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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:01:22 -0600
From: Carah Lynn Ong <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) April Action for Peace

APRIL ACTION for PEACE

OAK RIDGE TENNESSEE
APRIL 7-8 2001

Come to the last full-scale operating nuclear weapons production plant
in the United States, the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Say
"NO!" to US global domination and nuclear weapons.

BWXT and Bechtel will make $534 million dollars a year from weapons
work at Y-12 alone. The Department of Energy along with BWXT-Y-12
wants to spend a minimum of $4 billion to rebuild the bomb plant. This
would enable them to do 10 times as much weapons work as current
levels as well as go back into full scale production of NEW nuclear
weapons!

http://www.stopthebombs.org/calendar/AprilAction2001.html for more
information about the April 8th Action for Peace at the gates of Y-12

http://www.stopthebombs.org/orepa/directions.html for directions

The Stop the Bombs campaign aims to end nuclear weapons production at
the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge and to build a permanent presence for
peace through the development of nonviolent community.

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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100
From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Information sought re: nuclear testing in Brazil

Dear friends,

I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor of a Catholic parish,
who, for several years has been seeking information about a secret US
nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the skies over northeastern
Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive contamination throughout
the region.

If you have any information about this or any other such tests carried
out in Brazil, could you please share it with me?

Thank you.

Peace...

Sally Light
Executive Director
Nevada Desert Experience



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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 18:52:49 EDT
From: Charles F Hilfenhaus <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: nuclear testing in Brazil

Dear Sally,
Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I have found your tests.
According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to 1992 three tests, Argus
I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic.  Argus I at S38.5W11.5
on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and Argus III at S48.5W9.7
on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an altitude of 300 miles.
All of them, especially Argus I,  would have been visible in Brazil.
These were the only three acknowledged nuclear tests conducted in the
South Atlantic.
Charlie Hilfenhaus
[e-mail]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light <[e-mail]>
writes:
>Dear friends,
>
>I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor of a Catholic parish,
>who, for several years has been seeking information about a secret US
>nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the skies over northeastern
>Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive contamination
>throughout
>the region.
>
>If you have any information about this or any other such tests carried
>out in Brazil, could you please share it with me?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Peace...
>
>Sally Light
>Executive Director
>Nevada Desert Experience
>
>
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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 20:20:58 +0100
From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: nuclear testing in Brazil

Thank you, Charlie.  Your information will be part of a compilation of responses to my query.  Peace - Sally.

Charles F Hilfenhaus wrote:

> Dear Sally,
> Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I have found your tests.
> According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to 1992 three tests, Argus
> I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic.  Argus I at S38.5W11.5
> on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and Argus III at S48.5W9.7
> on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an altitude of 300 miles.
> All of them, especially Argus I,  would have been visible in Brazil.
> These were the only three acknowledged nuclear tests conducted in the
> South Atlantic.
> Charlie Hilfenhaus
> [e-mail]
>
> On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light <[e-mail]>
> writes:
> >Dear friends,
> >
> >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor of a Catholic parish,
> >who, for several years has been seeking information about a secret US
> >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the skies over northeastern
> >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive contamination
> >throughout
> >the region.
> >
> >If you have any information about this or any other such tests carried
> >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me?
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >Peace...
> >
> >Sally Light
> >Executive Director
> >Nevada Desert Experience
> >
> >
> >
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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 21:01:21 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: Sign-on to letter RE: Irradiation of school lunches

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Petrie" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 5:14 PM
Subject: Sign-on to letter RE: Irradiation of school lunches



Apologies for cross postings.

Dear Fellow Anti-Food Irradiation Campaigners,

Today the Bush administration indicated that the government will likely
purchase irradiated meat for schools.  Please sign-on to this letter to Ann
Veneman, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, indicating
this is unacceptable. Please send your  name and organization to Jessica
Vallette Revere, [e-mail], by Wednesday, April 11.

Thanks for all of your hard work and continued support.

Sincerely,

Jessica Vallette Revere
Public Citizen Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program
Food Irradiation Campaign
202-454-5174
www.citizen.org/cmep


April 5, 2001

Honorable Ann Veneman, Secretary
U.S. Department of Agriculture
14th Street and Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20250


Dear Secretary Veneman:

We, the undersigned, are writing to oppose any action taken by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture to allow the purchase of irradiated beef for the
National School Lunch Program, and approving the use of irradiation to
treat
meat that is used in that program.

We strongly urge you to reverse your position for the following reasons:

=B7 Notwithstanding the approval granted by the Food and Drug Administration
and by your department, food irradiation has not been proven to be safe for
human consumption.  The Food and Drug Administration failed to follow its
own protocol for approving irradiation as a food additive in accordance
with
21 CFR 170.20 and 170.22.  Until the FDA completes its work on this
technology, no further approval should be granted by any U.S. government
agency on the use of irradiation.

=B7 The World Health Organization is currently conducting studies on the
harmful effects of 2-DCB, a chemical that is formed when meat is
irradiated.
There has been at least one study conducted by German scientists that has
shown that this chemical can cause significant DNA damage in rats (citation
of German study).  Until these studies are completed, the U.S. government
should cease its approval of irradiation.

=B7 Irradiating food causes it to lose key vitamins and vital enzymes, such
as
vitamins A, B1, C, K, and E.

=B7 Current labeling regulations do not require restaurants, hospitals or
schools to inform consumers that food that they have prepared has been
irradiated.  Students and parents will not be informed that the meat
prepared in school cafeterias has been irradiated unless the school
personnel take the initiative to inform them of this fact.  Your action is
putting school districts in the unenviable position of deceiving parents
and
students by not informing them that meats in the school lunch program have
been irradiated.  They have a right to know what is being fed to them.

=B7 Your proposed action fails to address the need for improved sanitary
conditions in slaughtering and processing facilities, and in the handling
of
food within school cafeterias.  It is a placebo.  Irradiating food will not
make it safer if the conditions under which it is slaughtered, processed
and
prepared is unsanitary.

Your proposed actions are irresponsible.  Instead of ensuring that the food
we feed consumers, and in particular, our children is safe and wholesome,
you seem to be more interested in increasing industry profits and making it
easier for it to shirk its responsibility to consumers.   Your action is a
bail-out of the food irradiation industry that is facing a skeptical
consuming public about the safety of its products.  We strongly urge you to
reverse your position on this important public health issue.

Sincerely,

Your Group


COMMUNITY NUTRITION INSTITUTE
FARM SANCTUARY
GLOBAL RESOURCE ACTION CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (GRACE)
HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL CATHOLIC RURAL LIFE CONFERENCE
ORGANIC CONSUMER ASSOCIATION
PUBLIC CITIZEN' CRITICAL MASS ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM
STANDING FOR TRUTH ABOUT RADIATION (STAR)


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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 00:11:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vernon Brechin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: nuclear testing in Brazil

                                   04/06/01
Sally,

Charlie's reference to the ARGUS tests is
probably right since at 300 miles altitude
the flash would have been visible at a
great distance.

Most likely, the radioactive debris, including
kilograms of unfissioned plutonium-239, was
dispersed widely in the upper atmosphere and
then over vast areas of the earth's surface.
Its also likely that much of the debris was
caught in the earth's magnetic fields which
resulted in the transport of the debris to
the upper atmosphere in the two polar regions.

A great many geo-physicist were really pissed
by these U.S. DoD experiments with
what they considered to be a pristine
near-space laboratory.

A recently released video documentary,
"Nukes in Space: The Rainbow Bombs,"
describes some of the history of the
U.S. high-altitude nuke tests.  See the
source at http://www.vce.com.  The video is
also obtainable from on-line mail-order
firms such as Amazon.com.

Much later there was some interest in using
nuclear explosive excavation to re-channel
some rivers near the northern border of
Brazil.  That proposal didn't get far.


Vernon Brechin
Nuke Blast History Researcher
Mountain View, CA, USA


- -------------------------------------------------
- --- Sally Light <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Thank you, Charlie.  Your information will be part
> of a compilation of responses to my query.  Peace -
> Sally.
>
> Charles F Hilfenhaus wrote:
>
> > Dear Sally,
> > Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I
> have found your tests.
> > According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to
> 1992 three tests, Argus
> > I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic.
> Argus I at S38.5W11.5
> > on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and
> Argus III at S48.5W9.7
> > on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an
> altitude of 300 miles.
> > All of them, especially Argus I,  would have been
> visible in Brazil.
> > These were the only three acknowledged nuclear
> tests conducted in the
> > South Atlantic.
> > Charlie Hilfenhaus
> > [e-mail]
> >
> > On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light
> <[e-mail]>
> > writes:
> > >Dear friends,
> > >
> > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor
> of a Catholic parish,
> > >who, for several years has been seeking
> information about a secret US
> > >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the
> skies over northeastern
> > >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive
> contamination
> > >throughout
> > >the region.
> > >
> > >If you have any information about this or any
> other such tests carried
> > >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me?
> > >
> > >Thank you.
> > >
> > >Peace...
> > >
> > >Sally Light
> > >Executive Director
> > >Nevada Desert Experience
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 00:11:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vernon Brechin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: nuclear testing in Brazil

                                   04/06/01
Sally,

Charlie's reference to the ARGUS tests is
probably right since at 300 miles altitude
the flash would have been visible at a
great distance.

Most likely, the radioactive debris, including
kilograms of unfissioned plutonium-239, was
dispersed widely in the upper atmosphere and
then over vast areas of the earth's surface.
Its also likely that much of the debris was
caught in the earth's magnetic fields which
resulted in the transport of the debris to
the upper atmosphere in the two polar regions.

A great many geo-physicist were really pissed
by these U.S. DoD experiments with
what they considered to be a pristine
near-space laboratory.

A recently released video documentary,
"Nukes in Space: The Rainbow Bombs,"
describes some of the history of the
U.S. high-altitude nuke tests.  See the
source at http://www.vce.com.  The video is
also obtainable from on-line mail-order
firms such as Amazon.com.

Much later there was some interest in using
nuclear explosive excavation to re-channel
some rivers near the northern border of
Brazil.  That proposal didn't get far.


Vernon Brechin
Nuke Blast History Researcher
Mountain View, CA, USA


- -------------------------------------------------
- --- Sally Light <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Thank you, Charlie.  Your information will be part
> of a compilation of responses to my query.  Peace -
> Sally.
>
> Charles F Hilfenhaus wrote:
>
> > Dear Sally,
> > Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I
> have found your tests.
> > According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to
> 1992 three tests, Argus
> > I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic.
> Argus I at S38.5W11.5
> > on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and
> Argus III at S48.5W9.7
> > on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an
> altitude of 300 miles.
> > All of them, especially Argus I,  would have been
> visible in Brazil.
> > These were the only three acknowledged nuclear
> tests conducted in the
> > South Atlantic.
> > Charlie Hilfenhaus
> > [e-mail]
> >
> > On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light
> <[e-mail]>
> > writes:
> > >Dear friends,
> > >
> > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor
> of a Catholic parish,
> > >who, for several years has been seeking
> information about a secret US
> > >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the
> skies over northeastern
> > >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive
> contamination
> > >throughout
> > >the region.
> > >
> > >If you have any information about this or any
> other such tests carried
> > >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me?
> > >
> > >Thank you.
> > >
> > >Peace...
> > >
> > >Sally Light
> > >Executive Director
> > >Nevada Desert Experience
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
> > >
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> >
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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 07:49:11 +0100
From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Re: nuclear testing in Brazil

Vern -  Thanks.  Peace - Sally.

Vernon Brechin wrote:

>                                    04/06/01
> Sally,
>
> Charlie's reference to the ARGUS tests is
> probably right since at 300 miles altitude
> the flash would have been visible at a
> great distance.
>
> Most likely, the radioactive debris, including
> kilograms of unfissioned plutonium-239, was
> dispersed widely in the upper atmosphere and
> then over vast areas of the earth's surface.
> Its also likely that much of the debris was
> caught in the earth's magnetic fields which
> resulted in the transport of the debris to
> the upper atmosphere in the two polar regions.
>
> A great many geo-physicist were really pissed
> by these U.S. DoD experiments with
> what they considered to be a pristine
> near-space laboratory.
>
> A recently released video documentary,
> "Nukes in Space: The Rainbow Bombs,"
> describes some of the history of the
> U.S. high-altitude nuke tests.  See the
> source at http://www.vce.com.  The video is
> also obtainable from on-line mail-order
> firms such as Amazon.com.
>
> Much later there was some interest in using
> nuclear explosive excavation to re-channel
> some rivers near the northern border of
> Brazil.  That proposal didn't get far.
>
> Vernon Brechin
> Nuke Blast History Researcher
> Mountain View, CA, USA
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> --- Sally Light <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Thank you, Charlie.  Your information will be part
> > of a compilation of responses to my query.  Peace -
> > Sally.
> >
> > Charles F Hilfenhaus wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Sally,
> > > Allowing for a few errors in dating, I think I
> > have found your tests.
> > > According to the Report of nuclear tests, 1945 to
> > 1992 three tests, Argus
> > > I, II & III were conducted in the South Atlantic.
> > Argus I at S38.5W11.5
> > > on 8-27-58; Argus II at S49.5W8.2 on 8-30-58 and
> > Argus III at S48.5W9.7
> > > on 9-6-58 all these tests were detonated at an
> > altitude of 300 miles.
> > > All of them, especially Argus I,  would have been
> > visible in Brazil.
> > > These were the only three acknowledged nuclear
> > tests conducted in the
> > > South Atlantic.
> > > Charlie Hilfenhaus
> > > [e-mail]
> > >
> > > On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:57:27 +0100 Sally Light
> > <[e-mail]>
> > > writes:
> > > >Dear friends,
> > > >
> > > >I have received a letter from a Brazilian pastor
> > of a Catholic parish,
> > > >who, for several years has been seeking
> > information about a secret US
> > > >nuclear test (A bomb) supposedly done in the
> > skies over northeastern
> > > >Brazil on August 6, 1957, spreading radioactive
> > contamination
> > > >throughout
> > > >the region.
> > > >
> > > >If you have any information about this or any
> > other such tests carried
> > > >out in Brazil, could you please share it with me?
> > > >
> > > >Thank you.
> > > >
> > > >Peace...
> > > >
> > > >Sally Light
> > > >Executive Director
> > > >Nevada Desert Experience
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 14:19:10 +0100
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Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: NEWS release...Peace Walk]

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Dear People~

Here's the news--thanx for listening/reading/acting upon it!


===========================================
        3 April 2001
from:   NevadaDesertExperience.org

NEWS RELEASE
FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE
Contact:  Marc Page

Phone:  [phone]

INTERFAITH DESERT PEACE WALK
IS A PRAYER TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

WHO: Peace activists from around the U.S., organized by Nevada Desert
Experience (NDE).

WHAT: Five-day interfaith pilgrimage, walking from Las Vegas to the Nevada
Test Site.

WHERE: Starting at the Department of Energy parking lot ( 232 Energy Way, @
Losee Road, just north of Carey) and ending @ the Mercury entrance of the
Nevada Test Site (60 miles from Las Vegas, NV on I-95)

WHEN: On Sunday the 8th of April 2001 NDE hosts a 9:00 am Prayer service in
front of the D.o.E. building in Las Vegas, NV. The Peace Walkers begin to
walk @ 9:30. They arrive @ the Test Site on Friday April 13th.

WHY:
    In solidarity with the Western Shoshone Nation, people of various faith
traditions consistently gather in the desert to call for the abolition of
nuclear weapons. In recent years, people have come from Belgium, Japan,
Canada, Germany, Australia and England to join the NDE Peace Walks to the
Nevada Test Site, held each Spring. They believe their prayers are
essential in ridding the world of the nuclear curse. The Test Site
currently accepts regular shipments of low-level nuclear waste, and
conducts nuclear weapons related testing, to maintain and improve the U.S.
nuclear arsenal & threat.
    NDE and individual  "nuclear abolitionists" are quick to point out that
the Test Site is unlawfully operating on Western Shoshone land, according
to the Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863. Over 1000 nuclear explosions have
been detonated there, and the U.S. continues to conduct underground
subcritical nuclear experiments, in which plutonium is blasted to pieces by
high explosives, wherein any possible fissions won't be self-sustaining.
"But the amount of money and commitment to nuclear weapons maintenance is
greater now than during the Cold War, so faith-based activists must
continue to pray together while cultivating appreciation of the natural
beauty and power of the Creator as manifest in the desert," says Marc Page,
local organizer with NDE. "I'm very offended by the way our society profits
from the pathological nuclear weapons indstry."
    Each day the group of walkers will hold a vigil for the employees driving
to or from the Test Site. The walkers are calling attention to the
illegality and immorality of U.S. nuclear policy. One of the Canadian
pilgrims, Shan Raventree, says, "As a mother I believe that righteousness
and peace must kiss. The downfall of our people is not simply that we've
forsaken the truth and the natural world; our downfall is in CONTINUING in
these irresponsible ways. We need to embrace God's plans for the proper
care of the earth and of our own human bodies."
    This Peace Walk will arrive at the N.T.S. on April 13th  (Good Friday). On
Friday, April 21st, the group of walkers will commemorate the victims of
radioactive warfare through the "Nuclear Stations Of The Cross" at the
Mercury Gate of the Nevada Test Site. This 7th annual NDE Peace Walk is
part of a larger faith-based campaign to stop the radioactive violence and
global threats to peace committed by the U.S.

#30
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http://www.NevadaDesertExperience.org
PO Box 46645 Las Vegas NV 89114-6645
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P.S.
  We expect two dozen Peace Walkers this year (twice as big of an event as
last year).





  Tikkun, Shundahai & Agape,
            Marc P. B. Page


P.S. If you're in Las Vegas, please come
to wish our Peace Walkers a farewell next
Sunday, April 8th @ 9:00am @ the D.o.E. building on Losee Rd.
See this portion of our website for further info:
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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:28:59 +0100
From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Message to Peace Walk

Dear Rieko,

Thank you for your message of solidarity.  We appreciate hearing from you and
extend our warmest regards to the Japan Council Against A & H Bombs, as well as
to everyone participating in your 3-month-long march.

August 5 - 9, 2001, we are having our August Desert Witness at the Nevada Test
Site, and will announce the details later regarding this event.

I will circulate your kind message to our Board of Directors in case anyone of
them might be able to attend either your march and/or your 2001 World Conference
Against A & H Bombs.

We are definitely interested in working more closely with you in future.
Perhaps I and/or members of our Board might be able to attend your Conference
this year.  I will look into this possibility.  Could you send details about
this event?  I will also check your web site for information.

We also would be most interested in your coming to our future events.

Yours for a safe and nuclear-free future,

Sally Light
Executive Director
Nevada Desert Experience

Las Vegas Office:  P.O. Box 46645, Las Vegas, NV 89114-6645, USA.  Tel:  (702)
646-4814.
California Office:  P.O. Box 7849, Oakland, CA 94601, USA. Tel.: [phone].

Web Site:  www.NevadaDesertExperience.org
Email:  [e-mail]; [e-mail]

Antiatom wrote:

> To: Nevada Desert Experience
>
> Dear friends,
>
> We send our warmest greetings of solidarity to all the marchers joining the
> Peace Walk starting from Las Vegas on April 8 to Nevada Test Site. We join
> you in your effort and struggle to rid the world of nuclear weapons and end
> all sufferings caused by the past and ongoing development and production of
> nuclear weapons.
>
> "Nuclear weapons states must fulfill their promise to abolish nuclear
> weapons!" is the common voice of all the people who are working in many
> different parts of the world to ensure the future of humanity and the
> planet.  With this slogan, in Japan, the 2001 Nationwide Peace March will
> start from the museum of the Fifth Lucky Dragon in Tokyo, a victim fishing
> boat of the 1954 Bikini Hydrogen Bomb Test.  Joined by 100,000 people on 11
> major routes and spreading the message for abolitioh on the way, the marches
> will proceed throughout Japan for 3 months to reach Hiroshima and Nagasaki
> in August, to join the 2001 World Conference against A & H Bombs.
>
> We send all our best wishes for the success of your Peace Walk and good
> health of all the marchers.  We send our support also to the people of
> Western Shoshone Nation in their resistence and effort to regain the
> integrity and health of their land and the people.
>
> We hope our cooperative efforts will develop further, and look forward to
> welcoming you in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the World Conference against A &
> H Bombs.
>
> Yours in peace,
>
> Rieko Asato
> Japan Gensuikyo
> =================================================
> Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo)
> 6-19-23 Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0004 Japan
> Tel: [phone]  Fax: [phone]
> Email: [e-mail]
> Web Site: http://www.twics.com/~antiatom/
> =================================================




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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 07:43:13 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews Briefs - 01/04/09 - important

[NucNews archives are posted through April 5, 2001 at
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.=20
  Here are two chilling articles from today's Washington Times.  You may=
 recall
that Dick Cheney, when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, was quoted as
saying, "Now the only war we have left is the drug war."  Mr. Cheney may be
looking for another war?  Time, maybe, to get on the phones to the White=
 House
and suggest GWB should cool down Cheney's rhetoric, and remember, when
screaming "foul!" that the U.S. is still doing underground "subcritical"
nuclear testing.  White House - 202-456-1111-0]

1) Spy photos show Beijing set for underground test
2) Cheney warns China it risks harming ties to U.S.

- -------

1) Spy photos show Beijing set for underground test=20

By Bill Gertz, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, April 9, 2001
http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-200149224735.htm

 China is preparing to conduct a small, underground nuclear test in the=
 midst
of a standoff with the United States over the detention of 24 American=
 military
personnel, The Washington Times has learned.=20

 U.S. intelligence officials said the EP-3E surveillance aircraft that=
 collided
with a Chinese interceptor jet April 1 was gathering electronic intelligence
related to the impending test, along with other intelligence targets. The=
 test
preparations were detected two weeks ago at China's Lop Nur testing facility=
 in
western Xinjiang province. They were based on U.S. spy satellite photographs
that showed activity related to nuclear testing at one location of the=
 testing
site.

 One official said the underground blast could be another in a series of
"subcritical" nuclear tests =97 small explosions that do not produce an=
 actual
nuclear yield but are useful in weapons development and maintenance.=
 However,
other officials familiar with intelligence reports said the Chinese are=
 known
to have a covert testing program that relies on small, or low-yield, nuclear
explosions.

 In 1996, China became a signatory to an international treaty banning all
underground nuclear blasts.

 U.S. intelligence officials said suspicions about the secret Chinese=
 nuclear
testing program were confirmed after agents from Beijing purchased special
nuclear containment equipment from Russia several years ago.

 The special equipment is known to be used in masking the seismic signatures=
 of
nuclear explosions =97 like the small blast China set off June 1999, days=
 before
a senior U.S. diplomat delivered an apology to Beijing for the mistaken=
 bombing
of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, during the air war there.

 The timing of that test, which took place at Lop Nur, was viewed as an
intentional signal from Beijing, which had cut off all military contacts=
 with
the United States and had begun vitriolic attacks on the United States in=
 the
government-controlled media.

 Although the test preparations were spotted before the showdown between=
 China
and the United States began, officials did not rule out a connection to=
 China's
stepped-up aggressive harassment of U.S. intelligence and plans for the=
 test.

 China is opposing Bush administration plans for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan=
 and
plans for deployment of a national missile defense, and it has been engaged=
 in
a concerted effort to influence U.S. policies, said defense and intelligence
officials.

 A test during the current standoff would signal China's growing nuclear=
 power,
said the officials.

 A U.S. defense official said the testing activity at the current time is a
sign that China's leader, President Jiang Zemin, may not be fully in=
 control.

 "Some say Jiang is a moderate who wants good relations with the United
States," the official said. "If that's the case, this test during a=
 difficult
period with the United States indicates he is not in control of China."

 The EP-3E conducts signals intelligence operations that are aimed at
collecting large amounts of communications and other electric signals. The
aircraft left from Kadena Air Base on Okinawa, Japan, and flew south along=
 the
Chinese coast until its encounter with two Chinese interceptor jets near=
 Hainan
Island.

 The aircraft's sensitive listening equipment is capable of picking up
communications thousands of miles inland, including any signals from Lop=
 Nur,
the main Chinese nuclear testing facility, intelligence officials said.

 The U.S. intelligence community also uses RC-135 reconnaissance flights and
spy satellites to collect intelligence from Lop Nur. It also has "sniffer"
aircraft that can detect any nuclear particles produced from nuclear tests
after they take place.

 China in the past has used tests of its missiles and nuclear weapons as
political signals to the United States. China is currently engaged in a=
 major
strategic weapons buildup. Last year, it conducted two flight tests of a new
road-mobile long-range missile known as the DF-31.

 China also is building a longer-range missile known as the DF-41 and a new
class of ballistic missile submarine that will be equipped with a naval=
 version
of the DF-31. China last conducted large-scale nuclear tests in 1996. It
announced later that year it was agreeing to the international nuclear test=
 ban
known as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

 U.S. intelligence agencies assessed the 1996 tests to be the first blasts=
 of a
new small warhead =97 believed based on the design of the W-88, the United
States' most advanced small nuclear warhead, obtained through espionage.
Although China signed the test ban treaty, it has not ratified it.

 The U.S. Senate rejected the pact in 1999. The State Department said at the
time of the Senate debate that U.S. ratification of the treaty would
"constrain" China's nuclear weapons modernization because any information on
U.S. nuclear testing obtained by Chinese spies could not be used without=
 first
conducting nuclear tests.

 "China is not likely to rely on weapons incorporating information obtained
through espionage without first conducting nuclear explosive tests," the
department said in a 1999 fact sheet.

 The fact sheet also stated that China said when it signed the test ban=
 treaty
in 1996 that "it would continue to evaluate the safety and reliability of=
 its
nuclear weapons. . . . We believe that China has initiated such a program at
its Lop Nur test site."

 China has refused to permit international monitoring at its nuclear weapons
test facilities =97a key reason Senate Republicans rejected the test ban=
 treaty
as unverifiable. Negotiators failed to include provisions in the treaty that
would allow precise monitoring near Lop Nur.

 Despite the Senate's rejection of the treaty, the Bush administration is
seeking $21 million for international monitoring of the defunct treaty, a=
 sign
treaty proponents are operating outside the control of administration=
 political
appointees.

 "It's the Clinton bureaucracy doing this, and it shows the Bush=
 administration
hasn't reined them in," said one U.S. official. The continued nuclear test
efforts by China show "China could never be a reliable treaty partner" since=
 it
announced in 1996 that it would no longer test, this official said.

- ---

2) Cheney warns China it risks harming ties to U.S.=20

By Bill Gertz,  THE WASHINGTON TIMES, April 9, 2001
http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-200149233026.htm

 The Bush administration stepped up pressure on China yesterday, warning
Beijing that continuing to hold the crew of a downed U.S. military aircraft
captive is damaging relations.=20

 Vice President Richard B. Cheney repeated U.S. "regrets" for the loss of a
Chinese pilot and said the United States has nothing to apologize for.

 "It's important to recognize that every day that goes by without resolution=
 of
this does lead to the possible risk =97 lasting damage, if you will =97 to=
 the
relationship between the United States and China," Mr. Cheney said on NBC's
"Meet the Press."

 Mr. Cheney would not say what penalties would be imposed on China for its
failure to release the 24 detained Americans who made an emergency landing=
 in
southern China aboard a damaged EP-3E surveillance aircraft that collided=
 with
an intercepting Chinese F-8 jet over international waters.

 Pressures on the Bush administration intensified, too. Mr. Cheney insisted
that the 24 American crewmen are not hostages, as Rep. Henry J. Hyde,=
 Illinois
Republican and chairman of the House International Relations Committee, said=
 on
Saturday they were. He said they're "detainees." When he was asked about an
editorial in the Weekly Standard, suggesting that the incident had the=
 making
of a "national humiliation" for the United States, Mr. Cheney snapped that=
 the
editorial was an attempt to "sell magazines." He called the editorial
"disreputable."

 Secretary of State Colin Powell, on another television program, called the
editorial "absurd."

 Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, said he too regards the
crewmen as "detainees," but not for long. "In two or three days, I'm going=
 to
call them hostages. . . . We're getting precariously close to that." Sen.
Richard C. Shelby, Alabama Republican and chairman of the Senate=
 Intelligence
Committee, said China could become an adversary. "The incidents that we are
going through right now . . . is probably one of many for the future," Mr.
Shelby said.

 "We have to look at China realistically. A lot of people haven't." Mr.=
 Shelby
has been a critic of U.S. intelligence for its overly benign analysis of=
 China.

 On the southern Chinese island of Haikou, where the Americans are being=
 held,
the top U.S. military officer in China, Brig. Gen. Neal Sealock, said U.S.
officials were "hopeful" China would today begin granting daily access to=
 the
crew.

 "This morning, our desire remains the same. Our request is for unfettered
access to the crew on a daily basis and, in fact, twice a day," he told
reporters.

 "Our purpose for that is to continue to monitor the treatment of the crew=
 and
to continue to observe what has taken place. We're hopeful for that to take
place today and every day following."

 In Beijing, the official military newspaper, Liberation Army Daily,=
 repeated a
demand that the United States halt all surveillance flights over Chinese
territory.

 "China has the right to fully and thoroughly investigate this entire=
 incident,
including the American military aircraft and the people in charge of it,"=
 the
newspaper said. "The U.S. government should . . . immediately stop all=
 military
surveillance activities off the Chinese coast."

 Chinese Defense Minister Chi Haotian early today added his voice to the
Chinese leaders demanding an apology.

 "The U.S. should apologize to the Chinese people and take effective=
 measures
to avoid another similar matter from happening," said Gen. Chi, who is also
vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, the Communist Party organ
that controls the Chinese military. His comments were reported in today's
editions of the official party newspaper, People's Daily.

 Mr. Cheney said the United States is willing to discuss the flights, but=
 that
"in terms of our right to be there . . . that's a given and we will continue=
 to
operate as appropriate."

 In a sign that negotiations are continuing at high levels, U.S. Ambassador=
 to
China Joseph Prueher met privately yesterday with Chinese Foreign Minister=
 Tang
Jiaxuan in the latest round of diplomatic meetings to end the impasse.

 U.S. diplomats met with eight crewmen yesterday, although Brig. Gen.=
 Sealock
had asked to see all 24.

 Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, said on CNN's
"Late Edition" that it "isn't helpful" that Gen. Sealock's request to meet=
 with
the entire crew was rejected.

 Mr. Powell repeated U.S. "regrets" and used the word "sorry" to describe=
 his
feelings over the loss of the Chinese pilot. He made it clear once more that
the United States would not accept responsibility for the incident and
"therefore won't apologize for that."

 A senior administration official said yesterday's television talk show
appearances by senior national security officials was meant as a signal to
Beijing. "The message is: There is a closing window for the Chinese to still
salvage this," the official said. "But they could have done it right away by
releasing the crew."

 Several congressional delegations scheduled to visit China were canceled
Saturday to protest, and congressional aides said legislation punishing=
 Beijing
is likely to follow if the impasse is not resolved.

 Mr. Powell, speaking on "Fox News Sunday," declined to say how the
administration would punish China but said "whatever price the Chinese
ultimately pay, they are making it worse in terms of delaying this=
 situation."

 On CBS' "Face the Nation," Mr. Powell said the administration wants China=
 to
realize that "we do regret the loss of their pilot and plane." He expressed
"regret" for the U.S. plane's emergency landing on the southern Chinese=
 island
that "violated their airspace." He urged Beijing to "look at the emergency
circumstances that the pilot was facing."

 Nevertheless, U.S.-China relations were being hurt by the incident. "The
relationship is being damaged," Mr. Powell said. "The damage can be undone.=
 But
in order for the damage to be undone and no further damage to occur, we have
got to bring this matter to a close as soon as possible."

 The United States has a trade deficit with China estimated at more than $80
billion, and some members of Congress have called for the imposition of=
 trade
sanctions to act as leverage. Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's chief political=
 strategist,
said last week that trade sanctions against Beijing were not being=
 considered
"at this point."

 Meanwhile, Mr. Bush has written a letter to the wife of the lost pilot,=
 Wang
Wei. The letter from the president to Ruan Guoqin is being sent as a
humanitarian gesture, U.S. officials said. Mrs. Ruan wrote that the=
 president
was "too cowardly" to apologize. Mr. Powell said the reply was meant to=
 respond
to a "widow who is grieving. Whatever you think about the politics of it,=
 she's
lost her husband."

 Miss Rice said the president's letter was not a shift in U.S. policy. "The
president is taking the high ground here, and he is simply responding to the
expression of grief, and nothing else," she said. The administration had
offered China "a way to have a discussion about the facts."

 Other U.S. officials said the administration is proposing to convene a=
 meeting
under a 1998 U.S.-China agreement on military maritime incidents.

 Mr. Powell said the United States still supports China's bid to join the=
 World
Trade Organization, but another congressional vote on normal trade relations
status with that country might not pass. Congress approved permanent normal
trade status for China last year, despite its arms sales to rogue states and
its continuing poor record on human rights. Meanwhile, a Hong Kong newspaper
reported last night that a Chinese F-8 pilot that shadowed the EP-3E asked=
 for
permission to shoot down the unarmed surveillance plane.

 F-8 pilot Zhao Yu was told by ground controllers not to take any action
against the U.S. military aircraft, the South China Morning Post quoted
unidentified "Chinese sources" in Beijing as saying.

 "The officials at ground control were cool-headed," the newspaper quoted=
 one
source as saying. "Zhao could have shot the plane down but that would have
meant the death of 24 U.S. airmen. It would have been an act of war, whereas
the collision was an accident."

 China's official media continued to criticize the United States. The=
 state-run
Xinhua news agency reported that people throughout China continued "to=
 angrily
condemn the hegemonist action of a U.S. military reconnaissance plane."

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