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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:49:34 -0700
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Participate - CUT NIF CALL-IN DAY THIS THURSDAY

Dear peace and environmental coleagues:

Call your Senators and Representative June 21st and ask them to oppose
funding for the National Ignition Facility, the biggest boondoggle in the
nuclear weapons complex.

You can find the alert (and two PDF versions) on the ANA website at
www.ananuclear.org/NIFalert.html. IT IS ALSO ALSO PASTED IN BELOW...

CUT NIF CALL-IN DAY
Thursday, June 21st

Call your U.S. Senators and Representative to oppose funding for the
National Ignition Facility, the biggest boondoggle in the U.S. nuclear
weapons complex.

Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121


On June 21st, tell your legislators:

=D8       The NIF is plagued by technical problems and is wasting billions o=
f
taxpayer dollars.

=D8       The NIF undermines U.S. obligations under the Non-Proliferation
Treaty and
may provoke nuclear proliferation around the globe.

=D8       The National Ignition Facility is not needed for the safety and
reliability of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Want to do more?

=D8       Share this alert with other groups and local activists

=D8       Organize a call-in campaign for your local group

=D8       Send letters to the editor of your local paper pointing out the NI=
F=92s
nuclear proliferation dangers and its massive waste of taxpayer dollars.

=46or more information, contact the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in
Washington, DC at [phone] www.ananuclear.org. This action alert is
cosponsored by a wide range of national and grassroots organizations.

Background:
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a massive experimental
laser fusion facility being built with billions of taxpayer dollars at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California as the centerpiece of
the Department of Energy=92s (DOE) Stockpile Stewardship Program, the endeav=
or
to continue nuclear weapons development even without full-scale nuclear
testing.  The NIF=92s goal is to create very brief, contained thermonuclear
explosions.

The DOE claims the NIF is necessary to maintain the safety and reliability
of U.S. nuclear weapons, but the physics experiments planned for the NIF
have nothing to do with safety--preventing accidental explosions or leaks in
nuclear weapons--and very little to do with how reliably the weapons
perform. Safety and reliability are already ensured through ongoing, and
much less expensive, DOE operations.

In truth, the NIF is slated to be used for a wide range of applications from
training nuclear weapons designers to studying the effects of radiation,
heat and blast on weapons components, sensors, communication satellites, and
underground structures.  NIF weapons effect experiments, including
=93laser/fireball=94 tests, may be used in connection with development of
low-yield nuclear weapons and missile defense concepts. The mini-fusion
explosions planned for NIF, and its capacity for new nuclear weapons design,
undermine U.S. obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and
the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and may provoke nuclear proliferation
around the globe.

The NIF has been plagued with technical problems and cost overruns. Over a
billion dollars has already been wasted on the NIF. Further, if completed,
it could cost over $32 billion, according to a new study commissioned by the
Livermore-based group Tri-Valley CAREs (www.igc.org/tvc/). The DOE has
requested $245 million for NIF construction in 2002 and the Congress will
likely be voting on this funding in late June as part of the Energy & Water
Appropriations bills in both the House and the Senate.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jim Bridgman
Program Director
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
1801 18th Street, Suite 9-2
Washington, DC 20009
202-833-4668
202-234-9536 (fax)
[e-mail]
www.ananuclear.org

Marylia Kelley
Executive Director,
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA 94550
Phone: [phone]
=46ax: 1-925-443-0177
Web site: http://www.igc.org/tvc



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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:23:56 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Butler advising Bush

 Bush stunned by U.S. nuclear arsenal size

Japan Today Japan News - News -

Monday, June 18, 2001 at 09:30 JST

WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush was stunned last
month when told of the extent of the U.S. nuclear arsenal,
Newsweek magazine reported in its June 25 edition, released on
Sunday.

"I had no idea we had so many weapons," Bush was quoted as saying
by an unidentified "White House insider."

"What do we need them for?" the president was said to have asked
at a briefing, according to the Newsweek report.

But that was not a dumb question, the magazine noted in detailing
the vast U.S. nuclear arsenal, which includes 5,400 warheads on
intercontinental ballistic missiles, 1,750 nuclear bombs and
cruise missiles ready to be launched from B-2 and B-52 bombers,
1,670 "tactical" nuclear weapons and another 10,000 warheads in
bunkers around the United States.

That potential for nuclear overkill may be reined in, however, as
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld prepares at the Pentagon to
implement Bush's stated goal of streamlining and downsizing the
arsenal.

Rumsfeld has brought back retired Gen. George (Lee) Butler and
former Reagan administration national security guru Richard Perle
to spearhead an effort to reduce the arsenal to safer, more
manageable and more cost efficient levels, Newsweek said.

"I see no reason why we can't go well below 1,000" warheads,
Perle told the magazine. "I want the lowest number possible under
the tightest control possible."

"The truth is we are never going to use them," Perle added. "The
Russians aren't going to use theirs either." (Reuters News)
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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:23:56 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Butler advising Bush

 Bush stunned by U.S. nuclear arsenal size

Japan Today Japan News - News -

Monday, June 18, 2001 at 09:30 JST

WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush was stunned last
month when told of the extent of the U.S. nuclear arsenal,
Newsweek magazine reported in its June 25 edition, released on
Sunday.

"I had no idea we had so many weapons," Bush was quoted as saying
by an unidentified "White House insider."

"What do we need them for?" the president was said to have asked
at a briefing, according to the Newsweek report.

But that was not a dumb question, the magazine noted in detailing
the vast U.S. nuclear arsenal, which includes 5,400 warheads on
intercontinental ballistic missiles, 1,750 nuclear bombs and
cruise missiles ready to be launched from B-2 and B-52 bombers,
1,670 "tactical" nuclear weapons and another 10,000 warheads in
bunkers around the United States.

That potential for nuclear overkill may be reined in, however, as
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld prepares at the Pentagon to
implement Bush's stated goal of streamlining and downsizing the
arsenal.

Rumsfeld has brought back retired Gen. George (Lee) Butler and
former Reagan administration national security guru Richard Perle
to spearhead an effort to reduce the arsenal to safer, more
manageable and more cost efficient levels, Newsweek said.

"I see no reason why we can't go well below 1,000" warheads,
Perle told the magazine. "I want the lowest number possible under
the tightest control possible."

"The truth is we are never going to use them," Perle added. "The
Russians aren't going to use theirs either." (Reuters News)
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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:51:39 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: (radfood-list) Action Alert!  Send a fax to the Senate Subcommittee on Ag. and FD

>Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:04:52 -0400
>Subject: (radfood-list) Action Alert!  Send a fax to the Senate Subcommittee
on Ag. and FD
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
>
>Action Alert!  Send a fax to the Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural and
>Food and Drug Administration Appropriations!
>
>Apologies for cross postings.
>
>Please circulate widely!
>
>Action Alert!
>
>http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/takeaction/radfoodfax_LETTER2.htm
>
>Urge the Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural and Food and Drug
>Administration Appropriations provide clear and honest labeling of
>irradiated food!
>
>The Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural and Food and Drug Administration
>Appropriations is on the verge of writing the appropriations bill for
>fiscal year 2002.  Irradiation will be included.  We need to urge them to
>stop the FDA's efforts to weaken labeling of irradiated food!
>
>Please send a fax to the Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural and Food and
>Drug Administration Appropriations from this URL:
>
>
>http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/takeaction/radfoodfax_LETTER2.htm
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Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 20:13:49 +1200
From: "Jim Holdom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: (radfood-list) Action Alert!  Send a fax to the Senate Subcommittee on Ag. and FD

Your message/s was/were one of the messages in a batch I  received on June
23 which had a virus; I don't know which one, for my Norton virus protection
saved me a copy and deleted the culprit.  I thought I should tell you.
Jim Holdom
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> >Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:04:52 -0400
> >Subject: (radfood-list) Action Alert!  Send a fax to the Senate
Subcommittee
> on Ag. and FD
> >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
> >From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
> >
> >Action Alert!  Send a fax to the Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural and
> >Food and Drug Administration Appropriations!
> >
> >Apologies for cross postings.
> >
> >Please circulate widely!
> >
> >Action Alert!
> >
> >http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/takeaction/radfoodfax_LETTER2.htm
> >
> >Urge the Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural and Food and Drug
> >Administration Appropriations provide clear and honest labeling of
> >irradiated food!
> >
> >The Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural and Food and Drug Administration
> >Appropriations is on the verge of writing the appropriations bill for
> >fiscal year 2002.  Irradiation will be included.  We need to urge them to
> >stop the FDA's efforts to weaken labeling of irradiated food!
> >
> >Please send a fax to the Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural and Food and
> >Drug Administration Appropriations from this URL:
> >
> >
> >http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/takeaction/radfoodfax_LETTER2.htm
> >
> >______________________
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> >To learn more about food irradiation, visit our website at
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> >Questions about the radfood list can be directed to [e-mail] .
> >
> >In addition to the radfood email list we have a stopirradiation email
> >list.  The stopirradiation list is our irradiated food discussion group
> >list.  This list allows participants discuss food irradiation through
> >their postings to other subscribers to the list.  It is moderated so
there
> >will be no excess of non-irradiated food related material.   Subscribers
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:19:03 -0400
From: NucNews <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews Briefs - 01/06/25

NucNews archives are caught up to date and posted through June 22, 2001 at
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm, thanks to the Herculean efforts of
Tantara.

Some of the stories are REALLY bizarre.

If you'd like to develop special-interest lists similar to the depleted uranium
archives at http://prop1.org/2000/du/dulv.htm, we'll be glad to help you.
Write
mailto:prop1.org.

Ellen Thomas

     ___________________________________________________

Today's News and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm
Submit URL/Article: mailto:[e-mail]
OneList Archives: http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews (subscribe online)
Other Excellent News-Collecting Sites -
DOE Watch - http://www.egroups.com/group/doewatch
Downwinders - http://www.egroups.com/group/downwinders

Quick Route to U.S. Congress:
http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites)
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites)
http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search)

Online Petition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons -
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html

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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:20:00 -0700
From: "Andrew Lichterman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) US Campaign Santa Fe flights

Greetings-

I have heard that people are having difficulty obtaining affordable flights
to Albuquerque from the East Coast for the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear
Weapons Meeting in July.

You might take a look at the Southwest Airlines web site,
http://www.iflyswa.com/

They have flights from a number of smaller East Coast and Midwest
airports-Providence, RI. Long Island/Islip, NY, Chicago Midway, Baltimore,
Md, Manchester, New Hampshire, Hartford, CT., Albany, NY,  Columbus and
Cleveland, OH and a number of others-to Albuquerque.  There are flights to
Albuquerque from these cities in the $300-400 range with 7 or 14 day advance
purchase.  I don't know about current availability, but it's worth checking.


A.

Andrew Lichterman
Program Director
Western States Legal Foundation
1504 Franklin St. Suite 202
Oakland, CA 94612
USA

phone:  [phone]
fax:      [phone]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:14:42 -0700
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) ALERT: NIF amendment to be offered tomorrow!!!

ACTION ALERT - PLEASE FORWARD - ACTION ALERT - PLEASE FORWARD

We have just learned that the Energy & Water Appropriations bill will go to
the House floor tomorrow (Wednesday, sooner than expected). Please make the
call requested, below, and then pass this action alert on to any email
lists or networks of friends that you maintain. Thank you.

Reps. Kucinich (D-OH) and Ryan (R-WI) will offer an amendment to cut about
half of the construction funding for the National Ignition Facility and
transfer the funds to DOE nonproliferation programs, including
immobilization of US plutonium. Since NIF undermines US obligations to the
Non-Proliferation Treaty, a cut and transfer to nonproliferation programs is
a boost to nonproliferation. Some of the funds would also be returned to the
Treasury for debt reduction.

Please call your Representative today!! (or Wednesday morning) and urge them
to support the Ryan-Kucinich amendment to cut NIF and transfer to
nonproliferation programs.

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jim Bridgman
Program Director
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
1801 18th Street, Suite 9-2
Washington, DC 20009
202-833-4668
202-234-9536 (fax)
[e-mail]
www.ananuclear.org

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and
catastrophe."
- -- H.G. Wells
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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:44:49 -0700
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Calls needed! NIF cut vote will be today-Thursday

Good News -- Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Rep. Barbara Lee introduced an
amendment to cut construction funding for the National Ignition Facility, a
new nuclear weapons facility under construction at Livermore Lab. The vote
will be today, Thursday. Every Representative will vote. We still have a
little more time to put pressure on Representatives to vote for the cut
amendmant. The amendment is to the Energy & Water Appropriations bill
(HR2311).

Please call your Representative THIS MORNING if you have not yet done so.
Pass this alert on to other email lists you maintain.

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

Here is some background:
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has obtained the rule to move forward
with a recorded vote on the House floor on his amendment with Rep. Barbara
Lee (D-CA) to cut half of the NIF construction funding ($122.5 million of
$245 million) and transfer $66 million to DOE nonproliferation programs and
the rest to the Treasury for debt reduction.

The vote would have taken place this evening (Wed.), except that the GOP
has scheduled a large fundraiser for this evening, cutting time available
for votes.

Those who spoke on the floor Wed. in favor of the amendment were Rep.
Kucinich (D-OH), Rep. Ryan (R-WI), Rep. Lee (D-CA) and Rep. Olver (D-MA).

Those who spoke on the floor in opposition to the amendment were Rep.
Thornberry (R-TX), Rep. Tauscher (D-CA), Rep. Wamp (R-TN), and Rep. Calvert
(R-CA).

The speeches will probably be on Thomas (http://thomas.loc.gov/) later this
evening (Wed). If your Rep. spoke for the amendment, please thank him or
her. If your Rep. spoke against -- or did not speak -- give him/her a call
now and ask him/her to support the cut. Thanks!!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jim Bridgman
Program Director
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
1801 18th Street, Suite 9-2
Washington, DC 20009
202-833-4668
202-234-9536 (fax)
[e-mail]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:27:36 +0100
From: Sally Light <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Return to full testing?  IMPORTANT ARTICLE

Dear Friends,

For some time, Jesse Helms & friends have been advocating a return to
full-blown nuclear testing at NTS (as part of the US' program to
develop

"mini" nuclear weapons).  The article below indicates that Bush &
cronies
want to do just that.  Please pass this on to others - we need to get
the
word out.

FYI - there will be a UN conference on the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty, in New York on Sept. 25-27, 2001, about speeding up the
Treaty's ratification process.  NDE plans to be there.

Sally Light
Executive Director
Nevada Desert Experience
20 years of faith-based nuclear resistance

"Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service"

June 28, 2001, Thursday

"Bush asks scientists for input on resumption of nuclear tests"

By Jonathan S. Landay

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has asked U.S. nuclear weapons
scientists to examine ways that nuclear test explosions beneath the
Nevada
desert could resume more quickly if the government decides to end a
nine-year
moratorium on nuclear testing.

It would now take one to three years to prepare a test, and a recent
study
concluded that such long lead times could allow political opponents to
block any
resumption of nuclear testing.

Nuclear weapons scientists are looking at "what it would take to do
various
kinds of tests on various time scales," C. Bruce Tarter, the director
of the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, said in an
interview
with
Knight Ridder.

Tarter and others said the administration hasn't decided to resume
testing.
Nevertheless, the review is likely to add to fears that President Bush
might end
the nuclear testing moratorium and push for developing new "low yield"
nuclear
warheads that some weapons scientists and conservative lawmakers
advocate.
Bush has said he has no plans to end the U.S. moratorium. But Vice
President
Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have argued that the
safety
and potency of the American arsenal can be assured only by
periodically
detonating randomly selected warheads underground.

"This is all part of a well-coordinated effort inside and outside the
government to basically resume production of nuclear weapons," charged
Stephen
Schwartz, the publisher of the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists,
an arms control journal. "If you are going to do that, you are going
to
need to
test, and this is what this exercise is all about."

Schwartz said the readiness review of the Nevada Test Site could
provide
"cover to China and Russia, and maybe even India and Pakistan," to
begin
preparations to resume their own nuclear tests if the United States
abandons its
self-imposed moratorium on testing.

Tarter dismissed such concerns. "Understanding the state of readiness,
I
think, is a non-provocative activity," he said.

The test site-readiness study comes as the Pentagon is conducting a
separate
review of U.S. nuclear strategy and forces ordered by Bush. The issues
being
examined include radical cuts in America's nuclear arsenal and the
future
of the
testing moratorium.

Bush supported the Senate's 1999 rejection of the Comprehensive Test
Ban
Treaty, saying a permanent global ban on nuclear testing would be
unverifiable.
His refusal to call for a new Senate vote on the treaty provoked a
rare
diplomatic protest by the European Union.

Britain, France and Russia are among 76 nations that have ratified the
1996
treaty. Like the United States, China has signed but not ratified the
pact,
and
is observing a test moratorium.

Many experts say returning to underground tests is unnecessary and
could
undermine the international nuclear arms-control system and provoke a
new
nuclear arms race.

These experts contend that the United States can continue to rely on
the
so-called Stockpile Stewardship Program to ensure that its estimated
10,500
warheads remain defect-free. The program uses experiments, computer
simulations,
warhead inspections and tests of non-nuclear components.

The Nevada Test Site readiness review was requested by retired Air
Force Gen.
John Gordon, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration,
the
Energy Department agency that manages U.S. nuclear weapons programs.
"During this year, we will look hard again at improving test site
readiness,
and will review whether an appropriate level of resources is being
applied to
this vital element of Stockpile Stewardship," Gordon said Wednesday in
testimony
submitted to a House of Representatives subcommittee.

The Nevada Test Site is spread across 1,350 square miles of desert
northwest
of Las Vegas. The main U.S. nuclear proving ground, it conducted 100
atmospheric
and 828 underground tests between 1951 and 1992. It still conducts
"subcritical"
tests of nuclear components, and must remain prepared to resume
full-scale
testing if required.

Darwin Morgan, a spokesman for the Nevada Test Site, said the thrust
of the
examination is determining the most valuable test to conduct if the
United
States decides to resume testing.

"The question is . . . what information do you want back from the
test?" he
said. "If it were to rattle a sword, we could do that fairly quickly.
If you
need to get good diagnostic information . . . that's where you get the
time."
Tarter said the examination of the site's readiness to resume
full-scale
tests involves experts from the site, the Lawrence Livermore and Los
Alamos
national laboratories and a commission Congress appointed in 1999 to
examine the
nation's ability to maintain safe and reliable nuclear warheads
without test
explosions.

In a Feb. 1 report, the commission expressed grave concern about
insufficient
funding, crumbling infrastructure, low morale and other problems at
the
nuclear
laboratories, nuclear weapons-production plants and the Nevada Test
Site.
The panel, headed by John S. Foster Jr., a former weapons designer,
found
that it would take the test site 12 to 36 months to prepare a test.

"It is the panel's view that such lead times are unacceptable," the
report
said. "It seems prudent to take cost-effective steps to reduce lead
times for
testing to give future presidents a practical set of options for
sustaining
confidence in the stockpile. The panel believes that the NNSA should
investigate
a range of options to reduce lead times to, say, three to four months
from the
president's making a decision to proceed."

"It seemed to us that three years kind of tied the president's hands,"
Foster
said in an interview.
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Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 10:02:12 -0400
From: John Burroughs <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) unilateralism vs. multilateralism - Dhanapala speech

Jayantha Dhanapala, UN Under-Secretary-General, Department of Disarmament
Affairs, made an excellent speech re unilateralism vs. multilateralism, in
relation to the role of law, in May. It can be found at
http://www.un.org/Depts/dda/speech/21may2001.htm. Abolitionists should not
hesitate to quote him liberally. Generally, the DDA website is a good
resource. LCNP also put up on its website (www.lcnp.org) "relevant
excerpts" from Dhanapala speeches, very quotable stuff.


John Burroughs, Executive Director
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204, New York, NY 10017 USA
tel: [phone]; fax: [phone]
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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:36:14 -0600
From: Carah Lynn Ong <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) New to the Abolition 2000 website

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New to the Abolition 2000 website:

Stop the New Arms Race! White House Rally Speech by Jackie Cabasso
http://www.abolition2000.org/testimony/cabasso61001.html


Ballistic Missile Defense Fact Sheet Produced by the Indian Coalition
for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP)
http://www.abolition2000.org/issues/bmd-fact-sheet.html


Review and Strategy Meeting Report from Nagasaki, Japan
http://www.abolition2000.org/reports/nagasakireview.html


Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
ANNUAL REPORT 2000
http://www.abolition2000.org/reports/annualreport2000.html


Nagasaki Appeal
http://www.abolition2000.org/resolutions/NagasakiAppeal.html


Saffron Walden Declaration
http://www.abolition2000.org/resolutions/saffronwalden.html


International Earth Charter Summit
Septeber 29, 2001
http://www.abolition2000.org/Earth%20Charter/index.html


The Corporate-Security State
An international teach-in on the use of global police and militaries
to protect corporate globalization against people and democratic
dissent.

http://www.abolition2000.org/Events/ottawateachin.html
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Carah Lynn Ong
Coordinator

Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1
Santa Barbara, California  93108-2794  USA

Tel:  [phone]
Fax:  [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]
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<div align="center"><b>New to the Abolition 2000 website:</b></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>Stop the New Arms Race!</b> White House Rally Speech by Jackie
Cabasso </div>
<div>http://www.abolition2000.org/testimony/cabasso61001.html</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>Ballistic Missile Defense Fact Sheet</b> Produced by the
Indian Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP)</div>
<div>http://www.abolition2000.org/issues/bmd-fact-sheet.html</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>Review and Strategy Meeting Report from Nagasaki,
Japan</b></div>
<div>http://www.abolition2000.org/reports/nagasakireview.html</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear
Weapons<br>
ANNUAL REPORT 2000</b></div>
<div>http://www.abolition2000.org/reports/annualreport2000.html</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>Nagasaki Appeal</b></div>
<div>http://www.abolition2000.org/resolutions/NagasakiAppeal.html</div
>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>Saffron Walden Declaration</b></div>
<div>http://www.abolition2000.org/resolutions/saffronwalden.html</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b><br></b></div>
<div><b>International Earth Charter Summit<br>
Septeber 29, 2001</b></div>
<div>http://www.abolition2000.org/Earth%20Charter/index.html</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b><br></b></div>
<div><b>The Corporate-Security State<br>
An international teach-in on the use of global police and militaries
to protect corporate globalization against people and democratic
dissent.</b></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>http://www.abolition2000.org/Events/ottawateachin.html</div>

<div>-- <br>
Carah Lynn Ong<br>
Coordinator<br>
<br>
Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons<br>
PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1<br>
Santa Barbara, California  93108-2794  USA<br>
<br>
Tel:  [phone]<br>
Fax:  [phone]<br>
Email:  [e-mail]<br>
Http://www.abolition2000.org<br>
<br>
Join the Abolition Global Caucus, send a message to
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Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 07:51:14 -0400
From: Ellen Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews Briefs - 01/07/04

NucNews archives are caught up to date and posted through July 1, 2001 at
http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.

For your information, stories are collected and posted under the following
headings (and others, when pertinent):

Under "Nuclear" -

        asia
        australia
        britain
        canada
        china
        depleted uranium
        europe
        france
        germany
        india / pakistan
        israel
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        korea
        missile defense
        russia
        treaties
        ukraine
        u.s. nuc weapons
        u.s. nuc facilities - by state, including (most frequently):
         california
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         idaho
         kentucky
         nevada
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         tennessee
         utah
         washington
        us nuc politics
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Under "Military" -

        africa
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        u.n.
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Under "Other" -

        alternative energy
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        imf / world bank
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Under "activists" -

        upcoming events
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        news stories from around the world

Happy browsing - and for those who like to get into the U.S. patriotic frenzy
with July 4th fireworks and picnics, happy Independence Day.  Our prayer: may
the U.S., and the world, learn to truly embrace and allow freedom....

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Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 13:19:13 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Chomsky on Star Wars: Part II

Hegemony or Survival Part Two

By Noam Chomsky



European observers find it "a paradox" that "a country willing to spend
more than $100bn on an unproven project to blow up incoming nuclear
warheads as they enter the atmosphere would opt not to pay less than a
thousandth of that amount to help prevent plutonium falling into the hands
of `rogue states'," while knowing full well that "any `rogue bomb' is far
more likely to arrive in a suitcase or by truck or boat than in a
conspicuously launched missile that has a return address clearly marked on
it" (Julian Borger, Guardian Weekly, May 24). The other current choices
that enhance the threat to survival seem, on the surface, equally
paradoxical. The paradox is resolved when the values of hegemony and
survival are properly ranked, and other advantages of military programs to
which we return are factored in.



As Vijay Prashad pointed out in his recent commentary on SDI and BMD (June
18), the primary issue is not BMD but control of space, also a bipartisan
program. These crucial facts reached general public awareness with
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's announcement of overhaul of the
Pentagon's space programs, "sharply increasing the importance of outer
space in strategic planning." The new plans call for "developing weapons
systems for outer space" a "power projection" from space, which means
"putting offensive weapons into space" (NYT, May 8; Christian Science
Monitor, May 3). The plans were outlined in the report of the second
Rumsfeld panel, released in January (the first, in October 1998, warned of
missile attack threats, apparently influencing Clinton's decision to
accelerate BMD programs). The report of the second panel concludes that
space warfare is "a virtual certainty," and calls for the development of
anti-satellite weapons (ASATs) (in violation of the 1972 ABM treaty) and
placing weapons in sp
ace (in violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty).



Reviewing these plans in Foreign Affairs (May 2001), Michael Krepon,
former President of the Henry Stimson Center, notes that they contain an
internal contradiction: ASATs are far easier to develop than BMD, and an
adversary's ASATs will nullify any BMD program by disabling the satellites
on which it relies. The contradiction can be overcome only "by utterly
dominating space in the ways suggested by the Rumsfeld report," with
offensive weapons and an escalating arms race in space as others
inevitably take countermeasures. He recommends, instead, strengthening the
existing treaties -- which have been observed, he notes. That would make
good sense if the goal were survival rather than hegemony.



The US Space Command holds that "In the future, being able to attack
terrestrial targets from space may be critical to national defense. U.S.
Space Command therefore is actively identifying potential roles, missions,
and payloads for this probable new field of battle." The basic rationale
was explained in its brochure "Vision for 2020." The primary goal is
announced prominently on the front cover: "dominating the space dimension
of military operations to protect US interests and investment." This is
the next phase of the historic task of military forces. "During the
westward expansion of the continental United States, military outposts and
the cavalry emerged to protect our wagon trains, settlements, and
railroads" -- acting solely in self-defense, we are to understand, perhaps
pursuing the well-intentioned but failed efforts "to lead, guide and help
Native Americans [among others] toward the right side of history"
(Bacevich), America's historic mission for the world. And "nations built
navies to protect and
enhance their commercial interests." The next logical step is space
forces to protect "U.S. National Interests [military and commercial] and
Investments." The US role in space should be comparable to that of "navies
protecting sea commerce," though now with a sole hegemon, far more
overwhelming than the British Navy in centuries past.



The Space Command is of course aware of Krepon's dilemma, and plans to
overcome it by "Full Spectrum Dominance": overwhelming military dominance
on land, sea, and air as well as space, so that the US will be "preeminent
in any form of conflict," in peace or war. The need for such dominance
will mount as a result of the increasing "globalization of the economy,"
which is expected to bring about "a widening between `haves' and
`have-nots'," an assessment shared by US intelligence in its projections
for 2015 (contrary to the underlying economic theories, but in accord with
reality). The widening divide may lead to unrest among the have-nots,
which the US must be ready to control by "using space systems and planning
for precision strike from space" as a "counter to the worldwide
proliferation of WMD" by unruly elements -- a predictable consequence of
the recommended programs, just as the "widening divide" is an anticipated
consequence of the preferred form of "globalization."



The Space Command could have extended its analogy to "navies protecting
sea commerce" and the military "defending" expanding interests. Navies,
and the military generally, have played a prominent role in technological
and industrial development throughout the modern era. Also to corporate
consolidation: the noted pacifist Andrew Carnegie relied heavily on naval
contracts in building the first $1 billion corporation, US Steel.
Militarization of space offers similar opportunities for the current era.
"In terms of international technological potential," economic historian
Clive Trebilcock writes, "the ability to produce the largest gunmountings
around 1910 was roughly equivalent to the ability to manufacture space
vehicles around 1980." The task of constructing huge machines to fire
projectiles from a moving platform at a moving target was one of the most
complex engineering problems of the day, leading to major advances in
metallurgy, electronics, machine tools and manufacturing processes.
Quick-firing guns an
d advanced rifle production also posed challenging tasks for engineering
and manufacture, which could be undertaken by "civilian" industry thanks
to government contracts, which "played a vital part in removing the risk
barriers from mass production" and preliminary research and development
(R&D). The results were transferred directly to the automotive and other
major modern industries. These developments a century ago were a large
step forward from earlier stages, when the "American system of
Manufactures" astounded the world, based on 40 years of investment and R&D
in the US Ordnance Department at the Springfield Armory and elsewhere,
laying the basis for "a world revolution in mass production." Earlier,
advances in guncasting from the mid-18th century laid the basis for iron
production and use of steam engines, and were "instrumental in
facilitating the rise of large-scale industry, indeed in creating the
factory system." The same factors persisted after World War II, but with a
qualitative leap forward, t
his time primarily in the US, as the military provided a cover for
creation of the core parts of the modern high tech economy. None of the
beneficiaries want to see the closing of what Trebilcock calls "the
military bank, spending through the public purse, [which] has proved a
massive paymaster of scientific development," technological and industrial
as well.



Promoting advanced industry has been a leading objective of military
planning since World War II, when it was recognized by business leaders
that high-tech industry could not survive in a competitive "free
enterprise" economy and that "the government is their only possible
savior" (Fortune, Business Week). Reagan's SDI was peddled to the business
world on these grounds. Maintaining "the defense industrial base" -- that
is, high-tech industry -- was one of the factors brought to congressional
attention by President Bush when he called for maintaining the Pentagon
budget immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall had eliminated the
Russian pretext. Militarization of space is a natural next step, which
will be propelled further by the anticipated arms race. Others too are
well aware of its economic potential. Retreating from his earlier critical
stance, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder stated in March that Germany
would have a "vital economic interest" in developing BMD technology, and
must be sure that "
we are not excluded" from technological and scientific work in the field.
Participation in BMD programs could strengthen domestic industrial bases
generally in Europe, it is expected (see Defense Monitor, March 2001).



For such reasons, the US has recently refused to join the rest of the
world in reaffirming the Outer Space Treaty (joined in 1999 and 2000 by
Israel, in 2000 by Micronesia), and has blocked negotations at the UN
Conference on Disarmament since its current sessions opened in January.
China and Russia have called for demilitarization of space; Russia
proposed further moves, including reduction of warheads to 1500 and
creation of nuclear-free zones. "The U.S. remains the only one of the 66
member states to oppose launching formal negotiations on outer space,"
Reuters reported in February; also reported in the Deseret News (Salt Lake
City), in virtually the only coverage of the Conference in the US media.
On June 7, China again called for banning of weapons in outer space, but
the US refused, having "consistently blocked the start of negotiations in
the UN disarmament conference on preventing an arms race in outer space"
(Financial Times, June 8).



Again, that makes good sense if hegemony, with its short-term benefits to
elite interests, is ranked above survival in the scale of operative
values.




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