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abolition-usa-digest      Saturday, May 27 2000      Volume 01 : Number 309




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Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:47:45 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: nuclear chat

Hi Friends,
Can anyone go on this chat show and tell them that nuclear energy isn't the
answer to global warming?  Alioe Slater

>Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 17:21:04 -0400
>Subject: nuclear chat
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>maybe some nuclear people should called into the chat to mention the
>environmental destruction of nuclear energy.......
>
>
>Live Chat
>Upcoming chats
>Join a live chat on the environmental benefits of nuclear energy with
>Maureen Koetz, director of environmental policy for the Nuclear Energy
>Institute. This chat is scheduled for May 31 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. ET.
>Join a live chat on June 2 at 8 p.m. ET with Mike Pelly, a proponent of
>green fuel oils and energy independence. Currently he is promoting a
>biodiesel that people can refine on their own.
>Join a live chat with Dr. Luis Baptista, chairman and curator at the
>Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences.
>The chat is June 15 from 9-10 p.m. ET. Baptista is an authority on
>birds, particularly about how their singing traditions are learned and
>what the songs mean.
>For more information about these chats, please contact David Skillman at
>[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> .
>For more information:
>http://chat.enn.com/
>
>
>
>
>Diane Hatz
>Communications Director
>Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
>15 East 26th Street, Room 915
>New York, NY 10010
>tel. [phone]
>fax [phone]
>www.gracelinks.org
>
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]
http://www.gracelinks.org

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination
nuclear weapons.

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Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 16:37:04 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) RE: press release

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News Release for Immediate Release=AD MAY 25, 2000
Contacts:         Jordan Benjamin 202-822-5200
                  Stephen Kent 914-424-8382


Blinding Us With =93Science=94

Critics Charge National Missile Defense Fanfare Conceals Massive Campaign
Contributions from Defense Contractors, Falsified Test Results, Damage to
US
National Security, US Rejection of Disarmament Opportunity, & Hidden Agenda
For Offensive Space-Based Weapons

[Washington, DC --May 25, 2000] As President Clinton prepares to depart for
the Moscow summit next week, missile defense is at the top of the national
agenda.  While funding authorization for limited national missile  defense
(NMD)  moves through Congress, George W. Bush this week made a proposal for
reductions in nuclear arsenals coupled with an expanded missile defense
program.

Proponents say missile defense is a way of applying  American technological
know-how to shield the US from a perceived threat of nuclear attack by
"rogue states."  But experts presented new evidence today of massive
defense
lobby spending to push it through Congress, falsified test results and
fraudulent science, and underlying agendas pursued at the cost of spurning
nuclear disarmament opportunities and directly compromising US national
security. Missile defense, they warned, is a smokescreen obscuring and
exacerbating growing nuclear danger, and concealing its ultimate agenda,
which is to create space-based and other futuristic offensive weapons.

These points were made at a DC press conference today by spokespeople as
diverse as Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), an outspoken critic of US
nuclear policy, and actor Paul Newman, appearing by video (broadcast copies
available), whose role in a 1966 Hitchcock film about an "anti-missile
missile" system influenced President Reagan's conception of Star Wars.  The
conference was co-sponsored by the Global Resource Action Coalition for the
Environment (GRACE), the Fourth Freedom Forum and The Bulletin of Atomic
Scientists. It laid out in detail the rapidly mounting case against
deploying NMD, as Congress, the White House, and George W. Bush all seem
prepared to do. It also made the case for the US to engage Russia's
unprecedented offers of new nuclear treaties plus deep cuts in nuclear
arsenals to 1000-1500 warheads when President Clinton meets with Russian
President Vladimir Putin next week.
=AD 2 =AD

Bush Proposal Fatally Flawed
Commenting on the Bush proposal for an expansive missile defense program,
including space-based weapons, GRACE president Alice Slater said, " Bush
talks about rejecting the Cold War mentality, but Star Wars is worse than
the Cold War, because it means a whole new arms race. At least while the
Cold War was on we signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and ruled out
new weapons development.  Now we're abandoning those commitments to pursue
destabilizing space-based weaponry."

Strategic policy analyst Jack Mendelsohn says Bush=92s linkage of missile
defense with deep cuts in arsenals is contradictory.   =93It is impossible=
 to
mix steep nuclear force reductions with the deployment of a robust national
missile defense, let alone the kind of space-based weapon Star Wars system
Bush envisions," he said.  "If the US deploys NMD, China must increase its
arsenal to defeat it. Russia has to maintain a large arsenal on
hair-trigger
alert to defeat it, plus deal with Chinese escalation, as must India.  To
talk about building missile defense and cutting arsenals in the same breath
is empty rhetoric.  NMD will have a provocative effect on China and a
chilling effect on Russia."

US Sends Contradictory Signals To Russia
The Clinton administration faces the same sort of contradiction going into
the Moscow summit as it seeks cuts in nuclear arsenals with Russia while
pushing for NMD deployment.  According to Steven Schwartz, publisher of The
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, documents the Bulletin obtained show the US
actually encouraged Russia to put an increased number  nuclear warheads
aimed at the US on hair-trigger alert so that it will be assured of
defeating a US missile shield and acquiesce in NMD deployment, even at the
price of lost opportunities for de-alerting and deep cuts. By the same
logic
of needing to justify the assertion that NMD would not affect Russia=92s
nuclear deterrent, at a May 23 Senate hearing the Joint Chiefs of Staff
reiterated they would oppose cuts in Russia=92s arsenal below 2000-2500
warheads, even though Russia wants to go lower.

Falsified NMD Test Results
If the hidden costs of missile defense to US security include more Russian
warheads on heightened alert, they are not likely to be balanced by anytime
soon by  practical gains in US ability to stop an attack from even a single
incoming missile, according to a new report by MIT scientist Ted Postol
entitled =93Scientific Fraud in the National Missile Defense Program.=94=
 Postol
advises the US Chief of Naval Operations on ballistic missile technologies,
and was the expert who discredited the myth propagated by the defense
industry that Patriot missiles shot down Scuds accurately during Desert
Storm.  He charges, together with former TRW employee- turned-whistleblower
Neera Schwartz, that even the limited successes reported in NMD tests were
falsified.  The story broke last week in The New York Times.  The letter
Postol wrote to the White House detailing the charges has since been
classified by the Pentagon, although the details are explained in Postol=92s
new report. The New York Times says the charges, if true, "could cripple or
kill the proposed weapons system."



=AD 3 =AD

New Figures on Massive Defense Contractor Contributions
=93Test results may indicate national missile defense may have a low
probability of successfully defending the country from long-range ballistic
missiles,=94 said Bill Hartung of the World Policy Institute,  =93but it has=
 a
very high probability of defending the profit margin of Lockheed Martin,
Boeing, Raytheon and TRW.=94According to a new report Hartung unveiled=
 today,
these four companies have split more than 2.2 billion in missile defense R&
D in the last two years alone, which represents roughly 60% of all
contracts
let by the Pentagon during FY =9198 and =9199.  The four gave over $2=
 million
in
campaign contributions in this election cycle to 25 pro-NMD Senators who
signed an April letter to the White House demanding President Clinton not
cut any deals with Moscow that would limit the missile defense program.=20
The
report is posted to the World Policy Institute website,
www.worldpolicy.org.

A Thinly Veiled Bid for Space-Based Weapons
Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
Power in Space, warns that the NMD program is a thinly veiled bid for the
militarization of space. National weapons lab research under the Stockpile
Stewardship program coupled with US nuclear weapons policy directives and
speculation on space-based weapons such as Bush made this week, telegraph
an
intent to build on missile defense infrastructure to develop systems which
are anything but defensive. The labs are at work on projects to achieve
global military dominance from space with technolgies such as exotic
fusion-powered direct energy weapons.  In the US Space Command document
=93Vision for 2020=94 (available at www.spacecom.af.mil/usspace) the US Air
Force openly portrays missile defense as a platform to create systems for
=93dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect US
interests and investments, integrating space forces into warfighting
capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict.=94 In a significant move,
the US Space Command has recently changed its name to the US Space and
Missile Defense Command.

#  #  #

For further information, contact Jordan Benjamin, 202-822-5200 or Stephen
Kent 914-424-8382.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ASlater [mailto:[e-mail]]
>> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 1:37 PM
>> To: [e-mail]
>> Subject: press release
>>
>>
>> Hi Jordan,
>> Could you email me the press release as an attachment that i could post
>to
>> our email lists?  Many thanks.  Alice
>> Alice Slater
>> Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
>> 15 East 26th Street, Room 915
>> New York, NY 10010
>> tel:  [phone]
>> fax:  [phone]
>> email:  [e-mail]
>> http://www.gracelinks.org
>>
>> GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the
>elimination
>> nuclear weapons.


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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]
http://www.gracelinks.org

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination
nuclear weapons.
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 19:23:32 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NPT Report-Exceptions to Final Consensus

Dear Friends,
Having stuck with the grinding NPT Review through four weeks in the
basement of the UN, even until 5:00 AM Saturday morning (although the
delegates "stopped the clock" at 10 minutes to midnite--a diplomatic
fiction that their work would be completed on Friday) and having returned
on Saturday at 11:00 am to 7:00 pm when the meeting finally adjourned, I
have a few notes to add to the excellent reporting that has already been
posted.

After consensus was reached on the final report which deleted the nefarious
word "ultimate" and instead adopted the New Agenda language of an
"unequivocal undertaking by the Nuclear Weapons States to accomplish the
total elimination of their nuclear arsenals", as well as some other
welcomed promises which have been posted previously, there were exceptions
raised orally to the final consensus.  According to my notes, China stated
that the weaponization of space "impedes nuclear non-proliferation", that
the Nuclear Weapons States with the biggest stockpiles should take the lead
in reductions, abandon deterrence, adopt positions of no-first use,
"abolish the nuclear umbrella" and "withdraw nuclear weapons to your own
borders".  It noted that "these issues have been neglected."  China added
that the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty should be "phased in with the
prevention of an arms race in outer space" and that the "CD should deal
with three issues: Outer Space, FMCT, and nuclear disarmament."  It also
stated that greater transparency without those measures "is infeasible."

Russia re-affirmed its commitment to the ABM Treaty and stated that without
it, "it is impossible to make progress on nuclear disarmament."  It further
stated that "strategic stability" means to "strenghthen international
security to enable future cuts in nuclear weapons and conventional arms."

On the so-called "peaceful uses" of nuclear energy, the final document had
language which "recognized the importance of the concept of sustainable
development as a guiding principle for the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
The Conference endorses the role of IAEA in assisting Member States, upon
request, in formulating projects that meet the objective of protecting the
global environment by applying sustainable development approaches." AN
OXYMORON, FOR SURE!!   Three countries took exception to this language:
Germany, Austria ("can't accept this wording. Nuclear power is not able to
play a role in sustainable development") and Denmark.


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]
http://www.gracelinks.org

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination
nuclear weapons.

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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 15:37:18 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT! Organisations Pls Sign Clinton/Putin Moscow Summit START-III Letter

URGING AS MANY ORGANISATIONS AS POSSIBLE TO SIGN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
To sign, email me at
FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>

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

Dear All,
Presidents Clinton and Putin are meeting in Moscow on June 4/5, but Clinton
leaves the US on 30th.

This letter urges Clinton and Putin, in the light of the recent NPT Review,
to go for the lowest possible START-III warhead totals and not to proceed
with an NMD system.

(Those who have already signed, please note that two paras noting the May 1
P5 statement, refering to 'ultimate' elimination of weapons have been
removed. The letter rests now completely on the NPT Review final
declaration and on the ICJ interpretation of Article VI.)

This makes it clearer and tighter than before.

I urge you to sign it.



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 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,   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."

In the final declaration of the NPT Review, 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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Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/05/27 - Archives updated; Star Wars followup; Presidential Candidates' whereabouts

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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES -

Ralph Nader On The Road - http://www.votenader.org/RalphontheRoad.html
Today, May 27 -  Honolulu, HI - 5:00 pm Speech
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 10:53:14 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 1.3 BILLION People Killed, Maimed,...??

From: "Gary Vesperman" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: 1.3 BILLION  People Killed, Maimed, Sickened By Atmospheric Testing
& Nuke Plants
Date: Friday, May 26, 2000 7:05 PM

This is one of the more unpleasant emails to read for some time.
It is one thing to claim that Chernobyl caused $300 billion of damage.
It is another thing to read about the experiences of the people who
had to put out the reactor's fires and clean up some of the radioactive
mess, sometimes with bare hands! Gary

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Subject: [downwinders] Fw: [du-list] 1.3 BILLION People Killed, Maimed,
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>      For Bookmarking this site:
http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/bertell.html
>
>  The following is from the November 1999 "The Ecologist" Volume 29, No. 7
from pages 408 to 411.
>
>
> Copies can be obtained in the USA at: Phone:[phone], Fax:[phone]
>
>
> Main Office in UK:  Phone:[phone], Fax:[phone] E-mail:
[e-mail]
>
>
>   "VICTIMS OF THE NUCLEAR AGE"  Up to 1,300 million people have been
killed, maimed or diseased by nuclear power since its
inception. The industry's figures massively underestimate the real cost of
nuclear power, in an attempt to hide its victims
from the world. Here, the author calculates the real number of victims of
the nuclear age. By Dr. Rosalie Bertell
>
>
>
On the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, I was standing at a
public meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, listening to the
story of one of the firemen employed to clean up the site after the
explosion. These workers took huge doses of radiation
during this task, and their story is a terrifying one.About 600,000 men
were conscripted as Chernobyl 'liquidators' [also
called bio-robots']: farmers, factory workers,miners, and soldiers- as well
as professionals like the firemen- from all
>across Russia. Some of these men lifted pieces of radioactive metal with
their bare hands. They had to fight more than 300
fires created by the chunks of burning material spewed off by the inferno.
They buried trucks, fire engines, cars and all
sorts of personal belongings. They felled a forest and completely buried
it, removed topsoil, bulldozed houses and filled
all available clay-lined trenches with radioactive debris. The minimum
conscription time was 180 days, but many stayed for a
year. Some were threatened with severe punishment to their families if they
failed to stay and do their duty.
>
>
>   These 'liquidators' are now discarded and forgotten, many vainly trying
to establish that the ill health most have
>suffered ever since 1986 is a result of their massive exposure to
radiation. At the Centre for Radiation Research outside
>Kiev, there is an organization of former liquidators. This group reports
that by 1995, 13,000 of their members had died-
>almost 20 percent of which deaths were suicides. About 70,000 members
were estimated to be permanently disabled. But the
>members of this organization are the lucky ones. Because many former
liquidators are now scattered throughout Russia, they
>neither have the benefit of the organization's special hospital, nor of
membership of a survivor organization. They are
>known as the 'living dead.'
>
>
>   The fireman whose story I was listening to seemed to be an exception to
this grim litany of illness and death. He was
>telling the meeting how pleased and excited he was that, for the first time
in ten years, his blood test findings were in
>the normal range. I was standing next to a delegate from the International
Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA]- the organisation
>charged with promoting the use of atomic energy. On hearing the fireman's
story, he leaned over to me and said: "You see! We
>said these were only transient disorders." A rough translation might read:
Chernobyl? What's the problem?
>
>
>   IGNORING THE VICTIMS
>
>
>    The IAEA man's attitude was perfectly in keeping with that of his
organization which, along with the International
>Commission on Radiation Protection [ICRP] exists in practice largely to
play down the effects of radiation on human health,
>and to shield the nuclear industry from compensation claims from the
public. The IAEA was set up in the late 1950s by he UN,
>to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and to promote the peaceful use of
atomic energy- ironically, two contradictory
>objectives. The ICRP which evlved from the 1928 International Committee on
X-Ray and Radium Protection, was set  up in the
>fifties to explore the health effects of radiation and [theoretically] to
protect the public from it. In fact, both
>organizations have come to serve the industry rather than the public.
>
>
>   The Chernobyl case is a classic example of the IAEA's inadequacy and
questionable science. Despite massive evidence to
>the contrary, not least from the many thousands of victims themselves, the
IAEA insists that only 32 people have so far died
>as a result of Chernobyl- those who died in the radiation ward of Hospital
six in Moscow.All other deaths related to the
>disaster and its aftermath [and there have been many more than 10,000 in
Ukraine alone according to the Minister of Health
>there] are ignored. Belarus had the highest fallout, and yet there is an
international blackout among the IAEA and the rest
>of the "radiation protection community" on the suffering of its people
>
>
>  The essential problem is that both the IAEA and the ICRP are dealing not
with science but with politics and
>administration;  not with public health but with maintaining an
increasingly dubious industry. It is their interests, and
>those of the nuclear industry, to play down the health effects of
radiation.
>
>
>   RESTRICTIVE DEFINITIONS
>
>
>   The main way in which the "radiation protection industry"  has succeeded
in hugely underrating the ill-health caused by
>nuclear power is by insisting on a group of extremely restrictive
definitions as to what qualifies as a radiation-caused
>illness statistic. For example, under IAEA's criteria:
>
>
>   If a radiation-caused cancer is not fatal, it is not counted in the
IAEA's figures
>
>  If a cancer is initiated by another carcenogen, but accelerated or
promoted by exposure to radiation, it is not counted.
>
>  If an auto-immune disease or any non-cancer is caused by radiation, it is
not counted.
>
>  Radiation-damaged embryos or foetuses which result in miscarriage or
stillbirth do not count
>
> A congenitally blind, deaf or malformed child whose illnesses are are
radiation-related are not included in the figures
>because this is not genetic damage, but rather is teratogenic, and will not
be passed on later to the child's offspring.
>
> Causing the genetic predisposition to breast cancer or heart disease does
not count since it is not a "serious genetic
>disease" in the Mendelian sense.
>
> Even if radiation causes a fatal cancer or serious genetic disease in a
live born infant, it is discounted if the estimated
>radiation dose is below 100 mSv [mSv= millisievert,a measurement of
radiation exposure. One hundred millsievert is the
>equivalent in radiation of about 100 X-Rays].
>
> Even if radiation causes a lung cancer, it does not count if the person
smokes- in fact whenever there is a possibility of
>another cause, radiation cannot be blamed.
>
> If all else fails, it is possible to claim that radiation below some
designated dose does not cause cancer, and then
>average over the whole body the radiation dose which has actually been
received by one part of the body or even organ, as
>for instance when radio-iodine concentrates in the thyroid. This arbitrary
dilution of the dose will ensure that the 100 mSv
>cut-off point is nowhere near reached. It is a technique used to dismiss
the sickness of Gulf War veterans who inhaled small
>particles of ceramic uranium which stayed in their lungs for more than two
years, and in their bodies for more than eight
>years, irradiating and damaging cells in  a particular part of the body.
>
>
>  THE REAL VICTIMS
>
>
>  Despite the authorities' attempt at concealment, we can still begin to
enumerate the real victims of the nuclear age.
>Although the calculations and statistics which I have brought to bear below
do not include all of the human suffering that
>has been caused by the nuclear age, a closer look will show that the
methodology is adequate for a first estimate of major
>damage. The magnitude of the harm already caused is startling, and even
more so when we realise many types of damage have
>been omitted from this first estimate.
>
>
>   In my estimate cancer, whether fatal or non-fatal [excluding non-fatal
skin cancer], genetic damage and serious
>congenital malformations and diseases will be included in the figures.
Other damage is acknowledged but not estimated.
>Ultimately, whether or not one cares about the damage caused by radiation
exposure  is ultimately a human, not a
>scientific question. Damage is damage, and causing an unwanted attack on
someone's person or reproductive capacity is a
>violation of human rights. Such damage can be rated for importance, but it
should not be arbitrarily ignored.
>
>
>   "Statistics are the people with the tears wiped away" stated one of the
Rongelap people of the Republic of the Marshall
>Islands, who 'hosted' the United States Bikini nuclear testing in the
1950s. This is the story of many tears, and of a hard
>hearted mindset that laid down the degree of suffering  and ill-health that
would be the 'acceptable' price to pay for the
>world 'benefitting' from nuclear technology.
>
>
>   RISK ESTIMATES USED IN THIS ANALYSIS
>
>
>In order to estimate the real victims of the nuclear industry [as oppossed
to those figures enumerated by the ICRP, IAEA and
>other nuclear apologists] I will take the customary risk estimates,
indicate their probable range of error, and then extend
>the definition to cover related events not recognized as 'detriments' by
the regulators. For example, while the nuclear
>regulators only take fatal cancers into consideration as 'detriments' by
the regulators, others, especially those who endure
>a non-fatal cancer, may find their suffering equally worthy of
consideration. And limiting genetic effects to live born
>offspring does not wipe away the tears of a family that has endured a
spontaneous miscarriage or stillbirth.
>
>
> ESTIMATING THE FATAL AND NON-FATAL CANCER RISKS
>
>
> In 1991, the ICRP concluded that the projected lifetime risk of fatal
cancer for members of the population exposed Sievert
>whole-body radiation at a low dose rate, was between seven and 11 excess
fatal cancers, and seven to eight excess fatalities
>for in the nuclear industry aged 25 to 64 years. We  extend these estimates
to non-fatal cancers by estimating the total
>number of cancers which were used by the ICRP in order to obtain the number
of fatalities. We therefore estimate 16 fatal
>and non-fatal cancers if we exclude non-fatal skin cancers] or 36 if we
count them.If the estimate of fatal cancers was off
>by a factor of two then we can double all those numbers.
>
>
>   The estimate I use for cancer 16 per 100 Person Sieverts, but the reader
can adjust this estimate to suit other
>inclusions, exclusions or uncertainties.
>
>
>   ESTIMATING DAMAGE TO AN EMBRYO OR FOETUS
>
>
> According to the BEIR Committee [Bilogical Effects of Ionizing Radiation]
1990 report, a dose of 150 mSv to human male
>testes will cause temporary sterility, and a single dose of 3.5 Sv will
cause permanent sterility. According to the ICRP in
>1991, just 5 mSv to the testes will cause damage to offspring - YET THIS
DOSE WAS PERMITTED YEARLY TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC,
>AND TEN TIMES MORE TO NUCLEAR WORKERS, IN ALL COUNTRIES PRIOR TO 1990. It
continues today to be permitted yearly for nuclear
>workers in most countries.
>
>
>   Women carry with them all of the ova from birth which they will ever
have. The threshold for permanent female
>sterilisation decreases with age, but in general about 650 mSv is
considered to be the threshold for temporary sterility in
>women. After the Bravo event- the detonation of a hydrogen bomb at the
Bikini Atoll in the Pacific  in March 1954- the women
>of Rongelap Atoll experienced about five years of sterility. As they
regained their sterility, they experienced faulty
>pregnancies, miscarrigies, stillbirths and damage to their offspring. Since
some radionucleides can be retained in bone or
>fatty tissues, they are able to cross the placenta barrier and disrupt the
developing embryo or foetus. Radionucleides in
>the mother's body can also be transferred  in her breast milk.
>
>
>   The official nuclear industry definition of 'detriment' includes only
serious genetic disease not judged to be serious,
>and teratogenic diseases [those which are not passed on to offspring] are
not counted.  Recently the 1990 BEIR committee
>made one small concession in recognizing mental retardation in children
exposed to radiation during the fifth to 15th weeks
>of their mother's pregnancy. Radiation kills brain cells, causing both an
underdeveloped brain [microcephaly] and mental
>retardation. For the individual child, BEIR estimates that a dose in utero
of 100 to 500 mSv can cause a range of problems
>from poor school performance to severe mental retardation.
>
>
>   GENETIC DAMAGE
>
>
>   The U.N. Scientific Committee on the effects of Atomic Radiation
[UNSCEAR] and BEIR both agree that a population of one
>million live births exposed to 100 Person Sieverts will result in one to
three genetic damage effects to offspring, and so
>to the human gene pool. The doubling dose for genetic effects [the dose
that will cause twice as many genetic effects] is
>more contentious, with some geneticists claiming that it is 2.5 Sv, and
others claiming much greater sensitivity with a 0.12
>Sv doubling dose. If the latter is true, then the increase in genetic
effects will be 8.3 per cent for every 10mSv and
>therefore 83 such effects per million live births when the total averaged
dose is 100 Person Sieverts rather than the 4
>such effects in the first instance. On the conservative side, we have taken
10 genetic effects to be the number for exposed
>offspring.
>
>
>   ESTIMATE OF TERATOGENIC EFFECTS'
>
>
>  The damage to an embryo from ionizing radiation when in the womb is not
considered to be genetic. Such irradiation can
>lead to some 30 different congenital anomolies including permanent damage
to the brain, mental deficiency, skull
>deformities, cleft palate, spina bifida, club-feet, genital deformities,
growth retardation and childhood cancer. A total of
>all those effects, including mortality, amount to 46, of which 25 are live
born.
>
>   When we summarise those risk estimates, we get 16 cancers, 10 genetic
effects and 25 congenital effects for one million
>exposed to 100 Person Sieverts.The task now is to apply those numbers for
the global population from industrial nuclear
>activities, including weapons testing in the fifties, sixties and early
seventies and electricity production from nuclear
>power over the past half century. When we do this we find that weapons
testing has lead to nearly 376 million cancers, 235
>million genetic effects and 587 million teratogenic effects to give A TOTAL
OF APPROXIMATELY 1,200 MILLION.  Meanwhile,
>electricity production from nuclear plants between 1943 and 2000 may have
lead to another million victims,of which as many
>one-fifth will have been premature cancer deaths. Although not officially
accounted for, about 500 million foetuses would
>have also been lost as stillbirths during that period from radiation
exposure while in the womb.
>
>
>   Another century of nuclear power, and this carnage would continue with
more than 10 million victims a year. An industry
>which has the potential to kill, injure and maim that number of innocent
people- and all in the name of 'benefitting'
>society
>- is surely wholly unacceptable.
>
>
>Rosalie Bertell, PhD, GNSH, is President of the International Institute of
Concern for Public Health and Editor in Chief of
>International Perspectives in Public Health and Editor in Chief of
International Perspectives in Public Health [IICPH]. Dr.
>Bertell can be reached via e-mail at: [e-mail]
>
>
>   Maybe we can get the anti-abortion  crowd aware of this mass slaughter
of embryos and
>foetuses.
>
>
>   International war crimes arrest warrants ought also to be issued  for
the perpetrators of these crimes. People in the
>United States like Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, Michael Jordan CEO
of Westinghouse and the usual litany of military
>types, mostly Soviet & American. Does anyone know anything about initiating
legal proceedings against these
>people?
>
>
>  -Bill Smirnow
>
>
>
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