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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 12:15:16 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT! -PLS SIGN START-III  CLINTON/PUTIN MOSCOW SUMMIT LETTER (JUN4-5)

URGENT! -PLS SIGN START-III  CLINTON/PUTIN MOSCOW SUMMIT LETTER (JUN4-5)
Sign by emailing FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>

Dear All,
This is a sign - on letter for organisations and parliamentarians,
organised mainly by myself and Commander Robert Green of the World Court
Project, with a great deal of input from Daryl Kimball and Steven Young.

Essentially it asks Clinton and Putin at the Moscow Summit on 4/5 June, to
go for the lowest possible START-III warhead numbers, and not to proceed
with the NMD system.

It reminds them forcefully of the final document from the NPT Revcon which
has just finished, esp where the NMD is concerned.

It's already got the signatures of CDI, WILPF, WCP, Abolition2000, TVC,
Proposition One, PSR, and a number of members of the European Parliament,
the Belgian Parliament and the Australian parliament.

You are urged to sign it as a matter of urgency, given the shortness of
time beween now and the Moscow summit.


PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
[phone], [phone], [phone], 456-6201

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
[phone], [phone]-205-4219

CC
FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV
[phone], [phone]

SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
[phone]

MINISTER FOR DEFENCE IGOR SERGEYEV
[phone], [phone],

DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN
[phone]

Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin,

We the undersigned,  are writing to you in the aftermath of the Review
Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in view of
your summit meeting in Moscow on June 4-5, with respect to the ratification
of the START-II arms control agreement, the negotiation of a START-III
agreement, and the possible deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD)
system by the US, with the prospect of the modification of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.

Your two countries bear a unique responsibility for the security of the
world, as you possess by far the largest share of the world's nuclear
weapons.

The overwhelming majority of the world's governments and peoples are not
content to see nuclear weapons retained indefinitely by your two nations
(or by the UK, France, China, Israel, India or Pakistan). This has been
shown repeatedly in UN  resolutions  calling for the elimination of nuclear
weapons, and opinion polls supporting the immediate start of negotiations
for a nuclear weapons convention. Support for a nuclear weapons convention
is widespread in many quarters and cannot be dismissed.

Measures discussed at the NPT Review Conference which should form a basis
for your Moscow discussions include:

(1) Unequivocal and Total Elimination

The five recognized nuclear weapon states (NWS) responded to global
concerns expressed at the NPT Review Conference  with a joint statement
pledging an 'unequivocal' commitment to 'ultimate' elimination of nuclear
weapons. Non-nuclear weapon states responded  that they consider the word
'ultimate' to be inadequate, and want an accelerated program of
negotiations toward the total elimination of nuclear weapons.

There are disturbing signs that 'ultimate' in the P5 statement  may  in
fact mean 'forever'.  Documents presented by the US to Russia (the ABM
Treaty 'Talking Points') indicate that the US essentially encouraged Russia
to maintain a large nuclear arsenal on permanent constant alert. This is
exactly the opposite of what needs to happen.

The NWS statement  fell far short of the much stronger commitment expressed
in the 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, the
judiciary body of the United Nations, and the world's highest legal
authority. Reaffirming the need to eliminate nuclear weapons in its
interpretation of Article VI of the NPT,  it unanimously stated:

"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."

A significantly stronger position than the NWS statement has been adopted
in the final declaration of the NPT Review,  in which the NWS made an
'unequivocal undertaking' to 'accomplish the total elimination of their
nuclear arsenals'.  This position however, represents a bare minimum.

The reality is that the peoples and nations of the world want decisive
action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and they will expect your Moscow
discussions to reflect this new undertaking and to demonstrate evidence of
your compliance with it.


(2) Take US and Russian Nuclear Forces off 'Launch-on-Warning' Status.

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
take 'concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons'.
We therefore urge that both the US and Russia agree immediately to take
nuclear weapons off 'launch-on-warning' status.

The idea of an entirely accidental nuclear war, which 'launch-on-warning'
makes possible, must be intolerable to you, yet it has nearly occurred on a
number of documented occasions. Evidently the US and Russian military were
sufficiently concerned about this last year to establish a joint 'Center
for Y2K Strategic Stability'. With such mutual verification of early
warning information achieved between them, it should be possible to extend
this to monitoring de-alerting of their nuclear forces. Removing nuclear
weapons systems from launch-on-warning status would be the single most
responsible and important step that you could both take in Moscow toward
the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.


(3)Implementation of START-II

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
the implementation of START-II.  This is highly uncertain due to US Senate
opposition to the 1997 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) protocols.
Consequently, both sides should  should agree to  unilateral reciprocal
measures to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals below START-1
levels in accordance with START-1 verification procedures.

(4)START-III

The NPT Review conference has urged both of you to conclude START-III as
soon as possible. We therefore further urge you to work together to  agree
to   irreversible, verifiable, reductions to 1000 warheads or below for
deployed strategic systems, and in addition to verifiable measures to
deactivate and dismantle all remaining tactical nuclear weapons.

If your two countries are to satisfy your obligations under Article VI of
the NPT, and the wishes of the rest of the world, it is clear that you must
join with the other nuclear weapon states in a process that will take your
nuclear arsenals down to zero.

(5)Preserve and Strengthen the ABM Treaty

The final declaration of the NPT Review conference refers to the
'preserving and strengthening' of the ABM treaty.  This and the NWS
statement at the recent NPT Review Conference on the 'maintenance and
strengthening' of the ABM treaty should not be interpreted to mean the
treaty's alteration to allow NMD deployment.

We strongly urge that the US does not deploy a National Missile Defence
(NMD) system,  and that it cease efforts to amend the ABM Treaty to allow
such a deployment.  As indicated by the 'Talking Points', such deployment
merely encourages retention of large nuclear arsenals.


The UN Secretary-General,  New Agenda Coalition,  Non-Aligned Movement,
European Union, the other NWS and others have all  strongly reaffirmed the
importance of retaining the ABM Treaty.  The deployment of a costly system
of unproven and dubious efficacy against a threat that does not yet and may
never exist, will serve only to derail the process of nuclear weapons
elimination to which both the US and Russia are bound as NPT signatories.

The recent NPT Review  shows that the whole world wants you to take
immediate steps toward the elimination of your nuclear arsenals.
Accordingly we urge you in Moscow to make the deepest cuts possible under
START-III, and to proceed swiftly from there to the complete elimination of
nuclear weapons under strict international control.

Signed:

Bruna Nota, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
NY/Geneva.,

Caroline Lucas MEP, Green MEP for South East England,
Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly,

Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (Ret'd.), Chair, George Farebrother,
Secy., World Court Project UK,
Hailsham, Sussex, UK.,
Dr. Phyllis Starkey, MP Milton Keynes Southwest, UK.,

Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Netherlands,
Eloi Glorieux, MP  Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium.,
Peter Vanhoutte, MP Greens Belgium, Belgian Defence Committee Member,
Brussels, Belgium.,

Galina Ragouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia.,
Natalia Koniachkina, WISE-TOMSK, Russia.,
Alexandra Koroleva, Ecodefense Kaliningrad, Russia.,

Bill Blaikie MP, House Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada,
Neil Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival, Canada,
David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Vancouver, BC, Canada,
Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada.,

Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., US Navy (Ret'd.), Centre for Defence
Information, Washington DC.,
Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000, Santa Barbara, Calif.,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC., US.,
Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program
Analyst, Tri-Valley CAREs, Calif.,
Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Washington DC., US.,

Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, NZ.,

Irene Gale, AM, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA.,
Tanya Plibersek MP, Federal Member for Sydney, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia Sydney, Aust.,

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




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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 22:18:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) TVC advisory: Sandia says cut NIF

Dear peace and environmental advocates: This is an extremely significant
development, one demonstrating erosion of support from within the Dept. of
Energy complex for the National Ignition Facility, and I trust you will
find this media advisory of interest and use. Peace, MK

For Immediate Release: Wednesday eve, May 24, 2000
Contact: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs [phone]

SANDIA NATIONAL LAB CALLS FOR MAJOR CUTS AT LIVERMORE LAB'S PROBLEM-RIDDLED
MEGA-LASER;
CALIFORNIA GROUP PREDICTS $10 BILLION PRICE TAG FOR NIF
AND SAYS CANCEL IT OUTRIGHT

In an unprecedented move, Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New
Mexico today officially broke ranks with its "sister" lab in California and
issued a public statement calling for cuts in both size and budget for the
National Ignition Facility (NIF) mega-laser, currently under construction
at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

"The apparent delay and significant increase in cost for the NIF is
sufficient that it will disrupt the investment needed at the other
laboratories, and perhaps by the production plants, by several years," said
Tom Hunter, Sandia's vice-president for nuclear weapons programs.

Today's statement puts Sandia Lab at odds with the policy of its parent
agency, the Department of Energy (DOE), which announced earlier this month
it would seek an additional $95 million for NIF in fiscal year 2001. This
increase would come on top of the $350 million already requested for the
mega-laser in the coming fiscal year. (NIF budget summary faxed upon
request)

Following a report last year by Tri-Valley CAREs, a Livermore-based
organization that monitors nuclear weapons activities, DOE announced that
NIF was more than $350 million over budget and one and one-half years
behind schedule. With NIF the object of continuing investigations both
inside and outside of the Department, on May 3rd DOE was forced to revise
its numbers upward, admitting that NIF's construction costs would
essentially double -- from $1.2 billion to over $2 billion. Further, the
NIF construction schedule would slip five years, according to DOE, from
2003 to 2008.

"This causes us to question what is a reasonable additional investment in
the NIF," said Tom Hunter in explaining Sandia Lab's position today.

The Sandia statement calls for "a reduced project," though it stops short
of making a specific recommendation on how many of NIF's proposed 192 laser
beams should be abandoned.

"Scientists at Sandia and other DOE laboratories have been discussing a
one-quarter NIF option for some time now," said Marylia Kelley, executive
director of Tri-Valley CAREs. "It is the opinion of a number of scientists
that NIF construction should be limited to 48 laser beams."

"Many scientists at the DOE labs are worried that NIF will rob money from
other, more valuable programs," Kelley added. "For example, an astrophysics
program was recently canceled at Livermore Lab and staff scientists there
expressed a belief that their funding had been diverted to NIF."

Tri-Valley CAREs' recommendation goes one step further than Sandia's.

"We advocate cancellation of the entire NIF project," explained Kelley.
"NIF's technical problems will cause its price tag to continue to spiral
upward. Moreover, NIF is simply not a necessary facility in order to ensure
the 'safety' or the 'reliability' of existing nuclear weapons -- a fact
that many prominent weapons physicists have already pointed out," she
continued. "Add to this that NIF poses very real proliferation and
environmental risks, and you have in a nutshell the reasons we want to see
it stopped."

In the wake of jolting revelations about NIF's severe technical
difficulties, mismanagement and continuing budget overruns, the General
Accounting Office began an investigation late last year. During a recent
Congressional briefing, the GAO told members of the Science Committee that
DOE still underestimates NIF's costs by around $1.5 billion, according to a
New Mexico newspaper account.

Add the GAO's tally of the extra $1.5 billion to the current construction
estimate of $2.1 billion, and that brings the price tag for NIF to $3.6
billion, all before construction is completed in 2008 and the switch is
thrown to start NIF's proposed 192 beams.

Tri-Valley CAREs has conducted its own independent analysis of NIF costs,
and the group projects the mega-laser will consume at least $3.7 billion by
2008. "In round numbers, this is very similar to the GAO estimate," said
Kelley. "However, when the out-year program and operating costs over NIF's
'life-cycle' are factored in, that figure will balloon to $10 billion," she
predicted.

- -- 30 --

FYI -- a "same day" news story can be found at www.abqtrib.com, and copies
of the statement issued by Sandia National Laboratory can be obtained from
their Albuquerque press office.

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
Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the
U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert.



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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 08:46:11 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/25 - Star Wars News Conference; Nader; Transmutation

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12-2pm, May 25, 2000, DC STAR WARS NEWS CONFERENCE at the Hotel Willard, 1401
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW -- New information on national missile defense and
negotiations on nuclear arms reductions will be presented by diverse critics
from Capitol Hill to Hollywood at a news conference for DC media. Buchanan Room
(downstairs).  Speakers: Bruce Gagnon, coordinator, Global Network Against
Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space; William Hartung, World Policy Institute; Rep.
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH); Theodore Postol, professor of science and national
security studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a short
Paul Newman video to be premiered at the news conference;

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 From "Nader for Prez! w.votenader.org" <[e-mail]>

NATIONAL GREEN GATHERING AND GREEN CONGRESS
Greens/Green Party USA
Friday-Monday, May 26-29, Chicago
The International Conference Center of the Ecumenical Institute and The
Institute of Cultural Affairs 4750 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL. 60640,
[phone] (24 hour number for incoming emergency calls; there are pay
phones available in the building) Email is: [e-mail]
Check out International Conference Center's site:
http://members.aol.com/iccchgo/confcenthomepage.htm
2000 Greens/Green Party USA Congress Schedule and Agenda (draft)
* Late Proposals can be added to the agenda by the Green Congress

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Nader is currently on the ballot in about 15 states, with most states
petitioning RIGHT NOW. If you can help in your local petition drive, email
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Re: TRANSMUTATION OF RADWASTE IS "NUCLEAR ALCHEMY GAMBLE"

Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 07:01:32 -0700
From: "Gary Vesperman" <[e-mail]>

I suggest that the federal government take a proactive look at using
low-voltage nuclear transmutation methods such as the ones being developed by
Trenergy, Inc., in Salt Lake City, Utah [e.g.
http://www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_5_10_2.html]. Gary

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12-2pm, May 25, 2000, DC STAR WARS NEWS CONFERENCE at the Hotel Willard,
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW -- New information on national missile
defense and negotiations on nuclear arms reductions will be presented by
diverse critics from Capitol Hill to Hollywood at a news conference for
DC media. Buchanan Room (downstairs).  Speakers: Bruce Gagnon,
coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space;
William Hartung, World Policy Institute; Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH);
Theodore Postol, professor of science and national security studies at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a short  Paul Newman
video to be premiered at the news conference;  <br>
<br>
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<br>
 From "Nader for Prez! w.votenader.org"
<[e-mail]> <br>
<br>
NATIONAL GREEN GATHERING AND GREEN CONGRESS <br>
Greens/Green Party USA <br>
Friday-Monday, May 26-29, Chicago<br>
The International Conference Center of the Ecumenical Institute and The
<br>
Institute of Cultural Affairs 4750 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL. 60640,
<br>
[phone] (24 hour number for incoming emergency calls; there are
pay <br>
phones available in the building) Email is: [e-mail]<br>
Check out International Conference Center's site:<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://members.aol.com/iccchgo/confcenthomepage.htm" eudora="autourl">http://members.aol.com/iccchgo/confcenthomepage.htm</a><br>
</font></u>2000 Greens/Green Party USA Congress Schedule and Agenda
(draft) <br>
* Late Proposals can be added to the agenda by the Green Congress<br>
<br>
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<br>
Nader is currently on the ballot in about 15 states, with most states
<br>
petitioning RIGHT NOW. If you can help in your local petition drive,
email <br>
me individually, not through the list serve, and I can send you a local
<br>
contact so you can help out.<br>
greg gerritt co-chair Green National Convention Credentials
Committee<br>
<br>
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Re: TRANSMUTATION OF RADWASTE IS "NUCLEAR ALCHEMY GAMBLE"
<br>
<br>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 07:01:32 -0700 <br>
From: "Gary Vesperman" <[e-mail]> <br>
<br>
I suggest that the federal government take a proactive look at using
low-voltage nuclear transmutation methods such as the ones being
developed by Trenergy, Inc., in Salt Lake City, Utah [e.g.
<a href="http://www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_5_10_2.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_5_10_2.html</a>].
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 18:47:37 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Organisations Signatures Urgently needed for Moscow Summit Letter

ORGANISATIONAL SIGNATURES URGENTLY NEEDED -
Sign by emailing FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>

Dear All,

On June 4/5, Presidents Putin and Clinton will meet in Moscow. High in the
list of things they are expected to discuss is the possibility of START-III
negotiations, and the US plan to weaken the ABM treaty by deploying a
national missile defence (NMD) system.

This comes on the heels of a prolonged review meeting of the nuclear
nonproliferation treaty at UN headquarters, in which the nuclear weapons
powers have undertaken the 'unequivocal and total' elimination of their
nuclear arsenals, and in which the ABM treaty's importance has been
strongly affirmed by everyone from the UN secretary - general downwards.

This letter urges Putin and Clinton to negotiate the lowest possible
START-III warhead levels with a view to going to zero, and urges that the
BMD system not be deployed.

It needs signatures immediately if it is to be faxed in sufficient time to
Putin and Clinton.


PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
[phone], [phone], [phone], 456-6201

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
[phone], [phone]-205-4219

CC
FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV
[phone], [phone]

SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
[phone]

MINISTER FOR DEFENCE IGOR SERGEYEV
[phone], [phone],

DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN
[phone]

Dear Presidents Clinton and Putin,

We the undersigned,  are writing to you in the aftermath of the Review
Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in view of
your summit meeting in Moscow on June 4-5, with respect to the ratification
of the START-II arms control agreement, the negotiation of a START-III
agreement, and the possible deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD)
system by the US, with the prospect of the modification of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.

Your two countries bear a unique responsibility for the security of the
world, as you possess by far the largest share of the world's nuclear
weapons.

The overwhelming majority of the world's governments and peoples are not
content to see nuclear weapons retained indefinitely by your two nations
(or by the UK, France, China, Israel, India or Pakistan). This has been
shown repeatedly in UN  resolutions  calling for the elimination of nuclear
weapons, and opinion polls supporting the immediate start of negotiations
for a nuclear weapons convention. Support for a nuclear weapons convention
is widespread in many quarters and cannot be dismissed.

Measures discussed at the NPT Review Conference which should form a basis
for your Moscow discussions include:

(1) Unequivocal and Total Elimination

The five recognized nuclear weapon states (NWS) responded to global
concerns expressed at the NPT Review Conference  with a joint statement
pledging an 'unequivocal' commitment to 'ultimate' elimination of nuclear
weapons. Non-nuclear weapon states responded  that they consider the word
'ultimate' to be inadequate, and want an accelerated program of
negotiations toward the total elimination of nuclear weapons.

There are disturbing signs that 'ultimate' in the P5 statement  may  in
fact mean 'forever'.  Documents presented by the US to Russia (the ABM
Treaty 'Talking Points') indicate that the US essentially encouraged Russia
to maintain a large nuclear arsenal on permanent constant alert. This is
exactly the opposite of what needs to happen.

The NWS statement  fell far short of the much stronger commitment expressed
in the 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, the
judiciary body of the United Nations, and the world's highest legal
authority. Reaffirming the need to eliminate nuclear weapons in its
interpretation of Article VI of the NPT,  it unanimously stated:

"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."

A significantly stronger position than the NWS statement has been adopted
in the final declaration of the NPT Review,  in which the NWS made an
'unequivocal undertaking' to 'accomplish the total elimination of their
nuclear arsenals'.  This position however, represents a bare minimum.

The reality is that the peoples and nations of the world want decisive
action to eliminate nuclear weapons, and they will expect your Moscow
discussions to reflect this new undertaking and to demonstrate evidence of
your compliance with it.


(2) Take US and Russian Nuclear Forces off 'Launch-on-Warning' Status.

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
take 'concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons'.
We therefore urge that both the US and Russia agree immediately to take
nuclear weapons off 'launch-on-warning' status.

The idea of an entirely accidental nuclear war, which 'launch-on-warning'
makes possible, must be intolerable to you, yet it has nearly occurred on a
number of documented occasions. Evidently the US and Russian military were
sufficiently concerned about this last year to establish a joint 'Center
for Y2K Strategic Stability'. With such mutual verification of early
warning information achieved between them, it should be possible to extend
this to monitoring de-alerting of their nuclear forces. Removing nuclear
weapons systems from launch-on-warning status would be the single most
responsible and important step that you could both take in Moscow toward
the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.


(3)Implementation of START-II

The final declaration of the NPT Review Conference contains a commitment to
the implementation of START-II.  This is highly uncertain due to US Senate
opposition to the 1997 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) protocols.
Consequently, both sides should  should agree to  unilateral reciprocal
measures to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals below START-1
levels in accordance with START-1 verification procedures.

(4)START-III

The NPT Review conference has urged both of you to conclude START-III as
soon as possible. We therefore further urge you to work together to  agree
to   irreversible, verifiable, reductions to 1000 warheads or below for
deployed strategic systems, and in addition to verifiable measures to
deactivate and dismantle all remaining tactical nuclear weapons.

If your two countries are to satisfy your obligations under Article VI of
the NPT, and the wishes of the rest of the world, it is clear that you must
join with the other nuclear weapon states in a process that will take your
nuclear arsenals down to zero.

(5)Preserve and Strengthen the ABM Treaty

The final declaration of the NPT Review conference refers to the
'preserving and strengthening' of the ABM treaty.  This and the NWS
statement at the recent NPT Review Conference on the 'maintenance and
strengthening' of the ABM treaty should not be interpreted to mean the
treaty's alteration to allow NMD deployment.

We strongly urge that the US does not deploy a National Missile Defence
(NMD) system,  and that it cease efforts to amend the ABM Treaty to allow
such a deployment.  As indicated by the 'Talking Points', such deployment
merely encourages retention of large nuclear arsenals.


The UN Secretary-General,  New Agenda Coalition,  Non-Aligned Movement,
European Union, the other NWS and others have all  strongly reaffirmed the
importance of retaining the ABM Treaty.  The deployment of a costly system
of unproven and dubious efficacy against a threat that does not yet and may
never exist, will serve only to derail the process of nuclear weapons
elimination to which both the US and Russia are bound as NPT signatories.

The recent NPT Review  shows that the whole world wants you to take
immediate steps toward the elimination of your nuclear arsenals.
Accordingly we urge you in Moscow to make the deepest cuts possible under
START-III, and to proceed swiftly from there to the complete elimination of
nuclear weapons under strict international control.

Signed:

Bruna Nota, President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
NY/Geneva.,

Caroline Lucas MEP, Green MEP for South East England,
Frank Cook MP, Vice-President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly,

Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (Ret'd.), Chair, George Farebrother,
Secy., World Court Project UK,
Hailsham, Sussex, UK.,
Dr. Phyllis Starkey, MP Milton Keynes Southwest, UK.,
Jenny Maxwell, West Midland Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK.,
Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of American
Bases, Otley, Yorks, UK.,
Di Mc Donald, Nuclear Information Service, UK.,

Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, The Hague, Netherlands,
Eloi Glorieux, MP  Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium.,
Peter Vanhoutte, MP Greens Belgium, Belgian Defence Committee Member,
Brussels, Belgium.,
Fiona Dove, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands,

Dr. Arthur Muhl, President, International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War, (IPPNW) Switzerland.,

Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
Alba Circle Non-Violent Movement, Hungary,
Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Austria,

Galina Ragouzhina, WISE-Kaliningrad, Russia.,
Natalia Koniachkina, WISE-TOMSK, Russia.,
Alexandra Koroleva, Ecodefense Kaliningrad, Russia.,

Victor Khazan, Zelenyi Zvit (FOE Ukraine), Dniepropretrovsk, Ukraine,
Nadia Sosovkina, Coordinator, Ukrainian Society for Sustainable
Development, Kiev, Ukraine.,

Bahig Nassar, Coordinator, Arab Coordination Centre of NGOs, Egypt.
Jean P. Patterson, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom,
Costa-Rica.,

Bill Blaikie MP, House Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada,
Neil Arya, President, Physicians for Global Survival, Canada,
David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Vancouver, BC, Canada,
Joyce Lydiard, WILPF-British Columbia, Canada.,
Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, Canada,
Tryna Booth, Canadian Peace Alliance.,
Linda Murphy, President, Inter-Church Uranium Committee, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada,
Kira Van Deusen, Foundation for Indigenous Siberian Culture and Native
Exchange, Vancouver, Canada,
David Greenfield, Green Party of Canada, Saskatoon, Canada,

Rear-Admiral Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., US Navy (Ret'd.), Centre for Defence
Information, Washington DC.,
Carah Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000, Santa Barbara, Calif.,
Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Committee, Washington DC., US.,
Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Sally Light, Nuclear Weapons Program
Analyst, Tri-Valley CAREs, Calif.,
Martin Butcher, Director of Security Programs, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Washington DC., US.,
Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation, Oakland Calif, USA.,
Bishop Walter Sullivan, President, Pax Christi, USA.,
Phyllis Yingling, President, Womens International League for Peace and
Freedom, USA,
Anthony Guarisco, Alliance of Atomic Veterans, USA.,
Dana L. Richter, Copper Country Peace Alliance, Houghton, Michigan, USA.,
Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear
Power in Space, Gainesville, Fl, USA.,
George W. Albee, President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility,
Washington DC., USA.,
John M Phelan, Chairman, Fordham Centre for Communication Policy and
Ethics, USA.,

Kate Dewes, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, NZ.,
Megan Hutching, National Secretary, Womens International League for Peace
and Freedom, Aotearoa/NZ.,
Barney Richards, National Secretary, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ.,
Marion Hancock, Peace Foundation, Aotearoa/NZ,

Dr. Carmen Lawrence, MP Member for Fremantle, Parliamentarians for a
Nuclear-Free Future,  Australia.
Jill Hall MP, Federal Member for Shortland, Australia,
Tanya Plibersek MP, Federal Member for Sydney, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
Julia Gillard, Federal Member for Lalor, Federal Parliament, Aust.,
Kelly Hoare MP, Federal Member for Charlton, (Newcastle) NSW, Aust.,
Daryl Melham, Federal Member for Banks., NSW., Aust.,
Senator Vicky Bourne, Democrat Senator for NSW.,
Senator Sue Mackay, ALP Senator for  Canberra,
Senator George Campbell, ALP Senator for NSW.,
Tom Helm, MLC Mt Newman, W.A.,
Helen Hodgson, MLC., W.A.,
Kerry Tucker MLC., Green Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly,
Geoff Holland, Institute for Global Futures Research, Earlville, Qld,
Kirsten Blair, Coordinator, Environment Centre of the Northern Territory,
Darwin, NT.,
David Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation.,
Fitzroy, Vic.,
Angela Drury, People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND) NSW.,
Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founding President, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Womens Action for Nuclear Disarmament.,
Irene Gale, AM, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, SA.,
John Hallam, Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia Sydney, Aust.,



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Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 07:28:47 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/26 - 1) Daybook; 2) Presidential Candidates; 3)&4) Report on Two News Conferences

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1) Daybook - Washington Times and Agence France Presse
http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000526213830.htm

      Gulf war health workshop =97 8:30 =97 The Institute of Medicine holds=
 a
workshop, "Identifying Effective Treatments for Gulf War Veterans' Health
Problems." Location: National Research Council, Cecil and Ida Green=
 Building,
2001 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Contact: 202/334-1318.
 =20
    Clinton trip briefing =97 11:15 a.m. =97 The State Department holds a
background briefing on President Clinton's trip to Russia. Location: Press
Briefing Room 2118, 2101 C St. NW. Contact: 202/647-6607.

2) Presidential Candidates:

V.P. Al Gore - http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000526213830.htm
7:15 a.m. =97 Participates in the school day, Cordova School, Cordova, Tenn.
12:30 p.m. =97 Discusses education issues with students, parents, teachers=
 and
administrators, gymnasium.

Ralph Nader On The Road - http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html
Today, May 26:
12:00 pm
March                                                                     =
=20
        Anchorage, AK - Alaska Injured Workers March against hospitals that
rent space to Outside physicians who deny workman=D5s comp claims for=
 insurance
companies. The Alaska Regional Hospital=20
8:00 pm Speech
Anchorage, AK - First United Methodist Church 725 9th Ave. Seating for 300
Contact: Jim Sykes [phone], [phone] Steve Cleary (907)=
 222-1630=20
Tomorrow, May 27 -  Honolulu, HI - 5:00 pm Speech
Harris United Methodist Church Sponsored by the Kokua Council holds 200=
 people
20 South Vineyard Blvd

3)  Report on Star Wars Press Conference 5/25/00
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) hotly described the National Missile "Offense"
system a "boondoggle" and "scam," and suggested that the sudden=
 classification
of Dr. Theodore Postol's letter to John Podesta was an attempt to "cover up"
that "won't work," saying that a number of Congresspeople agree with him.
Several other fine speakers were ignored after Dr. Postol spoke at length=
 about
why Star Wars won't work, presenting graphs and photos to prove that it=
 would
be easy to fool any missile detection system with heated mylar balloons. =
 Dr.
Postol said he hadn't received personal notice from the government that his
letter is classified, and that it can be found online at the Moscow=
 Institute
of Technology (see below).  A member of the audience advised that Federation=
 of
American Scientists also has the letter on their website (www.fas.org).

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology: http://www.armscontrol.ru/

Pentagon Classifies a Letter Critical of Antimissile Plan: Letter of Prof.
Theodore A. Postol to John D. Podesta, the White House Chief of Staff,
Letter, May 18, 2000:
http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/letter.pdf

Attachments A., B., and C. (all in PDF format)=20
http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-a.pdf
http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-b.pdf
http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-c.pdf

4) Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) held a press conference outside the Capitol=
 Building
yesterday at 3 p.m., at which he and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (again appearing)
called on President Clinton to agree with President Putin to de-alert=
 nuclear
weapons at their meeting June 4 and 5. =20




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<html><div>1) Daybook - Washington Times and Agence France Presse</div>
<div><a href=3D"http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000526213830.htm"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000526213830.ht=
m</a></div>
<br>
<div>      Gulf war health workshop =97 8:30 =97 Th=
e
Institute of Medicine holds a workshop, "Identifying Effective
Treatments for Gulf War Veterans' Health Problems." Location:
National Research Council, Cecil and Ida Green Building, 2001 Wisconsin
Ave. NW. Contact: 202/334-1318.</div>
<div>  </div>
<div>    Clinton trip briefing =97 11:15 a.m. =97 The State
Department holds a background briefing on President Clinton's trip to
Russia. Location: Press Briefing Room 2118, 2101 C St. NW. Contact:
202/647-6607.</div>
<br>
<div>2) Presidential Candidates:</div>
<br>
<div>V.P. Al Gore -
<a href=3D"http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000526213830.htm"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook-2000526213830.ht=
m</a></div>
<div>7:15 a.m. =97 Participates in the school day, Cordova School, Cordova,
Tenn.</div>
<div>12:30 p.m. =97 Discusses education issues with students, parents,
teachers and administrators, gymnasium.</div>
<br>
<div>Ralph Nader On The Road -
<a href=3D"http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html</a></div>
<div>Today, May 26:</div>
<div>12:00 pm
March            =
;            &nb=
sp;            &=
nbsp;            =
;            &nb=
sp;            &=
nbsp;
Anchorage, AK - Alaska Injured Workers March against hospitals that rent
space to Outside physicians who deny workmanÕs comp claims for
insurance companies. The Alaska Regional Hospital </div>
<div>8:00 pm Speech</div>
<div>Anchorage, AK - First United Methodist Church 725 9th Ave. Seating
for 300 Contact: Jim Sykes [phone], [phone] Steve Cleary
[phone] </div>
<div>Tomorrow, May 27 -  Honolulu, HI - 5:00 pm Speech</div>
<div>Harris United Methodist Church Sponsored by the Kokua Council holds
200 people 20 South Vineyard Blvd</div>
<br>
<div>3)  Report on Star Wars Press Conference 5/25/00</div>
<div>Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) hotly described the National Missile
"Offense" system a "boondoggle" and "scam,"
and suggested that the sudden classification of Dr. Theodore Postol's
letter to John Podesta was an attempt to "cover up" that
"won't work," saying that a number of Congresspeople agree with
him. Several other fine speakers were ignored after Dr. Postol spoke at
length about why Star Wars won't work, presenting graphs and photos to
prove that it would be easy to fool any missile detection system with
heated mylar balloons.  Dr. Postol said he hadn't received personal
notice from the government that his letter is classified, and that it can
be found online at the Moscow Institute of Technology (see below).
A member of the audience advised that Federation of American Scientists
also has the letter on their website
(<a href=3D"http://www.fas.org/" EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>www.fas.org</a>).</div>
<br>
<div>Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology:
<a href=3D"http://www.armscontrol.ru/"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.armscontrol.ru/</a></div>
<br>
<div>Pentagon Classifies a Letter Critical of Antimissile Plan: Letter of
Prof. Theodore A. Postol to John D. Podesta, the White House Chief of
Staff,</div>
<div>Letter, May 18, 2000:</div>
<div><a href=3D"http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/letter.pdf"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/letter.pdf</a=
></div>
<br>
<div>Attachments A., B., and C. (all in PDF format) </div>
<div><a href=3D"http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-a.pdf"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-a.pdf</a>=
</div>
<div><a href=3D"http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-b.pdf"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-b.pdf</a>=
</div>
<div><a href=3D"http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-c.pdf"=
 EUDORA=3DAUTOURL>http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/publications/att-c.pdf</a>=
</div>
<br>
<div>4) Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) held a press conference outside the Capitol
Building yesterday at 3 p.m., at which he and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (again
appearing) called on President Clinton to agree with President Putin to
de-alert nuclear weapons at their meeting June 4 and 5.  </div>
<br>
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