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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:23:25 -0800
From: "Harry Rogers" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Has Your Organisation Signed Monster Star Wars Letter Yet?

Please sign me on
Harry Rogers
Carolina Peace Resource Center
Columbia SC
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Rosalie Tyler Paul" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Has Your Organisation Signed Monster Star Wars
Letter Yet?


> Sign on Peace Action Maine - Rosalie Tyler Paul, Chair
>
> >IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED THIS LETTER YOU ARE URGED TO DO SO.
> >
> >PLEASE PASS IT ON TO ANY OTHER ORGANISATION THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN
> >SIGNING
> >
> >(MY APOLOGIES IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SIGNED THIS, or if you get it many
times
> >- It is now being sent out to my largest lists, so many that have already
> >signed will get it again. You may like to check that I have entered you
> >correctly)
> >
> >If you have not yet by some oversight, signed this important letter you
are
> >urged to join the over 60 organisations that have done so thus far.
> >
> >If you signed a similar letter from me last year, I urge you to sign this
one.
> >
> >You sign by replying to this email, specifying the name of your
> >organisation, your title, and your adress.
> >
> >Please do not forget to say which country you are from - There are
> >signatures from Reykjavik to London to Washington to Patagonia.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH,
> >1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-2883,
> >
> >PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN,
> >[phone], [phone], [phone],
> >
> >FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV,
> >[phone],   [phone],
> >
> >PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, 44-171-925-0918,
> >ROBIN COOK, UK  MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS,  [phone],
> >[phone],
> >
> >PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC, [phone],
> >PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN [phone]
> >HUBERT VEDRINE, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF FRANCE, [phone],
> >
> >GERMAN PRESIDENT, JOHANNES RAU,
> >[phone],
> >
> >CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER,
> >[phone], [phone],
> >
> >JOSCHKA FISCHER, FOREIGN MINISTER OF GERMANY
> >[phone], [phone],
> >[phone],  [phone],
> >
> >PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN, YOSHIRO MORI,
> >YOHEI KONO, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JAPAN, [phone]
> >
> >JEAN CHRETIEN, PRIME MINISTER, CANADA,
> >[phone],
> >JOHN MANLEY, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, CANADA,  [phone],
> >[phone], [phone].
> >
> >POUL NYRUP RASMUSSEN, PRIME MINISTER OF DENMARK,  [phone]
> >MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF DENMARK
> >[phone]
> >
> >JENS STOLTENBERG, PRIME MINISTER OF NORWAY [phone]
> >
> >THORBJORN JAGLAND, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, NORWAY [phone]
> >
> >BJORN TORE GODAL, MINISTER OF DEFENCE, NORWAY [phone]
> >
> >CC
> >US SECRETARY OF STATE GENERAL COLIN POWELL,  [phone],
> >
> >US SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE,  DONALD C. RUMSFELD,  [phone],
> >
> >THE HON. ALEXANDER DOWNER, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AUSTRALIA
> >[phone],  08-8370-8166
> >
> >THE HON. PETER REITH, MINISTER FOR DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA [phone],
> >03-5979-3034
> >
> >
> >Dear Presidents, Prime Ministers, Secretaries and Ministers of Foreign
> >Affairs and Defence:
> >
> >We, the undersigned organisations, representing millions of people
> >world-wide, write to express our opposition to current US plans to deploy
a
> >national ballistic missile defence network.
> >
> >We urge instead that the United States proceed with deep cuts to the US
> >arsenal and de-alerting of nuclear weapons -- promised by President
George
> >W. Bush during his campaign --  in order to move toward the total and
> >unequivocal elimination of nuclear arsenals, to which the United States,
> >Russia, and other nuclear weapons states are obligated under binding and
> >repeated international commitments.
> >
> >The deployment of missile defence will undercut these measures, making
the
> >fulfillment of those commitments more difficult.
> >
> >In our view, the deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD) network
> >is deeply-flawed and reckless, decreasing rather than increasing overall
> >international security.
> >
> >President Bush says that the United States will propose modifications to
> >the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to allow for US national missile
> >defences.  If Russia does not agree to the US proposals, the Bush
> >Administration has said the United States is prepared to withdraw from
the
> >ABM treaty.  President Bush may decide as soon as this year whether to
> >begin construction of a key NMD radar site in Alaska, which could violate
> >the treaty.
> >
> >Russia has stated clearly in the recent session of the Conference on
> >Disarmament that its offer of deep reductions in warhead numbers is
> >conditional on the  integrity of the ABM treaty.  Russia's ratification
of
> >START-II was also conditional on the maintenance of the integrity of the
> >ABM treaty, and therefore the non-deployment of US missile defences.
> >
> >It is our strong view that the deployment of even so-called limited
> >missile defences will undercut the possibility of deep reductions in US
and
> >Russian nuclear weaponry, and could foreclose the possibility of removing
> >US and Russian missiles from their current, dangerous hair-trigger alert
> >status.
> >
> >Military planners react to capabilities rather than intentions. The
> >deployment of even limited  missile defences could lead to Russian
> >re-deployment of tactical nuclear weapons and multiple warhead missiles.
> >It also may accelerate a Chinese build-up of strategic nuclear weapons,
> >which could include deployment of multiple nuclear warheads on long-range
> >missiles, and a dramatic increase in the now limited number of those
> >missiles.
> >
> >A Chinese build-up could easily result in a dangerous acceleration of
> >Indian, and in turn, Pakistani nuclear weapons deployments.  This
> >escalation of offensive capabilities is likely to lead to nuclear
arsenals
> >poised at even higher levels of alert.
> >
> >Furthermore, missile defence systems, particularly the NMD network now
> >being contemplated by the United States, are extraordinarily expensive
and
> >have not been proven to work in an operational environment.
> >
> >No NMD system, even a limited one, can be deployed for at least six  to
10
> >years.  Two out of three US NMD flight tests so far have failed, yet in
> >order to be effective, NMD (or TMD) must intercept incoming nuclear
> >warheads with close to 100% reliability.
> >
> >Even if an NMD system could be designed to defeat countermeasures, could
be
> >engineered to be operationally effective, and would not prompt a
> >state to build additional offensive missiles to over-saturate missile
> >defences, neither NMD nor TMD can guard against less sophisticated and
more
> >reliable means of delivering weapons of mass destruction.
> >
> >Likewise, various systems of proposed Theatre Missile Defence, possibly
to
> >be deployed in Taiwan, Japan, Europe or the Middle East, suffer from many
> >of the same technical problems, and may have the same effect as NMD in
> >creating a dangerous action-reaction cycle leading to offensive missile
> >build-ups.
> >
> >The deployment of missile defence/TMD in Taiwan is particularly likely
> >to result in a Chinese build-up.
> >
> >The problems associated with missile defences require that the
> >international community work together to make effective use of diplomacy,
> >trade and assistance, and new mechanisms to control and reduce existing
and
> >potential ballistic missile proliferation.  Near-term efforts should be
> >focused on securing a lasting and enforceable framework agreement
freezing
> >the North Korean missile program.
> >
> >Further efforts to enforce and strengthen the Missile Technology Control
> >Regime, and control and reduce missile stockpiles on a global and
regional
> >basis, should be pursued on an urgent basis.
> >
> >In light of the above:
> >
> >--We respectfully urge the United States not to seek to deploy such
missile
> >defences, and to support more effective methods to prevent missile
> >proliferation.
> >
> >--We urge governments of NATO and other US allies not to enable US
> >deployment of such missile defence systems by allowing the upgrading of
> >joint facilities at  Menwith Hill, Fylingdales, Pine Gap, Thule, or
> >elsewhere, for NMD- or TMD-related purposes, and to use their diplomatic
> >influence to continue to dissuade the US government from the pursuit of
> >missile defence.
> >
> >To address the most immediate and dire missile threat:
> >
> >--We urge that the United States and Russia remove all nuclear weapons
> >from hair-trigger alert as part of a policy of eliminating
> >launch-on-warning from their strategic war plans.  This will serve as the
> >most immediate step to increase global security and stability, and reduce
> >the risk of unintended nuclear attack.
> >
> >--We  urge the United States and Russia, with the support of other
states,
> >to proceed toward  immediate, verifiable and irreversible reductions of
> >strategic and tactical nuclear stockpiles to less than 1,500 warheads
each
> >through implementation of START-II, START-III, and/or by other means.
> >
> >The above measures would help fulfill their solemn commitments as
expressed
> >in the final declaration of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 2000
> >Review Conference to "an unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear weapon
> >states to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals
> >leading to nuclear disarmament to which all states parties are committed
> >under Article VI."
> >
> >The undersigned organisations believe that these measures, and not the
> >deployment of missile defence, constitute the way forward to the
> >elimination of nuclear arsenals to which the nuclear weapons powers are
> >committed, and which the overwhelming majority of the world's peoples and
> >governments expect.
> >
> >(Signed)
> >
> >
> >INTERNATIONAL GROUPS
> >Carah Lyn Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000
> >Mary-Wynne Asford, Co-President, John Loretz, Program Director, Michael
> >Christ, Exec. Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of
> >Nuclear War (IPPNW), Cambridge, Mass,
> >Bruna Nota, President, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom
> >(WILPF) Geneva/NY,
> >Dan Plesch, Director, British American Security Information Council
> >(BASIC), London, UK, and Washington, USA
> >Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
> >Power in Space, Florida, USA,
> >Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium,
> >Colin Archer, International Peace Bureau (IPB), Geneva, Switz,
> >Alfred A. Marder, Vice Pres, International Association of Peace Messenger
> >Cities,
> >
> >
> >MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
> >Jill Evans MEP, Plaid Cymru, Cardiff, Wales,
> >Joost Lagendijk MEP, Vice Pres., Green Group (Neth).
> >Dr Caroline Lucas, MEP  Greens, SE England,
> >Nuala Ahern, MEP Greens, Ireland,
> >Hiltrud Breyer, MEP Greens, Germany,
> >Heidi Hautala, MEP, Co-President, Greens/EFA Group, European Parliament,
> >Patricia Mc Kenna, MEP Greens Ireland,
> >
> >Bruno Barrilot, Director, Centre de Documentation et de Rechereche sur la
> >Paix et les Conflits, Lyons, France,
> >Jean-Marie Matagne, Action Des Citoyens Pour le Desarmement
> >Nucleaire,(ACDN) France,
> >Dominique Lalanne, Stop-Essais, Linear Accellerator, Orsay, France,
> >Daniel Durand, Mouvement de la Paix, St-Ouen, France,
> >
> >Prof. Bent Natvig, Chairman, Norwegian Pugwash Committee, Oslo, Norway,
> >Kirsten Osen, Norwegian Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons (IPPNW-Norway)
> >
> >Thor Magnusson, Peace-2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,
> >
> >Jorma Kahanpaa, Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement,
> >Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden,
> >
> >Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Darmstadt/Germany
> >Hans-Peter Richter, German Peace Council, Germany,
> >
> >Andreas Pecha, Secy, Austrian Peace Council, Vienna,
> >
> >Martin Broek, Campagne Tegen Wapenhandel, Amsterdam, Neth,
> >Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Belgium,
> >
> >OSPAAAL-Solidaridad, Madrid, Spain,
> >
> >Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
> >Ilya Trombitsky, BIOTICA Ecological Society, Moldova,
> >
> >David Drew MP, UK.,
> >Lynne Jones MP, UK,
> >Dave Knight, Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), UK.,
> >Commander Robert Green, George Farebrother, World Court Project,
> >Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow, Co-Coordinators, Campaign for the
> >Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)
> >David Webb, Yorkshire CND, UK.,
> >Greater Manchester and District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
> >Manchester, UK.,
> >Jenny Maxwell, Treasurer, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
> >Birmingham, UK.,
> >Gillian Reeve, Assistant Director, MECACT (IPPNW-UK)
> >
> >Satomi Oba, Plutonium Action Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan,
> >Hiromichi Umebayashi, International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for
> >Disarmament and Security (PCDS),
> >Sachiyo Oki, Japanese Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
(JPPNW),
> >Hiroshima, Japan,
> >Sadao Kamata, Nagasaki Peace Institute, Nagasaki, Japan,
> >
> >Cyprus Peace Council,
> >Ron Mc Coy, Malaysian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
> >Petaling Jaya, Malaysia,
> >Corazon Valdes-Fabros, Nuclear-Free Phillipines Coalition,
> >
> >UNITED STATES GROUPS
> >Martin Butcher, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Washington, USA,
> >Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, CA, USA,
> >Alice Slater, Global Resource Action Centre for the Environment (GRACE),
> >NY, USA,
> >David Krieger, Nuclear-Age Peace Foundation,(NAPF), Santa Barbara, USA,
> >Alfred A. Marder, United States Peace Council, USA,
> >Mark Haim, Director, Mid-Missouri Peace Works, USA,
> >
> >CANADIAN GROUPS
> >Pat Martin, MP (NDP) Winnipeg Centre, Manitoba, Cn,
> >Alexa Mc Donough, MP  for Halifax, Leader, NDP, Cn,
> >Svend-Robinson MP (NDP) Barnaby-Douglas, BC, Can,
> >Niel Arya,, President, Physicians for Global Survival (PGS),
> >Ottowa, Canada,
> >Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt President, Science for Peace, Toronto, Canada,
> >David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, (VANA),
Vancouver,
> >BC.,
> >Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, BC,
> >Joan Russow, Global Compliance Project, Canada,
> >
> >AOTEAROA/NZ GROUPS
> >Keith Locke MP, Green Party of Aotearoa/NZ,
> >Kate Dewes, President, Disarmament and Security Centre(DSC),
Christchurch, NZ,
> >Megan Hutching, WILPF-Aotearoa, NZ,
> >Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition2000-Aotearoa/NZ, Wellington, NZ,
> >John Urlich, President, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ,
> >
> >John Hallam, Friends of the Earth Australia
> >Bo Normander, Friends of the Earth Denmark,
> >Friends of the Earth Cyprus,
> >
> >Irene Gale AM and Ron Gray, Australian Peace Committee
> >Julius Rowe, President, Amalagamated Metal Workers Union, Aust,
> >
> >
> >
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 07:21:47 +0000
From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [globenet] Has Your Organisation Signed Monster Star Wars Letter Yet?

Please sign us on.

Sally Light
Executive Director
Nevada Desert Experience
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign wrote:

> IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED THIS LETTER YOU ARE URGED TO DO SO.
>
> PLEASE PASS IT ON TO ANY OTHER ORGANISATION THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN SIGNING
>
> (MY APOLOGIES IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SIGNED THIS, or if you get it many times
> - It is now being sent out to my largest lists, so many that have already
> signed will get it again. You may like to check that I have entered you
> correctly)
>
> If you have not yet by some oversight, signed this important letter you are
> urged to join the over 60 organisations that have done so thus far.
>
> If you signed a similar letter from me last year, I urge you to sign this one.
>
> You sign by replying to this email, specifying the name of your
> organisation, your title, and your adress.
>
> Please do not forget to say which country you are from - There are
> signatures from Reykjavik to London to Washington to Patagonia.
>
> PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH,
> 1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-2883,
>
> PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN,
> [phone], [phone], [phone],
>
> FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV,
> [phone],   [phone],
>
> PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, 44-171-925-0918,
> ROBIN COOK, UK  MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS,  [phone],
> [phone],
>
> PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC, [phone],
> PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN [phone]
> HUBERT VEDRINE, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF FRANCE, [phone],
>
> GERMAN PRESIDENT, JOHANNES RAU,
> [phone],
>
> CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER,
> [phone], [phone],
>
> JOSCHKA FISCHER, FOREIGN MINISTER OF GERMANY
> [phone], [phone],
> [phone],  [phone],
>
> PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN, YOSHIRO MORI,
> YOHEI KONO, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JAPAN, [phone]
>
> JEAN CHRETIEN, PRIME MINISTER, CANADA,
> [phone],
> JOHN MANLEY, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, CANADA,  [phone],
> [phone], [phone].
>
> POUL NYRUP RASMUSSEN, PRIME MINISTER OF DENMARK,  [phone]
> MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF DENMARK
> [phone]
>
> JENS STOLTENBERG, PRIME MINISTER OF NORWAY [phone]
>
> THORBJORN JAGLAND, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, NORWAY [phone]
>
> BJORN TORE GODAL, MINISTER OF DEFENCE, NORWAY [phone]
>
> CC
> US SECRETARY OF STATE GENERAL COLIN POWELL,  [phone],
>
> US SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE,  DONALD C. RUMSFELD,  [phone],
>
> THE HON. ALEXANDER DOWNER, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AUSTRALIA
> [phone],  08-8370-8166
>
> THE HON. PETER REITH, MINISTER FOR DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA [phone],
> 03-5979-3034
>
> Dear Presidents, Prime Ministers, Secretaries and Ministers of Foreign
> Affairs and Defence:
>
> We, the undersigned organisations, representing millions of people
> world-wide, write to express our opposition to current US plans to deploy a
> national ballistic missile defence network.
>
> We urge instead that the United States proceed with deep cuts to the US
> arsenal and de-alerting of nuclear weapons -- promised by President George
> W. Bush during his campaign --  in order to move toward the total and
> unequivocal elimination of nuclear arsenals, to which the United States,
> Russia, and other nuclear weapons states are obligated under binding and
> repeated international commitments.
>
> The deployment of missile defence will undercut these measures, making the
> fulfillment of those commitments more difficult.
>
> In our view, the deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD) network
> is deeply-flawed and reckless, decreasing rather than increasing overall
> international security.
>
> President Bush says that the United States will propose modifications to
> the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to allow for US national missile
> defences.  If Russia does not agree to the US proposals, the Bush
> Administration has said the United States is prepared to withdraw from the
> ABM treaty.  President Bush may decide as soon as this year whether to
> begin construction of a key NMD radar site in Alaska, which could violate
> the treaty.
>
> Russia has stated clearly in the recent session of the Conference on
> Disarmament that its offer of deep reductions in warhead numbers is
> conditional on the  integrity of the ABM treaty.  Russia's ratification of
> START-II was also conditional on the maintenance of the integrity of the
> ABM treaty, and therefore the non-deployment of US missile defences.
>
> It is our strong view that the deployment of even so-called limited
> missile defences will undercut the possibility of deep reductions in US and
> Russian nuclear weaponry, and could foreclose the possibility of removing
> US and Russian missiles from their current, dangerous hair-trigger alert
> status.
>
> Military planners react to capabilities rather than intentions. The
> deployment of even limited  missile defences could lead to Russian
> re-deployment of tactical nuclear weapons and multiple warhead missiles.
> It also may accelerate a Chinese build-up of strategic nuclear weapons,
> which could include deployment of multiple nuclear warheads on long-range
> missiles, and a dramatic increase in the now limited number of those
> missiles.
>
> A Chinese build-up could easily result in a dangerous acceleration of
> Indian, and in turn, Pakistani nuclear weapons deployments.  This
> escalation of offensive capabilities is likely to lead to nuclear arsenals
> poised at even higher levels of alert.
>
> Furthermore, missile defence systems, particularly the NMD network now
> being contemplated by the United States, are extraordinarily expensive and
> have not been proven to work in an operational environment.
>
> No NMD system, even a limited one, can be deployed for at least six  to 10
> years.  Two out of three US NMD flight tests so far have failed, yet in
> order to be effective, NMD (or TMD) must intercept incoming nuclear
> warheads with close to 100% reliability.
>
> Even if an NMD system could be designed to defeat countermeasures, could be
> engineered to be operationally effective, and would not prompt a
> state to build additional offensive missiles to over-saturate missile
> defences, neither NMD nor TMD can guard against less sophisticated and more
> reliable means of delivering weapons of mass destruction.
>
> Likewise, various systems of proposed Theatre Missile Defence, possibly to
> be deployed in Taiwan, Japan, Europe or the Middle East, suffer from many
> of the same technical problems, and may have the same effect as NMD in
> creating a dangerous action-reaction cycle leading to offensive missile
> build-ups.
>
> The deployment of missile defence/TMD in Taiwan is particularly likely
> to result in a Chinese build-up.
>
> The problems associated with missile defences require that the
> international community work together to make effective use of diplomacy,
> trade and assistance, and new mechanisms to control and reduce existing and
> potential ballistic missile proliferation.  Near-term efforts should be
> focused on securing a lasting and enforceable framework agreement freezing
> the North Korean missile program.
>
> Further efforts to enforce and strengthen the Missile Technology Control
> Regime, and control and reduce missile stockpiles on a global and regional
> basis, should be pursued on an urgent basis.
>
> In light of the above:
>
> --We respectfully urge the United States not to seek to deploy such missile
> defences, and to support more effective methods to prevent missile
> proliferation.
>
> --We urge governments of NATO and other US allies not to enable US
> deployment of such missile defence systems by allowing the upgrading of
> joint facilities at  Menwith Hill, Fylingdales, Pine Gap, Thule, or
> elsewhere, for NMD- or TMD-related purposes, and to use their diplomatic
> influence to continue to dissuade the US government from the pursuit of
> missile defence.
>
> To address the most immediate and dire missile threat:
>
> --We urge that the United States and Russia remove all nuclear weapons
> from hair-trigger alert as part of a policy of eliminating
> launch-on-warning from their strategic war plans.  This will serve as the
> most immediate step to increase global security and stability, and reduce
> the risk of unintended nuclear attack.
>
> --We  urge the United States and Russia, with the support of other states,
> to proceed toward  immediate, verifiable and irreversible reductions of
> strategic and tactical nuclear stockpiles to less than 1,500 warheads each
> through implementation of START-II, START-III, and/or by other means.
>
> The above measures would help fulfill their solemn commitments as expressed
> in the final declaration of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 2000
> Review Conference to "an unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear weapon
> states to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals
> leading to nuclear disarmament to which all states parties are committed
> under Article VI."
>
> The undersigned organisations believe that these measures, and not the
> deployment of missile defence, constitute the way forward to the
> elimination of nuclear arsenals to which the nuclear weapons powers are
> committed, and which the overwhelming majority of the world's peoples and
> governments expect.
>
> (Signed)
>
> INTERNATIONAL GROUPS
> Carah Lyn Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000
> Mary-Wynne Asford, Co-President, John Loretz, Program Director, Michael
> Christ, Exec. Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of
> Nuclear War (IPPNW), Cambridge, Mass,
> Bruna Nota, President, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom
> (WILPF) Geneva/NY,
> Dan Plesch, Director, British American Security Information Council
> (BASIC), London, UK, and Washington, USA
> Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
> Power in Space, Florida, USA,
> Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium,
> Colin Archer, International Peace Bureau (IPB), Geneva, Switz,
> Alfred A. Marder, Vice Pres, International Association of Peace Messenger
> Cities,
>
> MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
> Jill Evans MEP, Plaid Cymru, Cardiff, Wales,
> Joost Lagendijk MEP, Vice Pres., Green Group (Neth).
> Dr Caroline Lucas, MEP  Greens, SE England,
> Nuala Ahern, MEP Greens, Ireland,
> Hiltrud Breyer, MEP Greens, Germany,
> Heidi Hautala, MEP, Co-President, Greens/EFA Group, European Parliament,
> Patricia Mc Kenna, MEP Greens Ireland,
>
> Bruno Barrilot, Director, Centre de Documentation et de Rechereche sur la
> Paix et les Conflits, Lyons, France,
> Jean-Marie Matagne, Action Des Citoyens Pour le Desarmement
> Nucleaire,(ACDN) France,
> Dominique Lalanne, Stop-Essais, Linear Accellerator, Orsay, France,
> Daniel Durand, Mouvement de la Paix, St-Ouen, France,
>
> Prof. Bent Natvig, Chairman, Norwegian Pugwash Committee, Oslo, Norway,
> Kirsten Osen, Norwegian Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons (IPPNW-Norway)
>
> Thor Magnusson, Peace-2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,
>
> Jorma Kahanpaa, Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement,
> Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden,
>
> Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Darmstadt/Germany
> Hans-Peter Richter, German Peace Council, Germany,
>
> Andreas Pecha, Secy, Austrian Peace Council, Vienna,
>
> Martin Broek, Campagne Tegen Wapenhandel, Amsterdam, Neth,
> Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Belgium,
>
> OSPAAAL-Solidaridad, Madrid, Spain,
>
> Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
> Ilya Trombitsky, BIOTICA Ecological Society, Moldova,
>
> David Drew MP, UK.,
> Lynne Jones MP, UK,
> Dave Knight, Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), UK.,
> Commander Robert Green, George Farebrother, World Court Project,
> Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow, Co-Coordinators, Campaign for the
> Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)
> David Webb, Yorkshire CND, UK.,
> Greater Manchester and District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
> Manchester, UK.,
> Jenny Maxwell, Treasurer, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
> Birmingham, UK.,
> Gillian Reeve, Assistant Director, MECACT (IPPNW-UK)
>
> Satomi Oba, Plutonium Action Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan,
> Hiromichi Umebayashi, International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for
> Disarmament and Security (PCDS),
> Sachiyo Oki, Japanese Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (JPPNW),
> Hiroshima, Japan,
> Sadao Kamata, Nagasaki Peace Institute, Nagasaki, Japan,
>
> Cyprus Peace Council,
> Ron Mc Coy, Malaysian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
> Petaling Jaya, Malaysia,
> Corazon Valdes-Fabros, Nuclear-Free Phillipines Coalition,
>
> UNITED STATES GROUPS
> Martin Butcher, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Washington, USA,
> Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, CA, USA,
> Alice Slater, Global Resource Action Centre for the Environment (GRACE),
> NY, USA,
> David Krieger, Nuclear-Age Peace Foundation,(NAPF), Santa Barbara, USA,
> Alfred A. Marder, United States Peace Council, USA,
> Mark Haim, Director, Mid-Missouri Peace Works, USA,
>
> CANADIAN GROUPS
> Pat Martin, MP (NDP) Winnipeg Centre, Manitoba, Cn,
> Alexa Mc Donough, MP  for Halifax, Leader, NDP, Cn,
> Svend-Robinson MP (NDP) Barnaby-Douglas, BC, Can,
> Niel Arya,, President, Physicians for Global Survival (PGS),
> Ottowa, Canada,
> Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt President, Science for Peace, Toronto, Canada,
> David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, (VANA), Vancouver, BC.,
> Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, BC,
> Joan Russow, Global Compliance Project, Canada,
>
> AOTEAROA/NZ GROUPS
> Keith Locke MP, Green Party of Aotearoa/NZ,
> Kate Dewes, President, Disarmament and Security Centre(DSC), Christchurch, NZ,
> Megan Hutching, WILPF-Aotearoa, NZ,
> Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition2000-Aotearoa/NZ, Wellington, NZ,
> John Urlich, President, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ,
>
> John Hallam, Friends of the Earth Australia
> Bo Normander, Friends of the Earth Denmark,
> Friends of the Earth Cyprus,
>
> Irene Gale AM and Ron Gray, Australian Peace Committee
> Julius Rowe, President, Amalagamated Metal Workers Union, Aust,
>
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 07:21:47 +0000
From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [globenet] Has Your Organisation Signed Monster Star Wars Letter Yet?

Please sign us on.

Sally Light
Executive Director
Nevada Desert Experience
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign wrote:

> IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED THIS LETTER YOU ARE URGED TO DO SO.
>
> PLEASE PASS IT ON TO ANY OTHER ORGANISATION THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN SIGNING
>
> (MY APOLOGIES IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SIGNED THIS, or if you get it many times
> - It is now being sent out to my largest lists, so many that have already
> signed will get it again. You may like to check that I have entered you
> correctly)
>
> If you have not yet by some oversight, signed this important letter you are
> urged to join the over 60 organisations that have done so thus far.
>
> If you signed a similar letter from me last year, I urge you to sign this one.
>
> You sign by replying to this email, specifying the name of your
> organisation, your title, and your adress.
>
> Please do not forget to say which country you are from - There are
> signatures from Reykjavik to London to Washington to Patagonia.
>
> PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH,
> 1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-2883,
>
> PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN,
> [phone], [phone], [phone],
>
> FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA IGOR IVANOV,
> [phone],   [phone],
>
> PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, 44-171-925-0918,
> ROBIN COOK, UK  MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS,  [phone],
> [phone],
>
> PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC, [phone],
> PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN [phone]
> HUBERT VEDRINE, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF FRANCE, [phone],
>
> GERMAN PRESIDENT, JOHANNES RAU,
> [phone],
>
> CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER,
> [phone], [phone],
>
> JOSCHKA FISCHER, FOREIGN MINISTER OF GERMANY
> [phone], [phone],
> [phone],  [phone],
>
> PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN, YOSHIRO MORI,
> YOHEI KONO, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JAPAN, [phone]
>
> JEAN CHRETIEN, PRIME MINISTER, CANADA,
> [phone],
> JOHN MANLEY, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, CANADA,  [phone],
> [phone], [phone].
>
> POUL NYRUP RASMUSSEN, PRIME MINISTER OF DENMARK,  [phone]
> MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF DENMARK
> [phone]
>
> JENS STOLTENBERG, PRIME MINISTER OF NORWAY [phone]
>
> THORBJORN JAGLAND, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, NORWAY [phone]
>
> BJORN TORE GODAL, MINISTER OF DEFENCE, NORWAY [phone]
>
> CC
> US SECRETARY OF STATE GENERAL COLIN POWELL,  [phone],
>
> US SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE,  DONALD C. RUMSFELD,  [phone],
>
> THE HON. ALEXANDER DOWNER, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AUSTRALIA
> [phone],  08-8370-8166
>
> THE HON. PETER REITH, MINISTER FOR DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA [phone],
> 03-5979-3034
>
> Dear Presidents, Prime Ministers, Secretaries and Ministers of Foreign
> Affairs and Defence:
>
> We, the undersigned organisations, representing millions of people
> world-wide, write to express our opposition to current US plans to deploy a
> national ballistic missile defence network.
>
> We urge instead that the United States proceed with deep cuts to the US
> arsenal and de-alerting of nuclear weapons -- promised by President George
> W. Bush during his campaign --  in order to move toward the total and
> unequivocal elimination of nuclear arsenals, to which the United States,
> Russia, and other nuclear weapons states are obligated under binding and
> repeated international commitments.
>
> The deployment of missile defence will undercut these measures, making the
> fulfillment of those commitments more difficult.
>
> In our view, the deployment of a National Missile Defence (NMD) network
> is deeply-flawed and reckless, decreasing rather than increasing overall
> international security.
>
> President Bush says that the United States will propose modifications to
> the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to allow for US national missile
> defences.  If Russia does not agree to the US proposals, the Bush
> Administration has said the United States is prepared to withdraw from the
> ABM treaty.  President Bush may decide as soon as this year whether to
> begin construction of a key NMD radar site in Alaska, which could violate
> the treaty.
>
> Russia has stated clearly in the recent session of the Conference on
> Disarmament that its offer of deep reductions in warhead numbers is
> conditional on the  integrity of the ABM treaty.  Russia's ratification of
> START-II was also conditional on the maintenance of the integrity of the
> ABM treaty, and therefore the non-deployment of US missile defences.
>
> It is our strong view that the deployment of even so-called limited
> missile defences will undercut the possibility of deep reductions in US and
> Russian nuclear weaponry, and could foreclose the possibility of removing
> US and Russian missiles from their current, dangerous hair-trigger alert
> status.
>
> Military planners react to capabilities rather than intentions. The
> deployment of even limited  missile defences could lead to Russian
> re-deployment of tactical nuclear weapons and multiple warhead missiles.
> It also may accelerate a Chinese build-up of strategic nuclear weapons,
> which could include deployment of multiple nuclear warheads on long-range
> missiles, and a dramatic increase in the now limited number of those
> missiles.
>
> A Chinese build-up could easily result in a dangerous acceleration of
> Indian, and in turn, Pakistani nuclear weapons deployments.  This
> escalation of offensive capabilities is likely to lead to nuclear arsenals
> poised at even higher levels of alert.
>
> Furthermore, missile defence systems, particularly the NMD network now
> being contemplated by the United States, are extraordinarily expensive and
> have not been proven to work in an operational environment.
>
> No NMD system, even a limited one, can be deployed for at least six  to 10
> years.  Two out of three US NMD flight tests so far have failed, yet in
> order to be effective, NMD (or TMD) must intercept incoming nuclear
> warheads with close to 100% reliability.
>
> Even if an NMD system could be designed to defeat countermeasures, could be
> engineered to be operationally effective, and would not prompt a
> state to build additional offensive missiles to over-saturate missile
> defences, neither NMD nor TMD can guard against less sophisticated and more
> reliable means of delivering weapons of mass destruction.
>
> Likewise, various systems of proposed Theatre Missile Defence, possibly to
> be deployed in Taiwan, Japan, Europe or the Middle East, suffer from many
> of the same technical problems, and may have the same effect as NMD in
> creating a dangerous action-reaction cycle leading to offensive missile
> build-ups.
>
> The deployment of missile defence/TMD in Taiwan is particularly likely
> to result in a Chinese build-up.
>
> The problems associated with missile defences require that the
> international community work together to make effective use of diplomacy,
> trade and assistance, and new mechanisms to control and reduce existing and
> potential ballistic missile proliferation.  Near-term efforts should be
> focused on securing a lasting and enforceable framework agreement freezing
> the North Korean missile program.
>
> Further efforts to enforce and strengthen the Missile Technology Control
> Regime, and control and reduce missile stockpiles on a global and regional
> basis, should be pursued on an urgent basis.
>
> In light of the above:
>
> --We respectfully urge the United States not to seek to deploy such missile
> defences, and to support more effective methods to prevent missile
> proliferation.
>
> --We urge governments of NATO and other US allies not to enable US
> deployment of such missile defence systems by allowing the upgrading of
> joint facilities at  Menwith Hill, Fylingdales, Pine Gap, Thule, or
> elsewhere, for NMD- or TMD-related purposes, and to use their diplomatic
> influence to continue to dissuade the US government from the pursuit of
> missile defence.
>
> To address the most immediate and dire missile threat:
>
> --We urge that the United States and Russia remove all nuclear weapons
> from hair-trigger alert as part of a policy of eliminating
> launch-on-warning from their strategic war plans.  This will serve as the
> most immediate step to increase global security and stability, and reduce
> the risk of unintended nuclear attack.
>
> --We  urge the United States and Russia, with the support of other states,
> to proceed toward  immediate, verifiable and irreversible reductions of
> strategic and tactical nuclear stockpiles to less than 1,500 warheads each
> through implementation of START-II, START-III, and/or by other means.
>
> The above measures would help fulfill their solemn commitments as expressed
> in the final declaration of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 2000
> Review Conference to "an unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear weapon
> states to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals
> leading to nuclear disarmament to which all states parties are committed
> under Article VI."
>
> The undersigned organisations believe that these measures, and not the
> deployment of missile defence, constitute the way forward to the
> elimination of nuclear arsenals to which the nuclear weapons powers are
> committed, and which the overwhelming majority of the world's peoples and
> governments expect.
>
> (Signed)
>
> INTERNATIONAL GROUPS
> Carah Lyn Ong, Coordinator, Abolition-2000
> Mary-Wynne Asford, Co-President, John Loretz, Program Director, Michael
> Christ, Exec. Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of
> Nuclear War (IPPNW), Cambridge, Mass,
> Bruna Nota, President, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom
> (WILPF) Geneva/NY,
> Dan Plesch, Director, British American Security Information Council
> (BASIC), London, UK, and Washington, USA
> Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
> Power in Space, Florida, USA,
> Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium,
> Colin Archer, International Peace Bureau (IPB), Geneva, Switz,
> Alfred A. Marder, Vice Pres, International Association of Peace Messenger
> Cities,
>
> MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
> Jill Evans MEP, Plaid Cymru, Cardiff, Wales,
> Joost Lagendijk MEP, Vice Pres., Green Group (Neth).
> Dr Caroline Lucas, MEP  Greens, SE England,
> Nuala Ahern, MEP Greens, Ireland,
> Hiltrud Breyer, MEP Greens, Germany,
> Heidi Hautala, MEP, Co-President, Greens/EFA Group, European Parliament,
> Patricia Mc Kenna, MEP Greens Ireland,
>
> Bruno Barrilot, Director, Centre de Documentation et de Rechereche sur la
> Paix et les Conflits, Lyons, France,
> Jean-Marie Matagne, Action Des Citoyens Pour le Desarmement
> Nucleaire,(ACDN) France,
> Dominique Lalanne, Stop-Essais, Linear Accellerator, Orsay, France,
> Daniel Durand, Mouvement de la Paix, St-Ouen, France,
>
> Prof. Bent Natvig, Chairman, Norwegian Pugwash Committee, Oslo, Norway,
> Kirsten Osen, Norwegian Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons (IPPNW-Norway)
>
> Thor Magnusson, Peace-2000 Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland,
>
> Jorma Kahanpaa, Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement,
> Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden,
>
> Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Darmstadt/Germany
> Hans-Peter Richter, German Peace Council, Germany,
>
> Andreas Pecha, Secy, Austrian Peace Council, Vienna,
>
> Martin Broek, Campagne Tegen Wapenhandel, Amsterdam, Neth,
> Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Belgium,
>
> OSPAAAL-Solidaridad, Madrid, Spain,
>
> Aurel Duta, Mama Terra/For Mother Earth Romania, Bucharest, Romania,
> Ilya Trombitsky, BIOTICA Ecological Society, Moldova,
>
> David Drew MP, UK.,
> Lynne Jones MP, UK,
> Dave Knight, Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), UK.,
> Commander Robert Green, George Farebrother, World Court Project,
> Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow, Co-Coordinators, Campaign for the
> Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)
> David Webb, Yorkshire CND, UK.,
> Greater Manchester and District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
> Manchester, UK.,
> Jenny Maxwell, Treasurer, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
> Birmingham, UK.,
> Gillian Reeve, Assistant Director, MECACT (IPPNW-UK)
>
> Satomi Oba, Plutonium Action Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan,
> Hiromichi Umebayashi, International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for
> Disarmament and Security (PCDS),
> Sachiyo Oki, Japanese Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (JPPNW),
> Hiroshima, Japan,
> Sadao Kamata, Nagasaki Peace Institute, Nagasaki, Japan,
>
> Cyprus Peace Council,
> Ron Mc Coy, Malaysian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
> Petaling Jaya, Malaysia,
> Corazon Valdes-Fabros, Nuclear-Free Phillipines Coalition,
>
> UNITED STATES GROUPS
> Martin Butcher, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Washington, USA,
> Marylia Kelly, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, CA, USA,
> Alice Slater, Global Resource Action Centre for the Environment (GRACE),
> NY, USA,
> David Krieger, Nuclear-Age Peace Foundation,(NAPF), Santa Barbara, USA,
> Alfred A. Marder, United States Peace Council, USA,
> Mark Haim, Director, Mid-Missouri Peace Works, USA,
>
> CANADIAN GROUPS
> Pat Martin, MP (NDP) Winnipeg Centre, Manitoba, Cn,
> Alexa Mc Donough, MP  for Halifax, Leader, NDP, Cn,
> Svend-Robinson MP (NDP) Barnaby-Douglas, BC, Can,
> Niel Arya,, President, Physicians for Global Survival (PGS),
> Ottowa, Canada,
> Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt President, Science for Peace, Toronto, Canada,
> David Morgan, President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, (VANA), Vancouver, BC.,
> Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, BC,
> Joan Russow, Global Compliance Project, Canada,
>
> AOTEAROA/NZ GROUPS
> Keith Locke MP, Green Party of Aotearoa/NZ,
> Kate Dewes, President, Disarmament and Security Centre(DSC), Christchurch, NZ,
> Megan Hutching, WILPF-Aotearoa, NZ,
> Dame Laurie Salas, Abolition2000-Aotearoa/NZ, Wellington, NZ,
> John Urlich, President, Peace Council of Aotearoa/NZ,
>
> John Hallam, Friends of the Earth Australia
> Bo Normander, Friends of the Earth Denmark,
> Friends of the Earth Cyprus,
>
> Irene Gale AM and Ron Gray, Australian Peace Committee
> Julius Rowe, President, Amalagamated Metal Workers Union, Aust,
>
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>
>
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