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abolition-usa-digest    Wednesday, February 9 2000    Volume 01 : Number 254




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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 22:03:22 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) NIF and New Mexico

Hi peace and enviro folks: Here is the latest in the saga of the National
Ignition Facility. In this episode, a New Mexico politician weighs in ...

NIF and New Mexico

by Marylia Kelley
from Tri-Valley CAREs February 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

One of New Mexico's most powerful political leaders has added his voice to
the growing crescendo of criticism directed at the National Ignition
Facility, DOE's problem-plagued megalaser.

Speaker of the House, Raymond G. Sanchez, sent a January 20th letter to
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson stating: "NIF has    experienced setback
after setback technologically, financially and managerially. Concern over
NIF has grown exponentially inside and outside the scientific community; it
seems to me as a political leader and a citizen that it is incumbent on us
to face
this issue squarely..." Sanchez also sits on the Secretary of Energy's
Advisory Board (SEAB).

Last month, the SEAB sent Richardson an interim report on NIF that, while
containing some good information, pulled its punches completely when it
came to making its recommendations, focusing mostly on NIF's poor
management and planning and failing to suggest a reconsideration or even a
slowdown of the project based on the severity of its technical problems.

Echoing his pep talk given during a short visit to Livermore Lab in
December, Richardson recently told a group at Sandia in NM that he has
confidence in NIF.

Sanchez holds a different view. "I have also had the opportunity to visit
with a number of top scientists ...both within and without the National
Laboratory system, some of whom are directly involved with NIF at top
levels, who have expressed conclusions ...that NIF in its current
incarnation has little or no chance of achieving fusion ignition," Sanchez
states in his letter.

In an interview with the Albuquerque Tribune, Sanchez said he recently met
with Los Alamos and Sandia scientists "in sort of a cloak and dagger late
night meeting" as the staffers feared for their jobs.

Further, Sanchez said he had received a negative assessment of NIF from at
least 7 "top scientists" at the New Mexico weapons labs who told him, "NIF
is in serious trouble and won't be able to do what we were promised it
would do."

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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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 22:04:22 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Whistleblowers at Livermore Lab

Hello peace and environmental advocates. I thought this short piece from
Tri-Valley CAREs' February newsletter, Citizen's Watch, about two different
whistleblowers at Livermore Lab would be of general interest, and would
provide a glimpse inside the Lab! Read on...

Two Whistleblowers Quit Lab

by Marylia Kelley
from Tri-Valley CAREs' February 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

What do David Lappa and Andreas Toupadakis have in common?  Both recently
quit high-paying positions at the Livermore Lab in disgust, under duress,
and for reasons related to their personal integrity and consciences.

Lappa's saga began in 1997 when he was appointed to a team investigating
criticality safety errors in the Lab's plutonium facility. Workers had
committed 15 violations during operations there machining plutonium for
Livermore's "subcritical" nuclear test, code named Holog. Lappa uncovered
evidence that staff knowingly breached safety limits. The Lab's final
report submerged that evidence, and so Lappa refused to sign it. "I felt I
could not sign it in good conscience," he later told us.

Harassment from Lab management followed swiftly. Lappa, a 20-year Lab
employee with an engineering degree, was suddenly given a negative job
rating, moved to a windowless "office" that had been a closet, denied a
transfer and, ultimately, placed in an assignment with no opportunity for
advancement.

In 1998, Lappa won a ruling from the U.S. Labor Dept. demonstrating the Lab
had retaliated against him. He has since filed a civil suit against Lab
management and the University of California, which manages Livermore for
the Dept. of Energy, charging continuing reprisals. Further, last year
Lappa was forced to file an additional suit against DOE in an attempt to
force the agency to produce information relevant to his civil  lawsuit.
Those two actions are still pending.

In his resignation letter this month, Lappa said the work environment at
the Lab had become "unbearably hostile."

Toupadakis  brought his Ph.D. in chemistry to the Lab to perform
environmental work, but soon found he was the victim of a "bait and switch"
operation. "I find myself ...expected to do nuclear weapons work,"
Toupadakis testified at a public hearing last December on the National
Ignition Facility. "I refused because I was hired to do environmental work.
And, I found myself one floor down in a cubicle in a week."

"I have decided to resign from this place of insanity," Toupadakis told the
DOE  panel that evening. "Every one of us is accountable for this [NIF].
How can we have our consciences right, go and have our children on our
laps, provide to our families food when we know we are building the machine
for Armageddon? ...As a scientist with ...$91,000 a year, a permanent job,
I have decided to go [instead] and teach students about the truth - how to
save humanity - if we can, if it's not too late."

Lappa and Toupadakis, each in his own way,  made courageous decisions and
risked going public with the truth. We thank them.


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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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 05:24:34 -0500
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Chance encounter with Bill Bradley

Thanks for sharing your Bradley experience, Jackie!   I had a similar
experience last election with Jerry Brown.  It's a shame the better guys
never win.

Ellen Thomas


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* Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org - Convert the War Machines! *
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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 15:31:09 -0500
From: "Joan Wade" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: 60 Minutes II to address the nuclear peril tonight!

__________________________
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
To: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 12:51 PM
Subject: 60 Minutes II to address the nuclear peril tonight!


> Dear Friends:
>
> We just received word that the long-delayed 60 Minutes II program on the
> dangerous state of nuclear weapons policy in the U.S. and Russia will
> air tonight on the CBS television network at 9:00 eastern and pacific
> time.  (Please check local listings to see when your local CBS affiliate
> airs 60 Minutes II). The program was put together by veteran producer
> George Crile, who is working on a longer documentary titled
> "Sleepwalking to Armageddon" which is slated to air later this year.
> Tonight's 60 Minutes II episode will feature an interview with General
> Eugene Habiger, recent head of U.S. Strategic Command, who, while not a
> nuclear abolitionist, decries the lack of political and military
> leadership on reducing the nuclear peril and calls for deep reductions
> in nuclear arsenals.
>
> SUGGESTED ACTION:
>
> Tune in to 60 Minutes II on CBS tonight, then call President Clinton
> tomorrow at [phone] and demand that he take immediate action to
> reduce the nuclear danger, such as "de-alerting" nuclear weapons by
> taking them off hair-trigger alert status and inviting Russia to do the
> same.  Also, call your local CBS affiliate with your reaction to the
> show (pro or con) and encourage them to cover these issues on their
> local news programs.
>
> PLEASE NOTE:  Because of numerous postponements of the 60 Minutes II
> program since its originally scheduled broadcast date last fall, Project
> Abolition groups had decided to look to another opportunity for
> organizing house parties around a high-profile television program on the
> nuclear threat, namely the April 9 live CBS re-make of the movie
> "Fail-Safe", the 1964 Cold War nuclear thriller, which will be produced
> by and star George Clooney.  If you are interested in a house party
> organizing kit, please contact me at 219/534-3402, ext. 21 or Joan Wade
> at 202/898-0150, ext. 232.
>
> PLEASE RE-POST AND CIRCULATE WIDELY!
>
> In Peace,
>
> Kevin Martin
> Director, Project Abolition
______________________
Joan L. Wade, Coordinator
Disarmament Clearinghouse
1101 14th Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
ph: [phone] x232
fax: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]
web: www.disarmament.org



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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:16:21 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Sign On Letter to Heads of State re NPT Review Conference

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
Fax [phone]  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd

This letter is now soliciting signatures. There are roughly 150 so far.

You are urged to make it past 200.

To sign email me on <[e-mail]>

John Hallam

TO:
PRESIDENT  BILL CLINTON, (US)
[phone], 1-202-456-2883, 1-202-456-6218, 1-202-456-6201

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, (RUSSIA)
[phone], [phone],
FOREIGN MINISTER IGOR IVANOV(RUSSIA)
[phone], [phone]

PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, (UK) [phone]

PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC (FRANCE)[phone],
PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN (FRANCE) [phone]
PRESIDENT JIANG XEMIN (CHINA)
CC
PRIME MINISTER A.B. VAJPAYEE, (INDIA)[phone]

PRESIDENT MOHAMMED RAFIQ DARAR(PAKISTAN)
9251-920-3938,
FOREIGN MINISTER ABDUL SATTAR (PAKISTAN)
9251-920-7217

PRIME MINISTER EHUD BARAK (ISRAEL) [phone],

ALL HEADS OF STATE AND FOREIGN MINISTERS OF STATES PARTY TO THE NUCLEAR
NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT)

UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADORS OF STATES PARTY TO THE NPT

RE: ENSURING A SUCCESSFUL NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW CONFERENCE.

Dear Heads of State, Foreign Ministers, and Ambassadors,

The undersigned organizations, representing many millions of deeply
concerned people worldwide, are writing to you regarding the  Review
Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at the United
Nations in New York,  April 24-May 19, 2000. This meeting has crucial
implications not only for NPT member states, but also for non-member
states, especially India,  Pakistan and Israel.

We believe the 2000 Review Conference could and should be a catalyst in
breaking the deadlock in the nuclear disarmament arena. It represents an
opportunity to make real progress toward nuclear disarmament, and nuclear
weapons abolition, which is essential to the achievement of common security
based on human and ecological values and respect for international
institutions and law. Failure in this regard could lead to the unraveling
of the NPT regime.

This is exactly opposite to the wishes and expectations of the majority of
the people of the world. It is clear from recent polls, that the
overwhelming majority of the world's people expect no less than immediate
commencement of multilateral negotiations leading to the elimination of
nuclear weapons through a global treaty in fulfillment of Article VI.

Crucial to the outcome of this Review Conference will be the extent to
which the nuclear weapon states are willing to act on their unambiguous
legal obligation and commitment to the elimination of their nuclear weapons
as called for by Article VI, which states:
"Each of the parties to the treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in
good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms
race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on
general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international
control."

Since the 1995 Review and Extension Conference, the importance of Article
VI and the NPT itself has been reinforced by the International Court of
Justice (ICJ),   which concluded unanimously in its 1996 Advisory Opinion
that:
"there exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a
conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects
under strict and effective international control"

While some progress has been achieved over the last decade in the reduction
of the total number of nuclear weapons deployed by the nuclear weapon
states, these states maintain their commitment to highly dangerous nuclear
military doctrines as a cornerstone of their defence and security policy,
some for the indefinite future. Progress on fulfilling Article VI
obligations is thus stalled, and the development of new nuclear dangers is
encouraged.

The following developments represent a growing peril that challenges
international and human security, and to which NPT states parties and
especially nuclear states must respond creatively:

- --Ten years after the end of the Cold War, over 30,000 nuclear weapons
remain worldwide, and India and Pakistan have both tested nuclear weapons.

- --Though UN and European Parliament  resolutions have drawn attention to
the Article VI obligations and to the ICJ Advisory Opinion, NATO has
jeopardized the NPT by its re-affirmation in April 1999 that nuclear
weapons are 'essential' to its security. While the NATO nuclear policy
review is welcome, it is preempted and undercut by this reaffirmation.

- -- The US and Russia failed to respond to worldwide pressure to de- alert
by December 1999, and each maintain over 2000 nuclear warheads on permanent
'launch on warning' status. This continues in spite of the incorporation of
de-alerting into the 1996 recommendations of the Canberra Commission, into
two resolutions  passed by massive majorities in the UN General Assembly in
1998, and again in 1999, and a unanimous resolution of the European
Parliament of November 18,  1999.

- --Key states have failed to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
(CTBT), opened for signature in 1996.  The US Senate in October 1999  voted
down ratification, in spite of the nearly unanimous endorsement of that
treaty by the international community and overwhelming US public support
for nuclear disarmament and the CTBT.

- --The clear aim of the CTBT is to constrain weapons development:  yet the
US, Russia, and other nuclear states still proceed with the development of
new nuclear weapon types and modifications in computer-simulated 'virtual
reality', with the aid of sub-critical underground nuclear testing, which
undermines both the spirit and purpose of the treaty. In particular, US
activities at the National Ignition Facility and the French Megajoule laser
project enable further weapons development.

- --In 2000, the US may decide to deploy a National Ballistic Missile Defence
(NMD) system which would violate the existing Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
of 1972, which is fundamental to the existing strategic arms restraints
between the United States and Russia. NMD deployment could set back
progress on Article VI objectives for years to come.

- --Presidential Decision Directive 60 has reaffirmed US use of nuclear
weapons as a 'cornerstone' of its security policy. Meanwhile, Russia has
steadily moved toward a more ready use of nuclear weapons in recent years.
The potential dangers in this are extreme.

In light of the above developments, lack of progress on Article VI
obligations poses the increasing danger that some non-nuclear states will
conclude that it is in their interests to acquire nuclear weapons, while
those that have already tested them will proceed to further weaponisation
and expansion of their arsenals.

A positive and creative response to the above, and commitment and
leadership on behalf of both human life and all other life is urgently
demanded.

Of critical importance in addressing the currently unacceptable situation
are interim measures such as de-alerting,  and the removal of weapons from
delivery systems, aimed at decreasing the possibility of accidental nuclear
war and at increasing mutual trust and establishing a momentum toward
nuclear weapons elimination.

NPT states parties should resolve,  as a first step,  that all nuclear
forces be immediately stood down from high alert status.

We urge all  nuclear weapons states leaders, and all NPT Review
participants, as a matter of the highest priority and urgency, as well as a
clear legal obligation, to take action to complete unfinished disarmament
objectives and to begin urgent negotiations toward a treaty to eliminate
nuclear weapons.

Immediate steps (both in the CD and other fora)  must be taken by the
nuclear states that will lead clearly and swiftly toward negotiations in
fulfillment of Article VI.

You, as a world leader,  have the fate of the world  in your hands during
these discussions.  We therefore  strongly urge you to attend this review
conference, as you have the authority to commence negotiations to eliminate
nuclear weapons.  By doing so, you can to alter the course of history and
leave a legacy of a more secure future for this generation and for those to
come. Failure to do so risks a revived nuclear arms race that ultimately
could destroy civilization.

(Signed)

(International Organizations)

Kate Dewes, Vice-President, International Peace Bureau,  Christchurch, NZ.,
Bruna Nota, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, (WILPF),
Geneva/NY,
Ian Maddocks (Chair), Dr. Mary Wynne-Asford, Co-President,  Merav Datan,
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW),
Cambridge, Mass,
Bernice Boermans, Executive Director, International Association of Lawyers
Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), The Hague, Netherlands,
Rosalie Bertell, GNSH., President, International Institute of Concern for
Public Health, Toronto, Canada,
Peer de Rijk.,World Information Service on Energy.(WISE) International,
Amsterdam, Netherlands.,

Commander Robert Green, RN (Retd.), Chair, World Court Project, UK,
Janet Bloomfield, former chair CND, Saffron Walden Group Against Nuclear
Weapons, England,
Di Mc Donald., Nuclear Information Service., Southampton, UK.,
Liz Waterson, Douglas Holdstock,  MEDACT (IPPNW- UK)., Lond, UK,
Anni Rainbow, Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of US Bases,
Yorkshire, UK.,
Margaret Turner, WILPF-UK.,

Xanthe Hall, IPPNW Germany, Berlin,
Bernd S. Frieboese., (Berlin) Ole Van Uexkull(Sweden), Barsebackoffensiv.,
Germany/Sweden.,
Claus Biegert, Nuclear-Free Future Award., Munich, Germany.,
Josef Puehringer, Plattform Gegen Atomgefahr, Austria.,
Hienz Stockinger, chair, PLAGE., (Platform Gegen Atomgefahren), Salzburg,
Austria.,
Malla Kantola, Committee of 100, Helsinki, Finland,
Laura Lodenius, Peace Union of Finland, Helsinki, Finland,
Claudia Behrens, Norwegian Green Party,
Bjorn Hilt, Norske Leger Mot Atomkrieg, (IPPNW Norway) Trondhiem, Norway.,
Gunnar Westberg, President, Vendela Englund Burnett, SLMK (IPPNW) Sweden,
Aungiira Aurel Duta, For Mother Earth Romania,
Fundatia Pentru Partenariat Comunitar., Romania,
Solange Fernex, President, WILPF France, Paris, France,
Daniel Durand, National Secy, Mouvement de la Paix, Paris France.,
Ak Malten, Global Anti Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Netherlands.,

Vladimir Slivyak, Alexey Yablokov., Social-Ecological Union, Moscow, Russia,
Vera Brovkina, Chair, St Petersburg Peace Council, Russia.
Boris Bondarenko, IPPNW-Russia, St Petersburg Russia.,
Oleg Bodrov, Chair, 'Green World', Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Oblast, Russia,
Andrey Sukhnev, Ecotourism Centre, Lake Baikal, Russia,
Dr. Vyacheslav Sharov, Chelyabinsk-Hanford Project, Chelyabinsk, Russia.,

Alla Shevchuk, Odessa Social-Ecological Union, Odessa, Ukraine.,
Dr. Lado Mirianashvili., Director, 'Udabno' fund, Georgia.,
Alexey Svetikov, Zelenyi Zvit, Severodonetsk, Ukraine.,

Dr. Caroline Lucas, MEP, Greens Group,UK, European Parliament,
Hiltrud Breyer, Member of the European Parliament, Brussels,
Gorka Knorr Borrass, MEP, European Parliament,
Rolf Linkohr, MEP, Germany, Social- Democrats.,

Steve Leeper, Transnet, Hiroshima, Japan.,
Hiro Umebayashi, International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for
Disarmament and Security, Yokohama, Japan.,
Nichigu Asanga, (Buddhist Monk), Peace Office, Tokyo.,
Aditi Chowdhury, Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA), Hong
Kong.,
Jong Won, National Secy, Green Korea United, South Korea.,

S.P. Udayakumar, South Asian Community Centre for Education and Research,
Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India.,
Thomas Matthew, SEEDS-India, Punnakadu, Kerala
Sukla Sen, EKTA, Santacruz, Mumbai,

M.W. Faruque, for:
- --Society for Legal Rights, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
- --Youth Approach to Development and Cooperation Dhaka, Bangladesh,
- --Bangladesh Campaign to Ban Landmines
- --Bangabandhu Gabeshana & Pathgar Parishad, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,
- --Bangabandhu Srimte Sangsad, Bashurhat, Noahkhali, Berhampur, Bangladesh.,
- --Muktijoddah Jadhurgar (Liberation War Museum), Dhaka, Bangladesh,
- --Bangabandhu Research Organization,
- --Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,
- --Bashurhat Club, Noahkhali,
- --Thikana Sambaya Samiti.,
- --Suganda Sanskritik Kendra
- --Institute for Comprehensive Healthcare, Research, and Rehabilitation of
Addicts and Psychopaths, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,
Dr. M.A. Bari, Integrated Child Health Organization, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,
Asif Rasheed, Executive Director., Awami Committee for Development, Multan,
Pakistan.,
Ramesh Man Tuladhar, Centre for Community Development and Environment
Research., Kathmandhu, Nepal.,

Harley, WALHI-SULTENG, (Indonesian Forum for Development),
Ron Mc Coy, Malaysian Physicians Against Nuclear War, (IPPNW Malaysian
Affiliate), Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.,
Cora Fabros, Secy. General, Nuclear- Free Phillipines Coalition,
Julia Grace, LIHUE Association, Patagonia, Argentina.,
Luis Guttierez., President, Latin American Circle for International
Studies., Mexico City, Mexico.,
Ayesha Imam, Baobab for Womens Rights, Nigeria.,
Dr Jenks Okwari, Program Officer, Community Development Project., Bukuru,
Jos, Nigeria.,
Diana Nyonyinotono, Single Mothers Association, Uganda.,

Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, Calif,
Alice Slater, Global Resource and Action Centre for the Environment,(GRACE)
New York,
Carah Ong, Abolition-2000, Santa Barbara, Calif.,
David Krieger, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, Calif,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition-One Committee, Washington DC, USA.,
Bob Musil, Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility, (IPPNW
USA), Washington DC.,
Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carrol Jr, USN(Retd),  Deputy Director, Centre for
Defence Information,(CDI), Washington DC, US.,
John Burroughs, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy,
(LCNP) N.Y., USA.,
Paxus Calta, Board member, International Campaigner, Nuclear Information
and Research Service, (NIRS) Washington, DC.,
Charles Ferguson, Director, Nuclear Policy Project., Federation of American
Scientists,
Bill Smirnow, Nuclear-Free New York/Y2K WASH., Huntingdon, NY.,

Richard N. Salvador, Pacific Islands Association of NGOs, Honolulu, Hawaii,
Donald C. Whitmore, President, Third Millenium Foundation, US.,
Joe Katz, President, Women's Action for New Directions (WAND), Metro
Detroit, USA.,
Dana L. Richter PhD, Copper Country Peace Alliance, Houghton, Mich, USA.,
Troy Davis, President, World Citizen Foundation, Harvard, USA.,
Alastair Millar, Fourth Freedom Forum, Washington DC., USA.,
Bob Kinsey, Chair, Peace and Justice Task Force, United Church of Christ,
Rocky Mountain Conference, USA.,
Steve Ito, United Church of Christ Justice and Peace Ministry Coordinator,
Howard W. Hallman, Chair, Methodists United for Peace and
Justice.,Washington, DC.,
Rosemary Everett, Sisters of the Holy Name., Justice and Peace Coordinator.,
Vivienne E. Perkins, Christ Church Episcopal., Castle Rock, Colorado., USA.,
Michele Bisonette Robbins, Executive Director, Youth for Environment and
Sanity (YES), Soquel, Ca, USA.,
Ruth Garbus, Director, New York Women of Vision and Action., NY., USA.,
Shiela Blaker, Blaine Metcalf, War Resisters League, San Luis Obispo, CA.,
USA.,
Harvey Wasserman, Citizens Protecting Ohio.,
Bruce K. Gagnon., Coordinator., Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear
Power In Space., Florida USA.,
Letitcia Aguilar, Inter American Development Bank.,
Loren Finkelstien, Program Director, Free The Planet.,
Andrew Beath, Earthways Foundation, Malibu., Calif.,
Mary Jo Christian, Monmouth County Citizens for Clean Air and Water.,
Phyllis S. Yingling., WILPF- US., Philadelphia., USA.,
Joan Haywood, Celia Freeman, WILPF-Santa Cruz., California.,
Anne Anderson, Coordinator, Psychologists for Social Responsibility.,
Rochelle Becker., San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace., Calif., USA.,
Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM., USA.,
Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group.,(LASG) Santa Fe, NM., USA.,

Barbara Birkett,M.D.,President, Physicians  for Global Survival (Canada)
Michael Murphy, Inter-Church Uranium Educational Cooperative, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada,
Archdeacon Jim Boyles, General Secretary, Anglican Church of Canada,
Prof. L. Terrell-Gardner, Past President, Science for Peace, Univ. of
Toronto, Canada,
Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance, Toronto, Canada.,
Joyce Lydiard, Rainforest Raging Grannies, Vancouver, Canada.,
Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, Canada.,
Dave Greenfield, New Green Alliance, Saskatchewan, Canada.,
Linda Murphy, President, Interchurch Uranium Committee, Saskatchewan, Canada.,
Jo Hayward-Haines., Victoria Peace Project., Ontario, Canada.,
Penelope Simons, The Simons Foundation, Canada.,
Victor Lau, Green Campus Society, Canada.,

Marion Hancock, Coordinator, Peace Foundation Aotearoa/NZ, Auckland, NZ.,
Megan Hutching, Secy., WILPF, Aotearoa, (NZ).,

Irene Gale AM, Babs Fuller- Quinn, Australian Peace Committee,
Chris White, Secretary, South Australian Trades and Labour Council,
Adelaide, SA.,
Dr. Susan Wareham President MAPW (Medical Association for Prevention of
War- ) Canberra, Australia,
Moira Rowland, Convenor, Campaign for a Nuclear-Free Future, Canberra.,
Cameron Edwards, People for Nuclear Disarmament NSW.,
Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation,
Fitzroy, (Melb) Vic., Australia.,
Kirsten Blair, Mark Wakeham, Coordinators, Environment Centre of the
Northern Territory,
Rowena, Environment Centre of W.A., Perth, W.A.,
Graeme Daniell, People for Nuclear Disarmament W.A.,
Jo Vallentine, Community Anti-Nuclear Network, W.A.,
Jo Vallentine, Anti- Nuclear Alliance, W.A.,
Jo Vallentine, Perth Anti-Nuclear Group.,
Grant Keady, Scientists and Technologists Against Nuclear Dumping, W.A.,
Bruce Nichols, Shine A Light for Peace Campaign.,
Dr. Carmen Lawrence, MP, Labor, Fremantle, W.A.,
Jill Hall, MP, Shortland, NSW.,
Dayrl Melham MP, Member for Banks, NSW., Aust.,
Robin Geraghty, Member for Torrens, SA., Aust.,
Richard Jones MLC., NSW.,

Dr. Patrick Green, Senior Nuclear and Climate Campaigner, Friends of the
Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland, London, UK.,
Dr. Victor Khazan, Friends of the Earth Ukraine (Zelenyi Zvit),
Manana Kochladze, Friends of the Earth Georgia/CEE Bankwatch Georgia,
Dr. Maria Minkova, 'Ekoglasnost', Friends of the Earth Bulgaria, Sofia,
Wendy Johnson, Friends of the Earth New Zealand,
John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia (Sydney)



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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 08:54:22 -0500
From: Karina Wood <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) re TV program on Nuclear Weapons

Dear abolitionists in the USA and around the world:

Those of us here in the US who watched the CBS "60 Minutes II" news
documentary program last night, saw a segment entitled "The Missiliers"
which described how thousands of US and Russian nuclear missiles remain
on combat-ready alert today and asked why there has been so little
progress in arms reductions since the end of the Cold War. Retired 4
star General Eugene Habinger was interviewed, and he spoke firmly in
favor of deep reductions. For "prime time" television, it was a very
good program, and I'm sure it will have been startling and
thought-provoking news for many Americans.

You can read the full commentary of the program on CBS' website at:

http://cbsnews.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,158208-412,00.shtml

(In case this link doesn't work, go to www.cbs.com then click on CBS
News, then click on 60 Minutes II, then see the Missiliers story
heading)

Partway through the text there is a link to the Tokyo Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War's nuclear weapons chronology webpage, and from
their page a link to the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's site!

Americans: Let's generate thousands of calls to the White House today,
referring to the "60 Minutes II" show and demanding de-alerting and
immediate deep US-Russian reductions leading to negotiations for the
abolition of all nuclear weapons.

Everyone: Let's try really hard to get retired 4 star US Generals
Habinger and Lee Butler to make presentations at the NPT Review
Conference.

All the best,
Karina.
- --
Karina H. Wood
Field Coordinator, Project Abolition
and U.S. Outreach Coordinator, Hague Appeal for Peace
85 John St.
Providence, RI 02906
Ph: 401-276-0377
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 17:21:33 -0500
From: Karina Wood <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) letter to Pres re 60 Minutes II show

Dear Abolitionists:

Please find below the letter I sent to President Clinton and my
members of Congress today, regarding last night's CBS "60 Minutes II"
show on nuclear weapons. Please use this letter as a sample for your
own letter. You can easily alter the letter to make it suitable for
sending to the letters page of your local newspaper, and to candidates
for office this fall. I urge everyone to write letters today.

- -Karina

***********************************************************
President William Jefferson Clinton
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500

cc.     The Honorable Albert Gore
        The Honorable [your Senators]
        The Honorable [your Representatives]

Dear Mr. President:

"The fact that we have not been able to get down to lower and lower
levels of nuclear weapons is troubling to me=85 We need to move on, and
get down to lower levels."

That's what retired four-star General Eugene Habiger told Dan Rather
last night on CBS' "60 Minutes II" (February 8). I agree with the
General. The Cold War is over, yet the threat of nuclear war is as
strong as ever. It's time to move on from the nuclear age and rid our
planet of the scourge of nuclear weapons before an accidental or
deliberate launch destroys it.

I learned from the "60 Minutes II" show that just one thermonuclear
warhead - the kind America uses to arm its ICBMs - carries more
destructive power than 20 of the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima,
and that we have thousands of these warheads poised on combat-ready
alert, ready to be launched in minutes. This is not what I call
security. In fact it's terrifying.

General Habiger also said: "Tension between the United States and Russia
is greater now than at any time since the end of the Cold War. But the
only people who seem to be alarmed by it are the American nuclear
soldiers - or missiliers - and their Russian counterparts."

Well, Mr. President, I am alarmed, too. You and the Russian President
need to get together and start mending relations between our nations and
negotiate some deep reductions, fast. You could start by taking all
combat-ready missiles off alert status and by pledging to work toward
the elimination of all nuclear weapons. This would instantly increase
the security of every American and Russian citizen, and the world.

However, to my dismay, I read in my newspaper that last month the
Russians offered to cut back their strategic nuclear arsenal to 1,500
warheads, if America would drop its plans for missile defense, and
America rejected the offer. This is simply irresponsible of your
Administration. I urge you to please reconsider.  Russia made a
reasonable offer that would get the ball rolling on dismantling our
nuclear arsenals, yet Washington chooses to rather spend tens of
billions of dollars on a technologically-challenged missile defense
system which could spark a new arms race and will not stop the foremost
threat to US security; the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,
and terrorist bombs delivered in trucks and packages.

Nuclear weapons do not enhance security; they endanger security.
Furthermore, keeping America nuclear-ready costs $28 billion a year.
This money would be far better spent on improving my children's
education and healthcare and preserving the environment.

Mr. President, I urge you to place the highest priority on achieving
deep reductions with Russia in your last year of the presidency. Should
you fail, you will leave office with the worst record on arms control of
any president since the end of World War II.

Polls show 84% of Americans believe the world would be safer without
nuclear weapons. General Habiger believes we need deep reductions now.
Can I count on you to act, before it's too late?

I await your reply,

Sincerely,

Karina Holyoak Wood
- --=20
Karina H. Wood
Field Coordinator, Project Abolition
and U.S. Outreach Coordinator, Hague Appeal for Peace
85 John St.
Providence, RI 02906
Ph: 401-276-0377
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

For information on Project Abolition: www.fourthfreedom.org
For information on the Hague Appeal: www.haguepeace.org

GET CONNECTED TO HAP!
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 22:54:09 -0500
From: peter weiss <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) letter to Pres re 60 Minutes II show

Very fine letter. Sorry to have missed you and Cliff and ? Sunday.
Pretty good party. Did you see my letter to my friends in the Knesset
about their debate on nukes? If not, I'll send it to you.

                    Love, Peter

Karina Wood wrote:
>=20
> Dear Abolitionists:
>=20
> Please find below the letter I sent to President Clinton and my
> members of Congress today, regarding last night's CBS "60 Minutes II"
> show on nuclear weapons. Please use this letter as a sample for your
> own letter. You can easily alter the letter to make it suitable for
> sending to the letters page of your local newspaper, and to candidates
> for office this fall. I urge everyone to write letters today.
>=20
> -Karina
>=20
> ***********************************************************
> President William Jefferson Clinton
> The White House
> 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
> Washington, DC 20500
>=20
> cc.     The Honorable Albert Gore
>         The Honorable [your Senators]
>         The Honorable [your Representatives]
>=20
> Dear Mr. President:
>=20
> "The fact that we have not been able to get down to lower and lower
> levels of nuclear weapons is troubling to me=85 We need to move on, and
> get down to lower levels."
>=20
> That's what retired four-star General Eugene Habiger told Dan Rather
> last night on CBS' "60 Minutes II" (February 8). I agree with the
> General. The Cold War is over, yet the threat of nuclear war is as
> strong as ever. It's time to move on from the nuclear age and rid our
> planet of the scourge of nuclear weapons before an accidental or
> deliberate launch destroys it.
>=20
> I learned from the "60 Minutes II" show that just one thermonuclear
> warhead - the kind America uses to arm its ICBMs - carries more
> destructive power than 20 of the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima,
> and that we have thousands of these warheads poised on combat-ready
> alert, ready to be launched in minutes. This is not what I call
> security. In fact it's terrifying.
>=20
> General Habiger also said: "Tension between the United States and Russi=
a
> is greater now than at any time since the end of the Cold War. But the
> only people who seem to be alarmed by it are the American nuclear
> soldiers - or missiliers - and their Russian counterparts."
>=20
> Well, Mr. President, I am alarmed, too. You and the Russian President
> need to get together and start mending relations between our nations an=
d
> negotiate some deep reductions, fast. You could start by taking all
> combat-ready missiles off alert status and by pledging to work toward
> the elimination of all nuclear weapons. This would instantly increase
> the security of every American and Russian citizen, and the world.
>=20
> However, to my dismay, I read in my newspaper that last month the
> Russians offered to cut back their strategic nuclear arsenal to 1,500
> warheads, if America would drop its plans for missile defense, and
> America rejected the offer. This is simply irresponsible of your
> Administration. I urge you to please reconsider.  Russia made a
> reasonable offer that would get the ball rolling on dismantling our
> nuclear arsenals, yet Washington chooses to rather spend tens of
> billions of dollars on a technologically-challenged missile defense
> system which could spark a new arms race and will not stop the foremost
> threat to US security; the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction=
,
> and terrorist bombs delivered in trucks and packages.
>=20
> Nuclear weapons do not enhance security; they endanger security.
> Furthermore, keeping America nuclear-ready costs $28 billion a year.
> This money would be far better spent on improving my children's
> education and healthcare and preserving the environment.
>=20
> Mr. President, I urge you to place the highest priority on achieving
> deep reductions with Russia in your last year of the presidency. Should
> you fail, you will leave office with the worst record on arms control o=
f
> any president since the end of World War II.
>=20
> Polls show 84% of Americans believe the world would be safer without
> nuclear weapons. General Habiger believes we need deep reductions now.
> Can I count on you to act, before it's too late?
>=20
> I await your reply,
>=20
> Sincerely,
>=20
> Karina Holyoak Wood
> --
> Karina H. Wood
> Field Coordinator, Project Abolition
> and U.S. Outreach Coordinator, Hague Appeal for Peace
> 85 John St.
> Providence, RI 02906
> Ph: 401-276-0377
> Fax: [phone]
> Email: [e-mail]
>=20
> For information on Project Abolition: www.fourthfreedom.org
> For information on the Hague Appeal: www.haguepeace.org
>=20
> GET CONNECTED TO HAP!
> Join the Hague Appeal for Peace news listserv.
> To subscribe, send an email message to
> <[e-mail]>
> with the message "subscribe hapnews-list" in the body of the email.
>=20
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