by Catherine Chou, 14
First Place Winner of 1999 Swackhamer Peace Essay Contest

    Imagine, if you will, that you are the title character in the book
"Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes," a young Japanese girl suffering
from the devastating "atom bomb sickness." Sadako was a vivacious
eleven-year-old with dreams of becoming a track star. Sadly, that ended
when doctors diagnosed her with leukemia, An atom bomb had been dropped
over her hometown of Hiroshima during W.W. II, poisoning her with its
radiation.

    Sadako's friend Chizuko tried to cheer her up by saying, "If a sick
person folds 1000 paper cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her
well again." Each day, Sadako folded as many cranes as she could and hung
them from the ceiling. They formed a colorful rainbow over her bed,
watching over her while she slept at night. Nevertheless, as her condition
worsened, Sadako bravely faced the truth: she was dying. She could hardly
walk or even chew food because her gums were too swollen. Sadako spent her
days in a wheelchair in the hospital, her body bloated from painful
chemotherapy treatments. She tried to wish the hurt and her family's sorrow
away by folding more cranes. Eventually, Sadako made 644 cranes. She died
on October 25, 1955 with an unfinished crane clutched in her hands.

    Sadako's death haunts me because the very thing that killed her --
nuclear weaponry -- is still being manufactured in at least eight countries
throughout the world. Her story convinced me that today's youth must take
swift action against the dangerous nuclear proliferation. America has spent
nearly $6 trillion on nuclear arms since the 1940s, money that should have
gone towards medical research or ending hunger, not building weapons of
destruction. The effect of nuclear weapons lingers long after the initial
blast. Babies born to women affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power
plant accident lack arms and legs. They suffer from blindness and
retardation and will never know a normal life.

    Out of all this despair comes a ray of hope. Abolition 2000, a
global network aiming to eliminate nuclear weapons, hopes for an
international treaty halting proliferation by the new millennium. Already,
more than 110 states of the Non-Aligned Movement have called for the
elimination of nuclear weaponry by the next century. Several countries have
given up their nuclear arms in hopes of promoting worldwide peace. Activist
groups affiliated with Abolition 2000 are working to make a nuclear-free
world. Their success or failure hinges on the involvement of today's youth.

    First, young people can aid Abolition 2000's cause by forming
"peace clubs" on school campuses. Cynicism is so pervasive in our world
today that we believe a few voices can never make a difference. I say to
you that a few voices can make all the difference. A few people start the
ball rolling. A few people's tongues can spread the word to millions. And a
few hearts can relieve the suffering of many. A peace club's primary goals
would be to educate the public about the dangers of nuclear weaponry and to
support programs aimed at passing legislation against proliferation. An
effective way to bring the message home is by visiting every classroom with
a speech about the dangers of nuclear energy. Such a speech should include
the history of nuclear devastation, its effects on people and the
environment, a survivor's tale, and action items -- drives and campaigns
already underway and in need of support. If a few people can make all the
difference, think of the good an entire school can do.

    Second, young people can draft press releases and organize protests
to capture the media's attention. A hard-hitting demonstration costs next
to nothing. All you need are picket signs and a pair of strong lungs. Every
Peace Day community youth can organize a demonstration in front of City
Hall calling for nuclear disarmament. Spread the news by posting fliers,
telling friends and family, and alerting news outlets. Send a press release
stating what the event is about, where and when it will be held, why they
should support it, and who to contact for more information, The media is
the most influential institution in society. It controls what we are
exposed to and the way we perceive events happening around the world. Why
shouldn't youth use it to their advantage?

    Third, today's youth can employ grassroots movements to pressure
lawmakers into passing legislation against proliferation. Just as potent as
media recognition are petitions and a barrage of letters. Consider this: If
representatives receive 25 letters from their constituencies on one topic,
they maybe moved to introduce legislation on the subject. 25 letters! Youth
have huge political resources available to them that they are not even
aware of Petitions can force action if lawmakers fail to do so. The
Feminist Majority, a group working against gender apartheid in Afghanistan,
started a petition targeting Unocal 76 because of its proposition to build
a pipeline through the country before women's rights were restored. Time
Magazine recently reported that the company was halting its project due to
the voluminous number of complaints it had received. Even something so
simple as a signature has proven its powerful impact.

    Eventually, 2.4 million people will have died from cancers caused
by nuclear testing. 9 2.4 million people will have suffered ordeals like
Sadakoφs, and still our government sits on its hands and refuses to abolish
nuclear weaponry. America will spend some $30 billion on nuclear arms in
1999 while I in 7 people lives below the poverty line. This shameful
statistic should make us question where we place our priorities.

    When the Baby Boomers are gone, who will be left to care for the
world but Generation X? Youth must aid Abolition 2000 by forming
organizations, putting together rallies, alerting the media to their
activities. and using letters and petitions to get the public involved.
Only when tomorrow's leaders start working for nuclear abolition today will
we finally see peace not just as a dream, but as a reality.




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From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Abolition 2000 at the Year 2000
Date: 16 Sep 1999 15:05:19 -0700 (PDT)

ABOLITION 2000 AT THE YEAR 2000

by David Krieger *



Abolition 2000 is rapidly approaching the year 2000, a moment of truth for
the global Network. General Lee Butler, a powerful advocate of abolition,
offered these observations: ∞Turning specifically to the agenda, tactics
and timetable of the abolition community, I see a widening gulf between its
aspirations and their prospects, especially in the near term. That
disparity is most immediately obvious in the disjunction between the name
of the umbrella organization, δAbolition 2000,φ and the self-evident
reality that its implied goal is not yet in sight, much less in hand. That
is a real Y2K problem that must be addressed to ensure that the vitality of
the ongoing work of the organization is not diminished by the intimations
of a failed strategic objective.ε
When Abolition 2000 was initiated in 1995, it seemed reasonable to set as
our primary goal a treaty by the year 2000 calling for the phased
elimination of nuclear weapons. The goal was never to achieve the total
elimination of nuclear weapons by the year 2000, but rather to achieve an
international treaty leading to the total elimination of these weapons by
early in the 21st Century.
    Abolition 2000 was born at the 1995 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
Review and Extension Conference. It came about as a result of
disappointment by many NGOs with the apparent blank check given to the
nuclear weapons states when the treaty was extended indefinitely. The
extension was given without regard for the widely perceived failure of the
nuclear weapons states to act on their Article VI obligations for good
faith negotiations on nuclear disarmament. Abolition 2000 sought in some
respects to be the conscience of the international community by demanding
that Article VI obligations be upheld in the aftermath of the indefinite
extension.
    Abolition 2000 began with the drafting of a common Statement by
some 60 peace and disarmament NGOs at the 1995 NPT Conference. Supporters
of the Statement quickly expanded to about 300 NGOs. Over the past nearly
five years, the number of supporters has expanded to 1,358 organizations in
88 countries. As the year 2000 approaches, questions arise as to what will
become of Abolition 2000 and its global Network. If an international treaty
to ban nuclear weapons is not achieved by the end of the year 2000, will
the Network have failed? Will it lose its credibility? Will the Network
continue after the year 2000?
    The Network made a bold decision at the outset by adopting the name
Abolition 2000.  It was prepared to press the issue of moving forward with
a nuclear weapons abolition agenda, setting a timeframe for tangible
progress. It was not content to leave the timeframe open-ended. It refused
to accept vague declarations by the nuclear weapons states that they were
for the ∞ultimateε goal of eliminating their nuclear arsenals. While it may
be perceived that it would have been safer for the Network to choose a name
that did not force a timeframe for success, the choice of the name serves
an important function by making clear that an agreement to abolish nuclear
weapons is a matter of urgency. Abolition cannot be put off to some
indefinite future time whenever the nuclear weapons states decide they are
ready to act.
Inherent in the name Abolition 2000 is the understanding that we should not
cross the threshold into a new century and millennium without a clear
commitment to the global elimination of nuclear weapons. Abolition 2000 has
taken a stand on the side of morality, legality, and democracy, and has
given a voice to the opinion of most of the worldφs nations. Abolition 2000
has spoken truth to power.
The problem is that power, in the form of the governments of the nuclear
weapons states, have responded by stonewalling and a continuation of
business as usual. These governments seem locked into a Cold War mentality
based on the theory of deterrence, despite the fact they can no longer
identify who it is they are deterring  or from what they are deterring
them.
Since the initiation of Abolition 2000, the Network has opposed continued
nuclear testing of all kinds, including sub-critical and laboratory
testing. It has called for ending the nuclear threat by taking specific
steps such as de-alerting nuclear forces and agreeing to policies of No
First Use. It has not only called for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, but
has participated in drafting a Model Nuclear Weapons Convention which Costa
Rica has introduced in the United Nations. Abolition 2000 has also
mobilized citizen actions throughout the world in favor of abolishing
nuclear arms, including the gathering of over 13 million signatures in
Japan alone. The Network has also encouraged prominent individuals and
municipalities to declare themselves committed to the abolition of nuclear
weapons.
After nearly five years, Abolition 2000 remains committed to the only
outcome that can safeguard humanityφs future. But it faces powerful
opposing forces in the form of the governments of the nuclear weapons
states, the wall of secrecy that surrounds their nuclear policies, and the
wall of complacency that engulfs large segments of the public throughout
the world.
Abolition 2000 can help to remind the people of the world that they have
choices. They donφt need to leave the fate of humanity in the hands of a
small number of leaders of nuclear weapons states. They do not need to sit
by while countries such as India and Pakistan test and deploy nuclear
weapons, repeating the mistakes made by the five declared nuclear weapons
states. They do not need to continue to feed the defense contractors and
politicians that remain eager to develop and deploy the Ballistic Missile
Defenses ± defenses that have little likelihood of working and will
actually make the world far more dangerous as other nuclear armed countries
respond with stronger offensive capabilities.
With such dangers as the deployment of Ballistic Missile Defenses on the
horizon in the United States, Abolition 2000 is needed more than ever. The
year 2000 will be a year of focused actions for the Network throughout the
world. The Network has set as goals for itself to grow to 2000
organizations; to identify 2000 prominent supporters of abolishing nuclear
weapons; to engage in a week of education and advocacy from March 1-8,
2000; to have a strong and vocal presence at the 2000 Non-Proliferation
Treaty Review Conference; and to join in millennial events throughout the
world.
Abolition 2000 will not simply fade away. Its international symbol is the
sunflower. Like the sunflower, it has given birth to a thousand seeds of
peace, which will be carried by the wind, take root and grow in many
places. These seeds will be borne by the winds of change. They will cross
boundaries and will be carried over walls of indifference. Abolition 2000
may not fulfill its goal of a treaty to ban nuclear weapons in the year
2000. But it is critical that this grassroots movement stay the course and
continue to grow until its goal is achieved.

________
*  David Krieger is the president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He
can be reached at [e-mail]
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: AMA Letter to Clinton on accidental nuclear war/de-alerting
Date: 17 Sep 1999 14:31:26 +1000

At 7:06 AM +1000 16/9/1999, Lachlan Forrow wrote:

Dear Lachlan,

This is a truly excellent letter, and having the AMA do it is also truly
wonderful.

I'm currently trying to get both the Australian Parliament and the European
Parliament to aprove resolutions on de-alerting of nuclear weapons.

I'm therefore  emailing your letter, along with one of my own, to both the
European Parliaments Christian-Democrat, Social-democrat, green, and
green-Left factions, and to the whole of the Australian Parliament. I think
it should have a salutary effect.

By the way,
I wonder if there is any possibility of the AMA signing on to the 'Bill and
Boris' monster sign-on letter that now has nearly 400 organisations signed
on to it?

>The following letter was sent last week to President Clinton:
>
>
>
>September 7, 1999
>
>The Honorable William J. Clinton
>President of the United States
>The White House
>Washington, DC 20500
>
>Dear Mr President,
>
>At our recent annual meeting in Chicago, the American Medical Association
>House of Delegates, citing our conviction that "the threat that existent
>nuclear weapons represent is truly an urgent public health issue," voted to
>ask that you, "urgently develop policies with other countries to minimize
>the accidental deployment of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass
>destruction."
>
>As you know, nearly 10 years after the end of the Cold War, there remain in
>the arsenals of the world some 35,000 nuclear weapons.  2500 of these, on
>missiles in the Russian arsenal, are on hair-trigger alert.  They can be
>fired in 15 minutes, and reach their target cities in less than 30 minutes,
>destroying the world as we know it.  They are,arguably, the greatest threat
>to the health and safety of the American people existing today.
>
>A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April 1998
>estimated that an accidental launch from  a single Russian Delta IV
>submarine, even if it did not lead to a wider nuclear war,  could kill
>6,838,000 people from the direct effects of blast and firestorm, with
>another six to twelve million people dying from radiation sickness over the
>following two months.  Such an accident would be a disaster without parallel
>in human history.
>
>This is not simply a theoretical danger.  As you are aware, on the morning
>of January 25, 1995, a US weather rocket launched from Norway was initially
>interpreted by the Russian military as a possible attack on the Russian
>Federation.  President Yeltsin and his advisors were given minutes to decide
>whether to launch a retaliatory attack on the United States. We were
>extemely lucky that morning.  We can not rely on luck to prevent a future
>catastrophe.
>
>At a similar moment of great nuclear danger, just before the break up of the
>Soviet Union in 1989, your predecessor, President Bush, acted decisively to
>lessen the peril of nuclear war.  He unilateraly removed a small number of
>tactical nuclear weapons from the US arsenal, and, when President Gorbachev
>reciprocated, he quickly reached an agreement with the Soviets to withdraw
>the vast majority of these weapons on both sides.
>
>The present danger demands similar visionary leadership today.  Your former
>commander of all strategic nuclear forces, General Georege Lee Butler, has
>called for the US and Russia to remove all of their nuclear missiles from
>hair-trigger alert as the single most important step to prevent an
>accidental nuclear war.
>
>As physicians charged with the protection of public health, we call on you
>to take the lead in developing such policies to minmimize the danger of a
>nuclear catastrophe. Thank you for your consideration of this important
>matter.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>E Ratcliffe Anderson, Jr., MD
>Exective Vice President, CEO
>American Medical Association
>
>
>****************
>Lachlan Forrow, MD
>President
>The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
>Promoting Reverence for Life in Action
>         since 1940
>www.schweitzerfellowship.org
>617-667-5111; 617-667-7989 (fax)
>
>"Nuclear weapons are against international law and they have to be
>abolished...All negotiations regarding the abolition of nuclear weapons
>remain without success because no international public exists which demands
>this abolition."
>
> --Dr. Albert Schweitzer




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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) MOTION IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT - FAX/EMAIL MEPS FOR 27 SEPT
Date: 17 Sep 1999 14:46:47 +1000

Dear De-Alerting/Y2K people,

We are trying to get the EP resoution on the agenda of the European
Parliament for 27 Sept/4Oct.

If you are keen to get it on the agenda, you will need to fax and/or email
your MEPs in the next few days.

The below was faxed to the leader of the CDs in the EP, their foreign
affairs committee chair, and the leader of the Lib/Dems, Pat Cox.

It urges them to support a Y2K de-alerting resolution as a matter of the
highest priority in october, when it seems, we may have our next chance at
a resolution.

Not getting it on the agenda this time was a considerable disappointment
but not entirely unexpected. I understand that we have a better chance in
october.

The letters below or something like them,  should ideally be faxed to
Han-Gert Poettering, chair of the EPP/CD group in the EP, and to Pat Cox of
the ELDR (Lib/Dem/Reform group), and emailed to the Christian Democrat
group (emails below).

You should also draw their attention to the letter sent by the American
Medical Association to president Clinton, asking him to take nuclear
weapons off hairtrigger alert.  (Last item in this email)

There will be a meeting of 'urgency coordinators' on Sept 27th which will
decide whether it will get on the agenda of the EP.  The vote will probably
be round 4 oct, but your faxes need to arrive before 27 Sept.


(FAX SOMETHING LIKE THE BELOW TO THESE FAX NUMBERS
HANS-GERT POETTERING MEP,
33-3-8817-9311, 32-2-284-9311
BROK M.ELMAR MEP, 33-3-8817-9323, 32-2-284-9323,
PAT COX MEP, 33-3-8817-9363, 32-2-284-9363,

AND EMAIL THESE  ADRESSES (MEPS FROM THE EPP OR CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS))
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TO:
HANS-GERT POETTERING MEP,
33-3-8817-9311, 32-2-284-9311
BROK M.ELMAR MEP, 33-3-8817-9323, 32-2-284-9323,
PAT COX MEP, 33-3-8817-9363, 32-2-284-9363,
CC
MAJ-BRITT THEORIN 33-3-8817-9661, 32-2-284-9661.

Dear Hans-Gert Poettering, Pat Cox, and Brok M. Elmar,

I am writing in support of an urgency motion on Y2K, Nuclear weapons,
nuclear reactors, and other risks which was to have been placed on the
agenda of the EP on Monday 13 September. I  understand that it is now
possibly to be placed on the agenda in October.

It is a pity that it was not possible for this motion, urgent and timebound
as it is, to have been placed on the agenda at the earliest possible
moment. The issues it addresses are both of the utmost gravity, and require
action at the earliest possible stage. There are now only just over 100
days to the Y2K rollover.

The motion sought to address the risks of nuclear reactor accidents, and
possible accidental nuclear war as a result of Y2K- related computer errors.

Specifically, it was to have addressed the problem of Y2K computer-error
induced accidental nuclear launches by the simple, cost- free, and risk -
free measure of standing down nuclear forces or De-Alerting.

It is disturbing that a clear commitment to De-Alerting was in fact excised
from  the motion, presumably because it was felt that the PPE would not
accept de- alerting.

If that is indeed your position it is a gravely and dangerously mistaken
one.  We urge you to reverse it. De-Alerting has in fact, neither costs nor
risks. Failure to de-alert or stand down nuclear forces on the other hand,
risks potentially, the ultimate catastrophe. It is literally to play
Russian roulette with the entire planet.

De-Alerting, or standing down nuclear forces, was of course recommended by
the Canberra Commission in 1996, and was called for by subsequent
resolutions of the UN general Assembly.

It has been said that without verification, De-Alerting would cause more
rather than less uncertainty over the Y2K rollover period.

There are two responses to this. The first is that it is not in fact too
difficult to ensure that De-Alerting is verifiable by mutual inspection.

The second response is that this is in any case simply not the case.
Verification is certainly highly desirable, but ANY move to a lower alert
status by either or both sides of a nuclear 'pair' such as the US and
Russia makes the likelihood of an accidental nuclear exchange much lower.

In this context it is worth noting that the UK has already moved its
'notice to fire' for its submarine force from seconds to days. This measure
is not easily verifiable but it is nonetheless of immense benefit in
assuring strategic stability.

De-Alerting, verifiable or not, creates a 'firebreak' that ensures that,
faced with Y2K induced uncertainty, there is the opportunity to verify
possibly or probably false warning data, and to take rational decisions.

Under normal circumstances, without De-Alerting, and under the prevailing
doctrine of ' launch on warning',  the existence of roughly 5,500 US and
Russian land-based ICBMs capable of being fired within 20 minutes, and with
flight times of 20-40 minutes (and much shorter for submarine- launched
missiles), gives decision-makers extremely short times in which to
retaliate against an attack which may not be taking place at all.

Finally, De-Alerting has been recommended as a measure that is desirable in
and of itself quite apart from any Y2K - related considerations. It is as
if, in driving an LPG tanker around a particularly sharp bend, we are
reminded that we should obey the speed limit and ensure that our brakes and
steering work. Obviously it is best to keep to the speed limit and have
working brakes and steering at all times.

That the risk of Y2K - related computer glitches in the systems that
control and monitor nuclear weapons is taken very seriously indeed by the
US and Russia is shown in their current negotiations aimed at exchanging
personnel between command centres and setting up a joint 'strategic
stability centre' in Colorado.

We applaud the efforts to do this, but it is worrying that the Colorado
centre is scheduled to become operational only on December27. A four - day
delay will render it useless.

The Y2K resolution also contains a variety of other measures, intended to
minimise the probability of Y2K- induced reactor accidents and other major
safety problems. These measures are especially relevant to eastern European
and CIS reactors, but it should not be assumed that western European plants
will be immune to Y2K induced problems, especially if electricity grids are
affected as seems entirely possible. I strongly commend all of these
reactor safety measures to the PPE and the Liberal Democrat/Reform groups.

I urge both PPE/CD groups and Liberal Democrat groups to support this
resolution as a very high and extremely urgent priority, and specifically
to support De-Alerting or standing down nuclear forces in the light of Y2K.

I trust that this responsible, risk- free, and cost -free measure will gain
your partys support at the very earliest opportunity.

John Hallam,
Nuclear Campaigner,
Friends of the Earth.

>The following letter was sent last week to President Clinton:
>
>
>
>September 7, 1999
>
>The Honorable William J. Clinton
>President of the United States
>The White House
>Washington, DC 20500
>
>Dear Mr President,
>
>At our recent annual meeting in Chicago, the American Medical Association
>House of Delegates, citing our conviction that "the threat that existent
>nuclear weapons represent is truly an urgent public health issue," voted to
>ask that you, "urgently develop policies with other countries to minimize
>the accidental deployment of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass
>destruction."
>
>As you know, nearly 10 years after the end of the Cold War, there remain in
>the arsenals of the world some 35,000 nuclear weapons.  2500 of these, on
>missiles in the Russian arsenal, are on hair-trigger alert.  They can be
>fired in 15 minutes, and reach their target cities in less than 30 minutes,
>destroying the world as we know it.  They are,arguably, the greatest threat
>to the health and safety of the American people existing today.
>
>A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April 1998
>estimated that an accidental launch from  a single Russian Delta IV
>submarine, even if it did not lead to a wider nuclear war,  could kill
>6,838,000 people from the direct effects of blast and firestorm, with
>another six to twelve million people dying from radiation sickness over the
>following two months.  Such an accident would be a disaster without parallel
>in human history.
>
>This is not simply a theoretical danger.  As you are aware, on the morning
>of January 25, 1995, a US weather rocket launched from Norway was initially
>interpreted by the Russian military as a possible attack on the Russian
>Federation.  President Yeltsin and his advisors were given minutes to decide
>whether to launch a retaliatory attack on the United States. We were
>extemely lucky that morning.  We can not rely on luck to prevent a future
>catastrophe.
>
>At a similar moment of great nuclear danger, just before the break up of the
>Soviet Union in 1989, your predecessor, President Bush, acted decisively to
>lessen the peril of nuclear war.  He unilateraly removed a small number of
>tactical nuclear weapons from the US arsenal, and, when President Gorbachev
>reciprocated, he quickly reached an agreement with the Soviets to withdraw
>the vast majority of these weapons on both sides.
>
>The present danger demands similar visionary leadership today.  Your former
>commander of all strategic nuclear forces, General Georege Lee Butler, has
>called for the US and Russia to remove all of their nuclear missiles from
>hair-trigger alert as the single most important step to prevent an
>accidental nuclear war.
>
>As physicians charged with the protection of public health, we call on you
>to take the lead in developing such policies to minmimize the danger of a
>nuclear catastrophe. Thank you for your consideration of this important
>matter.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>E Ratcliffe Anderson, Jr., MD
>Exective Vice President, CEO
>American Medical Association
>
>
>****************
>Lachlan Forrow, MD
>President
>The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
>Promoting Reverence for Life in Action
>         since 1940
>www.schweitzerfellowship.org
>617-667-5111; 617-667-7989 (fax)
>
>"Nuclear weapons are against international law and they have to be
>abolished...All negotiations regarding the abolition of nuclear weapons
>remain without success because no international public exists which demands
>this abolition."
>
> --Dr. Albert Schweitzer





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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) NEW! ON THE WEB! FROM TRI-VALLEY CAREs
Date: 17 Sep 1999 17:59:48 -0700 (PDT)

New! On the Web! From Tri-Valley CAREs! Make a bookmark --
http://www.igc.org/tvc

* Test your knowledge of the Dept. of Energy's Livermore Lab (hint: things
are worse than you think).
Take our pop quiz and get the lowdown. Click on to access the
underlying facts.

* See our September Citizen's Watch newsletter and:

                * Learn about DOE plans to increase nuclear weapons
activities at Livermore, Los Alamos,                              Sandia
and the Nevada Test Site.

                * Read what Livermore Lab and DOE are trying to cover up.
Serious, unresolved technical difficulties are the real reason the National
Ignition Facility is $300 million over budget and at least one year behind
schedule.

                * Join us. Participate in actions -- Protest the next
"subcritical" nuclear test, support efforts to take all nuclear weapons
off-hair trigger alert and more. It's all in the Sept. newsletter and up on
on our web site.

* Fact sheets, back issues of the newsletter, action alerts -- we have it!
Plus, we will be upgrading our site and adding things over the next few
weeks. Visit us in cyberspace soon. No shirt or shoes required.

Peace,          Marylia

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
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Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) PLEASE STOP FORWARDING EMAILS TO THE BEASTIE BOYS
Date: 18 Sep 1999 12:37:54 +1000

Somebody or something on this list is forwarding my emails about nukes to
[e-mail]
It's the email for the beastie boys' whoever the hell they are (I really
don't want to know).

WHOEVER IS RELAYING STUFF ON TO THE BEASTIE BOYS FOR CHRISTS SAKE STOP
DOING IT!

Their responses are very limited, and they dont understand that emails
ometimes get to places they are not supposed to.

They are the last people I want to email and the last people I want to hear
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) LETTER FAXED TO RUSSIAN POLICE, FSB, AMNESTY, MEPS, RE
Date: 18 Sep 1999 20:16:31 +1000

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
Fax[phone] ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html


The following has been faxed just now (over the period 5.45-7.45pm Sydney
time) to the numbers below.

It failed to go to the Moscow chief of police, whose number didn't seem to
have a fax machine attatched to it. I'll try again.

I do not have a number for the Russia desk of the  US State Department.

I'LLalso email it to the European Parliament.

There are about 130 signatures including two members of the European
Parliament (Elizabeth Schroedter and Joost Lagendijk), and one Australian
senator. Greenpeace International has signed via Tobias Muenchenmeyer and
Ben Pearson, and Friends of the Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland
via Rachel Western.

I've tried to get it out as soon as possible, it's been quite a job.

A colleague is also taking it up with Amnesty in London.

I hope it does the trick!

Good luck Vlad and look after yourself.

Very best wishes,
John Hallam.




TO:
MINISTRY OF POLICE RUSSIA, 7-095-239-08-62
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE RUSSIA, 7-095-916-2903
MOSCOW CHIEF OF POLICE 7-095-200-93-05
F.S.B, MOSCOW, 7-095-975-24-70
cc
Amnesty International Australia, 9217-7677
Amnesty International London, 44-171-956-1157
Human Rights Watch,
Heinrich Boell Foundation, 49-30-285-34-309,
Laurie Brereton, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, 61-2-6277-8502
Alexander Downer Minister for Foreign Affairs, 61-2-6273-4112,
Joschka Fischer, German Minister for Foreign Affairs,-49-228-16-8-6662
Maj-Britt Theorin, European Parliament, 33-3-8817-9661, 32-2-284-9661.
Heidi Hautala, European Parliament, 32-2-284-9446, 33-3-8817-9446
Elizabeth Schroedter,European Parliament, 33-3-8817-9234,  284-9234
Joost Lagendijk, 33-3-8817-9176, 32-2-284-9176
U.S. State Department, Russia Desk

Dear Minister of Police, Minister for Justice, FSB, and Chief of Police Moscow,

We are writing out of deep concern for a friend and colleague, Vladimir
Sliviak, Director of the antinuclear campaign of Ecodefense,  who we
understand was temporarily arrested and released recently outside his
Moscow home and who appears to be the object of police harassment.

Mr. Sliviak's beliefs and actions concerning nuclear energy and other
policies of the Russian government may not be to the liking of some
elements in your government but his beliefs and commitment are widely
shared around the world.

We understand that he was stopped outside his home on September 6, by
members of the Moscow police, (MUR) who said they were investigating an
explosion of August 31, 1999. It seems that Vladimir was shown marijuana,
and told that if he did not cooperate it would be placed in his bag and he
would
then be arrested and jailed for three years. He was released after 1.5 hours.

We also understand another colleague of his, Mr. Kozlov, was similarly
threatened.

Vladimir Sliviak is well known to the environmental community worldwide,
and respected. There is no way that he could be involved in activities of
the type with which the police seem to wish to associate him.

The right to protest and to question and oppose government policies,  is
enshrined in the democratic tradition and is an integral part of civil
society. It is also enshrined in a number of United Nations conventions. It
is not a luxury, to be dispensed with in times of difficulty.

The environmental movement in the U.S., Australia, and Europe is held in
high respect even by those it opposes. Green political parties have
prominent representation in many European parliaments and in the European
Parliament, and the German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is from the
Green Party. Other political parties have largely adopted parts of the
environment movements agenda.

You may be sure that the activities of the Moscow police and authorities
with respect to Mr. Sliviak are being very well observed by a large and
sympathetic worldwide community.

We trust that these incidents were in error and will not be repeated, that
the law will be respected and enforced, above all by those whose duty it is
to do so.

John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia.
Michael Marriott Executive Director, NIRS, Washington DC,
Katell Gelebart, ASEED-Europe, Amsterdam,
Rosalie Bertell, President, International Institute of Concern for Public
Health, Toronto, Canada,
Tobias Muenchenmeyer/Ben Pearson, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam,
Senator Lyn Alison, Australian Democrats, Canberra/Melbourne Australia,
Elizabeth Schroedter, MEP, Green Group, Brussels/Strasbourg,(Germany)
Joost Lagendijk, MEP, Green Group, Brussels/Strasbourg (Neth)
Dr. Rachel Western, Friends of the Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland,

Ulla Lehtinen, First Peoples, Finland,
Ann Vikkelso, OVE-Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark,
Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE- Europe, Hjortsoj, Denmark,
Niels I. Meyer, Professor of Physics, Technical University of Denmark,
Lyngby, Denmark,
Viljalmer Neilsen, Research Assistant professor, Technical University of
Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark,
Miles Goldstick, Nordnet, Stockholm, Sweden,
Dr. Alfred Koerblien, Umwelt Institut, Muenchen, eV, Germany,
Albert Caspari, Chair, INFOBALT, Bremen, Germany,
Heike Drillisch, World Ecology, Economy and Development, Bonn, Germany,
Erdmuth Arnold, Journalist, Frankfurt-Am Main, Germany,
Bernd Damish, Working Circle Indians Today, Germany,
Patricia Lorenz, Global 2000, Vienna, Austria,
Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounter and Active Non-Violence, Bad Ischl,
Austria,
Mathilde Halla, 'Platform', Austria,
Marcus Drake, European Youth For Action, Amsterdam, Neth,
The Zhaba Collective, Amsterdam, Netherlands,
Heather Banner, Plowshares Alliance,
Steven Strange, Faslane Peace Camp,
Rev. Stewart Denis, Milton Keynes, UK.,
Nick Drake, Campaign Against the Arms Trade, Southampton, UK.,
Donald Matheson, Joint Action Against the M-74, Glasgow, Scotland,
Pascal Braud, Reseau Sortir Du Nucleaire, France,
Agoston Nagy, Goncol Alliance, Vac, Hungary,
Matus Bakyta, Slobodna Alternativa, Bratislava, Slovakia,
Juraj Krivosik, Society for Sustainable Living in Slovakia, Bratislava,
Slovakia,
Za Zemiata, Sofia, Bulgaria (30 signatures)
Aungiira Aurel Duta, For Mother Earth Rumania/Mama Terra, Bucharest,
Valdis Felsbergs, Green Party of Latvia, Riga, Latvia,
Ieva Zalete, Zielone Brygady, Latvia,
Iloana Bobana,  Ecological Movement of Moldova, Chishinau, Moldova,
Olexi Pasyuk, TACIS Environmental Awareness, Kiev, Ukraine,
Yury Urbansky, National Ecological Centre of Ukraine, Kiev,
Oleg Bodrov, Sergey Kharitonov, Green World, Kiev, Ukraine,
Sergey M. Fedorynchyk, Green World, Sosnovy Bor, St Petersburg, Russia,
Dr Larisa Skuratovskaya, Md, PhD, IPPNW-Russia,
Hakob Sanasaryan, Greens Union of Armenia, Yerevan,
Ira Lobko, For Mother Earth Belarus, Minsk, Belarus,

Yuko Yano, Writer, Toyama City, Japan,
Mika Obayashi, Citizens Nuclear Information Centre, Tokyo, Japan,

Dave Greenfield, New Green Alliance, Saskatoon, Sask, Canada,
Robert Silvermann, Le Monde A Bicyclette, Montreal, Canada,
Walter Robbins, Stop Trafficking Plutonium, Ontario, Canada,
Michael J. Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear-free Great Lakes,

Susan Cutting, Northern Eurasia Environmental Assistance Project,
Petersham, Mass, USA
Alice Slater, Global Resource and Action Centre, New York, USA
Mark Wakeham, Environment Centre of the Northern Territory, Darwin,Aust,
Rowena, Environment Centre of W.A.,
Bill Smirnow, Nuclear-Free New York, NY, USA,
Robin Kossef, BAN-Waste Coalition, San Francisco, Calif, USA.,
Shannon O'Leary, Assistant Professor of Geology, Illinois State University,
Illinois, USA,
Mary Byrd Davis, Uranium Enrichment Project, Earth Island Institute,
Timothea Howard, At Home in the World, Washington DC.,
David N. Pyles, New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, Vermont, USA,
James P. Riccio, Staff Attorney, Critical Mass Project, Wash, USA,
Alexander Kuzma, Director of Development, Children of Chernobyl Relief
Fund, Short Hills, NJ, USA,
Michael Welch, Redwood Alliance, Arcata, Calif, USA,
Dave Rappaport, Vermont Public Interest Research Group,
Francis U Macy, Director, Centre for Safe Energy, Berkeley, Calif,
Molly Johnson, Save Ward Valley, Needles, California,
Heather Ripley, People Against Power Abuse,
Judith H. Johnsrud, Environmental Coalition Against Nuclear Power,
Deb Katz, Citizens Awareness Network, Mass, USA,
Harvey Wasserman, Citizens Protecting Ohio, Bexley Ohio, USA,
Russell D. Hoffman, Stop Cassini Newsletter,
Chuck Johnson, Director, Centre for Energy Research, Salem Oregon, USA,
Ann P. Harris, Executive Director, Alliance for Public Health And Safety,
Ten Mile, Tennessee, USA,
Wendy Tanowitz, Y2K-WASH, San Anselmo, California, USA.,
The Hon. John Tuthill, New Hampshire State Rep, USA,
Mayer Segal, HOPE Coalition, Arcata, Humboldt Co, Calif, USA.,
Mary Beth Branagan/James Heddle, Coordinators, San Francisco Y2K-WASH,
Jack and Felice Cohen-Joppa, The Nuclear Resister, Tucson, Arizona, USA.,
Roger Herried, Abalone Alliance, San Francisco, California, USA.,
Maureen Eldridge, Program Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability,
Judi Friedman, Peoples Action for Clean Energy, CT, USA.,
Leroy Moore, Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Centre, Boulder, Colorado, USA.,
Roger Voelker, Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, Indianapolis, USA.,
Michele Boyd, Global Outreach Coordinator, IEER, Tacoma Park, Md, USA.,
George M. Lewis, Professor of Mathematics, California Polytechnic State
University, USA.,
Bill Pfieffer, Sacred Earth Network, Petersham Mass, USA.,
Patricia Birnie, Chair, GE Stockholders Alliance, Tucson, Ariz., USA.,
Betty Schroeder, Chair, Arizona Safe Energy Coalition, Tucson, Ariz.,
Pat Birnie, Chair, Environment Committee WILPF, Tucson, Ariz.,
Jennifer Olaranna Viereck, Healing Global Wounds, USA.,
Susan Shaer, Executive Director, Womens Action for New Directions (WAND) USA.,
Pat Ortmeyer, WAND, Nuclear Waste Issues,
Gawain Kripke, FOE-USA, Washington, USA.,
Scott D. Portzline, Three Mile Island Alert,
Gordon Thompson, Institute for Energy and Security Studies, Cambridge Mass,
USA.,
Tim Judson, Citizens Awareness Network NY, USA.,
Barbara Weidener, Grandmothers for Peace International,
Judy Triechel, Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, Nevada, USA.,
Mary Lampert, Massachusetts Citizens for Safe Energy,
David Ellison, Green Party of Ohio, Cleveland Ohio, USA.,
Amy Wilson, Russia Program, Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in
Eurasia,
Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, Calif, USA.,
Erik Van Lenepp, Arctic to Amazonia Alliance,
Alice Hirt, Don't Waste Michigan, Mich, USA.,
Buffalo Bruce, Western Nebraska Resources Council, Nebraska, USA.,
Barbara Hickernell, Alliance To Close Indian Point, Ossinning, NY., USA.,
David mc Reynolds, Former Chair, War Resisters International,
Shundhai Network, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.,
Jay M. Gould, Radiation and Public Health Project,
Nicholas Lenssen, Worldwatch, Boulder Colorado, USA.,
David Roodman, Worldwatch Institute, Washington DC., USA.,
Greg Wingard, Executive Director, Waste Action Project, Seattle, USA.,
Action for Community and Ecology in the Rainforests of Central America,
Vermont, USA.,
Native Forest Network, Vermont, USA.,
Blaine Metcalf/Shiela Baker, War Resisters League, San Luis Obispo,Calif, USA,
Susan Gordon, Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability,
Kaitlin Backlund, Executive Director, Citizen Alert, Reno, Nevada, USA.,
Joe Mirabile, Director, Eco-Bridge, San Francisco, USA.,
Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United
Church of Christ,
Marion Pack, Alliance for Survival, Costa-Mesa, Calif,
Dr. Thomas B.Cochran, National Resources Defence Council, (NRDC) Washington
DC, USA.,
Michael J. Keegan, Don't Waste Michigan,
Tom Seery/Julie Enslow, Peace Action, Wisconsin, USA.,
Judy Triechel, Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.,
Andrew Lichterman, Western States Legal Foundation, Calif, USA.,
Ernst Gotein, Californians for Radioactive Safeguards,
Lisa Guido, Peace Council of Central New York,




















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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) FAXED AND EMAILED TO AUST PARLIAMENT, RE DE-ALERTING RESOLUTION
Date: 18 Sep 1999 21:07:38 +1000

DEAR Parliamentarians,

A supplementary Y2K motion, asking that the government adopt the
reccommendations of the Canberra Commision on De-Alerting nuclear weapons
will be before the Senate on on Monday.

You are urged to vote for it.

This email contains a letter from the Australian Peace Committee and
Friends of the Earth to Laurie Brereton,  Alexander Downer and the Prime
Minster, concerning the de-alerting of nuclear weapons.

Following that is a letter from the American medical Association to
President Clinton, asking for nuclear weapons to be taken off alert.

AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH

LAURIE BRERETON, 02-6277-8502 9349-8089,
ALEXANDER DOWNER, 02-6273-4112 08-8370-8166
JOHN HOWARD, 02-6273-4100 9251-5454
KIM BEAZLEY, 02-6277-8495
SENATOR KATE LUNDY 02-6277-3884,
cc
SENATOR CHRIS SCHACHT 08-8344-9355 02-6277-3121
SENATOR GEORGE CAMPBELL 02-6277-3958
SENATOR BOB BROWN 02-6277-3185
SENATOR LYN ALLISON 02-6277-3087. 03-9417-1690
SENATOR STOTT-DESPOJA 02-6277-3235
SENATOR NICK BOLKUS 02-6277-3062

RE: SENATE RESOLUTION ON N-WEAPONS AND Y2K TABLED FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH
1999

Dear Laurie Brereton, Alexander Downer, John Howard, Kim Beazley and Kate
Lundy,

We are writing to you because Senator Bob Brown has tabled a Senate
resolution on nuclear weapons and Y2K, which supplements the resolution
carried unanimously on Aug. 12th.

We urge your strong support for that resolution, and hope that it is
possible for that resolution also to achieve unanimous support.

We note that resolutions are also under consideration in the US Congress,
the Canadian Senate and the European Parliament.

You will recall that the taking of nuclear weapons off hairtrigger alert
was a key recommendation of the Canberra Commission on the Abolition of
nuclear weapons, which reported to the United Nations in 1996. It was also
called for in a number of subsequent UNGA resolutions, notably the  New
Agenda resolution.

The resolution welcomes the recent decision of the UK to move its 'notice
to fire' on nuclear submarine-launched missiles from minutes to days, and
asks that the government adopt as policy the recommendations of the
Canberra Commission with  respect to de-alerting.

It asks that the Australian government make specific efforts to push the US
and Russia to stand down nuclear forces over the Y2K rollover period.

Australia has a special responsibility with respect to the effects of Y2K
on nuclear forces in the US, as one of the most crucial parts of the US
early warning and monitoring system is the large complex at Pine Gap. Pine
Gap will experience the effects of Y2K some 15 hours before the continental
US does.

A number of respected nuclear strategic analysts have concluded that there
is a significant and unacceptable even if small, risk of accidental nuclear
war over the Y2K rollover period if nuclear weapons are not taken off
hairtrigger alert.

As things now stand, Russia has roughly 3,600 warheads on 750 missiles in
land-based silos, and the US has roughly 2000 warheads on 500 missiles,
which can be launched at a moment's notice.  (This does not count bombers,
submarines, or tactical weapons.)

These weapons are controlled and monitored by the largest, oldest, and
hence least Y2K-compliant computer complexes in the world. Massive efforts
have been made to achieve Y2K compliance in the US, but there is no
guarantee that this has been achieved and many Y2K fixes are scheduled for
very close to the rollover.  Some systems are not considered to be
remediable. In Russia, very little attempt has been made until very
recently to fix Y2K problems, whose very existence has been denied.

Current warfighting strategies are now based on 'launch on warning', which
means that commanders faced with data indicating an incoming attack have
minutes in which to order retaliation - or to discover that they are the
victims of a computer malfunction.

A mild foretaste of what may be expected came when on 22 Aug., the global
positioning systems aboard 14 of our Fremantle class patrol boats failed
over the GPS 'rollover'. On 22 August, the global positioning systems
aboard 14 of the Australian Navy's Fremantle class patrol boats failed
when the internal clock controlling the 24 satellites of the Global
Positioning System was reset.  This was one of the preview
kick-in dates for the Y2K problem, and a mild foretaste of what can be
expected.  A question has been asked to Senator Alston by Senator
Natasha-Stott-Despoja on this matter.

The recent agreement between the US and Russia to operate a Y2K 'strategic
stability centre' in Colorado is a positive move, but will not by itself
completely remove all risk. A worrying aspect of this is that the centre is
not planned to become operational until December 27. A four-day delay would
of course render it valueless.

The very fact of this agreement also demonstrates that military experts
within the two governments do take the issue of strategic stability over
the Y2K rollover period very seriously.

We understand that the governments position is that the risk is relatively
low, and that without verification, De-Alerting would cause more rather
than less uncertainty over the Y2K rollover period.

It is frankly difficult to see how this could possibly be so. Rather, it
would seem to be the case that even without positive verification, nuclear
forces that have been taken off alert will be a security plus. With
verification, De-Alerting will be even more of a plus. To suggest that
because the current UK force posture or the force posture of the Chinese,
is not verifiable that we'd all be better off if they were on high alert
and able to fire at a moment's notice is nonsensical not do say downright
perverse.

In any case, given the US and Russia's willingness to operate a joint
strategic stability centre, albeit after uncertainty due to Kossovo and
other issues, it should not be impossible to arrange for mutual
verification of De-Alerting. However, the failure or inability to do this
should in no way count as an argument not to proceed with this essential
and commonsense measure.

We put it to you,  that no arguments against taking nuclear forces off
hairtrigger alert withstand serious scrutiny, that De-Alerting or standing
down of nuclear forces is a measure that does not entail either costs or
downside risks, or if there are risks, that they are insignificant as
compared to the risk of global catastrophe that 5,500 nuclear warheads
would certainly inflict if ever used.

An accidental launch  if it occurred, would in all probability, not be of a
single missile, but would be a full- scale retaliation for an attack that
existed only as the result of a Y2K induced computer fault. In other words
it would be likely to involve all or a large proportion of the land-based
ICBM arsenal of the country concerned. The use of all or a large proportion
of 5,500 warheads would be to so damage the biosphere that the continuation
of life itself could be in doubt.

Even if the risks are not quite on this scale, it is a risk to which the
planet as a whole should not be subject.

Standing down nuclear forces would effectively eliminate this risk.

Because of our role in hosting possibly the most important US strategic
nuclear installation outside the US itself, at Pine Gap as well as the
submarine communications system at North West Cape, Australia has a special
responsibility to use its influence as host to those installations and as a
valued ally to place the maximum of pressure on the US to adopt the
Canberra Commission recommendations, and stand down nuclear forces.

The issues posed by the interaction of Y2K and strategic nuclear weapons
are so grave that no other considerations of national interest nor indeed
of credibility weigh at all in the balance in comparison. On the other
hand, should it be proven at some later stage that there had been no risk
at all over the Y2K rollover period,(most unlikely) a standing down of
nuclear forces would still be a measure that would considerably improve
both strategic stability and mutual trust between the two nuclear powers.

We urge you to support this resolution.

John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth,
Irene Gale, A. M., Australian Peace Committee


SUPPLEMENTARY DRAFT SENATE RESOLUTION ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND Y2K
(The resolution as on the notice paper may have been changed from this
first draft)

1)That the Senate, recalling its motion of the 12 August on the same topic,
and in particular recalling (a)(iii) of that resolution, further urges that
the government, taking note of (a)(iii), adopt as official government
policy the reccommendations of the Canberra Commission on the Elimination
of Nuclear weapons of 1996 and of various subsequent resolutions of the
United Nations General Assembly, that nuclear weapons be taken off
hairtrigger alert.

2)That the Senate urges the government to press the United States and
Russia to take their weapons off hairtrigger alert before the Y2K rollover
period.

3)That the Senate welcomes the recent initiative of the UK government to
move the 'notice to fire' for its submarine fleet from minutes to days.


The following letter was sent last week to President Clinton:

September 7, 1999

The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr President,

At our recent annual meeting in Chicago, the American Medical Association
House of Delegates, citing our conviction that "the threat that existent
nuclear weapons represent is truly an urgent public health issue," voted to
ask that you, "urgently develop policies with other countries to minimize
the accidental deployment of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass
destruction."

As you know, nearly 10 years after the end of the Cold War, there remain in
the arsenals of the world some 35,000 nuclear weapons.  2500 of these, on
missiles in the Russian arsenal, are on hair-trigger alert.  They can be
fired in 15 minutes, and reach their target cities in less than 30 minutes,
destroying the world as we know it.  They are,arguably, the greatest threat
to the health and safety of the American people existing today.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April 1998
estimated that an accidental launch from  a single Russian Delta IV
submarine, even if it did not lead to a wider nuclear war,  could kill
6,838,000 people from the direct effects of blast and firestorm, with
another six to twelve million people dying from radiation sickness over the
following two months.  Such an accident would be a disaster without parallel
in human history.

This is not simply a theoretical danger.  As you are aware, on the morning
of January 25, 1995, a US weather rocket launched from Norway was initially
interpreted by the Russian military as a possible attack on the Russian
Federation.  President Yeltsin and his advisors were given minutes to decide
whether to launch a retaliatory attack on the United States. We were
extemely lucky that morning.  We can not rely on luck to prevent a future
catastrophe.

At a similar moment of great nuclear danger, just before the break up of the
Soviet Union in 1989, your predecessor, President Bush, acted decisively to
lessen the peril of nuclear war.  He unilateraly removed a small number of
tactical nuclear weapons from the US arsenal, and, when President Gorbachev
reciprocated, he quickly reached an agreement with the Soviets to withdraw
the vast majority of these weapons on both sides.

The present danger demands similar visionary leadership today.  Your former
commander of all strategic nuclear forces, General Georege Lee Butler, has
called for the US and Russia to remove all of their nuclear missiles from
hair-trigger alert as the single most important step to prevent an
accidental nuclear war.

As physicians charged with the protection of public health, we call on you
to take the lead in developing such policies to minmimize the danger of a
nuclear catastrophe. Thank you for your consideration of this important
matter.

Sincerely,


E Ratcliffe Anderson, Jr., MD
Exective Vice President, CEO
American Medical Association


****************
Lachlan Forrow, MD
President
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
Promoting Reverence for Life in Action
         since 1940
www.schweitzerfellowship.org
617-667-5111; 617-667-7989 (fax)

"Nuclear weapons are against international law and they have to be
abolished...All negotiations regarding the abolition of nuclear weapons
remain without success because no international public exists which demands
this abolition."

 --Dr. Albert Schweitzer

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord street, Newtown, NSW, Australia,
Fax[phone] ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]    http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html





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Subject: (abolition-usa) ADVISORY RE DE-ALERTING MOTION IN SENATE OF CANADA
Date: 18 Sep 1999 21:19:45 +1000

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ADVISORY RE DE-ALERTING MOTION IN SENATE OF CANADA

    On September 18th, the Parliament of Canada was prorogued to set the
stage for a new Session of Parliament starting October 12, 1999.  The
effect of prorogation is to wipe the slate clean of all business
currently before both the House of Commons and the Senate.  In turn,
this means that the De-Alerting Motion introduced in the Senate on
September 7th has been suspended and will have to be re-introduced by
Senator Roche in the new Session of Parliament.

    On September 14th, Senator Roche opened the debate on the Motion, and
the debate was then adjourned.

    Senator Roche's speech follows:

*          *           *

Nuclear Arms
Motion to Urge Nuclear Weapons States to Take Weapons Off Alert
Status-Debate Adjourned
Hon. Douglas Roche, pursuant to notice of September 7, 1999, moved:
That the Senate recommends that the Government of Canada urge the
nuclear weapons states plus India, Pakistan and Israel to take all of
their nuclear forces off alert status as soon as possible.
He said: Honourable senators, the prestigious journal Scientific
American recently reported that on January 25, 1995 military technicians
at a handful of radar stations across northern Russia saw a troubling
blip suddenly appear on their screens. A rocket, launched from somewhere
off the coast of Norway, was rising rapidly through the night sky. Well
aware that a single missile from a U.S. submarine plying those waters
could scatter eight nuclear bombs over Moscow within 15 minutes, the
radar operators immediately alerted their superiors.

The message passed swiftly from Russian military authorities to
President Boris Yeltsin, who, holding the electronic case that could
order the firing of nuclear missiles in response, hurriedly conferred by
telephone with his top advisors. For the first time ever, that nuclear
briefcase was activated for emergency use.

For a few tense minutes, the trajectory of the mysterious rocket
remained unknown to the worried Russian officials. Anxiety mounted when
the separation of multiple rocket stages created an impression of a
possible attack by several missiles. However, the radar crews continued
to track their targets. After about eight minutes, senior military
officers determined that the rocket was headed far out to sea and posed
no threat to Russia.

The unidentified rocket in this case turned out to be a U.S. scientific
probe, sent up to investigate the northern lights. Weeks earlier, the
Norwegians had duly informed Russian authorities of the planned launch
from the offshore island of Andoya, but somehow word of the high
altitude experiment had not reached the right ears. That frightening
incident, according to Scientific American, aptly demonstrates the
danger of maintaining nuclear arsenals in a state of hair-trigger alert.
Doing so heightens the possibility that one day someone will mistakenly
launch nuclear missiles, either because of a technical failure or a
human error. A mistake made, perhaps, in the rush to respond to false
indications of an attack.

The Norway incident was not an isolated one. The U.S.-based Centre for
Defense Information reported this month that in the years 1977 to 1984,
a total of 20,784 false warning nuclear indications, most of them minor,
were processed.

Last March, appearing before a joint meeting of Senate and House of
Commons Foreign Affairs Committees, General Lee Butler, former
commander-in-chief of the U.S. strategic command, said that upon
receiving confirmation of an impending attack, the U.S. president would
have only 12 minutes to decide whether to retaliate.

Both the U.S. and Russian military have long instituted procedures to
prevent an accident from happening. However, their equipment is not
foolproof. Russia's early-warning and nuclear command systems are
deteriorating. The safety of all other nuclear weapons systems, in
particular, those of India and Pakistan, is even less reliable. All
told, there are 5,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert status,
meaning they could be fired within minutes. The fate of humanity must
not hang by such a slender thread.

Thus, a movement is building up around the world to de-alert all nuclear
weapons. This would be done by the physical separation of the warheads
from the delivery vehicles. That is the intent of the motion I
respectfully submit to the Senate. It reads:
That the Senate recommends that the Government of Canada urge the
nuclear weapons states plus India, Pakistan and Israel to take all of
their nuclear forces off alert status as soon as possible.

Honourable senators will recognize that the motion is narrowly drawn.
The subject of nuclear weapons is huge and complex. The abolition of
nuclear weapons, for which I stand, entails a lengthy debate, but
de-alerting is precise and sharply focused and can be done immediately
under conditions of mutual verifiability. It must be done in order to
prevent a calamity occurring through human error, system failure,
irrational acts, or by the simple working of the laws of chance.
Some may interpret this motion as connected to the famous Y2K problem,
which deals with the ability of computers to properly interpret the
correct date change when the year 2000 arrives. It is true that the
failure of computers to recognize the year 2000 could infect the
command, control, communication and intelligence systems of nuclear
forces. There may or may not be a problem on New Year's Eve, at
midnight.

However, Russia and the U.S. are sufficiently concerned about this that
they intend to establish a joint centre in the United States which would
seat a handful of U.S. and Russian officers side-by-side for a few days
during the 2000 date switch to monitor blips on nuclear screens. The
officers would be in direct touch with their respective national command
authorities to alleviate any concern about blips that may occur on the
date change. Key United States senators have called for the inclusion of
China, India and Pakistan in this early warning centre, so concerned are
they that ill-prepared computers may malfunction.

This response to a potential problem is clearly inadequate. The year
2000 date change merely highlights the existing danger to the world
because of the alert status of nuclear forces. The world needs the
safety that de-alerting would ensure, not just on New Year's Eve but
throughout every day of every year.

Honourable senators, in short, the argument as put forth by the Canberra
commission of international experts is that the practice of maintaining
nuclear-tipped missiles on alert must be ended because: It is a highly
regrettable perpetuation of Cold War attitudes and assumptions; it
needlessly sustains the risk of hair-trigger postures; it retards the
critical process of normalizing U.S.-Russian relations; it sends the
unmistakable and, from an arms control perspective, severely damaging
message that nuclear weapons serve a vital security role; it is entirely
inappropriate to the extraordinary transformation in the international
security environment.

Honourable senators, terminating nuclear alert would do the following:
reduce dramatically the chance of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear
weapons launch; have a positive influence on the political climate among
the nuclear weapons states; and it would help set the stage for
intensified cooperation.

The Canberra commission concluded that taking nuclear forces off alert
could be verified by national technical means and nuclear weapon state
inspection arrangements. De-alerting has a wide basis of support. The
Government of Canada is in favour, and has expressed its support in a
formal response to the report on nuclear weapons of the Standing
Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Therefore, this
motion falls within government policy.

The U.K. government recently relaxed a notice to fire its nuclear
weapons from minutes to days. Resolutions of the UN General Assembly
have urged de-alerting.

The chairman's report of the three-year preparatory process for the 2000
review of the non-proliferation treaty calls for de-alerting to prevent
accidental or unauthorized launches.

Friends of the Earth, in Sydney, Australia, have obtained the support of
380 organizations around the world for de-alerting.

Honourable senators, a few years ago I went back to Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, the two cities in Japan that suffered atomic bomb attack. I
have seen these sites several times. Each time, it is a profound
experience in understanding the destructive power of nuclear weapons.
Accidental nuclear war remains an immense treat to humanity today. We
can help to lessen that threat. I commend this motion, honourable
senators, for your consideration.

Hon. John. B. Stewart: Honourable senators, I should like to ask Senator
Roche a question.

He has made a persuasive speech and my question is: Given the
plausibility of the argument he advances, why is it that the nuclear
weapons states plus India, Pakistan and Israel, have not already taken
their nuclear forces off alert status? Is there some argument, or is it
recalcitrance among one or more of the states?

Senator Roche: I thank the Honourable Senator Stewart for that question.
The main reason that the principal nuclear weapons states, led by the
United States and Russia, along with the U.K., France and China, have
not de-alerted is that nuclear weapons fit into the strategy of nuclear
deterrence. It is argued by some that, by de-alerting, they are taking
away or diminishing the constant status of nuclear deterrence. That
argument has been rebutted. After all, in the case of an emergency or
some crisis happening in international affairs, nuclear weapons could be
reactivated.

Therefore, it is for the safety of the major areas of the world that the
de-alerting process, campaign or movement has grown. It is held by
proponents of de-alerting that it is a more important consideration for
the safety of humanity to take weapons off alert status than to preserve
nuclear deterrence as we have known it through the Cold War years.
On motion of Senator Carstairs, debate adjourned.
Adjournment



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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) PLEASE STOP FORWARDING EMAILS TO THE BEASTIE
Date: 18 Sep 1999 11:06:29 EDT

In a message dated 9/17/99 11:12:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< They are the last people I want to email and the last people I want to hear
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I  thought you didn't know who they  were!

I think you probably do very good  work but them impact is spoiled by the
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From: hcaldic <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) NEW! ON THE WEB! FROM TRI-VALLEY CAREs
Date: 18 Sep 1999 00:57:52 -0400

marylia wrote:
>
> New! On the Web! From Tri-Valley CAREs! Make a bookmark --
> http://www.igc.org/tvc
>
> * Test your knowledge of the Dept. of Energy's Livermore Lab (hint: things
> are worse than you think).
> Take our pop quiz and get the lowdown. Click on to access the
> underlying facts.
>
> * See our September Citizen's Watch newsletter and:
>
>                 * Learn about DOE plans to increase nuclear weapons
> activities at Livermore, Los Alamos,                              Sandia
> and the Nevada Test Site.
>
>                 * Read what Livermore Lab and DOE are trying to cover up.
> Serious, unresolved technical difficulties are the real reason the National
> Ignition Facility is $300 million over budget and at least one year behind
> schedule.
>
>                 * Join us. Participate in actions -- Protest the next
> "subcritical" nuclear test, support efforts to take all nuclear weapons
> off-hair trigger alert and more. It's all in the Sept. newsletter and up on
> on our web site.
>
> * Fact sheets, back issues of the newsletter, action alerts -- we have it!
> Plus, we will be upgrading our site and adding things over the next few
> weeks. Visit us in cyberspace soon. No shirt or shoes required.
>
> Peace,          Marylia
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
> 2582 Old First Street
> Livermore, CA USA 94550
>
> <http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!
>
> [phone] - is our phone
> [phone] - is our fax
>
> Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
> CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
> Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
> international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
> weapons.
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From: "bob kinsey" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) LETTER FAXED TO RUSSIAN POLICE, FSB, AMNESTY, MEPS, REHARRASSMENT OF VLADIMIR SLIVIAK
Date: 19 Sep 1999 12:11:48 -0600

John -- thanks for your work on this.  I wish I could get compatible with my
new computer so I could do work as quickly as you.  I have followed through
where I could with the European Parliament e-mails.  I think I sent about
50.  Your preparatory e-mail was very helpful in doing this.  Sorry I don't
cc to you but I haven't figured it all out as yet.

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Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United
Church of Christ
[e-mail]
6555 Ward Road
Arvada, Colorado 80004-2462
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Jesus was non-violent.  Shouldn't all Christians be too?
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"Two paths lie before us, one leads to death, the other to life."   Jonathan
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Peaceful Reasoning
Date: 19 Sep 1999 19:51:11 -0700


Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil (White House)

We support the Global Peace Walk Project and thank Reverend Yusen Yamato
and David Crockett Williams for their prayer walk from California to the
White House and United Nations, seeking and teaching the global abolition
of nuclear weapons -- testing, wastes, and other dangers.

We agree that it adds strength to the nuclear abolition movement to unite
all survival issues together under a prayer for "Global Peace Now!"  We
also support the idea of a Global Peace and Environment Platform for
candidates in the Year 2000 U.S. National elections.

The world we all live in is the product of ideas, individual and collective.
 For too long humanity's time, energy, "money," have been funneled into
rotten ideas.  This situation can be changed if we spend our energy and
resources on PRACTICAL concepts, and transform the deadly
"military-industrial complex" President Eisenhower warned about into
self-sustaining, environment- and neighbor-friendly industries.  (See
http://prop1.org/convert/convpro.htm.)

We are very encouraged that DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton has
again introduced into Congress HR-2545, the Nuclear Disarmament and
Economic Conversion Act of 1999, which calls on the U.S. to commit to
global nuclear disarmament, and to redirect weapons funding to peaceful
purposes such as housing, health care, education, food, and environmental
restoration.  See http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2545.htm.  This bill was first
submitted, in 1994, as the result of a successful Washington, DC ballot
initiative (#37, 1993), which asked the mayor to advise our Congresswoman
that the majority of the voters wanted her to introduce it.

We hope that Global Peace Walk2000 will help alert the people in America
and around the world to this great opportunity, which only needs adequate
public support to be made into law in the U.S. ... and thence around the
world.  (See suggestions, and text of bill, below.)

Your efforts can be very helpful.  Thank you for carrying and sharing the
idea of eliminating nuclear weapons while walking to Washington DC.

We'd certainly like to see the materialization of your vision of gathering
over a million people around the Washington Monument on October 12, 2000;
let us know what we can do to help.  We'll be waiting to welcome you when
you arrive on October 9, 2000.  We'll forward your appeal to the Mayor  and
 City Council for a proclamation that Washington DC should be a Global
Peace Zone.

Meanwhile, send us press clippings and commentary about your walk across
the country, and we'll help by posting updates on our website
(http://prop1.org), and to our extensive list of email subscribers.   We'll
also help you and other subscribers to keep up to date on what's happening,
good and bad, on our mother, Earth. See http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm


W.Thomas
Ellen Thomas

and other members of the Vigil
(see http://prop1.org/parkcurr.htm)

      --------------------------------------

              WHAT YOU CAN DO
To Help Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons

               WORLD CITIZENS
        (this means EVERYBODY!):

* Write the United Nations Ambassadors for all countries with nuclear
weapons (Britain, China, France, Israel, India, Pakistan, Russia, United
States) and those suspected of wanting nuclear weapons (such as North
Korea, Iraq, Iran). Write c/o U.N. Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA, and say,
"Please promise, and use your influence to convince all nuclear powers to
publicly promise, 'YES, we will eliminate all our nuclear weapons, if
everyone
else does.' Don't quit until the job is done!"

* Call (202-225-3121) AND write Members of the U.S. House of
Representatives (Washington, DC 20015); ask them to release HR-2545, the
"Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act," to the full House of
Representatives for debate and vote.

Please tell the U.S. House of Representatives "Armed  Services" and
"International Relations" Committees  that it's undemocratic to withhold
this important legislation from the rest of their colleagues. (You can
write c/o U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515, USA -- or
call via the Congressional switchboard: 202-225-3121 -- or e-mail via our
Lobby Center (http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm).)

* Call, write and email President Clinton; ask him to actively endorse
HR-2545. The President's address:

White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20500;
Phone - 202-426-1111-0 (hotline operator); email:
[e-mail].)

* Organize a meeting in your area. Print and circulate petitions
(http://prop1.org/prop1/petition.htm); be sure to ask for e-mail addresses;
mail them to us!

* Educate yourself and others! (http://prop1.org/prop1/question.htm)

* Subscribe to NucNews! (http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm)

* Submit to your local press letters and articles about the need for
HR-2545 to become international law. Call radio talk shows, etc.
(http://prop1.org/2000/media98.htm).

* Publicize Proposition One in your organization's publication. Spread the
word to other activists who might be interested in helping with the idea and
legislation. Please ask them to put us on their mail and e-mail lists.

* Please send us copies of your letters to editors or congresspeople, and
any
articles or letters that result, for the Proposition One archives!.

U.S. RESIDENTS:

Ask your Representative to co-sponsor DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton's
bill, and your Senators to sponsor similar legislation in the Senate.

If your politicians and media are unresponsive to letters, phone calls, and
visits, start your own voter initiative campaign. Sure, you can do it! We
did!

If your community has no voter initiative provisions, lobby your state
legislators to establish that right. Then USE that right to make your world
a safer, saner place. Please?

Call, write or email us to brainstorm how.

Peace Park Crew
PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038
202-462-0757 (fax [phone]) - [e-mail] - http://prop1.org

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http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm

H. R. 2545 - A BILL
106th CONGRESS, 1st Session,
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 16, 1999

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion
Act of 1999".

SEC 2. REQUIREMENT FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND ECONOMIC
CONVERSION.
The United States Government shall--
(1) disable and dismantle all its nuclear weapons and refrain from
replacing them at any time with any weapons of mass destruction;
(2) redirect resources that are currently being used for nuclear weapons
programs to use-
    (A) in converting all nuclear weapons industry employees, processes,
plants, and programssmoothly to constructive, ecologically beneficial
peacetime activities during the 3 years following the effective date of
this Act, and
    (B) in addressing human and infrastructure needs such as housing,
health care, education, agriculture, and enviromnental restoration;
(3) undertake vigorous good faith efforts to eliminate war, armed conflict,
and all military operations; and
(4) actively promote policies to induce all other countries to join in
these commitments for world peace and security.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act shall take effect when the President certifies to the Congress
that all foreign countries possessing nuclear weapons have established
legal requirements comparable to those set forth in section 2 and those
requirements have taken effect.



____________________________________________________________

* Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org -Convert the War Machines! *
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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Click a button and save a life
Date: 20 Sep 1999 11:20:52 -0400

>Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:43:39 -0400
>Subject: Click a button and save a life
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Dear Friends,
>Have you heard about this website:
>www.thehungersite.com.
> Each time you go to the site click on "donate free food"  the sponsors
>will
>donate 1 serving of rice, wheat or another staple food to the hungry.  You
>are permitted to do this once each day.  Definitely worth bookmarking and
>taking the time to do each day.
>
>"May the Pure Light within you guide your way Home"
>Peg
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: Hunger Site
Date: 20 Sep 1999 10:58:20 -0700

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From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on now! Stop DOE weapons plan!
Date: 20 Sep 1999 18:13:28 -0700 (PDT)

Hi. We NEED your sign-on to help stop the U.S. Dept. of Energy from
INCREASING its nuclear weapons activities and moving nuclear material and
programs around between the weapons labs and the test site. Please take a
moment to read the LETTER and initiate whatever action is required to get
your group's sign on. IT IS IMPORTANT. Then, email me your name, title,
group name and full address before Sept. 28.  Thank you, Marylia Kelley,
executive director, Tri-Valley CAREs.

PS -- If you are among the 35 groups that have already signed the letter --
thank you! If not, please sign on today! We need about 100 groups! Please
help! Read on...

September 28, 1999 [Prospective send date]

US Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585

Attn: Gilbert Weigand, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Weapons Research &
Development

Re: Department of Energy's Plans for Major Changes in Nuclear Weapons Complex


Dear Mr. Weigand,

We are writing on behalf of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a
Radioactive Environment), Western States Legal Foundation and Physicians
for Social Responsibility - Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.  All
three organizations have a long-time interest in public health and safety
issues concerning Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and other
facilities within the nuclear weapons complex.

Tri-Valley CAREs is a 16-year-old environmental group that "watchdogs"
LLNL.  Among other things, it holds two US Environmental Protection Agency
Technical Assistance Grants to monitor environmental cleanup at LLNL.
Western States Legal Foundation has been deeply involved in monitoring
nuclear weapons programs and environmental activities at LLNL since 1982.
The San Francisco Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility has kept
watch over LLNL worker and community issues for a number of years.

Further, this letter represents the interests and concerns of the public
interest organizations who have joined us in sending this letter, listed on
signatory pages that follow.

We have recently obtained information concerning the Department of Energy's
(DOE) plans to reconfigure, expand, enhance and/or move certain aspects of
the nuclear weapons program carried out by the various facilities within
the nuclear weapons complex.  This information is from briefing papers,
obtained from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which we
understand you used to brief high-level Clinton administration officials on
the DOE plan.

Changes proposed by DOE include the following:

1.  DOE will "move promptly" the W80 nuclear warhead workload from Los
Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory.  This would involve more plutonium pit work at LLNL.  The
briefing papers reveal what appear to be changes in the warhead that go
far, far beyond any maintenance procedures that may be necessary to
preserve the existing weapon's "safety" or "reliability" while it remains
in the arsenal.

2.  DOE will also "move promptly" the plutonium pit surveillance mission
and workload from LANL to LLNL.   DOE expressly says that one goal is to
give Livermore Lab more plutonium workload, which means that pits from
weapons, in addition to those of the W80 program discussed in #1 above,
will come to Livermore.  Further, the plan suggests that some or all of the
surveillance work for each of the US weapon types will come to Livermore
Lab, which means nuclear weapons components would be taken apart and
"destructively tested" at Livermore.

Concerning both # 1 and #2 above, Livermore Lab already has about 880
pounds of plutonium, and also has a history of accidents, spills, leaks and
plutonium safety violations.  In fact, its plutonium facility was recently
shut down on the recommendation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety
Board, and is only now "restarting."  We are worried that the DOE's
proposed changes will result in increased risks to worker and public health
and safety.

3.  LANL's Appaloosa program would be expanded.  Appaloosa is the code-name
for a  hydrodynamic test program wherein high explosives and surrogate bomb
cores, called pits, (including with plutonium 242) are detonated in
above-ground tanks.

4.  DOE will consolidate its hydrodynamic program at LANL, although the
Clinton administration has been informed that LLNL will still keep its
hydrodynamic program, including the new "Contained Firing Facility" now
under construction at Livermore.

5.  A huge proton accelerator is to be constructed at LANL.

6.  DOE will conduct additional underground subcritical nuclear tests for
the W80 and W88 programs.  The briefing papers also indicate that
additional subcritical tests will involve "weapon relevant shapes."

7.  DOE will move the ATLAS and Pegasus programs from LANL to Nevada.
(ATLAS is a new fusion facility under construction at LANL, and Pegasus an
older machine.)  These two programs would be used to develop the technology
allowing for "explosively driven pulse power for future SNM [special
nuclear material - i.e., plutonium] experiments in U1A."  U1A is the
underground complex of tunnels and rooms where subcritical nuclear
experiments are now detonated at the Nevada Test Site.

8.  DOE will build a new "infrastructure for weapons microsystems
components ... MESA" at Sandia Lab in New Mexico, supporting "future AF&F
(arming, firing and fusing) needs."  This aspect of the plan is reported to
cost $300 million.

Although these are major moves and expansions of nuclear weapons
activities, the DOE has failed to discuss technical or policy
justifications for them.  DOE also fails to discuss overall proliferation
impacts, costs or environmental impacts.   Nor does DOE indicate any
intended public disclosure or process for public review and comment.

This plan has gone forward in secret, and the public has been
inappropriately excluded from any knowledge or decision-making role.
Earlier this year, DOE and Livermore Lab held a public meeting at which
officials testified that no major changes were contemplated to Livermore
Lab's operations over the next 5 years.  Based on this, DOE and Livermore
Lab decided on March 10, 1999 not to conduct a new site-wide environmental
review.  In view the above proposed changes, it is difficult for us not to
think that DOE and LLNL may have acted in bad faith at that public meeting.

We are outraged by these decisions and demand that a new Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with
full public hearings and disclosure be part of the process to decide
whether any funding should be requested/expended.  Certainly, this EIS must
be done before any of these changes occur, and before anything is moved.
There should be no repeat of the situation at Paducah and Portsmouth, where
both workers and the public were misled for years, and revelations about
plutonium contamination are just now becoming public.

Further, the DOE has completed a Stockpile Stewardship & Management
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SSM PEIS) which is silent on
this plan.  In fact, some of the SSM PEIS' siting elements actually ran
contrary to the latest DOE scheme described above.  OMB is on record
stating that DOE must undertake a revision of the SSM PEIS before moving
forward.  DOE, however, has already requested initial monies from Congress
to begin, according to a Senate report.  It appears to us that a
Supplemental EIS, with public hearings held across the country, is
necessary as well.

We hope to have your response in the very near future.  If you should have
any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting us.

Sincerely,

Marylia Kelley
Executive Director,
Tri-Valley CAREs


Robert Gould, M.D.
President,
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Greater San Francisco Bay Area


Jacqueline Cabasso
Executive Director,
Western States Legal Foundation

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
weapons.



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From: hcaldic <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on now! Stop DOE weapons plan!
Date: 20 Sep 1999 22:46:53 -0400

marylia wrote:
>
> Hi. We NEED your sign-on to help stop the U.S. Dept. of Energy from
> INCREASING its nuclear weapons activities and moving nuclear material and
> programs around between the weapons labs and the test site. Please take a
> moment to read the LETTER and initiate whatever action is required to get
> your group's sign on. IT IS IMPORTANT. Then, email me your name, title,
> group name and full address before Sept. 28.  Thank you, Marylia Kelley,
> executive director, Tri-Valley CAREs.
>
> PS -- If you are among the 35 groups that have already signed the letter --
> thank you! If not, please sign on today! We need about 100 groups! Please
> help! Read on...
>
> September 28, 1999 [Prospective send date]
>
> US Department of Energy
> 1000 Independence Avenue, SW
> Washington, D.C. 20585
>
> Attn: Gilbert Weigand, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Weapons Research &
> Development
>
> Re: Department of Energy's Plans for Major Changes in Nuclear Weapons Complex
>
> Dear Mr. Weigand,
>
> We are writing on behalf of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a
> Radioactive Environment), Western States Legal Foundation and Physicians
> for Social Responsibility - Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.  All
> three organizations have a long-time interest in public health and safety
> issues concerning Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and other
> facilities within the nuclear weapons complex.
>
> Tri-Valley CAREs is a 16-year-old environmental group that "watchdogs"
> LLNL.  Among other things, it holds two US Environmental Protection Agency
> Technical Assistance Grants to monitor environmental cleanup at LLNL.
> Western States Legal Foundation has been deeply involved in monitoring
> nuclear weapons programs and environmental activities at LLNL since 1982.
> The San Francisco Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility has kept
> watch over LLNL worker and community issues for a number of years.
>
> Further, this letter represents the interests and concerns of the public
> interest organizations who have joined us in sending this letter, listed on
> signatory pages that follow.
>
> We have recently obtained information concerning the Department of Energy's
> (DOE) plans to reconfigure, expand, enhance and/or move certain aspects of
> the nuclear weapons program carried out by the various facilities within
> the nuclear weapons complex.  This information is from briefing papers,
> obtained from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which we
> understand you used to brief high-level Clinton administration officials on
> the DOE plan.
>
> Changes proposed by DOE include the following:
>
> 1.  DOE will "move promptly" the W80 nuclear warhead workload from Los
> Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Lawrence Livermore National
> Laboratory.  This would involve more plutonium pit work at LLNL.  The
> briefing papers reveal what appear to be changes in the warhead that go
> far, far beyond any maintenance procedures that may be necessary to
> preserve the existing weapon's "safety" or "reliability" while it remains
> in the arsenal.
>
> 2.  DOE will also "move promptly" the plutonium pit surveillance mission
> and workload from LANL to LLNL.   DOE expressly says that one goal is to
> give Livermore Lab more plutonium workload, which means that pits from
> weapons, in addition to those of the W80 program discussed in #1 above,
> will come to Livermore.  Further, the plan suggests that some or all of the
> surveillance work for each of the US weapon types will come to Livermore
> Lab, which means nuclear weapons components would be taken apart and
> "destructively tested" at Livermore.
>
> Concerning both # 1 and #2 above, Livermore Lab already has about 880
> pounds of plutonium, and also has a history of accidents, spills, leaks and
> plutonium safety violations.  In fact, its plutonium facility was recently
> shut down on the recommendation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety
> Board, and is only now "restarting."  We are worried that the DOE's
> proposed changes will result in increased risks to worker and public health
> and safety.
>
> 3.  LANL's Appaloosa program would be expanded.  Appaloosa is the code-name
> for a  hydrodynamic test program wherein high explosives and surrogate bomb
> cores, called pits, (including with plutonium 242) are detonated in
> above-ground tanks.
>
> 4.  DOE will consolidate its hydrodynamic program at LANL, although the
> Clinton administration has been informed that LLNL will still keep its
> hydrodynamic program, including the new "Contained Firing Facility" now
> under construction at Livermore.
>
> 5.  A huge proton accelerator is to be constructed at LANL.
>
> 6.  DOE will conduct additional underground subcritical nuclear tests for
> the W80 and W88 programs.  The briefing papers also indicate that
> additional subcritical tests will involve "weapon relevant shapes."
>
> 7.  DOE will move the ATLAS and Pegasus programs from LANL to Nevada.
> (ATLAS is a new fusion facility under construction at LANL, and Pegasus an
> older machine.)  These two programs would be used to develop the technology
> allowing for "explosively driven pulse power for future SNM [special
> nuclear material - i.e., plutonium] experiments in U1A."  U1A is the
> underground complex of tunnels and rooms where subcritical nuclear
> experiments are now detonated at the Nevada Test Site.
>
> 8.  DOE will build a new "infrastructure for weapons microsystems
> components ... MESA" at Sandia Lab in New Mexico, supporting "future AF&F
> (arming, firing and fusing) needs."  This aspect of the plan is reported to
> cost $300 million.
>
> Although these are major moves and expansions of nuclear weapons
> activities, the DOE has failed to discuss technical or policy
> justifications for them.  DOE also fails to discuss overall proliferation
> impacts, costs or environmental impacts.   Nor does DOE indicate any
> intended public disclosure or process for public review and comment.
>
> This plan has gone forward in secret, and the public has been
> inappropriately excluded from any knowledge or decision-making role.
> Earlier this year, DOE and Livermore Lab held a public meeting at which
> officials testified that no major changes were contemplated to Livermore
> Lab's operations over the next 5 years.  Based on this, DOE and Livermore
> Lab decided on March 10, 1999 not to conduct a new site-wide environmental
> review.  In view the above proposed changes, it is difficult for us not to
> think that DOE and LLNL may have acted in bad faith at that public meeting.
>
> We are outraged by these decisions and demand that a new Environmental
> Impact Statement (EIS) for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with
> full public hearings and disclosure be part of the process to decide
> whether any funding should be requested/expended.  Certainly, this EIS must
> be done before any of these changes occur, and before anything is moved.
> There should be no repeat of the situation at Paducah and Portsmouth, where
> both workers and the public were misled for years, and revelations about
> plutonium contamination are just now becoming public.
>
> Further, the DOE has completed a Stockpile Stewardship & Management
> Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SSM PEIS) which is silent on
> this plan.  In fact, some of the SSM PEIS' siting elements actually ran
> contrary to the latest DOE scheme described above.  OMB is on record
> stating that DOE must undertake a revision of the SSM PEIS before moving
> forward.  DOE, however, has already requested initial monies from Congress
> to begin, according to a Senate report.  It appears to us that a
> Supplemental EIS, with public hearings held across the country, is
> necessary as well.
>
> We hope to have your response in the very near future.  If you should have
> any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting us.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Executive Director,
> Tri-Valley CAREs
>
> Robert Gould, M.D.
> President,
> Physicians for Social Responsibility, Greater San Francisco Bay Area
>
> Jacqueline Cabasso
> Executive Director,
> Western States Legal Foundation
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
> 2582 Old First Street
> Livermore, CA USA 94550
>
> <http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!
>
> [phone] - is our phone
> [phone] - is our fax
>
> Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
> CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
> Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
> international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
> weapons.
>
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    Marylia, Add my name - Helen Caldicott Founding President Physicians
for Social Responsibility, and Founder Womens Action for NUclear
Disarmament



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) McReynolds' Press Conference Speech 9/7/99
Date: 21 Sep 1999 01:54:10 EDT


Looking over this post from my campaign manager, I realized it was an item
that did fit the guidelines of Abolition 2000 USA - if nominated by the
Socialist Party this October, I would be one candidate helping to push others
to take similar stands. Read down to the discussion of nuclear weapons.

Peace,
David McReynolds


    [David McReynolds formally declared his candidacy for the Socialist
    Party's nomination for President of the United States on September 7,
    1999. The following is the text of his speech.]

    Let me keep these remarks brief, so that if there are questions there
    will be time to ask them.

    Let me note that while I think the media has every right to ask
    questions about the personal life of a candidate, as it might relate to
    job performance, and while I am prepared to respond fully to questions
    about any past or current drug use, legal or illegal, the media missed
    the key point about Governor Bush and the allegations he may once have
    used cocaine.

    Anyone seeking the nomination for President on the Democratic or
    Republican ticket must raise so much money that the real question is not
    the drugs used in the past, but, to put it bluntly, which corporate
    forces have bought and paid for the candidate. Neither Governor Bush nor
    Vice President Al Gore are free agents. They represent corporate
    America.

    If anyone wants to know what interests I represent I respond simply that
    if I'm nominated at the Socialist Party convention in October I will
    represent a group of concerned citizens with little in the way of
    financial resources. I will represent their hopes, and the platform and
    beliefs of a Party, which I joined in 1951, while a student at UCLA. And
    I will work to limit the kind of obscenity we see today when the
    corporations openly bid for the candidates. Campaign financing laws must
    be enacted that provide a level playing field, with no special favors to
    large donors.

    It is good that a range of views be offered to the electorate. There is
    very little to choose between Bush and Gore, very little real debate of
    substance on our domestic and foreign policy. The arena of debate must
    be broadened, the range of issues discussed extended. That would be my
    job as the candidate of the Socialist Party.

    Having seen our government engage in wars without Congressional
    approval, in open violation of the UN Charter, whether in Panama under
    George Bush, or in Kosova under Bill Clinton. I believe this nation must
    not go to war without the full consent of Congress, after debate. The
    theory of Executive Wars must end.

    Watching our military with its almost hallucinatory budget, I urge the
    Pentagon budget be cut immediately by 50%, with radical further cuts
    each year. We face no military threat from our immediate neighbors,
    Mexico and Canada, and are protected by vast oceans from invasion. The
    American military now extends into every area of our lives, and I pledge
    to resist the militarization of this nation, this obscene continuation
    of a Garrison State so sharply denounced by the late President Dwight D.
    Eisenhower when he left office and warned of the military/industrial
    complex. Given the ads taken out in the New York Times by
    concerned business leaders worried over the misuse of our tax funds for
    unneeded military spending, my position only seems radical because
    neither major party is prepared to speak to it.

    Nuclear weapons remain a grave danger and we must strive for an
    immediate end of all further nuclear testing and take immediate steps to
    scale down our own arsenals of nuclear weapons even as we engage with
    other nuclear powers to reduce theirs until we have zero nuclear
    weapons, and a sense of trust and verification which will give us
    assurance that no new weapons are tested and the list of nuclear states
    diminishes to zero rather than expanding to disaster.

    I call for the closing of all foreign U.S. bases, including the base in
    Guantanamo, Cuba. I call for the end of sanctions against Iraq, Cuba and
    Libya.

    Even as we meet today, people are being killed in East Timor by the
    government of Indonesia, armed and supported by the United States. And
    even as we appeal to President Clinton to take immediate action to
    pressure the Indonesian government to respect the accords on
    self-determination, we also know that from the time of Henry Kissinger
    until today, the United States has been a patron of Indonesia, and has
    close military and economic ties to it. We pledge to oppose with our
    full might any further trade in arms by this government. The manufacture
    and sale of land mines, military air craft, guns, etc., must end
    immediately.

    The war on drugs has resulted in an explosion of our prison population
    so that we now have the greatest number of prisoners of any nation in
    the world - something in which none of us should take pride. We have
    seen the creation of virtual prison industrial complex in which the
    ultimate victims are those men and women jailed, their families and
    friends, and the society which pays vast sums on incarceration rather
    than treatment and rehabilitation. In the city of New York it is easier
    to be arrested for the sale of heroin than it is to gain admittance to
    the drug rehabilitation programs.

    The war on drugs is a costly, inhumane failure which has caused vast
    human suffering here, and resulted in exporting American problems to
    Latin America. Most drugs should either, as with marijuana, be
    decriminalized, or as with heroin, be available to addicts from a
    medical doctor.

    There is talk of raising the minimum wage - I am more inclined to
    suggest a maximum wage in which the lowest wage paid in any industry
    would be not less than one fourth the highest wage paid to any CEO in
    that industry. There is a gross injustice when corporate leaders pull
    down wages in the millions of dollars while working American families
    often must work two jobs to keep food on the table.

    It is urgent that the benefits of working Americans not be cut. They
    have declined sharply. We demand that the benefits of American workers
    be defended against every effort by the corporate structure to slice
    them.

    We need a single payer system of medical care now. We are the only
    industrial nation which does not have such a program, so that ordinary
    people are often uncovered, or only partially covered, for the most
    basic health needs.

    We have seen a spread of violent extremism and racism as well as a
    disturbing level of violence on the campus. The Socialist Party will
    continue to defend the full range of civil liberties and the Bill of
    Rights, as we have done over the decades. But the right to own firearms
    is not protected by the Bill of Rights, which refers to the right of
    each state to maintain a militia - not to the right of any citizen to
    own a loaded automatic weapon. I will work for a system of lincensed gun
    ownership and an end in the sale of automatic weapons which cannot meet
    any reasonable standard for hunting. The National Rifle Association may
    control Congress but it does not control the Socialist Party.

    The Socialist Party will speak out against racism in any form, as we
    move toward a new century in which before the year 2050 non-whites will
    constitute a majority of our people. We will also speak out against
    police brutality and demand independent citizen's review boards. Events
    in this very city have indicated the dangers of a police force out of
    control, commanded by a Mayor who shows signs of mental instability.

    While I have listed some of the immediate demands, some of the urgent
    issues which I hope to address, let no one think the Socialist Party has
    abandoned the goal of social ownership of the commanding heights of
    industry, combined with democratic control, and decentralization and
    community involvement. The corporation is an artificial creation which
    has no inherent rights. If we won control of Congress we would place
    such vast corporate structures under social ownership. Capitalism as we
    know it is not a vision of the future in which we can take comfort, in
    which all things have a price, and all things are on the market place.
    For us, the unit of measurement is the human being, not the rate of
    profit. Just as we seek an economic system which draws on our best
    instincts.

    There is much in America which is good, much that we are proud of -
    including the long struggle for labor's rights, civil rights, women's
    rights, gay and lesbian rights, etc. Some of the proudest moments in our
    history, moments which helped to define us as a democracy, have been
    when the citizens opposed their own government when it was wrong,
    whether that was opposition in the South by African Americans fighting
    segregation, or the mass peace movement which helped end the Vietnam
    War. We honor that history of struggle which has made our democracy
    fuller and freer. We will continue to take part in that struggle,
    viewing our society as one in which there is a conflict between workers
    and owners. We speak for the working class.

    There are many problems still facing us, as our society seems
    overwhelmed by raw materialism, too often devoid of any values beyond
    consumerism. Let me say that there is a spiritual dimension to our
    common life, a dimension of respect for each person, a dimension of
    striving to fulfill our own lives and of helping others, not in terms of
    cash flow but of lives well and truly lived, lives engaged in a sense of
    justice and community.

    That is what the Socialist Party stands for and, if nominated, I will
    seek to represent it across the nation, in the tradition of Eugene
    Victor Debs, Norman Thomas, Michael Harrington and Frank Zeidler. We
    want an America in which working people can fully and responsibly share
    in democratic planning and control of their own economy.

    The words of Eugene Victor Debs are as revolutionary today as they were
    when spoken to a court in Ohio during World War I - they ring with
    biblical force calling us to tasks not yet done: "While there is a
    working class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it,
    while there is a soul in prison I am not free."

    --
    Shaun Richman
    Young People's Socialist League
    339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012
    phone/fax: [phone]
    http://sp-usa.org/ypsl

    McReynolds 2000 Committee
    "Building a Movement for Jobs, Peace and Freedom"
    P.O. Box 91, Floral Park, NY 10012
    phone/fax: [phone]
    http://votesocialist.org/


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From: Norm and Karen Cohen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on now! Stop DOE weapons plan!
Date: 21 Sep 1999 13:04:51 -0400

Hi, marylia, sign on the Coalition for Peace and Justice, 321 Barr Ave, L=
inwood
NJ 08221
609-601-8583, Norm Cohen Executive Director

peace
norm

marylia wrote:

> Hi. We NEED your sign-on to help stop the U.S. Dept. of Energy from
> INCREASING its nuclear weapons activities and moving nuclear material a=
nd
> programs around between the weapons labs and the test site. Please take=
 a
> moment to read the LETTER and initiate whatever action is required to g=
et
> your group's sign on. IT IS IMPORTANT. Then, email me your name, title,
> group name and full address before Sept. 28.  Thank you, Marylia Kelley=
,
> executive director, Tri-Valley CAREs.
>
> PS -- If you are among the 35 groups that have already signed the lette=
r --
> thank you! If not, please sign on today! We need about 100 groups! Plea=
se
> help! Read on...
>
> September 28, 1999 [Prospective send date]
>
> US Department of Energy
> 1000 Independence Avenue, SW
> Washington, D.C. 20585
>
> Attn: Gilbert Weigand, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Weapons Research =
&
> Development
>
> Re: Department of Energy's Plans for Major Changes in Nuclear Weapons C=
omplex
>
> Dear Mr. Weigand,
>
> We are writing on behalf of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a
> Radioactive Environment), Western States Legal Foundation and Physician=
s
> for Social Responsibility - Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.  Al=
l
> three organizations have a long-time interest in public health and safe=
ty
> issues concerning Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and oth=
er
> facilities within the nuclear weapons complex.
>
> Tri-Valley CAREs is a 16-year-old environmental group that "watchdogs"
> LLNL.  Among other things, it holds two US Environmental Protection Age=
ncy
> Technical Assistance Grants to monitor environmental cleanup at LLNL.
> Western States Legal Foundation has been deeply involved in monitoring
> nuclear weapons programs and environmental activities at LLNL since 198=
2.
> The San Francisco Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility has k=
ept
> watch over LLNL worker and community issues for a number of years.
>
> Further, this letter represents the interests and concerns of the publi=
c
> interest organizations who have joined us in sending this letter, liste=
d on
> signatory pages that follow.
>
> We have recently obtained information concerning the Department of Ener=
gy's
> (DOE) plans to reconfigure, expand, enhance and/or move certain aspects=
 of
> the nuclear weapons program carried out by the various facilities withi=
n
> the nuclear weapons complex.  This information is from briefing papers,
> obtained from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which we
> understand you used to brief high-level Clinton administration official=
s on
> the DOE plan.
>
> Changes proposed by DOE include the following:
>
> 1.  DOE will "move promptly" the W80 nuclear warhead workload from Los
> Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Lawrence Livermore National
> Laboratory.  This would involve more plutonium pit work at LLNL.  The
> briefing papers reveal what appear to be changes in the warhead that go
> far, far beyond any maintenance procedures that may be necessary to
> preserve the existing weapon's "safety" or "reliability" while it remai=
ns
> in the arsenal.
>
> 2.  DOE will also "move promptly" the plutonium pit surveillance missio=
n
> and workload from LANL to LLNL.   DOE expressly says that one goal is t=
o
> give Livermore Lab more plutonium workload, which means that pits from
> weapons, in addition to those of the W80 program discussed in #1 above,
> will come to Livermore.  Further, the plan suggests that some or all of=
 the
> surveillance work for each of the US weapon types will come to Livermor=
e
> Lab, which means nuclear weapons components would be taken apart and
> "destructively tested" at Livermore.
>
> Concerning both # 1 and #2 above, Livermore Lab already has about 880
> pounds of plutonium, and also has a history of accidents, spills, leaks=
 and
> plutonium safety violations.  In fact, its plutonium facility was recen=
tly
> shut down on the recommendation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safet=
y
> Board, and is only now "restarting."  We are worried that the DOE's
> proposed changes will result in increased risks to worker and public he=
alth
> and safety.
>
> 3.  LANL's Appaloosa program would be expanded.  Appaloosa is the code-=
name
> for a  hydrodynamic test program wherein high explosives and surrogate =
bomb
> cores, called pits, (including with plutonium 242) are detonated in
> above-ground tanks.
>
> 4.  DOE will consolidate its hydrodynamic program at LANL, although the
> Clinton administration has been informed that LLNL will still keep its
> hydrodynamic program, including the new "Contained Firing Facility" now
> under construction at Livermore.
>
> 5.  A huge proton accelerator is to be constructed at LANL.
>
> 6.  DOE will conduct additional underground subcritical nuclear tests f=
or
> the W80 and W88 programs.  The briefing papers also indicate that
> additional subcritical tests will involve "weapon relevant shapes."
>
> 7.  DOE will move the ATLAS and Pegasus programs from LANL to Nevada.
> (ATLAS is a new fusion facility under construction at LANL, and Pegasus=
 an
> older machine.)  These two programs would be used to develop the techno=
logy
> allowing for "explosively driven pulse power for future SNM [special
> nuclear material - i.e., plutonium] experiments in U1A."  U1A is the
> underground complex of tunnels and rooms where subcritical nuclear
> experiments are now detonated at the Nevada Test Site.
>
> 8.  DOE will build a new "infrastructure for weapons microsystems
> components ... MESA" at Sandia Lab in New Mexico, supporting "future AF=
&F
> (arming, firing and fusing) needs."  This aspect of the plan is reporte=
d to
> cost $300 million.
>
> Although these are major moves and expansions of nuclear weapons
> activities, the DOE has failed to discuss technical or policy
> justifications for them.  DOE also fails to discuss overall proliferati=
on
> impacts, costs or environmental impacts.   Nor does DOE indicate any
> intended public disclosure or process for public review and comment.
>
> This plan has gone forward in secret, and the public has been
> inappropriately excluded from any knowledge or decision-making role.
> Earlier this year, DOE and Livermore Lab held a public meeting at which
> officials testified that no major changes were contemplated to Livermor=
e
> Lab's operations over the next 5 years.  Based on this, DOE and Livermo=
re
> Lab decided on March 10, 1999 not to conduct a new site-wide environmen=
tal
> review.  In view the above proposed changes, it is difficult for us not=
 to
> think that DOE and LLNL may have acted in bad faith at that public meet=
ing.
>
> We are outraged by these decisions and demand that a new Environmental
> Impact Statement (EIS) for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory w=
ith
> full public hearings and disclosure be part of the process to decide
> whether any funding should be requested/expended.  Certainly, this EIS =
must
> be done before any of these changes occur, and before anything is moved.
> There should be no repeat of the situation at Paducah and Portsmouth, w=
here
> both workers and the public were misled for years, and revelations abou=
t
> plutonium contamination are just now becoming public.
>
> Further, the DOE has completed a Stockpile Stewardship & Management
> Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SSM PEIS) which is silent =
on
> this plan.  In fact, some of the SSM PEIS' siting elements actually ran
> contrary to the latest DOE scheme described above.  OMB is on record
> stating that DOE must undertake a revision of the SSM PEIS before movin=
g
> forward.  DOE, however, has already requested initial monies from Congr=
ess
> to begin, according to a Senate report.  It appears to us that a
> Supplemental EIS, with public hearings held across the country, is
> necessary as well.
>
> We hope to have your response in the very near future.  If you should h=
ave
> any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting us.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Executive Director,
> Tri-Valley CAREs
>
> Robert Gould, M.D.
> President,
> Physicians for Social Responsibility, Greater San Francisco Bay Area
>
> Jacqueline Cabasso
> Executive Director,
> Western States Legal Foundation
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
> 2582 Old First Street
> Livermore, CA USA 94550
>
> <http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!
>
> [phone] - is our phone
> [phone] - is our fax
>
> Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Va=
lley
> CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
> Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of t=
he
> international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
> weapons.
>
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ve.,
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e)
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ITION
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The
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Micheal Moore Citizens' Weapons Inspection?
Date: 21 Sep 1999 13:52:17 -0700

I ran across this on Micheal Moore's page on the Bravo
TV page <http://www.bravotv.com/MM/index.html>:

MM WEAPONS INSPECTION TEAM
Michael Moore enlists the help of an Iraqi cab driver from
New York to inspect America's weapons of destruction.
- FRIDAY, 9/10 @ 10:00pm ET & 11:00pm PT

-- there is a page called 'clips' which purports to contain
(Quicktime(r) ?) video clips including one titled 'MM
WEAPONS INSPECTION TEAM' which has a film-frame
icon with a caption to its right saying, '1. As usual, if you
want to get something done, you have to do it
yourself...' and clicking this downloads a file which I
can't,run!  But given Micheal Moore's satiric genius I'm
glad to see it turned on our WMD.  I hope he visited Los
Alamos.  Has anybody heard of this or seen the show?

-- Ed Rippy




Only human will and action can create
history and open up new horizons.

-- Daisaku Ikeda, in his peace proposal
submitted to the UN in 1999

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From: Jan Harwood <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR
Date: 21 Sep 1999 14:30:37 -0700

I haven't received my paper invitation yet, but consider me registered; I'm
sending a check today for $50, registration and a small contribution.
Thanks and peace, Jan



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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Urgent! Sign-on now! Stop DOE weapons plan!
Date: 21 Sep 1999 20:02:22 -0400

Hi Marylia,
Please sign me on if I'm not on already.  Thanks
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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From: "Sally Light" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEARWEAPONS-NATIONAL MEETING
Date: 21 Sep 1999 20:09:07 +0100

Looking forward to seeing you, Jan.

Peace ...

Sally

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> From: Jan Harwood <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH
NUCLEARWEAPONS-NATIONAL MEETING
> Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 10:30 PM
>
> I haven't received my paper invitation yet, but consider me registered;
I'm
> sending a check today for $50, registration and a small contribution.
> Thanks and peace, Jan
>
>
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From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) BERLIN Y2K DECLARATION
Date: 22 Sep 1999 11:44:45 +1000

This declaration was passed unanimously at a Y2K WASH-World Atomic Safety
Holiday Citizens' Y2K-Nuclear Forum in Berlin, Germany, on 20 September
1999. The Forum was attended by representatives from NGOs in Japan,
Germany, USA, Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and France.

It was presented to the delegates at the G8 special conference on Y2K
contingency planning in Berlin today, Sept. 21st.

_____________________________________________________


Berlin Declaration
International Citizens' Y2K-Nuclear Forum
Y2K WASH - World Atomic Safety Holiday
Berlin, Germany - 20 September 1999


The Occasion: The G-8 nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
Russia, UK, US), recognizing their responsibility to the world community, are
holding the G-8 Seminar on Contingency Planning for Y2K in Berlin on
September 21 and 22, 1999. The title of this meeting indicates that the G-8
nations have accepted that Y2K compliance cannot be accomplished in time
for the Year 2000 rollover, and that contingency plans are essential.

Citizens around the world are concerned that the potential effect of
Y2K-related system failures on nuclear facilities poses serious threats to
the world community and to the life of the planet. Therefore, we convened an
International Citizens' Y2K-Nuclear Forum the day before the G-8 meeting to
give voice to our concerns about this critical issue. We, the participants
in this forum, recognizing that governments derive their authority from
their citizens, require that the G-8 place on the meeting agenda the Y2K
threats to the nuclear infrastructure. We forward the following conclusions to
the G-8 representatives, and call upon them to be implemented immediately.


The Context: The nuclear age is nearly as old as the computer age. Nuclear
weapons and their delivery systems, as well as nuclear power plants and other
nuclear installations, rely on computers. 4,400 of the world's nuclear weapons
are still held on "hair trigger alert." Early warning and communication
systems are liable to be severely affected by Y2K, thereby risking a
misreading of nuclear weapons data, and increasing the danger of an
unauthorized or accidental use of nuclear weapons.

The world's 1000+ nuclear facilities (1) depend on electrical energy to
operate. As reported by regulatory agencies and independent experts, a
failure in computer or embedded microchip systems may cause a
breakdown in energy transmission, with consequences that could result
in a nuclear accident, or even a meltdown. (2) The generators that supply
back-up power for nuclear installations depend on fuel supplies that may
also be interrupted by the Y2K bug.


The Risk: No one knows what will happen on or after January 1, 2000 or
beyond that date  because of the Y2K problem. The potential for humanitarian
and ecological disasters is self-evident. We cannot afford to take risks
that could prove catastrophic and irreversible. While some contingency plans
have been initiated, the public needs documented evidence that they will be
safe from such potential catastrophes.


The Solution: We therefore call upon all governments, the international nuclear
industry, and all citizens to support a World Atomic Safety Holiday, and to
work together to implement the following steps:

1.    Take all nuclear weapons off "hair trigger alert" from 1 December
1999 onwards, and remove all nuclear warheads from their delivery systems so
that they cannot be launched immediately.

2.    Shut down all nuclear installations by 1 December 1999, and not
bring them back online after 1 January 2000, until they are tested,
transparently verified for Y2K compliance, and the electrical grid stability
is re-established.

3.    Provide reliable and redundant back-up systems, with adequate fuel
supplies for worst case scenarios, in every nuclear installation by 1 December
1999, to ensure that critical nuclear facilities are stable and under control.

4.    Ensure that contingency plans are in place in every community where
a nuclear facility is located. To prepare for "worst case scenarios", we
call on local governments in communities with nuclear installations to set up
emergency procedures that inform and protect the public, and to assess
the companies operating the nuclear facilities for the costs of these
precautions.  These procedures should include but not be limited to:

(a)    producing and distributing leaflets educating the public about the
danger to the community of nuclear accidents, the long-term dangers to health
of radioactive material in the environment, and recommended actions in case
of meltdown or accident to minimize the danger to health.

(b)    supplying iodine tablets and instructions for their use to every
household, with storage in central areas for rapid distribution in emergencies.

(c)    conducting evacuation exercises on a regular basis, and regularly
testing emergency services, such as hospital emergency rooms and fire
department procedures.

5.    Institute a worldwide moratorium on transport of all nuclear
materials from 1 December 1999.

6.    To monitor, assess, and make recommendations about the unfolding
global situation, provide for ongoing expert discussion and evaluation between
G-8- appointed and independent Y2K-Nuclear Forum experts, to be disseminated
through the internet and printed media.


The Opportunity: The challenge of meeting the Y2K problem offers the
opportunity for all of us to face the reality of the nuclear dangers we
live with every day. Y2K shows us that our control over technology is
limited and accidents can happen; governments need to be mindful of the
ever-present threat of nuclear accidents in the future, as long as nuclear
weapons and nuclear energy continue to exist. Together in the next days
and weeks, we can take steps to create a safer world, provide for our common
security and minimize the risk of nuclear catastrophe.


"Probably one out of five days I wake up in a cold sweat thinking [Y2K] is
much bigger than we think, and then the other four days I think maybe we
really are on top of it. Everything is so interconnected, it's hard to know
with any precision whether we have got it fixed."

--U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre


(1) 433 commercial nuclear power plants, 591 research reactors, all nuclear
fuel facilities containing significant quantities of nuclear material, and all
nuclear-powered submarines.

(2) The French Atomic Energy Commission reports that it will keep most of
its nuclear facilities shut down through the Year 2000 rollover until 3
January 2000; in the U.S. the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported
in July 1999 that 6 of the 8 major fuel cycle facilities in the U.S. will be
offline at the rollover.




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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Paying UN Dues
Date: 22 Sep 1999 01:33:32 -0700 (PDT)

Since Clinton hasn't yet been able to persuade Congress to appropriate the
funds needed to pay our back dues to the UN, I ask the following question:
Is there anyway to pay the dues without Congress' specific approval?  Could
the Treasury Secretary divert the necessary funds via creative accounting?


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From: [e-mail] (Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa)
Subject: (abolition-usa) FREE VANUNU VIGILS WORLDWIDE
Date: 22 Sep 1999 19:59:47 -0700

 PLEASE POST

On September 30, 1986, Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was
kidnapped from Rome and taken to Israel for a secret trial.  He was
convicted on charges of treason and espionage and has been in Ashkelon
Prison ever since.

There will be world-wide vigils on September 30 demanding the immediate and
unconditional release of this prisoner of conscience in the following
cities -  Jerusalem, Toronto, Sydney, Wellington, Helsinki, Stockholm,
Oslo, London, Leicester,
Sheffield, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Houston.  If you live in or near one of
the locations, please join in calling for Vanunu's freedom!

For more information about Mordechai Vanunu and the international campaign
for his release, please visit the following websites:
www.nonviolence.org/vanunu
www.vanunu.freeserve.co.uk



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From: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter believed to be lost (fwd)
Date: 23 Sep 1999 22:55:57 -0400 (EDT)



Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network
PO Box 90083, Gainesville, Fl 32607
Web site:  http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/
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>>From [e-mail] Thu Sep 23 15:24:33 1999
>Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:21:21 -0700 (PDT)
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter believed to be lost
>Reply-To: [e-mail]
>To: undisclosed-recipients:;
>
>MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
>JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
>CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
>NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
>PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109.  TELEPHONE [phone]
>http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
>
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                        September 23, 1999
>
>NASA'S MARS CLIMATE ORBITER BELIEVED TO BE LOST
>
>     NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter is believed to be lost due to a
>suspected navigation error.
>
>     Early this morning at about 2 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time the
>orbiter fired its main engine to go into orbit around the planet.
>All the information coming from the spacecraft leading up to that
>point looked normal.  The engine burn began as planned five
>minutes before the spacecraft passed behind the planet as seen
>from Earth.  Flight controllers did not detect a signal when the
>spacecraft was expected to come out from behind the planet.
>
>     "We had planned to approach the planet at an altitude of
>about 150 kilometers (93 miles). We thought we were doing that,
>but upon review of the last six to eight hours of data leading up
>to arrival, we saw indications that the actual approach altitude
>had been much lower.  It appears that the actual altitude was
>about 60 kilometers (37 miles). We are still trying to figure out
>why that happened," said Richard Cook, project manager for the
>Mars Surveyor Operations Project at NASA's Jet Propulsion
>Laboratory.  "We believe that the minimum survivable altitude for
>the spacecraft would have been 85 kilometers (53 miles)."
>
>     "If in fact we have lost the spacecraft it is very serious,
>but it is not devastating to the Mars Surveyor Program as a
>whole.  The program is flexible enough to allow us to recover the
>science return of Mars Climate Orbiter on a future mission. This
>is not necessarily science lost; it is science delayed," said Dr.
>Carl Pilcher, science director for Solar System Exploration at
>NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. "We have a robust program to
>explore Mars that involves launching on average one mission per
>year for at least a decade. It began with the launch of Mars
>Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor in 1996, continued with Mars
>Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander and will be followed by
>more missions in 2001, 2003 and 2005. In fact, Mars Polar Lander
>will arrive in just over two months and its mission is completely
>independent of the Mars Climate Orbiter.  The science return of
>that mission won't be affected."
>
>     Flight controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
>Pasadena, CA and Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, CO will
>continue their efforts to locate the spacecraft through the Deep
>Space Network during the next several hours.  A special
>investigation team has been formed by JPL to further assess the
>situation.
>
>     Mars Climate Orbiter is one of a series of missions in a
>long-term program of Mars exploration known as the Mars Surveyor
>Program that is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for
>NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC.  JPL is a
>division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
>
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From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Paying UN Dues
Date: 24 Sep 1999 16:58:25 -0400

There are major barriers to such a step, both legal and political.   It's never
going to happen.

Bob Tiller



Timothy Bruening wrote:

> Since Clinton hasn't yet been able to persuade Congress to appropriate the
> funds needed to pay our back dues to the UN, I ask the following question:
> Is there anyway to pay the dues without Congress' specific approval?  Could
> the Treasury Secretary divert the necessary funds via creative accounting?
>
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From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 33 Year-old Yellow-Green
Date: 26 Sep 1999 20:54:01 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Peaceniks:

Today, I am a 33 Year Old Yellow-Green.  I have a Yellow Belt in Taekwondo
Karate, and I am a member of the Green Party. I am also 12,053 days old.

Sincerely,

Tim.


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From: Bob Tiller <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Job announcement
Date: 27 Sep 1999 15:51:35 -0400

 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

Physicians for Social Responsibility, a national membership organization
committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, is seeking an Associate
Director of Security Programs, who will have responsibilities in two
broad areas:

1. Research and Policy:
     *Provide research and expertise on a broad range of nuclear weapons
issues, including: plutonium disposition, cleanup of  DOE's nuclear
weapons complex, nuclear waste disposition, nuclear weapons-related
public health matters, the Stockpile Stewardship program, the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, nonproliferation, de-alerting, and the
ABM treaty.
     *Monitor and report on legislative matters and executive branch
developments in issue areas.
     *Prepare fact sheets, articles and other materials for
decision-makers and for activists.
     *Assist in developing action strategies and advocacy initiatives.
     *Conduct special projects.

2. Organizing and Education:
     *Enlarge and strengthen PSR's activist network on nuclear issues.
     *Produce educational materials for activists and chapters,
including voter education materials and a bimonthly newsletter.
     *Maintain regular communication with PSR chapters, activists and
physician experts.
     *Mobilize activists for action.
     *Assist in coordinating national advocacy campaigns.
     *Maintain and update the nuclear portion of PSR's website.
     *Assist in drafting media statements.
     *Assist in planning and organizing conferences, training programs
and other education events.

Qualifications:
      -Commitment to abolition of nuclear weapons
      -Knowledge of nuclear weapons issues
      -Experience in working with grassroots activists
      -Strong writing and speaking skills
      -Ability to handle multiple tasks and to meet deadlines
      -Ability to work both independently and cooperatively
      -Minimum Bachelor's degree, Master's degree preferred
      -Minimum of three years of relevant experience

PSR encourages applications from women and minorities.
Full benefits package.  Salary negotiable depending on expereience.  To
apply, send resume to Robert Tiller, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, 1101 14th St. N.W., Washington D.C. 20005.  E-mail
<[e-mail]>



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Michael Moore's weapons inspection
Date: 27 Sep 1999 12:56:47 -0700

As fate would have it, a friend of a friend
recorded the 'Awful Truth' episode in question
and it's heartening -- I think he has a pretty
large following.  On his show he got two Arab-
Americans to go w/ him to various bases (he
rented a helicopter & flew over a sumbarine
base when they wouldn't let him in on the
ground).  He did get in to a chem wpn
storehouse which the PR people admitted had
enough of the same stuff we were looking for in
Iraq to kill everyone in  the Mideast 'if applied
properly.'   He also got some good shots of US
officials when he tried to show them his
findings.  As his punchline goes, 'It's ok to
inspect weapons of mass destruction as long
as they're somebody else's.'  I'll see if I can get
copies of this if anyone interested or maybe
someone can get the clips from
www.bravotv.com & sucessfully use them.

-- Ed Rippy


By the end of the millenium 5 men
controled the world's media.
And the people rejoiced,
because their TVs told them to.

-- Michael Moore

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From: hcaldic <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Job announcement
Date: 27 Sep 1999 15:01:04 -0400

Bob Tiller wrote:
>
>  JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
>
> Physicians for Social Responsibility, a national membership organization
> committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, is seeking an Associate
> Director of Security Programs, who will have responsibilities in two
> broad areas:
>
> 1. Research and Policy:
>      *Provide research and expertise on a broad range of nuclear weapons
> issues, including: plutonium disposition, cleanup of  DOE's nuclear
> weapons complex, nuclear waste disposition, nuclear weapons-related
> public health matters, the Stockpile Stewardship program, the
> Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, nonproliferation, de-alerting, and the
> ABM treaty.
>      *Monitor and report on legislative matters and executive branch
> developments in issue areas.
>      *Prepare fact sheets, articles and other materials for
> decision-makers and for activists.
>      *Assist in developing action strategies and advocacy initiatives.
>      *Conduct special projects.
>
> 2. Organizing and Education:
>      *Enlarge and strengthen PSR's activist network on nuclear issues.
>      *Produce educational materials for activists and chapters,
> including voter education materials and a bimonthly newsletter.
>      *Maintain regular communication with PSR chapters, activists and
> physician experts.
>      *Mobilize activists for action.
>      *Assist in coordinating national advocacy campaigns.
>      *Maintain and update the nuclear portion of PSR's website.
>      *Assist in drafting media statements.
>      *Assist in planning and organizing conferences, training programs
> and other education events.
>
> Qualifications:
>       -Commitment to abolition of nuclear weapons
>       -Knowledge of nuclear weapons issues
>       -Experience in working with grassroots activists
>       -Strong writing and speaking skills
>       -Ability to handle multiple tasks and to meet deadlines
>       -Ability to work both independently and cooperatively
>       -Minimum Bachelor's degree, Master's degree preferred
>       -Minimum of three years of relevant experience
>
> PSR encourages applications from women and minorities.
> Full benefits package.  Salary negotiable depending on expereience.  To
> apply, send resume to Robert Tiller, Physicians for Social
> Responsibility, 1101 14th St. N.W., Washington D.C. 20005.  E-mail
> <[e-mail]>
>
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    Bob, Please call me at 2026385900 ext 818 either today Monday or
tomorrow afternoon, Helen Caldicott



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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: S1287
Date: 27 Sep 1999 17:23:28 -0400

>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:41:00 -0400
>Subject: S1287
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>X-FC-Forwarded-From: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project
>
>"The Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1999" (S1287) may be considered
>by the Senate as early as the week of October 5th. This legislation would
>amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (amended 1987), which set in
>motion a study to determine whether Yucca Mountain, Nevada, was a suitable
>repository for all of the nation's nuclear waste. So far, indications are
>that Yucca Mountain is unsuitable for many reasons, including frequent
>nearby earthquakes and  the strong possibility of contaminating the
>groundwater under Yucca Mountain. The nuclear industry has been pushing for
>passage of S1287, and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has said that it is
>on his "short list" of bills to be considered before the end of the fall
>legislative session.  S1287 would make the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1996
>even worse by:
>
>        -authorizing the federal government to take title and assume
liability
for
>all commercial nuclear waste in the United States, including all storage
>costs. This provision     places the burden of paying for nuclear waste
>storage, disposal, and liability squarely on the shoulders of the
>taxpayers-
>and takes it off of the nuclear industry.
>
>        -allowing "backup storage" at the Yucca Mountain once construction is
>authorized, or at a private licensed site. Backup storage at Yucca Mountain
>or another       "temporary" site will mean the absolutely needless and
terribly
>risky transportation of radioactive waste from 77 sites through 43 states
>before a definite decision         has been made regarding the permanent
storage
>of
>radioactive waste. This bailout of the nuclear industry is unacceptable,
>and
>it endangers more than 50 million  Americans in their homes, schools, and
>churches because the waste will be travelling directly through their home
>towns.
>
>        -violating U.S. nuclear non-proliferation policy by setting up an
"Office
>of Spent Nuclear Fuel Research" to conduct research and development on
>plutonium and
>        reprocessing. Both reprocessing and transmutation allow for reuse of
>nuclear material.
>
>        -preventing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from setting
>"radiation safety standards"-the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) would
>be responsible   for setting these standards instead. In addition, the NRC
>would be forbidden by law to set release limits for deadly nuclear waste or
>to specifically protect   groundwater resources.
>
>ACT NOW!
>
>        -Contact your senators and tell them why they should OPPOSE this
bill.
A
>sample letter follows.  You can also use the sample letter as talking
>points
>to call your senators.
>
>        -Contact the White House and tell President Clinton that he should
VETO S
>1287. As him to officially announce a veto threat. Tell him the EPA should
>set radiation standards, not the NRC. Also, tell him that "backup storage"
>is too similar to "interim storage".
>
>SAMPLE LETTER TO SENATOR..
>
>
>DATE
>
>The Honorable _____________
>United States Senate
>Washington, DC  20510
>
>
>Dear Senator ________:
>
>I am writing to urge you to OPPOSE the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act
>of 1999 (S 1287). This bill compounds the shortsightedness that has plagued
>
>our country since the nuclear age began.
>
>S 1287 threatens the environment and public health and safety. The waste
>would travel through 43 states, exposing 50 million people to
>cancer-causing
>radiation. This legislation takes the authority to set radiation release
>standards at the nuclear waste disposal site away from the Environmental
>Protection Agency and gives it to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This
>action goes against current law, and it threatens public health and the
>environment because the NRC is willing to set any standard necessary to
>ensure the approval of a permanent repository site.
>
>S 1287 places the burden of paying for the mess made by nuclear waste
>generators on American taxpayers.  The bill's backup storage provision
>would
>allow for the absolutely needless and terribly risky transportation of
>nuclear waste  before final approval of a permanent repository. Further,
>the
>costs associated with transporting the waste and cleaning up the accidents
>will be borne by taxpayers.
>
>Finally, S 1287 violates U.S. nuclear non-proliferation policy by
>establishing an office specifically to research and develop nuclear fuel
>reprocessing technologies and share this information with other countries.
>Developing these technologies could make reprocessed plutonium-used to make
>nuclear weapons-more available.
>
>Please OPPOSE S 1287. Do not compound the shortsightedness of the past 50
>years. Vote against this bill, and vote for a sustainable future. Thank you
>for your consideration.
>
>Sincerely,
>(signature)
>
>
>======================================================
>Questions about the CMEP-list can be directed to [e-mail]
>========================================================
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Day Without the Pentagon actions October 1st & 2nd
Date: 27 Sep 1999 20:26:06 EDT

In a message dated 9/27/99 5:17:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

                     ************************************
                     *****DAY WITHOUT THE PENTAGON******
                     ************************************

         Join the War Resisters' League, the Socialist Party USA and others
in
 protest against the militarist priorities of our government in this year's
 local Day Without the Pentagon actions.

         On October 1st there will be a demonstration at Draper Labs at 4pm.
 Draper Labs is one of the hundred largest contractors of the Pentagon.  They
 spend millions of our tax dollars on military research for things such as
 missile guidance systems.  This same money could be going toward hirings
more
 teachers and educating students for a more prosperous future, or toward
 providing universal health care for all.

         We will continue the following day, October 2nd, at 1pm outside the
 Park Street T station.  We will join the CPHR (Committee for Peace and Human
 Rights) in their weekly vigil for the Iraqi people (and others) suffering
 from US sanctions and other beligerant foreign policies.  Then at 2pm we
will
 have a march to a nearby recruiting station where we will speak out about
 military recruitment in public schools (ROTC and JROTC) and the false
 promises of job training and tuition money that are often used to lure youth
 into joining.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re-send: Michael Moore's weapons inspections
Date: 28 Sep 1999 08:27:10 -0700

-- Sorry if this is a duplicate, I got a strange
'bounce' msg & am not sure if it was from an
indiv. or the list server:

As fate would have it, a friend of a friend
recorded the 'Awful Truth' episode in question
and it's heartening -- I think he has a pretty
large following.  On his show he got two Arab-
Americans to go w/ him to various bases (he
rented a helicopter & flew over a sumbarine
base when they wouldn't let him in on the
ground).  He did get in to a chem wpn
storehouse which the PR people admitted had
enough of the same stuff we were looking for in
Iraq to kill everyone in  the Mideast 'if applied
properly.'   He also got some good shots of US
officials when he tried to show them his
findings.  As his punchline goes, 'It's ok to
inspect weapons of mass destruction as long
as they're somebody else's.'  I'll see if I can get
copies of this if anyone interested or maybe
someone can get the clips from
www.bravotv.com & sucessfully use them.

-- Ed Rippy


By the end of the millenium 5 men
controled the world's media.
And the people rejoiced,
because their TVs told them to.

-- Michael Moore

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From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Reminder of upcoming conference
Date: 28 Sep 1999 13:10:21 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Friends and Activists,

This is a final reminder to return your registration form for the upcoming
meeting of the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.  Please fill out the
registration form included below and return to Carah Ong as soon as
possible.  If you have any questions or need any assistance, please feel
free to contact Carah at either by phone [phone] or by email
[e-mail].  Thank you for your continued support and participation
in this important effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons.  We look
forward to meeting and discussing the future of the US effort.

In Peace,
The Facilitator's Group





US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS -  NATIONAL MEETING

TO:   All activists who are working for the abolition of nuclear weapons and a
positive peace and justice policy in the United States

FROM:  The Facilitator's Group and Working Group Convenors of the US
CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS (partial list depleted by August
vacations, including but not limited to):
John Burroughs, Lawyer's Committee on Nuclear Policy, New York; Jackie
Cabasso and Andy Lichterman, Western States Legal Foundation,  California;
Alan Haber, Peace and Environment Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear
Weapons and Megiddo Peace Project,  Michigan; Odile Haber, Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section; Jan Harwood,
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section and
Abolition 2000 Coalition, Santa Cruz, California; Sally Light, Tri-Valley
Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, California; Pamela Meidell,
The Atomic Mirror, California; Bob Musil and Bob Tiller, Physicians for
Social Responsibility, Washington, DC; Carah Ong, Abolition 2000 Global
Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons; Esther Pank, Peace Links, Washington,
DC; Richard Salvador, Pacific Island Association of NGOs, Hawaii; Susan
Schaer, Women's
Action for New Directions, Washington, DC; Alice Slater, Global Resource
Action Center for the Environment, New York

WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU to participate in a national meeting of the US
CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS  which will take place on October 9, 10
and 11, 1999, in Ann Arbor, Michigan in connection with a nuclear abolition
teach-in and community forum at the University of Michigan.  We also
encourage you to come early and stay late for the teach-in and related
community forum activities! (see below)

We are continuing to develop plans for a coordinated US campaign in
furtherance of the MISSION STATEMENT and DECLARATION adopted at the
February 1999 meeting of some 60 organizations in Santa Barbara,
California, (see enclosed), and in recognition of the linkages between
democracy, power and nuclear weapons. The campaign will utilize the working
groups identified in Santa Barbara and resources provided by the
cooperating organizations. A brief
outline of the working groups is included.  We encourage you to contact the
convenors if you are interested in getting involved.

We hope that you and your organization will join us in this unified effort
to eliminate nuclear weapons and build towards a more peaceful and just
future. Please return the enclosed registration form right away! If you
have questions or would like to offer proposals for the agenda or the
campaign's structure or activities, or if you'd like to submit a working
paper, please respond to Carah Ong by September 15, if possible.  A
follow-up mailing is planned, which will include a meeting agenda,
proposals, and final teach-in schedule. (Carah's
contact information can be found on the registration form.)









US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
NATIONAL MEETING

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9: 9 a.m.:  Meeting activities begin; meeting continues all
day.  Agenda will include introductions, updates and reports, including
from the working groups, and reflections on the responses of the government
to questions from the community. The goal of the meeting is to lay the
foundation for and develop a national campaign for the abolition of nuclear
weapons. A full agenda will follow in a separate mailing. An informal
reception is scheduled in the evening at an historic building in downtown
Ann Arbor

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10:  Meeting continues all day

MONDAY, OCTOBER 11/INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY: 2 p.m.: Meeting ends (afternoon
activity may follow)


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMMUNITY FORUM/TEACH-IN

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1999

12:45 p.m. - Panel: Nuclear Proliferation
Peace Science Society Panelists: Russell Leng, Middlebury College; Mike Simon,
University of Iowa.  Moderator: J. David Singer, University of Michigan.

2:45 p.m.- Presentation: Chances of Accidental Nuclear Launch
Speaker: Bruce Blair, Brookings Institution

3:30 p.m. - Presentation: Environmental and Public Health Hazards of Nuclear
Weapons Production
Speaker: Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy & Environmental Research

4:15 p.m.-  Presentation: Serpent River First Nation People (tentative)

7:15 p.m.- Presentation: The Case Against Nuclear Weapons Abolition
Speaker: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Hoover Institution at Stanford University

8:15 p.m.- Presentation: The Need for International Agreements to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons.
Speaker: Merav Datan, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War

9:00 p.m.- Panel Discussion
Panelists: Blair, Makhijani, Bueno de Mesquita, and Datan

For information on the October 8 Community Forum:
www.nuclearabolition.research.umich.edu












FORUM ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS

- Monday evening October 11, 7-9 p.m. at the community college.  This not
part of our program but a separate event hosted by Representative Lynn
Rivers. Questions about the Monday evening forum should be directed to Lynn
Rivers office, [phone]; [e-mail]

The local Peace and Environmental Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear
Weapons is working to organize other events and activities prior to and
during the weekend of October 8-10.
Beginning October 4, programs are projected to include the politics of
abolition, the international abolition movement, nukes in space, stockpile
stewardship, new weapons,  weapons and energy, ethics, the environment,
affected peoples,  international law and terms of an abolition treaty, low
level radiation, health questions, depleted uranium, Israel, the bomb and
Mordechai Vanunu, India-Pakistan, Korea, Russia, NATO, new frontiers of
peace research,  the science of peace, and others.  Many schools and
departments of the University have been asked to host programs relevant to
their areas of knowledge. A film and video program is also being planned.
(Suggestions welcomed.)  Opportunities will be sought for the various
working groups of the US CAMPAIGN to 'report to the community' the state of
thought and work on
particular aspects of the nuclear question, such as direct action, civil
society, and indigenous people's concerns.  For further information and
inquiries about participation, please contact Alan Haber, [phone],
[e-mail]. A fuller schedule will be circulated in our follow up
letter.


LODGING IN ANN ARBOR

HOTEL: A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Hampton Inn at the
rate of $65 + tax per night, either single or double occupancy, including
continental breakfast. A shuttle will provide transportation to and from the
conference.

HOME STAYS: The local coalition is arranging home stays. Those who would
like to stay as a guest in the home of an Ann Arbor peace activist should
contact Shana Milkie by e-mail at [e-mail] or by phone at
734-332-1106.  E-mail is preferred.

A $25 suggested minimum donation is requested to help cover material and
location expenses, although no one will be turned away for inability to
contribute to conference costs.  Please include a check or money order with
your registration form. Make your check payable to "Abolition USA", and
write "conference donation" on the memo line.









US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
OCTOBER 9, 10 AND 11, 1999 MEETING REGISTRATION FORM

___  Yes, I plan to attend the meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  I have
enclosed a check or money order for $25 and my complete registration
information is below.

___  Yes, I plan to attend the meeting in Ann Arbor and am enclosing an
additional contribution of  $___   to help expand diversity at the meeting
and defray additional meeting expenses.

___  No, I cannot attend the meeting, but enclosed is my contribution of
$___   for a successful meeting and campaign launch.

Name                         ______________________________
Organization        ______________________________
Address                    ______________________________
                                      ______________________________
Phone                        ______________________________
Email                        ______________________________

__ Please reserve a room for me at the group rate of $65.00 s/d at the
Hampton Inn.  I understand that there is limited availability at the group
rate so I have provided my credit card number to reserve my room.  I
understand that there will be no charges to my credit card until I check
into my room but there is a 72 hour cancellation policy, so I must send
Carah Ong  my  cancellation notice at least three days prior to my
scheduled arrival.

___   I would like to share a room with:
(name)____________________________________________.

___   Please help me find a room mate, if possible.

I plan to arrive on (date) __________ and leave on (date)__________.
Please reserve
my room for (number)_____ nights.

Credit Card (circle one):  Visa  Mastercard  American Express  Discover
Diner's Card
Number  ____________________________________________________
Expiration Date  ___________________
Authorized Signature  __________________________________________

___   I will contact Shana Milkie by E-mail [e-mail] or by phone at
(734)332 -1106 and let her know I am interested in a home stay arranged by the
local coalition of Ann Arbor peace activists.

___   I will make my own arrangements for accommodations.

PLEASE RETURN THIS COMPLETED FORM, WITH YOUR VOLUNTARY
CONTRIBUTION, TO:

Carah Ong
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Rd., Suite 1
Santa Barbara, California 93108
Phone [phone] Fax [phone] E- mail: [e-mail]










US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
MISSION STATEMENT

To ensure a just, secure, healthy and sustainable world for our children,
grandchildren, all future generations and all living things, we aim to
educate public opinion and mobilize persistent popular pressure to move the
United States government to take prompt and unequivocal actions to
eliminate nuclear weapons.

These actions must include halting continued development of new and
modified nuclear weapons, de-alerting nuclear forces, addressing the
environmental degradation and human suffering arising from testing,
production, deployment and use of nuclear weapons, and undertaking
negotiations with other countries on a treaty for their elimination.

Our objective is nothing less than the universal, complete, verifiable, and
enduring abolition of nuclear weapons.

SANTA BARBARA DECLARATION

 From all corners of this land, representing diverse constituencies and
traditions, including indigenous nations, we have come together in common
cause, determined to end the threat to all life posed by nuclear weapons.

We recognize that nuclear weapons and the nuclear fuel cycle have caused
widespread suffering, death and environmental devastation.  We further
recognize that resources used for nuclear arms need to be redirected to
meeting human and environmental needs.

The United States bears special responsibility as the only country to use
nuclear weapons in war.  It continues to spend vast sums on its massive
nuclear weapons complex, and its current policies would upgrade and
maintain a huge nuclear arsenal far into the future.

The conference has initiated a campaign tailored to address the unique
obstacles in the United States to achieving nuclear weapons abolition.  Our
campaign builds upon the foundations laid by Abolition 2000 and other
efforts to abolish nuclear arms.  We commit our hearts, our spirits, and
our energy to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons and invite all
people of
goodwill to join us.
                                                                --  Santa
Barbara, February 14, 1999










WHY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN?

Statement by Alan Haber, US Campaign Liaison to the Michigan Peace and
Environmental Coalition for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

Our purpose in initiating and hosting this community forum, teach-in and
national action meeting is to assert the relevance and urgency  of public
education and policy change on the nuclear question.

We seek to bring the full intellectual, and knowledge resources of the
university and the community generally to the consideration of the nuclear
question, especially the urgency to embrace a policy change, directed to
the elimination of nuclear weapons, their removal from the world's
arsenals,  along with all other weapons of mass destruction, as well as
adopting  more affirmative peacemaking policies.

Leading work has gone on at the university in the study of peace and war,
conflict resolution, and transformation, general systems theory, social
organization, etc. an opportunity should be made available, in and of
itself to showcase this work, and  especially so in the  context of
considering changes in America's current strategic defense policies.

The weapons side of the nuclear question is our first focus. Ultimately all
aspects of the nuclear question are related.  The University of Michigan is
eminent in nuclear engineering; our previous president is a nuclear
engineer.  The post war  idea of "atoms for peace" virtually began at the
University of Michigan  and continues in the Phoenix laboratories on north
campus.  This is an appropriate,  knowledgeable environment in which to
consider and debate the nuclear question.

Nuclear waste is a byproduct of nuclear weapons, a well as of nuclear
energy. And how to deal with nuclear waste and clean it up is a matter of
national debate and  made especially urgent and relevant by the continuing
concern about nuclear waste and leaky kegs by Lake Michigan, and  the
distressed, dangerous Fermi2 plant by Lake Erie,  and also  the citizen
initiative for restoring the Great Lakes nuclear free zone embracing the
whole great lakes area in which
Michigan is central.

The first "teach-in" occurred at the University of Michigan, March 24,
1965,  and spread the debate about foreign policy, then concerned with the
Vietnam war,  across the country's campuses, and then to Washington, to
debate the government.  The high government officials we sought to reach
subsequently acknowledged in their memoirs and tapes that the questions,
the inter-university committee for debate on foreign policy, as it had come
to be called, were asking were the right questions  and they, the
government,  should have faced them more honestly, and directly then.

We hope this occasion also will propel debate across the country, and a
continuing interrogation of the government, on why it holds to a dangerous
destabilizing deterrence policy of nuclear and space age high tech weapons
in violation of treaty obligations , common sense and common humanity. We
believe the end of the cold war gives us a gift of time to get rid of these
weapons, before they somehow or other, bring catastrophe. Holocaust still
haunts the horizon.

The overwhelming leadership of the United States gives us opportunity here
to turn the tide.  America now is the main block to adopting a
comprehensive convention for the elimination of nuclear weapons.  We call
on the United States government to take a leadership in the world campaign
for the abolition of nuclear weapons.



US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS WORKING GROUPS

STAR WARS/ABM: This group was formed initially to respond quickly to the
legislation pending at the time of the Santa Barbara meeting authorizing
further research and limited  deployment of an anti-ballistic missile
system by the United States.  Ballistic missile defense continues to be a
key issue of concern for advocates of nuclear weapons abolition, due to
continuing development of the system, its potential to revive a
multilateral nuclear arms race,  and the controversy over its possible
extension in the Western Pacific.
*Convenor: Janet Michelle Cuevas (Promoting Enduring Peace, New York)
[e-mail]
=====================================================================
CIVIL SOCIETY CAMPAIGN TO ENROLL ORGANIZATIONS IN A BRIEF ABOLITION
STATEMENT AND CITY DIALOGUES ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT WITH PROMINENT MOVERS
AND SHAKERS WORKING GROUP: This working group covers several related
efforts aimed at mobilizing opinion via existing groups in civil society
and campaigns aimed at
elected officials in municipalities.  It includes various efforts to get
mayors and city and town governing bodies to endorse abolition statements,
as well as similar efforts aimed at non-governmental civic groups.
Campaigns represented within this working group include A campaign aimed at
creating discussion forums among "opinion leaders" in major cities on
nuclear weapons and their abolition; a campaign aimed at convincing a wide
range of civic groups to
endorse an abolition statement; and the campaign to obtain endorsement of
the Abolition 2000 statement by municipalities.
*Convenors: Pamela Meidell (The Atomic Mirror) [e-mail]; [phone];
Ed Aguilar (Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Philadelphia)[phone]
=====================================================================
CONGRESSIONAL FOCUS (Originally Congress and Administration, now split in
two):        This working group will focus on initiatives relevant to
nuclear weapons abolition in the US Congress.  Examples include the pending
Markey and Woolsey resolutions, aimed respectively at scaling back US
nuclear weapons research and production programs and at encouraging the
Administration to engage in meaningful negotiations to achieve abolition.
Its work encompasses
grassroots efforts to mobilize widespread attention to particular measures
and issues pending in Congress.
*Convenors: to be determined.
=====================================================================
ADMINISTRATION FOCUS:  This group will work to focus attention on the
nuclear weapons policies and activities of the Executive branch, trying in
particular to create forums for discussion and criticism of nuclear weapons
policies.  Its current initiative is a teach-in at the University of
Michigan on nuclear weapons issues, with the organizers hoping to get
administration officials to participate and to publicly debate critics of
existing  nuclear  weapons policies.  If the teach-in model works the hope
is to extend it to other campuses.
*Convenor: Alan Haber (Michigan Coalition of Peace and Environmental
Organizations)  [e-mail]; [phone]
====================================================================
YOUTH/CAMPUSES: This working group aims to raise the level of awareness among
young people about nuclear weapons and efforts to abolish them.  It will
work on the
teach-ins discussed in the Administration focus working group above.  It
will also attempt to gather and broaden the distribution of existing
nuclear weapons abolition materials aimed at a youth and campus audience.
*Convenor: Odile Haber  (Michigan Coalition of Peace and Environmental
Organizations) [e-mail]; [phone]






DIRECT ACTION:  Nonviolent direct action long has been a central part of the
movement to abolish nuclear weapons.  Despite a lack of media coverage,
direct action
continues at weapons and government  facilities around the country, from
the Nevada Test Site, to the weapons laboratories in Livermore, California
and Los Alamos, New Mexico, to Washington D.C. and the  newly opened Waste
Isolation Pilot Plant, also in New Mexico.   This working group will be a
place for people involved in particular direct action campaigns to raise
national awareness of their activities and  to exchange ideas and
information.  It also will try to provide resources which will be broadly
useful, for example nonviolence training materials and lists of nonviolence
trainers.
*Convenor: Matteo Ferreira (Shundahai Network) [e-mail];
[phone]
====================================================================
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ORGANIZING AND CONCERNS: The cycle of nuclear materials
mining and nuclear weapons testing and production always has had a
disproportionate impact on indigenous people world-wide.  Nuclear weapons
testing has occurred for the most part on the lands of indigenous peoples,
without regard for their sovereign rights, and with devastating effects on
people and their lands.  Indigenous people have taken the lead in many
parts of the globe both in making the connections between nuclear weapons
and the effects of the entire cycle of nuclear materials, nuclear power,
and nuclear weapons production, and in advocating for nuclear weapons
abolition.  This working group will provide a focus for making
these voices heard both inside and outside the movement.
*Convenors: Michele Xenos (Shundahai Network), [e-mail];
[phone]; Richard Salvador (Pacific Islands Association of NGOs)
[e-mail]; [phone]
====================================================================
NATO: This working group initially focused on the NATO 50th anniversary
meeting in Washington, D.C. in April, and the likelihood that NATO nuclear
weapons policies would be debated there. There has been interest in
continuing this as a working group, since the controversy over NATO nuclear
weapons policies, including a refusal to renounce first use, a potential
counter-proliferation role for nuclear weapons, and the expansion of NATO's
military scope to include broad out-of-area combat roles is likely to
continue for a long time.
*Convenors: to be determined
=====================================================================
INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS AND ISSUES: This working group aims at
coordinating the abolition campaign in the United States with efforts
world-wide, including Abolition 2000 and other efforts in particular
nations and regions to eliminate nuclear weapons.  With the emergence of a
new nuclear weapons and ballistic missile race in South Asia, growing
controversy over possible theater and domestic ballistic missile
deployments, and the stagnation of arms control negotiations, this working
group will help the abolition campaign in the US remain aware of the
effects US nuclear weapons and military policies have on efforts to achieve
abolition in other nuclear weapons states and globally.
*Convenors: Alice Slater (Global Resource Action Center for the
Environment) [e-mail]; [phone]; Richard Salvador
(Pacific Islands Association of NGOs) [e-mail]; [phone]or
3691;  David Krieger (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation) [e-mail];
[phone]











 AFFECTED COMMUNITIES:  Communities across the country have been affected
by half a century nuclear weapons research, testing, and production. They
range from workers at
DOE facilities to people who live downwind from those facilities to armed
services veterans exposed to nuclear tests.  Many of these groups already
have organized to put pressure on the Federal government to clean up the
environmental damage, to perform meaningful health and environmental
studies, and to provide compensation.  These groups share many of our
concerns, and often already are committed to abolition of nuclear weapons.
This working group will focus attention on the destructive legacy of
nuclear weapons, and will work to integrate these communities and their
concerns into the broader  campaign.
*Convenor: Joseph Gerson (American Friends Service Committee) [e-mail];
[phone]
=====================================================================
RESEARCH FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX:  This group will
focus on the activities of the nuclear weapons and production complex, and
will explore the impacts of continuing nuclear weapons research on the
global test ban and nonproliferation regime and on efforts to achieve
abolition.   It will also examine the overlap between nuclear weapons
research technologies and other emerging arms races which affect chances
for abolition, including anti-ballistic missile technologies, space
weaponry, and possible next-generation nuclear weapons.  The group will be
both a means to coordinate research efforts and to distribute relevant
information within the campaign and to a wider public.
*Convenors: Jackie Cabasso  (Western States Legal Foundation),
[e-mail],
[phone]; Sally Light (Tri-Valley CAREs), [e-mail],
[phone]
=====================================================================
MEDIA/CAMPAIGN LAUNCH:  This working group will be a place to develop and share
media strategies.  An initial  focus will be efforts to coordinate a
campaign launch that is cohesive and nationally visible.
 *Convenor: Steve Kent (Kent Communications) [e-mail];
[phone]
====================================================================
BOTTOM UP ORGANIZING (local movement building and making the connection to
other issues):  Through discussing and organizing around the way nuclear
weapons are connected to other social ills and injustices, from local
ecological devastation, distorted government  spending priorities,  and a
culture of violence which stretches from the state to the street to global
inequality, we can deepen our own understanding of what must be done to
achieve abolition of nuclear weapons,  as well as the understanding of
those we hope to persuade.
We then open up the possibility that we will become part of a larger
movement which can make the changes which could make abolition possible.
This working group will explore ways to make connections on the local level
with other organizing efforts which share some of our concerns, and by
doing so to help create the social movement needed to achieve the abolition
of nuclear weapons.
*Convenor: Andrew Lichterman (Western States Legal Foundation),
[e-mail]; [phone]
====================================================================
DEMOCRACY, POWER AND NUCLEAR WEAPONRY DRAFTING COMMITTEE: This working
group has taken responsibility for following through on the commitment made
in Santa
Barbara to develop a carefully thought out statement on the relationships
between democracy, power and nuclear weapons. A draft statement is
currently being prepared, to be circulated for comment in the near future.
*Temporary convenor: Carah Ong (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation),
[e-mail];  [phone]





Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
Santa Barbara CA 93108

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: France for Nuclear Remediation
Date: 28 Sep 1999 16:04:11 -0700

One of the best actions to deal with the radioactive wastes issues including
the mobile chernobyl Yucca Mountain plan is to actively work towards
fruition of new technologies to remediate nuclear wastes onsite via the Low
Energy Nuclear Transmutation (LENT) and Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR)
processes discovered as a "flip side" to the misnamed "cold fusion"
technologies still widely under development.  http://www.padrak.com/ine  and
http://www.infinite-energy.com

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>Date:  15 September 1999
>From:  Hal Fox <[e-mail]>
>To: <[e-mail]>
>Cc: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: France for Nuclear Remediation
>
>Dear Ira,
>
>I'm sorry I don't know your last name.  Thanks to an email from David
>Crockett Williams, I
>have been put in touch with you.
>
>In our laboratory we have shown that radioactive thorium (and we assume
>other dissolved
>radioactive materials) can be effectively removed from the solution.  We
>have been working
>with thorium because we do not have a license from the Atomic Energy
>Commission as a
>"hot lab".  Our measurement show that we can remove over 90 percent of
>the radioactive
>material from the solution in about a one-hour processing time.  There
>may be some
>radioactive materials in the precipitates that are formed.
>
>We have shown analytically that in a low-pressure gas environment, we
>can provide a
>positive-ion accelerator that can place "positive-ions on target" at
>about one million times
>higher density that with an current particle-accelerator technology.  We
>strongly believe that
>this will lead to the complete reduction of radioactive spent fuel
>pellets.
>
>We are seeking modest funding arrangements so that we can demonstrate
>this new technology
>for the handling of high-level radioactive wastes.  We desire to be
>affiliated with a private
>funding source to avoid the possible loss of rights to our intellectual
>property that can occur
>when working with U.S. government funds.  We would appreciate further
>communication
>with you.  Please send us your mailing address and we can forward copies
>of some of our
>technical papers.
>
>Best personal regards,  Hal Fox
>


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Subject: (abolition-usa) Nuclear Test Thursday
Date: 28 Sep 1999 16:59:36 -0700

Nuclear Test Oboe set for Thursday DOE confirms

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Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT (fwd)
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REPORT FROM VANDENBERG AFB, CA.

BY GLOBAL NETWORK COORDINATOR BRUCE GAGNON


Since I arrived in California I've been extremely busy and it has proven to be a good trip.  I began in Oakland and met with Andy Lichterman from the Western States Legal Foundation that does work around DOE facilities and they are active in Abolition 2000.  We spent several hours discussing the links between the technology development programs at DOE and he assures me that all the latest technologies developed for nuclear weapons are "dual" technologies that will be used in space weapons.  I invited him to speak at our April, 2000 conference in DC on the subject.

I drove south to Vandenberg from Oakland and spent the day before our protest doing alot of media calls and I visited the base with my local host Bud Boothe.  At the base we discovered that the Air Force has created a caged area that they wanted our protest to be in on 9/25 so we had to explain to them that we were not stupid and knew that we had the right to protest in front of the main gate.  We had the ACLU call them from Los Angeles and when we arrived for the demo on 9/25 the fenced area had been removed and we had no further problems from them.

The day before the protest we had four articles in newspapers in the region and one of them in Lompoc (the town nearest the base) had printed my letter to the base commander which detailed our reason for being here and our call for base personnel to "lay down your missiles."  We also discovered that the base paper had a front page warning to base personnel about the demo which was a help in creating discussion on the base. I really believe in this kind of activity because this is how I learned of the peace movement while being in the Air Force during the Vietnam War and seeing the impact of small demonstrations at the base I was stationed at in California during that period.

On the day of the demo we had 60 folks come from as far away as Los Angeles north to San Luis Obispo.  So we got great support from the whole region around the base and beyond.  The demo went well (vigiling and speakers) and when it was over a delegation of us took my letter to the commander, which by now had been signed by all present, and asked to see the commander.  They said he was not available but that we could give it to a Col. Lamb if we wished.  So they called him on the phone and soon enough he arrived. I looked him in the eye and explained it all for him and asked him to tell his boss to send the letter to his bosses in Washington DC. He said that he would do so.

We got extensive coverage of the demo on TV (first story on all three local stations) and good stories in the three pepers in the region the next day.  I had brought along the Darth Vader costume which a local man wore for the entire demo holding a sign that read "No weapons in space" and that image was the primary visual that came across on TV and in the newspaper.

Since then I've done another newspaper interview with a weekly in Santa Barbara and two radio shows.  One of them invited me to write a 90-second editorial which they had me come into the studio and tape and they will broadcast it twice.  While in their lobby I noticed that the station had been voted the best radio station in Santa Barbara by readers of the local newspaper in 1997.

On 9/29 we will go back to the base for a early morning vigil from 7-9 am.  Folks from the Catholic Worker House in Los Angeles who could not make the 9/25 demo will come and join with us.  After that I'll head home.

The test had originally been planned for 9/29 but was changed to 10/2.  We feel quite certain that they postponed it due to our presence at the base.

The best thing is that my expenses for the trip have only cost $500 (airfare and car rental).  A local person gave me a check for the GN in the amount of $500 so this whole thing cost us very little.  I can assure you that local activists are very grateful that we have done this and the cooperation has been wonderful.  People from different cities who haven't met before have now and I hope that they will continue to protest the BMD system at Vandenberg in the near future.

One thing I have been telling everyone is that I read in "Aviation Week & Space Technology" last week that the Air Force is moving quickly on space based lasers that they hope to deploy soon after they get the go-ahead to deploy the BMD system.  It is my belief that the so-called "defensive" BMD system is really intended to get the foot in the door, and then they bring on-line the other technologies that will surely be "offensive" in nature.

I've been handing out copies of the Space Command's "Vision for 2020" to all the media I meet and I'm sure to point out the picture in the back of a space based laser firing at a target on earth.

I do hope that people worldwide will pick up the pace on resistance to Star Wars as we move closer to the June, 2000 date where Clinton is expected to give the go-head for early deployment.  Please help us build the pressure.

I conclude my suggesting that the GN consider holding one of our future meetings in this region.  The level of space warfare work going on in southern California is staggering.

In peace,

Bruce Gagnon


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Please send this out to our e-mail list ASAP.  Bruce


REPORT FROM VANDENBERG AFB, CA.

BY GLOBAL NETWORK COORDINATOR BRUCE GAGNON


Since I arrived in California I've been extremely busy and it has proven to be a good trip.  I began in Oakland and met with Andy Lichterman from the Western States Legal Foundation that does work around DOE facilities and they are active in Abolition 2000.  We spent several hours discussing the links between the technology development programs at DOE and he assures me that all the latest technologies developed for nuclear weapons are "dual" technologies that will be used in space weapons.  I invited him to speak at our April, 2000 conference in DC on the subject.

I drove south to Vandenberg from Oakland and spent the day before our protest doing alot of media calls and I visited the base with my local host Bud Boothe.  At the base we discovered that the Air Force has created a caged area that they wanted our protest to be in on 9/25 so we had to explain to them that we were not stupid and knew that we had the right to protest in front of the main gate.  We had the ACLU call them from Los Angeles and when we arrived for the demo on 9/25 the fenced area had been removed and we had no further problems from them.

The day before the protest we had four articles in newspapers in the region and one of them in Lompoc (the town nearest the base) had printed my letter to the base commander which detailed our reason for being here and our call for base personnel to "lay down your missiles."  We also discovered that the base paper had a front page warning to base personnel about the demo which was a help in creating discussion on the base. I really believe in this kind of activity because this is how I learned of the peace movement while being in the Air Force during the Vietnam War and seeing the impact of small demonstrations at the base I was stationed at in California during that period.

On the day of the demo we had 60 folks come from as far away as Los Angeles north to San Luis Obispo.  So we got great support from the whole region around the base and beyond.  The demo went well (vigiling and speakers) and when it was over a delegation of us took my letter to the commander, which by now had been signed by all present, and asked to see the commander.  They said he was not available but that we could give it to a Col. Lamb if we wished.  So they called him on the phone and soon enough he arrived. I looked him in the eye and explained it all for him and asked him to tell his boss to send the letter to his bosses in Washington DC. He said that he would do so.

We got extensive coverage of the demo on TV (first story on all three local stations) and good stories in the three pepers in the region the next day.  I had brought along the Darth Vader costume which a local man wore for the entire demo holding a sign that read "No weapons in space" and that image was the primary visual that came across on TV and in the newspaper.

Since then I've done another newspaper interview with a weekly in Santa Barbara and two radio shows.  One of them invited me to write a 90-second editorial which they had me come into the studio and tape and they will broadcast it twice.  While in their lobby I noticed that the station had been voted the best radio station in Santa Barbara by readers of the local newspaper in 1997.

On 9/29 we will go back to the base for a early morning vigil from 7-9 am.  Folks from the Catholic Worker House in Los Angeles who could not make the 9/25 demo will come and join with us.  After that I'll head home.

The test had originally been planned for 9/29 but was changed to 10/2.  We feel quite certain that they postponed it due to our presence at the base.

The best thing is that my expenses for the trip have only cost $500 (airfare and car rental).  A local person gave me a check for the GN in the amount of $500 so this whole thing cost us very little.  I can assure you that local activists are very grateful that we have done this and the cooperation has been wonderful.  People from different cities who haven't met before have now and I hope that they will continue to protest the BMD system at Vandenberg in the near future.

One thing I have been telling everyone is that I read in "Aviation Week & Space Technology" last week that the Air Force is moving quickly on space based lasers that they hope to deploy soon after they get the go-ahead to deploy the BMD system.  It is my belief that the so-called "defensive" BMD system is really intended to get the foot in the door, and then they bring on-line the other technologies that will surely be "offensive" in nature.

I've been handing out copies of the Space Command's "Vision for 2020" to all the media I meet and I'm sure to point out the picture in the back of a space based laser firing at a target on earth.

I do hope that people worldwide will pick up the pace on resistance to Star Wars as we move closer to the June, 2000 date where Clinton is expected to give the go-head for early deployment.  Please help us build the pressure.

I conclude my suggesting that the GN consider holding one of our future meetings in this region.  The level of space warfare work going on in southern California is staggering.

In peace,

Bruce Gagnon


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Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT (fwd)
Date: 29 Sep 1999 01:02:47 EDT

How can I obtain the Vision 2020 document that details the Air Force plan.
Jonathan Granoff

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From: hcaldic <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT (fwd)
Date: 29 Sep 1999 04:28:29 -0400

Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space wrote:
>


    Bruce, I've been talking to Carol Rosin recently and she is also deeply
concerned about weapons in space and feels that it is almost too late.
Her number is 8056411999, Sincerely Helen
> Bruce K. Gagnon
> Coordinator
> Global Network
> PO Box 90083, Gainesville, Fl 32607
> Web site:  http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/
> [phone]
>
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> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:23:46 EDT
> From: [e-mail]
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Fwd: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT
>
>
>
>     ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: VANDENBERG STAR WARS DEMO REPORT
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:04:08 -0700
> From: "Bruce K. Gagnon" <[e-mail]>
> Organization: HotBot Mail (http://mail.hotbot.com:80)
> To: "Mary Beth Sullivan" <[e-mail]>
> CC: "Dave Webb" <[e-mail]>
>
> MB,
>
> Please send this out to our e-mail list ASAP.  Bruce
>
> REPORT FROM VANDENBERG AFB, CA.
>
> BY GLOBAL NETWORK COORDINATOR BRUCE GAGNON
>
> Since I arrived in California I've been extremely busy and it has proven to be a good trip.  I began in Oakland and met with Andy Lichterman from the Western States Legal Foundation that does work around DOE facilities and they are active in Abolition 2000.  We spent several hours discussing the links between the technology development programs at DOE and he assures me that all the latest technologies developed for nuclear weapons are "dual" technologies that will be used in space weapons.  I in
>
> I drove south to Vandenberg from Oakland and spent the day before our protest doing alot of media calls and I visited the base with my local host Bud Boothe.  At the base we discovered that the Air Force has created a caged area that they wanted our protest to be in on 9/25 so we had to explain to them that we were not stupid and knew that we had the right to protest in front of the main gate.  We had the ACLU call them from Los Angeles and when we arrived for the demo on 9/25 the fenced area ha
>
>
>
>
>
> We got extensive coverage of the demo on TV (first story on all three local stations) and good stories in the three pepers in the region the next day.  I had brought along the Darth Vader costume which a local man wore for the entire demo holding a sign that read "No weapons in space" and that image was the primary visual that came across on TV and in the newspaper.
>
> Since then I've done another newspaper interview with a weekly in Santa Barbara and two radio shows.  One of them invited me to write a 90-second editorial which they had me come into the studio and tape and they will broadcast it twice.  While in their lobby I noticed that the station had been voted the best radio station in Santa Barbara by readers of the local newspaper in 1997.
>
> On 9/29 we will go back to the base for a early morning vigil from 7-9 am.  Folks from the Catholic Worker House in Los Angeles who could not make the 9/25 demo will come and join with us.  After that I'll head home.
>
> The test had originally been planned for 9/29 but was changed to 10/2.  We feel quite certain that they postponed it due to our presence at the base.
>
> The best thing is that my expenses for the trip have only cost $500 (airfare and car rental).  A local person gave me a check for the GN in the amount of $500 so this whole thing cost us very little.  I can assure you that local activists are very grateful that we have done this and the cooperation has been wonderful.  People from different cities who haven't met before have now and I hope that they will continue to protest the BMD system at Vandenberg in the near future.
>
> One thing I have been telling everyone is that I read in "Aviation Week & Space Technology" last week that the Air Force is moving quickly on space based lasers that they hope to deploy soon after they get the go-ahead to deploy the BMD system.  It is my belief that the so-called "defensive" BMD system is really intended to get the foot in the door, and then they bring on-line the other technologies that will surely be "offensive" in nature.
>
> I've been handing out copies of the Space Command's "Vision for 2020" to all the media I meet and I'm sure to point out the picture in the back of a space based laser firing at a target on earth.
>
> I do hope that people worldwide will pick up the pace on resistance to Star Wars as we move closer to the June, 2000 date where Clinton is expected to give the go-head for early deployment.  Please help us build the pressure.
>
> I conclude my suggesting that the GN consider holding one of our future meetings in this region.  The level of space warfare work going on in southern California is staggering.
>
> In peace,
>
> Bruce Gagnon
>
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From: Shundahai Network <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Action Alert: Nuclear Test Thursday
Date: 29 Sep 1999 18:26:17 -0700

Shundahai Network

5007 Elmhurst Ln, Las Vegas NV 89108

Ph. 702-647-3095 fax [phone]

Web: www.shundahai.org

Email: [e-mail]


Hello friends.

This action alert is about the sub-critical nuclear test scheduled for th=
ursday. We have had great TV and press response. We hope that you can joi=
n us to call attention to nuclear testing and Yucca Mountain. Shundahai N=
etwork will be featured on channel 8 in  Las Vegas in a five minute live =
interview on the 9:30pm news. Tomorrow is Don't Waste Nevada Day. Jackson=
 Browne will be performing at a benefit dinner to support efforts to pres=
erve Yucca Mountain at the Lake Las Vegas Resort.  Don't forget your drum=
s and constumes and we'll see some of you there.  Shundahai, Michelle





DEDICATED TO BREAKING THE NUCLEAR CHAIN

Sept 29, 1999


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                CONTACT: Michelle Xenos 702 647 3095

                                    =09

DRUMS VERSUS "OBOE" : PROTESTORS DENOUNCE

THE LAST U.S. SUBCRITICAL PLUTONIUM EXPLOSION OF THE MILLENNIUM


    On Thursday, September 30th at the Foley Federal Building on Las Vegas B=
oulevard at Bridger,  drummers will demonstrate their opposition to nucle=
ar testing and waste. From 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm the musical activists from =
local anti-nuclear organizations will beat drums outside the Federal offi=
ces against the day's Subcritical Nuclear Test, "Oboe" (the 7th of 40 sch=
eduled nuclear tests).=20


    Also, some of the same activists will hold a morning Sunrise Ceremony at=
 the Nevada Test Site on Thursday September 30th, as one final attempt to=
 stop this "last blast of the century." After the ceremony the prayerful =
group will take nonviolent direct action at the Test Site entrance, visib=
le from the Mercury Exit on U.S. Highway 95, 65 miles north of Las Vegas.=
=20

=09

    Every September 30th is Nevada is Not a Wasteland Day, as proclaimed by =
Governor Miller in 1997. "It is outrageous that the D.O.E. continues to c=
onduct nuclear tests. Nevadans are seriously opposed to nuclear waste in =
this state. When are we going to realize that nuclear weapons testing cre=
ates waste that is putting more lives at risk? The D.O.E. has admitted th=
eir programs have serious health impacts on the public," says Michelle Xe=
nos of the Shundahai Network. In the past week there have been hearings a=
nd media coverage regarding the proposed Yucca Mountain waste repository,=
 adjacent to the Nevada Test Site (N.T.S.). Nevada is Not a Wasteland Day=
 was created for Nevadans to honor the commitment against nuclear waste u=
ntil the Yucca Mountain Project has been terminated. Meanwhile the D.O.E.=
 daily dumps  low-level nuclear waste at the N.T.S. that is from the nucl=
ear weapons industry.   Oboe is supposed to be detonated at the Nevada Te=
st Site on September 30th.=20


    "All these tests must be stopped now," according to Marcus P. Blaise Pag=
e of the Nevada Desert Experience, "Our people--the people of the United =
States--are making radioactive waste at every step in the process: from t=
he uranium mining, throughh the processing into plutonium, through the su=
bcritical explosion of the plutonium, humans create more of this =91poiso=
n fire'." The Nevada Desert Experience has been sponsoring prayer, direct=
 action, retreats, and walks to the Test Site since 1982.=20


    Tomorrow's afternoon action is Part Two of "Drum Down Babylon Daze," in =
which peace and environmental activists visit governmental offices to req=
uest the halting of all nuclear weapons tests."Don't be part of the Silen=
t Majority--I'd rather hear a drum beat than a sour note!" says Gregor Ga=
ble of the Shundahai Network.


    Free Radio Vegas will broadcast the event on 87.9 FM radio for passing m=
otorists to tune in and learn about the day's activities. Gary Peck from =
the ACLU will be on hand to protect the activists' civil rights.=20

><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><<
><<><< ><<><<


SHUNDAHAI NETWORK

"Peace and Harmony with all Creation"

<paraindent><param>out,out</param>5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV
89108-1304 =20

Phone:[phone] (FAX)647-9385 =20

</paraindent>Email: [e-mail]

<underline><color><param>0000,0000,fefe</param>http://www.shundahai.org


</color></underline>Shundahai Network is proud to be part of:

US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons=20

Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons

& Healing Global Wounds Alliance

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From: "Sally Light" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Tri-Valley CAREs' Press Release re: "Oboe 1" Subcritical Nuclear Test on 9/30/99
Date: 29 Sep 1999 20:09:19 +0100

                For Immediate Release
September 29, 1999
Contacts: Sally Light, Tri-Valley CAREs at [phone] or (925) 443-71=
48
        Sherry Larsen-Beville, Livermore Conversion Project at (510) 663-806=
5

 =93OBOE=94 SUBCRITICAL NUCLEAR TEST BLASTS A SOUR NOTE.=20
OUTRAGED ACTIVISTS HOLD SAN FRANCISCO DEMONSTRATION.=20
OTHER PROTESTS  WORLDWIDE.

Local activists are holding a demonstration tomorrow, September 30, at no=
on
at the international headquarters of the Bechtel Group in San Francisco.=20
They are protesting the US Department of Energy=92s (DOE) detonation of a
subcritical nuclear test, code named =93Oboe 1,=94 at the Nevada Test Sit=
e.=20
The seventh such test in a series which began in 1997, =93Oboe 1=94 will =
be
detonated Thursday, Sept. 30).  Bechtel, which operates the Nevada Test
Site (NTS) for the DOE, is located at 50 Beale Street, San Francisco (1
block south of Market St., close to the Embarcadero BART station).

=93It=92s an outrage that DOE continues with yet another test that flies =
in the
face of the US=92 international treaty obligations, including the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and the Non-Proliferation Treaty,=94
stated Sally Light, Nuclear Program Analyst with Tri-Valley CAREs, the=20
Livermore-based =93watchdog=94 over the Lawrence Livermore National Labor=
atory
where nuclear weapons are designed.  Livermore Lab was the primary prepar=
er
of the technical package for =93Oboe 1.=94

Subcritical nuclear tests involve blowing up high explosives along with
fissile material such as plutonium 239.  Performed underground in special=
ly
prepared rooms, subcritical tests are used as a to study what happens to
the plutonium during the detonations.   =93Oboe 1=94 is the first in a La=
wrence
Livermore National Laboratory series of subcritical experiments to be
conducted over the next year, focusing on the plutonium ejecta caused by
the detonation of high explosives.  =93Oboe 1=94 is the first subcritical
nuclear test at NTS to be placed in a steel vessel underground in the U1a
tunnel complex before detonation.

The DOE states that the purpose of these tests is to ensure the safety &
reliability of the nuclear stockpile.  However, activists and other criti=
cs
claim the tests are related to nuclear weapons research & development, an=
d,
therefore, are illegal pursuant to international treaties requiring nucle=
ar
powers to end the development of nuclear weapons and to achieve eventual
nuclear disarmament. =20

DOE also claims that, since subcritical tests do not rise to the level of
self-staining chain reactions, they are not true nuclear tests and thus
comply with the CTBT.  Critics, however, argue that they are nuclear test=
s
because fissile material is used and also because they are performed to
further nuclear weapons R & D, only narrowly skirting the issue of whethe=
r
they legally violate the CTBT.  =93Certainly, subcritical nuclear tests
violate the spirit if not the letter of the CTBT,=94 stated Sherry
Larsen-Beville of the Livermore Conversion Project located in Oakland.  S=
he
went on to explain that subcritical nuclear tests undermine the CTBT=92s
current international ratification, a process that must include 44 nation=
s.
 Additionally, subcritical testing also promotes an international arms
race.  =93We had hoped that the =93cold war=94 was really over,=94 she sa=
id.=20
=93Unfortunately, Russia has answered the US=92s subcritical tests with a
series of their own, which raises the spectre of a renewed arms race.  Th=
is
is a giant step in the wrong direction.=94

=93We=92re demonstrating to make DOE and Bechtel aware that subcritical t=
ests
must be stopped immediately,=94 said Ms Light.  =93They are a serious ris=
k to
the health & safety of both the Western Shoshone tribe on whose land the
tests take place, a serious danger to the environment, and a serious thre=
at
to the planet=92s security,=94 she summed up.=20

Added Ms. Larsen-Beville, =93We ask that the US, which created the nuclea=
r
era, now end it.  Other nations look to the US to take up the mantle of
being the post-cold war leader in nuclear disarmament.   Complying with t=
he
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the CTBT by ending subcritical tests
would be an excellent first step in the process.=94 =20

In addition to the San Francisco demonstration, others will occur in Neva=
da
at both the Nevada Test Site and in Las Vegas, as well as in Japan,
Australia and Europe.

For further information, please contact Tri-Valley CAREs at (925) 443-714=
8
or [phone].

-30-=20

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From: Andrew Lichterman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Michigan Teach-in Web Site
Date: 30 Sep 1999 11:19:57 -0700

    The web addresses below provide information about the teach-in on nuclear weapons issues
scheduled for October 4-11 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. A number of Abolition
2000 groups will have speakers on panels during the course of the week.  An organizing
meeting for a US abolition network and campaign will be held in Ann Arbor from October
9-11.  If you are interested in attending the October 9-11 organizing meeting and have not
yet registered, please note that the invitation and registration information has been posted
previously to this list (most recently reposted 9-28 by Nuclear Age Peace Foundation).

Please note that the schedule of panels and other events for the week continues on the
sub-page "Additional programs on nuclear weapons abolition" some way down this web page.

Main page:

http://www.nuclearabolition.research.umich.edu/index.html

sub page with more extensive listing of events:

http://www.nuclearabolition.research.umich.edu/haber.html

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From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Request for information
Date: 30 Sep 1999 10:16:06 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Friends and Activists,

If you are planning to attend the upcoming conference for the US Campaign
to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in Ann Arbor, Michigan, please send a brief
statement concerning your biographical information to me via email to the
following address:

[e-mail]

Thank you for your support.  I look forward to meeting you next week.

In Peace,
Carah


Carah Lynn Ong
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Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
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From: Jackie Cabasso <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NUKE-WASTE: Reuters Update on Japanes Nuclear Accident
Date: 30 Sep 1999 13:04:14 -0700

>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:54:46 -0400
>From: Bob Schaeffer <[e-mail]>
>Sender: [e-mail]
>Subject: NUKE-WASTE: Reuters Update on Japanes Nuclear Accident
>To: "ANA (all)" <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
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>
>   Here's the international wire service Reuter's status report at
>3:30pm Eastern Daylight time on Friday.
>
>  JAPAN N-PLANT HAS 15,000 TIMES NORMAL RADIATION
>

>Updated 3:27 PM ET September 30, 1999
>
>  TOKYO (Reuters) - Radiation levels were 15,000 times normal 1.2 miles
>from the site of Thursday morning's nuclear accident, a
>  local government official said early Friday.
>
>  "As of late Thursday night, 3.1 millisievert of neutrons per hour, or
>about 15,000 times the normal level of radiation, was detected two
>  kilometers (1.2 miles) from the accident site," an Ibaraki Prefecture
>official told Reuters.
>
>  The official said radiation was too high to allow safety experts to
>approach the uranium processing plant.
>
>  "It's not a situation where you can get close to the actual site," the
>Ibaraki official said. "What we are trying to do now is come up with
>  measures to contain or extract the radiation from around it."
>
>  The country's worst nuclear accident is believed to have exposed at
>least 19 people to radiation. Two are in serious condition.
>
>  Local authorities have also instructed 313,000 people living within
>the 6-mile radius of the site to stay indoors. The plant, 90 miles
>  northeast of Tokyo, turns liquid uranium into pellets for sale to
>nuclear power plants.
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Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director
WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION
1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, California USA 94612
Tel: +[phone]
Fax: +[phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
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Western States Legal Foundation is part of  ABOLITION 2000
A GLOBAL NETWORK TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Request for information
Date: 30 Sep 1999 16:23:16 -0400


ALICE SLATER is President of the Global Resource Action Center for the
Environment (GRACE) working to form links between the research, policy, and
grassroots communities in order to promote solutions to preserve the future of
the planet and protect the quality of the environment.  She is a founder of
Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear
weapons,  a Co-Convenor of its Sustainable Energy Working Group,  and Convenor
of the Abolition 2000 New York Metro Working Group. Ms. Slater is a member of
the Facilitators Group of the US Abolition Campaign and a Co-Convenor of
the US
Abolition CampaignÆs Working Group for International Affairs.  She serves on
the Executive Committee of the Middle Powers Initiative, formed to influence
the nuclear weapons states to move more swiftly to nuclear abolition, the NYC
Bar AssociationÆs Committee on Military Affairs, is a board member of the
Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS) and Vice Chair of its New York
chapter, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Lawyers Committee for
Nuclear Policy.  She serves on the Executive Committee of STAR (Standing for
Truth About Radiation) focussed on nuclear contamination at New YorkÆs
Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Millstone nuclear reactors in
Connecticut.  She is a UN NGO Representative and has organized numerous
conferences, panels, and roundtables at the UN on nuclear and environmental
issues and has spoken frequently at meetings and conferences in the US and
internationally

Prior to joining GRACE, Ms. Slater left her partnership in a New York City law
firm to serve as Executive Director of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction
where she organized its UN program and participated as an NGO at various UN
conferences including the Non-Proliferation Treaty Extension and Renewal
Conference where Abolition 2000 was founded. Ms. Slater organized the New York
Coalition to amend the Limited Test Ban Treaty to a Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty and worked to revitalize that group in 1993 when it played a key
role in
the successful effort to extend the US nuclear testing moratorium.. She is the
Associate Producer of a video program, After Hiroshima: Remembrance,
Reflection,
and the Future which was aired numerous times on WNET and other PBS stations,
has had articles, interviews, op-eds, and letters published in numerous
periodicals, and has appeared frequently on radio and television, most
recently
on Channel 27 on Long Island representing STAR at an East Hampton Town Board
Meeting which agreed to hold a referendum on the closing of the Millstone
nuclear reactor across Long Island Sound in Connecticut.

Ms. Slater has two children; a son David, an attorney in New York and a
daughter Helen, an actor in Los Angeles and the mother of her first
grandchild,
Hannah.  Ms. Slater views her work as an extension of her original vocation of
housework.  We need to tell the boys to put away the toys of war and put our
global house in order -- drastically curtailing military spending in order to
meet the needs of our world family and preserve the health of our planet.




Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Information for Upcoming Meeting
Date: 30 Sep 1999 13:43:36 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Friends and Activists,

If you plan on attending the upcoming meeting of the US Campaign to abolish
Nuclear Weapons in Ann Arbor, please forward your flight itinerary to me as
soon as possible if you have not done so already.  I appreciate your help
and cooperation in this matter.  Thank you very much.

In Peace,
Carah ONg


Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
Santa Barbara CA 93108

Phone [phone]  FAX[phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Website http://www.wagingpeace.org/abolition2000

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From: "Joan Wade" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Information for Upcoming Meeting
Date: 30 Sep 1999 17:05:55 -0400

Hello Carah,

My flight info is as follows:

Sat. October 9th arrive in Detroit on Northwest flight 85 at 11:03 am.
Sun. October 10th leave Detroit on Northwest flight 230 at 5:20 pm.
--
Joan L. Wade
Disarmament Clearinghouse Coordinator
1101 14th Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC, 20010
Ph: [phone] x232
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: http://www.disarmament.org


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From: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Information for Upcoming Meeting
Date: 30 Sep 1999 19:41:32 -0400 (EDT)

Carsh,

I arrive in Detroit at 11am on Oct 7.

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network
PO Box 90083, Gainesville, Fl 32607
Web site:  http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/
[phone]



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From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Transportation Information
Date: 30 Sep 1999 18:30:03 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Friends and Activists,

Below is information and suggestions for transportation from DTW to Ann
Arbor.  If you have difficulty arranging your transportation from DTW,
please contact me as soon as possible.

In Peace,
Carah Ong

Commuter Transportation Co.: DTW to Ann Arbor

Phone: [phone] (from DTW)
Phone: [phone] (from any United States location)


Service provided to Westin, Omni, Cobo Hall, Leland, Ann Arbor,
Pontchartrain, and Days Inn. Purchase ticket at Commuter Counter.
Call for fare and schedule information.

Taxi: DTW to Ann Arbor

Fares: 1 person - $ 34.80; 2 people - 34.80; 3 people - 34.80

Detriot Metropolitan Airport
Phone: [phone] (from any United States location)

Taxis are available on the ground transportation level of all three
terminals. Luxury cabs (full size sedans) are 15% higher.
Check with dispatcher for additional passenger surcharge.


Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator, Abolition 2000
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
Santa Barbara CA 93108

Phone [phone]  FAX[phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Website http://www.wagingpeace.org/abolition2000

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From: "Sally Light" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Information for Upcoming Meeting
Date: 30 Sep 1999 23:17:52 +0100

Dear Carah,

I arrive at Detroit Metro Airport on Friday, Oct. 8, at 9:18 pm on America
West flight #354.

I depart from Detroit Metro Airport on Monday, Oct. 11, at 4:35 pm on
America West flight #2035.

Thanks.

Sally Light

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> From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: (abolition-usa) Information for Upcoming Meeting
> Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 9:43 PM
>
> Dear Friends and Activists,
>
> If you plan on attending the upcoming meeting of the US Campaign to
abolish
> Nuclear Weapons in Ann Arbor, please forward your flight itinerary to me
as
> soon as possible if you have not done so already.  I appreciate your help
> and cooperation in this matter.  Thank you very much.
>
> In Peace,
> Carah ONg
>
>
> Carah Lynn Ong
> Coordinator, Abolition 2000
> Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
> 1187 Coast Village Road PMB 121, Suite 1
> Santa Barbara CA 93108
>
> Phone [phone]  FAX[phone]
> Email: [e-mail]
> Website http://www.wagingpeace.org/abolition2000
>
> Join the Abolition-USA or Abolition-Global Caucus list serve to regularly
> receive updates about the Abolition movement.  Both caucus' also provide
a
> forum for conversation on nuclear-related issues as well as they are used
> to post important articles and information pertaining to nuclear
abolition.
>
>
> To subscribe to the Abolition-USA listerve, send a message (with no
> subject) to:
> [e-mail]
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> "subscribe abolition-usa" (do not include quotation marks)
>
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>  [e-mail]
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no
> subject) to: [e-mail]
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