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abolition-usa-digest      Monday, March 15 1999      Volume 01 : Number 089




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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:32:50 -0500
From: Kathy Crandall <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) The REAL STAR WARS UPDATE

 STAR WARS UPDATE

Just passing this on from John Isaacs, Council for a Livable World:

Please continue to generate calls and faxes to your Senators today, over

the weekend and Monday,

Capitol  Switchboard [phone]

If you have questions, want to know more about what you can do, please
contact
Bob Tiller at PSR  [phone] ext. 220 [e-mail]
Fran Teplitz at Peace Action [phone] [e-mail]


*******************************************************
The latest on the Senate schedule -- Majority Leader Trent Lott has just

announced (around 6:00 P.M. on Thursday) that the Cochran National
Missile Defense bill will in fact come up next week, the week of March
15.  The
Senate has one more vote on the education bill Thursday evening; there
are no Senate votes on Friday or Monday.

Senator Lott also announced that there will no cloture vote on the
Cochran bill, S.257, but rather that the Senate will proceed directly to
the
bill and to debate thereon.  This announcement comes after a negotiated
agreement with Senator Daschle and other Democrats, but the details are
not clear at this point.

Reminder:  The House is still expected to take up the Weldon-Spratt
(H.R.4) missile defense bill on Thursday, March 18. The House leadership

first hopes to host the Rumsfeld commission on missile defense threats
in a
closed briefing for House members.

When the Weldon-Spratt bill comes up, Rep. Tom Allen plans to offer a
substitute measure -- subject to approval by the House Rules Committee
- -- that places conditions on any national missile defense deployment.

John


John Isaacs, President
Council for a Livable World
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:18:48 -0700
From: swesterly <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) send messages re: the activists murdered in Columbia

http://www.alphacdc.com/ien/colombia.html

                                    Death of activists in Columbia

                                              Madison, March 5,1999



                The Colombia Support Network deplores and condemns in the
strongest terms the murder of three United
                States citizens who were kidnapped near the U'Wa lands in
Arauca in Eastern Colombia. These three
                persons were on a mission to promote peace and wellbeing
for the people of Colombia, particularly for
                the U'Wa indigenous peoples whom they had just visited.
Their killing is an outrage. The perpetrators of
                this infamous crime must be located and brought to justice.

                It is not at all clear which armed group is responsible for
the kidnapping and murder. We call upon the
                Colombian authorities to act professionally and promptly to
investigate to determine who kidnapped and
                killed Ingrid, Terry and Gay and to arrest and try all
those responsible for this crime. CSN, with
                headquarters in Ingrid's home state of Wisconsin, offers
its assistance and good offices to help.

                                                   JOHN I.LAUN

                      President CSN





                Please send faxes and letter to the addresses below
DEMANDING a prompt and full investigation to
                determine the true authors of these crimes and see that
they are brought to justice. Please write to your
                Senators and Representatives.



                President William J.Clinton [phone]
                Ms. Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State [phone]
                U.S. State Department Office of Andean Affairs [phone]
                Ambassador Luis Alberto Moreno 1 [phone]
                Inter-American Comission of Human Rights (202) 4583992

                Doctor Andr=E9s Pastrana Arango,
                Presidente de la Rep=FAblica de Colombia
                Palacio de Nari=F1o
                Presidencia de la Rep=FAblica
                fax: [phone] 2877937 2818262
                Cra. 8 No. 7-26
                Santaf=E9 de Bogot=E1 D.C.
                [e-mail]

                Doctor Gustavo Bell Lemus
                Vicepresidente de la Rep=FAblica de Colombia
                Carrera 8 N=BA 7-26
                Palacio de Nari=F1o
                Presidencia de la Rep=FAblica
                fax: [phone] 2877937 2818262
                Cra. 8 No. 7-26
                Santaf=E9 de Bogot=E1 D.C.

                Doctor Humberto Mart=EDnez Neira
                Ministro del Interior
                Carrera 8 N=BA 8-09
                Santaf=E9 de Bogot=E1, Colombia
                Fax: [phone]

                Doctor Rodrigo Lloreda Ministro de Defensa, Avenida El
Dorado con Carrera 52 Santaf=E9 de Bogot=E1, Colombia Fax:
                (571)2215363 E mail : [e-mail]

                Doctor Jaime Bernal Cuellar
                Procurador General de la Naci=F3n
                Carrera 5 No.15-80
                Santaf=E9 de Bogot=E1. Colombia
                Telefono: (571) 2838609
                Fax: [phone]




                Initially distributed by:
                Colombia Support Network
                P.O. Box 1505
                Madison, WI 53701
                [e-mail]
                http://www.igc.apc.org/csn/



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Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-470-2017
[e-mail]
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:46:59 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: McNamara encourages review

>Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:29:42 -0500
>Subject: McNamara encourages review
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
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>X-FC-Forwarded-From: [e-mail]
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>
>Former Cold Warrior encourages review of NATO nuclear policy
>JEFF SALLOT
>03/09/99
>The Globe and Mail
>Metro
>Page A8
>
>
>Ottawa -- Robert McNamara, a former U.S. defence secretary and Cold
>Warrior, plans to tell a
>parliamentary committee tomorrow that Canada should administer badly
>needed "shock
>treatment" to Washington to alert it to the dangers and immorality of
>nuclear weapons.
>
>"I don't think you'll accomplish a damn thing in Canada in relation to
>U.S. nuclear policy, unless
>you engage in what I call shock treatment and are willing to pay some
>price," Mr. McNamara
>said yesterday.
>
>Mr. McNamara, a Vietnam War-era hawk who has become a dove, is scheduled
>to appear
>before a special joint Senate-House committee on foreign affairs to urge
>Canada to take a leading
>role in forcing a review of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's
>nuclear-weapons policy.
>
>"If that [a full-scale review] were done, there's no question in my mind
>but that the policy would
>be changed," he said in an interview.
>
>Mr. McNamara was the chief architect of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam
>War under presidents
>John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s. He had his finger on the
>nuclear button
>during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, one of the most dangerous episodes
>of the Cold War.
>
>His appearance in Ottawa will be an unusual event. Even when they are in
>vocal opposition to
>current Pentagon policy at home, former U.S. defence officials rarely
>criticize those policies
>before foreign parliaments.
>
>Canadian peace groups say Mr. McNamara's appearance will give the Liberal
>government some
>room to manoeuvre politically on the nuclear issue without facing charges
>from the Reform Party
>and others that it is anti-American.
>
>Mr. McNamara's appeal will be supported before the committee by three
>other former senior
>U.S. arms-control and military officials, including retired general Lee
>Butler, who was the
>commander of U.S. strategic nuclear forces when the Soviet Union collapsed
>in 1991. The four
>are also scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Foreign
>Affairs Minister Lloyd
>Axworthy.
>
>Mr. McNamara said it is not likely that NATO will abandon its so-called
>first-use nuclear policy
>at its summit meeting next month in Washington, an event that will include
>ceremonies marking the
>alliance's 50th anniversary.
>
>But he said it would be a major step forward if Canada and the other
>non-nuclear NATO
>countries could at least keep President Bill Clinton from opposing a
>policy review, if not actually
>initiating it.
>
>Current NATO policy leaves open the possibility of the alliance making
>first use of nuclear
>weapons in a conflict. Left unchanged, Mr. McNamara said, that policy will
>continue to irritate
>Russia and undermine efforts to renew the Nuclear Non-proliferation
>Treaty.
>
>He said many senior U.S. military figures disagree with NATO's
>"irresponsible" and "morally
>repugnant" nuclear policy. He predicted that top military officers in the
>United States would
>actually welcome a review of nuclear policy, because "they know damn well
>you can't use these
>weapons against a nuclear-equipped opponent -- and against a
>non-nuclear-equipped opponent
>they don't need them."
>
>Mr. McNamara is also critical of U.S. plans to try to develop a
>ballistic-missile defence system to
>protect North America from so-called rogue states.
>
>"The idea that the North Koreans would have a missile that would launch a
>weapon on the U.S.
>or Canada anytime soon is absurd."
>
>And even if North Korea did develop long-range missiles, he said, "the
>better defence would be
>to take it out" with direct bombing, rather than set up a missile defence
>that almost certainly would
>not work.
>
>
>--
>Bill Robinson, Project Ploughshares,
>Conrad Grebel College, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada  N2L 3G6
>Phone: [phone] x264  Fax: [phone]
>E-mail: [e-mail]
>http://www.ploughshares.ca
>
>Project Ploughshares is a member of the Canadian Network to Abolish
>Nuclear Weapons (http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~plough/cnanw/cnanw.html)
>
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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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:07:14 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Globe on McNamara/Butler

Dear Friends,
The good news below from our neighbors to the North requires a strong
response from our Campaign.  One way to respond, is to show up for the
Citizens Summit to De-Nuke NATO on April 23 in Washington DC, 10:00am, on
the Mall, Constitution and 14th St.  If you're too far away, urge your
friends in the DC area to attend.  We're on a roll!  Let's keep the
momentum going.  Peace, Alice Slater

>Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:24:40 -0500
>Subject: Globe on McNamara/Butler
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
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>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Canada targets nuclear warheads
>Government, impressed by arguments of former hawks, will lobby to destroy
>weapons
>JEFF SALLOT
>03/11/99
>The Globe and Mail
>Metro
>Page A4
>
>Ottawa -- The Liberal government wants nuclear-weapons states to get rid
>of all of their
>warheads, Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy said yesterday.
>
>It's just a matter of how and when this goal can be accomplished, he said
>in an interview after a
>meeting with prominent U.S. Cold Warriors who now oppose Washington's
>nuclear weapons
>policy.
>
>He said the federal government's ultimate objective is to try to wean its
>nuclear allies -- the United
>States, Britain and France -- and other nuclear-weapons states like Russia
>and China from
>dependence on nuclear weapons in their defence strategies.
>
>For Canada, "the question is how best to influence" the nuclear weapons
>debate, he said, adding
>that the cabinet will soon take up the issue.
>
>Mr. Axworthy said he was impressed by the arguments of former U.S. defence
>secretary Robert
>McNamara and retired U.S. Air Force general Lee Butler, hawks who have
>turned doves.
>
>The pair testified at a parliamentary committee yesterday, urging Canada
>to confront Pentagon
>orthodoxy and take the lead in forcing a review of NATO's nuclear policy.
>
>"These are very, very serious and experienced guys" and their arguments
>against the nuclear
>weapons policies of their own government and the North Atlantic Treaty
>Organization carry a lot
>of weight, Mr. Axworthy said.
>
>The elimination of nuclear weapons is moving to the centre of the
>political agenda in Ottawa and
>in other NATO countries as the alliance reviews its strategic doctrine in
>preparation for a 50th
>anniversary meeting in Washington next month. The Clinton administration
>says there is no need to
>change NATO nuclear policy.
>
>The Commons foreign affairs committee recommended recenly that NATO review
>its policy,
>which leaves open the possibility that the alliance might be the first to
>use nuclear weapons in a
>conflict.
>
>Gen. Butler, who was the officer in charge of all U.S. strategic nuclear
>forces when the Cold War
>ended, said the committee's report is a helpful reminder to Americans of
>the importance of
>morality in defence policy. "This is a report my government should have
>written many years ago,"
>he said.
>
>Mr. McNamara, who had his finger on the U.S. nuclear trigger during the
>Cuban missile crisis in
>1962, said the committee's "superb" report could have gone even further
>and specifically called
>for a NATO no-first-use policy.
>
>Reform Party foreign-policy critic Bob Mills said the witnesses were naive
>to believe that nuclear
>weapons could ever be eliminated. "We must accept the fact there will
>always be the risk of
>nuclear proliferation" and thus NATO should keep its own warheads as a
>deterrent.
>
>Mr. McNamara called for an unequivocal political commitment by all the
>nuclear powers to the
>goal of total abolition of those weapons. This would be followed
>immediately by the removal of all
>nuclear weapons from alert status, the physical removal of warheads from
>missiles, and a
>declaration that the countries would never be the first to use nuclear
>weapons and would never
>use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.
>
>"We can indeed put the genie back in the bottle," Mr. McNamara said. "If
>we do not, there is a
>substantial and unacceptable risk that the 21st century will witness a
>nuclear holocaust."
>
>--
>Bill Robinson, Project Ploughshares,
>Conrad Grebel College, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada  N2L 3G6
>Phone: [phone] x264  Fax: [phone]
>E-mail: [e-mail]
>http://www.ploughshares.ca
>
>Project Ploughshares is a member of the Canadian Network to Abolish
>Nuclear Weapons (http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~plough/cnanw/cnanw.html)
>
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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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 01:41:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) McNamara encourages review of NATO nuclear weapons policy

I understand that McNamara will urge Canada to push for a review of NATO's
first use of nuclear weapons policy.  Would he be in favor of Canada
imposing sanctions against the US?


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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 01:41:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Nuclear Disarmament Actions

I have read that there will be a big anti-nuclear rally in Washington, D.C.
in June 2000.  Why not have such a rally this June?


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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 10:49:05 -0000
From: "Sally Light" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) New Stuff on Tri-Valley CAREs' Web Site

New! Cool! Free! Must See! All that and antinuclear, too!
Announcing new stuff on Tri-Valley CAREs' web site!
(http://igc.org/tvc)

** The latest, very cool postcard calling on President Clinton to de-alert
nuclear weapons. It is ready for you to download, e.g. in jpeg format. The
graphic shows the earth being cradled in safe hands. The text (in
semi-circles around the graphic) says: Make the world a safer place... Take
nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert. CHECK IT OUT. GET YOURS TODAY.

(And, if for any reason you have trouble downloading the postcard and want
a camera ready template sent to you by snail mail, just send me a note with
your address -- which you can do directly from the web site.)


** Our March 1999 newsletter, Citizen's Watch is on the web now with:

(1) news on plutonium filter failures and other problems at the Dept. of
Energy's Livermore Lab. This information was dragged out of DOE via a
Freedom of Information Act request and, ultimately, a lawsuit when the
agency tried to stonewall. This information on HEPA filter problems has
relevance to other nuclear sites around the country!

(2) everything you need to participate in the country-wide grassroots
campaign to de-alert the U.S. nuclear arsenal by the Year 2000! Download
the article and the postcard. Order an action kit. Pass the word on to
others.

(3) a calendar of events -- including the Good Friday (April 2) morning
observance and demonstration at the gates of Livermore Lab. This year the
theme is "Confessing the Idolatry of Our Nuclear Weapons." All people of
peace are welcome. Also, get details about a Public Meeting - March 18 at 6
PM - on the Livermore Lab's site 300 cleanup, the Tri-Valley CAREs' meeting
on March 25 and more.

(4) an article on "Site 300: Risks and Remedies," about the importance of
cleaning up radioactive and toxic waste at Livermore Lab's high explosives
testing range, located between Livermore and Tracy, California.

(5) more!!! Address follows...

++++ Please note that my email address has changed to
<[e-mail]> on 3/1/99 ++++

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!
Our web site will remain at this location. Only my email address has
changed on 3/1/99.

[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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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:09:05 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Nuclear Disarmament Actions

In a message dated 3/13/99 4:42:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Subj:     (abolition-usa) Nuclear Disarmament Actions
 Date:    3/13/99 4:42:31 AM Eastern Standard Time
 From:    [e-mail] (Timothy Bruening)
 Sender:    [e-mail]
 Reply-to:    [e-mail]
 To:    [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], abolition-
[e-mail]

 I have read that there will be a big anti-nuclear rally in Washington, D.C.
 in June 2000.  Why not have such a rally this June?

  >>

Timothy,
I have questions even about June 2000 - I think some of the discussions have
been a little unreal, but this year? It is already mid-March, and a massive
event of this kind requires a full year in the making - or some very terrible
event to galvanize us (such as the Kent State shootings back in the Vietnam
period or the Three Mile Island event). If there was an accidental Russian
missile drop on NYC, or an accidental US missile drop on Paris, then I think
it could be done this June. But otherwise it isn't possible. Funding. Buses
and trains reserved. Coalition endorsements. Negotiations with the police.
However . . . this is one of those things, like a revolution itself, where I'd
love to be proven entirely too pessimistic.

Peace,
David McReynolds

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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 12:25:16 -0800
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) DC Nuclear Disarmament Actions

One kind of event which can effect more rapid mobilization is the peace
walk.  What do folks think of the idea of starting a Global Peace Walk 1999
for Y2K motivated nuclear weapons "stand-down" or "de-alert" (as a first
step to Abolition 2000) starting the walk at the United Nations in NY on its
opening day September 15 (UN Int'l Day of Peace) and walking to Washington
DC to arrive on October 24th United Nations Day (54th anniversary) in order
to bring out the logic that the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is a
crime against humanity according to numerous  UN resolutions interpreting
its original charter and in support of Anne Fagan Ginger's legal arguments
that a 1996 World Court Opinion renders nuclear weapons illegal under
international law.  Details on her position referenced at GEAR2000 website
below.   Two organizations are already planning Oct24 events at the Capitol
which would be supportive, the March for Peaceful Energy
(http://www.peacefulenergy.org) and the Rally to End Secrecy
http://www.endsecrecy.com .   It would seem that the potential Y2K threat of
accidental nuclear war may be enough in these times to replace the need for
a Kent State type motivation.   Six months to plan such event with all the
organizations already mobilizing around the Y2K apprehensions, etc., could
be plenty of time to rally a large group at the Washington Monument -- US
Capitol area,  if such decision can be consensed to on this list soon, then
the ball can get rolling quickly on many levels.  Isn't it about time for
manifesting a nonviolent American Spiritual Resolution?  (what is a
revolution but an effect of human resolve)

    http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000
*********************************************************
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David Crockett Williams                661-822-3309
20411 Steeple Court, Tehachapi CA 93561 USA
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        CAMPAIGN for a BETTER AMERICA
              with General Agency Services
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Annually:   22apr Taos, NM, --->  Santa Fe 26apr
1999:  15sep UN in NY to Washington, DC 24 Oct
2000:  15jan  San Francisco --> New York  24oct
             16sep Washington, DC
Ceremony rededicating  Washington Monument
as a symbol of peace, September 16, 2000
     ONE HUMAN FAMILY:  Love All, Serve All.
       GLOBAL PEACE NOW !!     Help Now !!!
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- -----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Nuclear Disarmament Actions


>In a message dated 3/13/99 4:42:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>[e-mail] writes:
>
><< Subj: (abolition-usa) Nuclear Disarmament Actions
> Date: 3/13/99 4:42:31 AM Eastern Standard Time
> From: [e-mail] (Timothy Bruening)
> Sender: [e-mail]
> Reply-to: [e-mail]
> To: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
>[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], abolition-
>[e-mail]
>
> I have read that there will be a big anti-nuclear rally in Washington,
D.C.
> in June 2000.  Why not have such a rally this June?
>
>  >>
>
>Timothy,
>I have questions even about June 2000 - I think some of the discussions
have
>been a little unreal, but this year? It is already mid-March, and a massive
>event of this kind requires a full year in the making - or some very
terrible
>event to galvanize us (such as the Kent State shootings back in the Vietnam
>period or the Three Mile Island event). If there was an accidental Russian
>missile drop on NYC, or an accidental US missile drop on Paris, then I
think
>it could be done this June. But otherwise it isn't possible. Funding. Buses
>and trains reserved. Coalition endorsements. Negotiations with the police.
>However . . . this is one of those things, like a revolution itself, where
I'd
>love to be proven entirely too pessimistic.
>
>Peace,
>David McReynolds
>
>-
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:03:20 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Presentation on Weapons in Space

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>Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:11:25 -0500
>Subject: Presentation on Weapons in Space
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>       =20
>        The following is a condensed version of a speech given by Karl
>Grossman
>at a seminar on =93Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space=94 organized=
 by the
Women=92s
>International League for Peace and Freedom held at the United Nations
>Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on March 10 and at the Darmstadt
>University of Technology in Germany at a conference on =93Space Use and=
 Ethics"
on
>March 4. =20

>        Professor Grossman of the State University/College at Old Westbury
>is a member of the Commission on Disarmament Education, Conflict Resolution
and
>Peace of the United Nations and the International Association of University
>Presidents, and author of =93The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program=92s Nuclear
>Threat To Our Planet=94 and writer and narrator of the TV documentaries=
 =93Nukes
In
>Space: The Nuclearization and Weaponization of the Heavens=94 and the
just-released
>=93Nukes In Space 2: Unacceptable Risks.=94 The full text is appended at=
 the end
as an attached file, or can be obtained from [e-mail]. =20

=20
The U.S. military is seeking to =93control space=94 and the Earth
>below, to base weapons in space--and we must all join to stop this.
Here=92s the plan: the United States Space Command=92s "Vision For
>2020" report, issued last year. Look at the cover of the report: laser
weapons
>shooting their beams down from space zapping targets below. And, the report
>goes on, in wording laid out like in the start of the Star Wars movies: =93=
US
>Space Command--dominating the space dimension of military operations to
>protect US interests and investment. Integrating Space Forces into
warfighting
>capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict.=94 This was not written=
 in
>Hollywood; it=92s an official U.S. military publication.
>       =20
Here=92s the plan: General Joseph Ashy, commander-in-chief of the
U.S. Space Command--its motto =93Master of Space=94--speaking in =93Aviation=
 Week
and
>Space Technology=94 in an article headlined: =93USSC [U.S. Space Command]
>Prepares for Future Combat Missions in Space.=94 General Ashy talks of=
 =93space
>control,=94 the U.S. term for control of space, and =93space force=
 application,=94
the U.S.
>military=92s definition of control of Earth from space. Says General Ashy:
>=93We=92ll expand into these two missions because they will become=
 increasingly
>important.  We will engage terrestial targets someday--ships, airplanes,
>land targets--from space. We will engage targets in space, from space.=94
=93It=92s politically sensitive, but it=92s going to happen,=94 says the
>general. =93Some people don=92t want to hear this, and it sure isn=92t in=
 vogue,
>but--absolutely--we=92re going to fight in space. We=92re going to fight=
 from
>space and we=92re going to fight into space=85.That=92s why the U.S. has
development
>programs in directed energy and hit-to-kill mechanisms.=94

Here=92s the plan: =93Space-Based Laser Readiness Demonstrator=94 are the
>words on top on this poster of a laser weapon in space, with a U.S. flag
>waving in space above it. (I didn=92t know U.S. flags were able to wave in
space.)
>=93Preparing Today To Protect Tomorrow,=94 say the words below, next to a=
 seal
>of the =93team=94 involved in the project, a contract for which was signed=
 last
>year:TRW, Boeing, the U.S. Air Force and the Ballistic Missile Defense
>Organization, the new name for the U.S. Star Wars operation.=20

>Here=92s the plan: Guardians of the High Frontier, the publication of the=
 Air
>Force Space Command, proclaiming: =93Air Force Space Command Vision:
>Defending America through the control and exploitation of space.=94
>Here=92s the plan: Phillips Laboratory, the Air Force research and
>development facility, describing itself: =93Phillips Laboratory supports=
 the
>war fighter=85Phillips Laboratory is helping control space for the United
>States.=94
>   =20
Here=92s the plan: Asst. Secretary of the Air Force for Space Keith
>Hall, who=92s also director of the National Reconnaissance Office (which=
 has a
$6.8
>billion annual budget, nearly three times the CIA=92s), declaring: =93With
>regard to space dominance, we have it, we like it, and we=92re going to=
 keep
it.=94
Here=92s the plan: in =93Time=94 magazine last month. The headline: =93Star
>Wars: The Sequel, Hey, what ever happened to arms control? Well, here
>comes the new Bill Clinton, Star Warrior.=94 The article began: =93Disregar=
d
previous
>orders. It=92s back to the future after Clinton this month sent Congress a
military
>budget proposing to pump $6.6 billion into development of a national
>missile-defense shield by 2005
Missile defense? Examining the new Clinton Son of Star Wars drive
>in context, it sure appears that what=92s up the sleeves of the U.S.=
 military
>is in large part not defense but offense=85.
 Here=92s the plan: =93The Future of War: Power, Technology & American World
>Dominance in the 2lst Century=94 is the name of the book. It is written by
>U.S.=93defense experts=94 and consultants, George and Meredith Friedman.=
 The
book=92s
>thrust: =93Just as by the year 1500 it was apparent that the European
>experience of power would be its domination of the global seas, it does not
take much
>to see that the American experience of power will rest on the domination of
>space,=94 the Friedmans write. =93Just as Europe expanded war and its power=
 to
>the global oceans, the United States is expanding war and its power into
space
>and to the planets,=94 they say. =93Just as Europe shaped the world for a=
 half a
>millennium=94--by the Britain, France and Spain dominating the oceans with
>their fleets--=93so too the United States will shape the world for at least
that
>length of time.=94 "The Future of War: Power, Technology & American World
Dominance
>in the 2lst Century"--as do various government reports--see as critical to
the
new
>weapons the U.S. seeks to deploy in space, nuclear power in space.
>As =93New World Vistas: Air And Space Power For The 2lst Century,=94 a
>U.S. Air Force board report, states: =93In the next two decades, new
technologies
>will allow the fielding of space-based weapons of devastating
effectiveness to
>be used to deliver energy and mass as force projection in tactical and
>strategic conflict=85These advances will enable lasers with reasonable mass=
 and
cost to
>effect very many kills.=94 But, notes the report, =93power limitations=
 impose
>restrictions=94 on such-based weapons systems making them =93relatively
>unfeasible=85.A natural technology to enable high power,=94 it goes on, =93=
is
>nuclear power in space.=94 =93Setting the emotional issues of nuclear power
aside,
this technology
>offers a viable alternative for large amounts of power in space,=94 it goes=
 on.
>
Weapons in space. Nukes in space=85.
What about the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, the =93basic framework on
>international space law?=94--as notes the United Nations in describing the
>landmark treaty now signed by 91 nations. The U.S., the United Kingdom and
>former Soviet Union were its initiators. What about the declaration of the
Outer Space Treaty that space shall be used =93for peaceful purposes=85The
exploration and use of outer space,
>including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall be carried out for the
benefit
>and in the interest of all countries?=94 What about the provision of the=
 Outer
Space Treaty that nations shallnot =93place in orbit around the Earth any
objects
carrying nuclear weapons
>or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction?=94 Meanwhile, the U.S.=
 is
>speaking about, =93in the next two decades=85the fielding of space-based
>weapons of devastating effectiveness,=94 as =93New World Vistas=94 states.
>Already the U.S. is in outright violation of the Outer Space
>Treaty=92s provision that =93states shall be liable for damage caused by=
 their
space
>objects.=94

In 1991, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
>and the U.S. Department of Energy entered into a Space Nuclear Power
Agreement
to
>cover its nuclear space flightsincluding the current Cassini=
 plutonium-fueled
>space probe mission--with the Price-Anderson Act. This is a U.S. law which
limits
>liability in the event of a nuclear to $8.9 billion for U.S. domestic
>damage and just $100 million for damage to all foreign nations.
 Thus if the =93inadverent reentry=94 of Cassini back into the Earth=92s
>atmosphere which NASA is concerned could occur on Cassini=92s planned=
 August
>1999 Earth =93flyby=94 does happen, and a part of Europe or Africa or Asia=
 or
Latin
>America is impacted, all the nations and all the people affected could
>collect in damages--despite the amount of land left contaminated, the=
 number
of
>people left with cancer--would be $100 million=85. And we=92re speaking of
potentially huge damage. NASA intends to send the Cassini space probe and=
 its
72.3 pounds of
>plutonium dioxide fuel hurtling at Earth at 42,300 miles per hour for a
>=93gravity assist=94 or =93slingshot=94 maneuver--to give it additional=
 velocity
>so it can reach its final destination of Saturn. It=92s supposed to buzz=
 the
Earth
>at 496 miles high this coming August 18.
>  =20
 But, says NASA its =93Final Environmental Impact Statement for the
>Cassini Mission,=94 if the probe does not come in at 496 miles high, if it=
 dips
down
>after hundreds of millions of miles in space into the Earth=92s 75-mile=
 high
>atmosphere--and makes an =93inadverent reentry=94--it will break up, the=
 =93Final
>Environmental Impact Statement=94 concedes. Plutonium will be released.=
 And,
>says the =93Final Environmental Impact Statement,=94approximately 5 billion=
 of
the
>estimated 7 to 8 billion world population at the time=85could receive 99
>percent or more of the radiation exposure.=94
>       =20
=85.And even if the Cassini Earth =93flyby=94 is not scuttled and Cassini=
 not
>redirected in coming monthsas it can and should--to fly into the sun and be
>consumed, but goes ahead and works, NASA is planning eight more plutonium
>space probe shots in coming years, according to a report issued last year=
 by
the
>U.S. General Accounting Office. With a 12% failure rate already in the use=
 by
>the U.S. (and also the Soviet Union and now Russia) of nuclear power in
space,
>accidents--and disaster--are inevitable. And U.S. liability will be
>shielded under the Price Anderson Act, in violation of the Outer Space
Treaty.
>What the government of my country, the United States of America, is
>involved in in space is in violation of international law. It gravely
>endangers life on this planet. It pushes us toward nuclear catastrophe.
>
The military use of space being planned by the U.S. is in total
>contradiction of the principles of peaceful international cooperation that
>the U.S. likes to espouse. The aim is to develop a world in which it would
>literally be USA uber alles. This flies in the face of the spirit, the=
 ideals
of the United
>States of America. It denigrates those courageous men and women who came to
this
>continent and fought the horrific evil of fascism in World War II.
>It pushes us--all of us--toward war in the heavens.
>George Friedman, co-author of =93The Future of War: Power, Technology &
>American World Dominance in the 2lst Century,=94 claims that the U.S. can
dominate the
>Earth for centuries ahead because of its technological prowess. He says
>other nations--he names Russia, Japan and China--are just =93passing=
 blips=85to
>compete with the U.S.=94=20
>        I=92ve been to Russia; I=92ve been to Japan; I=92ve been to China.=
 They
>are no passing technological =93blips.=94 And if the United States moves to=
 arm
the
>heavens, to utilize space as what one high U.S. military officer calls the
>=93ultimate high ground,=94 other nations will follow--leading to a new=
 arms
>race--and ultimately war--in space.
>        This all must be stopped before it gets completely out of hand.
>Stopped=85and now!               =20

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Alice Slater
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15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
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GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
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