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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:05:05 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Fw: (abolition-usa) Re: Countdown to 2002

Dear Dr. Lau,
Thank you for your additional legal insight into the illegality of Bush's
withdrawal from the UN.  It would be most helpful if a lawyers study group
could write a legal brief for the US Senate which will take this isssue up
shortly.  I heard Senator Biden on C-Span(US cable TV) discussing your point
that there has not been the "extraordinary event" required for withdrawal.
IALANA, led by the Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy and INESAP convened an
Abolition 2000 Working Group which resulted in the drafting of a Model Nuclear
Weapons Convention.  I am copying this message to several lawyers who
worked on
this issue to see if they would be interested in forming an Abolition 2000
Working Group to prepare a brief on this issue for the US Senate.  Many thanks
for your comments.  Sincerely, Alice Slater

At 08:59 AM 12/20/2001 +0100, tom wrote:
>
> Dr. Joachim Lau
> studio legale
> Rechtsanwalt
> Via delle Farine 2 ( Pzz. d. Signoria)
> I -  50122 Firenze - Italia
> Tel [phone] / Fax [phone]
>
>
> Dear Alice Slater
>
> In the discussion about the ABM-treaty  was untill now not  mentioned the
> evident  violation of international law, that once again  the USA  shall
> commit , withdrawing  from the obligation of the treaty :
>
>  The ABM treaty was signed by USSR and USA in 26 may 1972, because the two
> states wanted " mindful of their obligations under Article VI of the Treaty
> on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons &. achieve at the earliest
> possible date the cessation of the nuclear arms race and to take effective
> measures towards reductions in strategic arms, nuclear disarmament &. "
>
> For this reason they agreed in Article XV "This treaty shall be of unlimited
> duration." Only in the case that "( a Party of the treaty ) decides that
> extraordinary events related to the subject matter of this treaty have
> jeopardised its supreme interests" it has the right to withdrawn from this
> Treaty.
>
>
> The north American governments are looking since Mr Reagan for a way to get
> rid off the bindings and obligations of this treaty and the discussion about
> the Star-wars is much older than the terrorists activities of Mr. Bin
Laden.
>
> But in any case the reasons stated by Mr. Bush that "the September 11
> terrorist attacks heightened the need for such a system( anti missiles
system
> )" and that therefor the USA has the right to withdrawn from the ABM-treaty
> is not only bullshit ( sorry) but also illegal .
>
> The September attack may be an extraordinary event but in any case the event
> relates not to the subject matter of the ABM- treaty .
>
> Until now the USA- government tells ( I don t know for what reason) a lot of
> false stories about the terrorists,
>
> 1. They had not send letters with anthrax (WMD) -
>
> 2. They did not used or prepared nuclear attacks against USA
>
> even this terrible event had not jeopardised Americans "supreme interest" in
> relation to  the ABM treaty.
>
>
> Insomma, the September attack is a pretext not only to start war against all
> those other States , which ca in futur disurb  the approach to the energy
> ressources , but it is  also a  violation  the ABM-treaty.
>
> Without the September attacks, it would have been very difficulty to Bush to
> explain to the american peoples the revoke of  the ABM treaty . Or not?
>
> It seems indispensable that an international independent group of persons ,
> may be also a commission of the UN - , will start a research and report of
> all aspects of the current inyernational crisis , and especially with
regards
> to the intention of the USA to start another  war against the IRAK. .
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ASlater" <[e-mail]>
> To: "Paul Wellstone" <[e-mail]>
> Cc: <[e-mail]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 11:50 PM
> Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Countdown to 2002
>
>
> > We need a champion in the Senate to stop George Bush from unilaterally
> pulling
> > out of the ABM treaty.  Lynne Woolsey has already taken that on in the
> House.
> > Will Senator Wellstone take the lead on this?  If so, I would be happy to
> > support your Campaign Countdown.  Sincerely, Alice Slater
> >
> > At 04:25 PM 12/19/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> > >
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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:19:48 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Send Bush, US Senate a Christmas Message - No to Missile Defence, Yes to ABMT

Please excuse cross- postings and multiple copies, and please do pass this
message on to anyone that might act on it before Christmas

RE: BUSH ADMINISTRATION WITHDRAWAL FROM ABM TREATY - CALL TO ACTION

SEND BUSH, US SENATE A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE - NO TO MISSILE DEFENCE, YES TO
THE ABM TREATY

As it is the last Friday before Christmas, I am urging you to get this off
as soon as you can.  My apologies for the number of times you may have seen
this, but it really is IMPORTANT that people round the world send a strong
signal to the US administration and Senate before christmas, that they
should not withdraw from the ABM treaty.   Do please take action on this if
you have not yet done so, if possible before Christmas.

- - Urging you all to write to Bush, US Senate, Congress, and your own
government if you are from a country other than the US, asking the US not
to withdraw from the ABM treaty, and not to proceed with Missile Defence.

CONTAINS:
SAMPLE LETTERS TO US PRESIDENT BUSH AND US SENATE LEADERS with fax numbers

ABM Talking Points (From IPPNW)

US House of reps H.RES.313,

Email list for the whole US Senate


I am urging folk worldwide to take  immediate action in response to
President Bush's issuance of a notification that he is giving the six
months notice required to exit from the ABM treaty.

If you are from the US or from another country, I am asking you to
WRITE/Fax President Bush and (more importantly) US Senate leaders, to urge
that the US government reconsider its withdrawal from the ABM treaty.

If you are from outside the US (as most of the world is), you are urged in
addition (not instead but in addition) - to write to your own government
urging them to urge the US to reconsider.

This applies especially to people/organisations from Australia, Canada, UK,
Denmark, Germany, and Japan.

IT is not too late:

The issuance of a notification that the US intends to withdraw from the ABM
treaty does not itself constitute a withdrawal - it merely starts a clock
ticking that has to tick for six months before the US will actually have
withdrawn.  That process can be halted at any point.

In addition, there are doubts about whether the President actually has the
authority to withdraw from the ABM treaty (or any treaty) without the
consent of Congress.

US Senate Democrat leaders, Daschle, Biden, and Levine, have all denounced
the Bush withdrawal plan.

There are doubts however, about just how much muscle they might put behind
this.

In the House of Representatives, Democrat representative Woolsey has
recently introduced H.RES.313, which urges the preservation of the ABM
treaty.

I urge that therefore, both US AND NON-US recipients of this email might
like to:


1) Fax President Bush on  1-202-456-2461, urging him to reconsider. (Sample
letter below)


2) Fax The following senators, urging them to put real muscle behind their
statements (text below) opposing the withdrawal from the ABM treaty, and
urging them to use their Senate numbers to  prevent the US withdrawal from
the ABM treaty: (Sample letter below)

SENATOR TOM DASCHLE 1-202-224-7895
SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN, CHAIR, SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE  1-202-224-0=
139
SENATOR CARL LEVIN, CHAIR,SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE 1-202-224-1388


3) If you are from the US, urge your house of representatives member to
support H.RES.313 from Barbara Woolsey. (Text below).

Whether or not you are from the US, you might like to email the entire US
Senate, urging them to
- --Support H.RES.313
- --Take measures to disallow the withdrawal from the ABM treaty by President
Bush.

(Email list for the  US Senate is right at the end of this email)


4) If you are not from the US, and especially if you are from Australia,
Canada, the UK, Denmark or Germany, you should also write to your own
government and ask them to strongly oppose the US move.
Ask them to urge restraint on the US government.

The clock is now ticking on ABM withdrawal.  I urge you to go for it.
PLease write the US Senate, Bush, and if you are not from the US, write
also your own government.

The sample letters, talking points, quotes from US Senators, and H.RES.313
are below.

John Hallam


(Letter to Bush and Senate leaders below)

(Do NOT reproduce word for word - It is best to rewrite this letter IN YOUR
OWN WORDS - Best handwriitten not typed. )

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH,  1-202-456-2461, 1-202-456-2883,

SENATOR TOM DASCHLE 1-202-224-7895

SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN, CHAIR, SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE  1-202-224-0=
139

SENATOR CARL LEVIN, CHAIR,
SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE 1-202-224-1388

Dear President Bush, Senator Tom Daschle, Senator Joseph Biden, and Senator
Carl Levin,

I am writing as one of thousands of  ordinary people, as well as
non-governmental organizations and governments throughout the world,  who
are horrified by your  decision to scrap the ABM treaty and deploy a system
of Missile Defence.   I urge the US Senate to disallow this dangerous and
irresponsible decision. I urge President Bush to reconsider that decision.

If the terrible events of September 11th showed anything, it surely was
that missile defence systems and nuclear weapons would have had no impact
whatever on the security threat posed by terrorists.

At a time when the US must work with the broadest possible coalition of
nations in the fight against terrorism, withdrawal from the ABM treaty
sends a terrible signal to those whose help the US needs, particularly to
Russia.

As the Russian ratification of the START-II nuclear weapons agreement was
dependent on the ABM treaty remaining intact, the scrapping of the ABM
treaty will mean that START-II also no longer exists.

Russia could well re-evaluate its recent agreement to reduce its nuclear
arsenal to below 2000 warheads in the light of the elimination of the ABM
treaty.  Already, there are reports of voices in the Russian Duma calling
for the fitting of multiple warheads on their heavy ICBMs.  This would be
hazardous for the American people and the people of the world.

The world as a whole does not need a system of missile defence.

What needs to be done in the immediate term, is to implement the cuts
agreed to between you and President Putin at Crawford, and to take US and
Russian strategic nuclear weapons off Launch-on-warning status.

What the nations and people of the world have demonstrated they want, over
and over again in the votes of the UN General Assembly, is the total and
unequivocal elimination of nuclear weapons as agreed in the last NPT Review
conference.

I urge The President not to scrap the ABM treaty.

I urge the US Senate not to permit the President to scrap the ABM treaty

Yours Sincerely, (your signature)



ABM Treaty Withdrawal
Talking Points  (From IPPNW)

According to recent press accounts, the Bush Administration is expected to
give formal 6-month notice of its intention to withdraw from the 1972
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in the very near future.  Below are
some talking points on ABM withdrawal.

    President Bush should not withdraw from the ABM Treaty.  Such a
unilateral action could negatively affect relations with our allies, could
cause Russia to reconsider previous arms control agreements, and is an
unnecessary risk.

Unilateralism in a Multilateral World

    At a time in which we are working with a broad-based coalition of
nations in the fight against terrorism, unilateral withdrawal from an
international treaty sends a bad signal to the rest of the world.
    Now, more than ever, we should be working with the international
community to confront global security threats, not walking away from our
treaty obligations.

Russia

    Withdrawal from the ABM Treaty could hurt our relations with
Russia.  While the Bush Administration should be praised for its past
efforts to improve U.S.-Russian relations, withdrawing from the ABM Treaty
could wipe out all of the progress we have made.
    President Bush's decision on the ABM Treaty may cause Russia to
re-evaluate its commitment to previous arms control agreements, including
its recent statements on reducing its strategic nuclear arsenal to below
2,000 warheads.
    If, by withdrawing from the ABM Treaty, we encourage Russia to
maintain more warheads than they can safely manage, the American people
will be less safe.

An Unnecessary Risk

    Withdrawing from the ABM Treaty at this time is simply an
unnecessary risk and won't get us any closer to a working National Missile
Defense System.
    The ABM Treaty does not keep the United States from continuing to
research and test a missile defense system.  In fact, the biggest
impediments to a national missile defense system are unproven technologies
and cost, not the ABM Treaty.
    National missile defense--the last line of defense against a
nuclear threat--should not be allowed to undercut the first line of
defense, namely, the reduction of the threat itself.
    No decision to deploy a missile defense system should be made until
that system has been proven to be reliably effective against realistic
threats, including countermeasures.

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Quotes from US Senate Leaders:

Thank you, Senator Feinstein:  ``It's a mistake to withdraw from a treaty
before you have something to replace it with.  I  would be very concerned
that withdrawal  from the treaty does fuel an arms race.''

Thank you, Senator Daschle:   "It=B4s something that ought to have been more
carefully deliberated," Daschle said, adding that he was exploring how
Congress could respond to the withdrawal from the 1972 treaty that prevents
the United States and Russia from developing and deploying anti-ballistic
missile systems.

Daschle said there are limits to what Congress can do legislatively, but it
still has the "power of the purse," suggesting it can hold up funds for
missile defense or other White House programs.

Thank you, Senator Levin:  "Ensuring the security and safety of the
American people, especially from weapons of mass destruction, must remain
our first defense priority. If I believed that withdrawing unilaterally
from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty would enhance our national security,
I would support doing so. However, the President's announcement that the
United States will unilaterally withdraw from the ABM Treaty is a serious
mistake for our national security. It is not necessary and it is not
wise... The Armed Services Committee will hold hearings on the
administration's decision in the weeks and months ahead.   ( for full text,
go to  =20
<http://levin.senate.gov/releases/121301pr1.htm>http://levin.senate.gov/rele=
ases
/121301pr1.htm   )

Thank you, Senator Biden:  "Mr. President, I rise this morning to speak to
a decision that I am told and have read is about to be made by the
President--a very significant decision and, I think, an incredibly
dangerous one--to serve notice that the United States of America is going
to withdraw from the ABM Treaty ....
Today the doors to international cooperation and American leadership are
wide open. But if we slam them shut too often, we will lose our chance to
restructure the world and we will be condemned to repeat the experience of
the last
century, rather than move beyond it. "


Woolsey(D-CA) Resolution,H.RES.313
HOUSE RESOLUTION 313

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the
continued importance of the Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty.

Whereas nuclear weapons remain a threat to humankind;

Whereas the ABM Treaty has been the cornerstone of international arms
control efforts since its inception in
1972;

Whereas the ABM Treaty has helped maintain trusting, lasting
relationships with traditional allies of the United
States and has been the foundation for positive relationships with
Russia and other nuclear states;

Whereas the ABM Treaty remains an important means of limiting the threat
of nuclear war and the proliferation of
nuclear weapons;

Whereas the ABM Treaty is an important symbol of the United States'
commitment to global peace and
cooperation in order to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons and
remains an important and viable method for
safeguarding international peace;

Whereas the American people have made it overwhelmingly clear that they
support a reasoned approach toward
arms control policy-which the ABM Treaty represents-and not a buildup of
weapons system and programs;

Whereas the ABM Treaty helps ensure that no country questions the validity
of the established and proven principles of deterrence, which remains an
important and viable method for safeguarding international peace;

Whereas President Bush's November 2001 agreement with Russian President
Vladimir Putin to reduce the number of nuclear weapons held by both
countries is a welcome and useful step toward global peace and security;

Whereas we are troubled by the Bush Administration's desire to withdraw
from the ABM Treaty in order to develop and build a National Missile
Defense System;

Whereas no National Missile Defense system has proven to be reliable,
despite numerous trial tests;

Whereas withdrawing from, or abrogating, the ABM Treaty in order to
continue development of a National Missile Defense System could weaken ties
with traditional allies of the United States and alienate friendly,
non-nuclear countries;

Whereas withdrawing from, or abrogating, the ABM Treaty would destabilize
the international relations and could spur nuclear states to pursue a new
arms race with the United States;

Whereas deployment of a National Missile Defense system presently outlawed
by the ABM Treaty would
undermine deterrence, thereby increasing tension between nuclear powers and
increasing worldwide instability;

Whereas a National Missile Defense system would also be perceived by other
states as a threat and could hinder attempts to further reduce nuclear
arsenals;

Whereas increased tension between nuclear powers threatens the stability
that makes economic and social
cooperation between such powers possible;

Whereas the events of September 11, 2001-and the worldwide response to
them-underscore the fact that
interstate cooperation is extraordinarily important for protecting the
security of United States citizens;

Whereas a National Missile Defense system would not have prevented the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001;

Whereas terrorist groups or rogue nations are far more likely to use simple
means to threaten or harm the United States as opposed to the types of
weapons a National Missile Defense system would defend against;

Whereas withdrawing from the ABM Treaty and developing a NMD system would
divert scarce taxpayer dollars and attention away from more pressing
threats to our national security;

Whereas these scarce resources should be earmarked for homeland security
priorities, such as increased airline security, public health measures, and
rebuilding those communities affected by the terrorist attacks of September
11, 2001: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, that it is the sense of the House
of Representatives that in the interests of United States citizens, and all
of humankind, that the United States should--
(1) remain a signatory to the ABM Treaty;
(2) not encourage Russia to withdraw in order to validate United States
efforts to build a National Missile Defense system;
(3) continue to work cooperatively with Russia and other nuclear powers to
prevent nuclear proliferation, reduce the number of weapons in current
arsenals, and facilitate nuclear disarmament.


COSPONSORS(28), ALPHABETICAL

Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 12/12/2001 Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 12/12/2001 Rep
Blumenauer, Earl - 12/12/2001
Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 12/12/2001 Rep Doggett, Lloyd - 12/12/2001 Rep
Evans, Lane - 12/12/2001 Rep
=46arr, Sam - 12/12/2001 Rep Fattah, Chaka - 12/12/2001 Rep Filner, Bob -
12/12/2001 Rep Frank, Barney -
12/12/2001 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 12/12/2001 Rep Holt, Rush D. -
12/12/2001 Rep Hooley, Darlene -
2/12/2001 Rep Lee, Barbara - 12/12/2001 Rep Lewis, John - 12/12/2001 Rep
Markey, Edward J. -
12/12/2001 Rep McDermott, Jim - 12/12/2001 Rep McGovern, James P. -
12/12/2001 Rep McKinney,
Cynthia A. - 12/12/2001 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 12/12/2001 Rep Olver, John
W. - 12/12/2001 Rep Payne,
Donald M. - 12/12/2001 Rep Rangel, Charles B. - 12/12/2001 Rep Rivers,
Lynn N. - 12/12/2001 Rep Sabo,
Martin Olav - 12/12/2001 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 12/12/2001 Rep
Tierney, John F. - 12/12/2001 Rep
Watson, Diane E. - 12/12/2001



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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:05:29 -0800
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) So.Cal., NAPF Hiroshima Flame Ceremony

On December 19th, on her way north from Los Angeles, Nipponzan
Myohoji's Rev. Jun Yasuda kindly conducted a small ceremony in
Santa Barbara after hours with the Hiroshima Flame at the offices
of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation with incense offerings by
its President, David Krieger, and by its Youth Outreach
Coordinator, Michael Coffey who had met with Jun-san's California
Prison Dharma Walk when it was in Santa Barbara last winter.
Their photos with the Flame were taken for publication.

After the ceremony and after hearing the detailed story of the Hiroshima
Flame, of the great difficulty bringing it to the US after Sept.11, and of
the 2002 Hiroshima Flame Interfaith Pilgrimage which will carry it from
Seattle to the United Nations (Jan.15 -  May12), Krieger said that NAPF
would help to the extent it could to promote the walk via its network,
newsletter, and website http://www.wagingpeace.org

Krieger is one of the founders of the nuclear Abolition 2000 network of 2050
organizations worldwide dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons and he
edited with Carah Ong, former coordinator of Aboliton 2000, a May 2001 book
of essays by 18 prominent international authorities refuting the need for
the proposed Ballistic Missile Defense system, "A Maginot Line in The Sky,
International Perspectives on Ballistic Missile Defense" whose acclamations
include a Princeton University International Law Professor's comment: "I
think no reasonable person can read these essays without concluding that the
missile defense project menaces our national security and erodes our
reputation as a global leader."  Copies of this book have been delivered to
all members of the US Congress with a "Dear Colleague" letter from Rep.
Dennis Kucinich, to 100 senior foreign policy makers in the Canadian
government, and were on the way to all UN missions this Fall.

Jun-san said that she had never been in such a lavish peace office and
expressed the hope that the hearts of their constituents would be motivated
and inspired by the story of this Hiroshima Flame which has been kept for 56
years revived from the smoldering embers of the Hiroshima atomic bombing as
a memorial to one Japanese soldier's destroyed family and which over the
years of his mother's religious devotion to keeping the flame going
subsequently transformed it for him from a symbol a soldier's hatred over
the vaporization of his family by the atomic bomb into a symbol of the
universal love of humanity which he came to understand is the only thing
which can prevent such a tragedy from happening again.

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation was founded in 1982 by Krieger and by the
man who in 1947 became President Harry Truman's speechwriter, journalist
Frank Kelly.

More on the 2002 Hiroshima Flame Interfaith Pilgrimage and the messages of
Jun-san's teacher whom Mahatma Gandhi called "Guruji", the late most
venerable Nichidatsu Fujii, is at http://www.dharmawalk.org and posted at
the updates and discussion group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/star-wars-dharma-walk including recent posts
describing the first American Ceremony with the Hiroshima Flame (arranged by
members of "Global Citizens for a Sustainable Existence Now!" convened by
Dr. Brian O'Leary http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gcsen) on December
16th at the Los Angeles Peace Sunday event sponsored by the
Unity-and-Diversity World Council and the Agape International Spiritual
Center.

Mike Coffey was given a copy to share of the newly translated Nichidatsu
speech "Nuclear Technologies and the Future of Humanity" (also posted at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sun-reach/messages/17 ) and a packet of info
from the September 10, 2001, 3rd Global Crisis Solutions Conference with
info about developments in chemical physics of consciousness theory
related to the new-energy technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel
power http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gcsc-csun and about O'Leary who will be
meeting with CA Energy Czar David Freeman to discuss these new-energy
technologies http://groups.yahoo.com/group/new-energy-solutions
soon after this Christmas, the 2000th Jesus Christ birthday anniversary.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/third-millennium-project

Jun-san is showing and recommending people see the 29minute video "Star Wars
Returns" available and described at http://www.enviromedia.com featuring
Michio Kaku and Karl Grosman, author of "Weapons in Space"
http://www.sevenstories.com and other experts discussing documented official
US policy to become the "Master of Space" by installing nuclear powered
weapons platforms and nuclear weapons in Earth orbit -- possibly even more
ominous than ABM plans.









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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:48:01 -0700
From: [e-mail] (marylia)
Subject: (abolition-usa) Critics hang displays at Livermore Lab - the Court Decision

Dear colleagues:

The installation of the new, 4 foot by 6 foot displays in the Livermore Lab
Visitors Center went very well. The multi-color wall displays were created
by graphic artist Deborah Reade, and the project was sponsored by
Tri-Valley CAREs, Western States Legal Foundation and San Francisco Bay
Area Physicians for Social Responsibility. Local TV news and a number of
area papers covered it. A good time (and cake) was had by all.

These new displays follow on earlier artistic efforts, but are MUCH more
eye-catching and are MUCH better at competing visually with the Lab's own
displays. In fact, if I may say so, they beat the heck out of the Lab's
displays at capturing the viewers attention from across the room!!!!!

Many of you emailed and asked me about the court decision that paved the
way for the displays. The court ruled in essence that US taxpayer money was
being spent on the Visitors Center (by the Lab) and that only one view was
represented (theirs). Therefore, the court said, alternative views must be
allowed. The Lab appealed -- and lost. The court issued a Permanent
Injunction saying that the Lab must set aside specified wall space, rack
space and reasonable use of the facility auditorium for alternative views.
The court's decision can have a far-reaching impact if community groups
want to use it to press for space at similar government (or other publicly
funded) facilities.

The case number is 531956-1. The Plaintiffs are U.C. Nuclear Weapons Labs
Conversion Project, et al. The Defendants are Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory, et al. The Judgment for Permanent Injunction was signed
February 11, 1985 by Superior Court Judge Winton McKibben (in the State of
California).

It has already been used by a non-governmental organization, Los Alamos
Study Group, to access space in Los Alamos Lab's Bradbury Museum.

The media advisory about our displays and the installation event is on the
Tri-Valley CAREs web site at www.igc.org/tvc. When our webmeister returns
from holiday, we will have JPEG files of the two displays up on the site
for you to see -- they are very, very cool -- with very powerful images --
you will want to see them!!!

Peace,
Marylia Kelley

Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

[phone] - is our phone
[phone] - is our fax

Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the
U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert.



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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 09:51:36 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Report on Whether the US Needs A Uranium Industry

 Yggdrasil Institute: Can the Nuclear Industry Be Viable
>   in the U.S.? -- A New Report Asks this Crucial Question
>
>The Uranium Enrichment Project of Yggdrasil Institute has
>just released "A Viable Domestic Uranium Industry?", a
>report by Mary Byrd Davis which examines whether the United
>States actually has -- and whether it SHOULD have -- such
>an industry. It then draws a series of conclusions and
>offers up a range of recommendations. A sample: "If the
>industry cannot survive without federal subsidies, foreign
>capital, and reduced public oversight, it should not
>survive." The report also has two helpful appendices for
>researchers: descriptive lists of major sites in the US
>commercial fuel chain and of US nuclear power plants.
>
>To read this ground-breaking report, please visit:
>http://www.earthisland.org/yggdrasil/uep11_01.html
>

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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 06:28:34 +0100
From: "tom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Report on Whether the US Needs A Uranium Industry

Happy New Year
Jo. Lau
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> Yggdrasil Institute: Can the Nuclear Industry Be Viable
> >   in the U.S.? -- A New Report Asks this Crucial Question
> >
> >The Uranium Enrichment Project of Yggdrasil Institute has
> >just released "A Viable Domestic Uranium Industry?", a
> >report by Mary Byrd Davis which examines whether the United
> >States actually has -- and whether it SHOULD have -- such
> >an industry. It then draws a series of conclusions and
> >offers up a range of recommendations. A sample: "If the
> >industry cannot survive without federal subsidies, foreign
> >capital, and reduced public oversight, it should not
> >survive." The report also has two helpful appendices for
> >researchers: descriptive lists of major sites in the US
> >commercial fuel chain and of US nuclear power plants.
> >
> >To read this ground-breaking report, please visit:
> >http://www.earthisland.org/yggdrasil/uep11_01.html
> >
>
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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 10:08:32 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Sierra Club signs letter from Safe Energy Council

>
>
>          This note comes from the Corporate Accountability Network of the
> Sierra Club.  I pass it on because George Klein recently told me that the
> Lower Hudson Group is joining with a number of other groups to press for the
> decommissioning of the nuclear plants at Indian Point on the Hudson River.
>
>
>>
>> Carl Pope signed this
>>
>> Mandate for Securing America's Electricity Supply
>> Overview
>>
>> As national, regional and local environmental and public interest
>> organizations, we wish to express our profound sympathy for those affected
>> by the terrible events of the past month. Now is the time for
>> our country to put aside narrow and divisive interests and focus on
>> protecting the safety of all who live in the United States.
>>
>> Specifically, we recognize that nuclear power reactors pose an unacceptable
>> threat to the security of the United States. Commercial reactors are
>> extremely vulnerable to attack from both foreign and domestic terrorists.
>> The sobering reality is that security of nuclear power facilities can be
>> neither completely guaranteed nor perfectly realized.
>>
>> Current security at U.S. nuclear reactors is unacceptable. Significant
>> weaknesses in security were found at nearly one-half (47%) of U.S.
>> commercial reactors tested in recent years. "'Significant' here means
that a
>> real attack would have put the nuclear reactor in jeopardy with the
>> potential for core damage and a radiological release, i.e., an American
>> Chernobyl," according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC)
>> security expert. Structurally, no commercial nuclear reactor is designed to
>> withstand the impact that destroyed the World Trade Center buildings,
>> according to the NRC and the International Atomic Energy Commission. An
>> attack on these facilities by truck bomb or aerial assault, or any
number of
>> other scenarios could spread lethal radiation, rendering uninhabitable an
>> area the size of Pennsylvania, according to an analysis by the Atomic
Energy
>> Commission (now the NRC) in 1964.
>>
>> For these reasons, we call for the following actions to be taken by the
>> appropriate authorities:
>>
>> #1. All NRC licensees must demonstrate that their nuclear facilities are
>> protected against radiological sabotage by meeting a significantly more
>> comprehensive Design Basis Threat (DBT). This includes reactor operators
>> currently holding an operating license and applicants for license extension
>> or new construction.
>>
>> A revised Design Basis Threat must both encompass currently analyzed
threats
>> from ground-based assault, and be broadened to include truck-bombs and
>> aerial and water-borne attacks. Before receiving an operating license, a
>> licensee must be able to demonstrate that it can guard against the revised
>> Design Basis Threat so as to protect against core damage, a breach of
>> reactor containment and/or damage to irradiated nuclear fuel. By
definition,
>> reactor designs that do not feature a reactor containment structure,
such as
>> the proposed Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR), must not be considered
>> suitable for meeting any plausible Design Basis Threat. The upgraded DBT
>> must be met through both enhanced physical security features and increased
>> security force capabilities.
>>
>> Recognizing that nuclear reactors will continue to be vulnerable targets
for
>> some time after they have permanently ceased operation (until the core has
>> cooled and the radioactive waste has decayed) the nuclear waste that is
>> stored must be protected from intentional air and other modes of attack.
All
>> permanent and temporary radioactive waste storage, disposal, treatment and
>> transfer sites must meet the strengthened Design Basis Threat to protect
>> against attacks that could have disastrous consequences.
>>
>> #2. Congress must reject reauthorization of the Price Anderson Act, which
>> limits the liability of the commercial nuclear industry. At a minimum,
>> certain modifications must be made to the Price Anderson Act in light of
the
>> events of September 11 if Congress reauthorizes the Act. Any extension of
>> indemnity to the operators of new or relicensed nuclear power plants and
>> nuclear fuel cycle facilities should be made contingent upon the
>> demonstrated ability of the licensee to protect against the revised Design
>> Basis Threat outlined in point #1. In addition, the indemnification of U.S.
>> Department of Energy (DOE) contractors should exclude cases of contractor
>> gross negligence or willful misconduct.
>>
>> #3. Congress must indefinitely extend the moratorium on nuclear transport
>> and expand it to cover all highly radioactive and radiotoxic waste and
>> materials, including commercial shipments. On September 12 and again on
>> October 7, Energy Secretary Abraham suspended DOE nuclear shipments,
>> acknowledging that radiological shipments are potential terrorist targets.
>> In the long term, government agencies should shift their focus from
>> facilitation and encouragement of nuclear transport to minimizing the
amount
>> and frequency of radioactive shipments. U.S. delegates must advocate this
>> position when participating in United Nations and other international fora
>> that develop or recommend international transportation standards.
>>
>> #4. Congress must indefinitely shelve current proposals for centralized
>> storage of nuclear waste. Such storage would establish additional nuclear
>> targets without meaningfully reducing the risk at operating nuclear power
>> plants. In addition to the dangers of transporting radioactive materials, a
>> centralized storage facility would itself be a difficult-to-secure target.
>> Specifically, the proposals for nuclear waste storage facilities at Yucca
>> Mountain, Nevada, and on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah,
would
>> irresponsibly create significant targets close to major population centers.
>> Design proposals for both these facilities feature massive,exposed surface
>> operations, which would establish potentially larger, highly vulnerable and
>> more devastating targets for attack.
>>
>> #5. Congress must mandate that utility-funded security operations be
>> increased at existing nuclear reactors and maintained throughout plant life
>> and the on-site storage of irradiated nuclear fuel. Current security at
U.S.
>> nuclear reactors is unacceptable. The NRC and the International Atomic
>> Energy Agency have acknowledged that the containment buildings housing
>> nuclear reactors are not designed to withstand an attack of the type and
>> scale used against the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Since 1991, despite
>> months of advanced warning and beefed up security forces, nearly half (47%)
>> of U.S. nuclear power plants failed to repel small mock terrorist attacks
>> conducted by the NRC. These exercises did not assess the full Design Basis
>> Threat that NRC regulations require nuclear power plants to protect
against.
>> Moreover, these exercises failed to assess the ability of nuclear plants to
>> defend against attacks by truck bomb, aerial, and water-borne assault,
three
>> likely scenarios that fall outside the current Design Basis Threat.
>>
>> #6. Potassium iodide must be stockpiled with state and local health
agencies
>> within a radius of 50 miles around all nuclear reactors. While it is not a
>> panacea, the NRC already has approved this program in concept, but has been
>> reluctant to initiate it lest the public grasp that nuclear reactors are
>> fundamentally unsafe. An epidemic of preventable childhood thyroid cancer
>> has ravaged children in the Chernobyl-affected regions of Ukraine, Belarus
>> and western Russia partly because potassium iodide was not distributed in
>> the aftermath of the reactor explosion and fire. The health of thousands of
>> children is believed to have been saved in Poland, where potassium iodide
>> was distributed following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
>>
>> #7. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must require the same or
>> comparable security for general and commercial aviation and determine the
>> practicality of instituting permanent effective no-fly-zones over
commercial
>> nuclear power plants.
>>
>> #8. All NRC licensees must provide a risk assessment of the survivability
>> from terrorist attack on radiation containment and critical safety
systems.
>>
>> #9. The NRC must take significant federal enforcement action, including the
>> suspension or revocation of operating licenses, when repeated licensee
>> failure of upgraded NRC-led security performance evaluations occurs.
>>
>> #10. All branches of government must ensure that the terrorist attacks do
>> not result in the erosion of fundamental civil liberties. The hallmarks of
>> our free society and our values are manifested and secured in the Bill of
>> Rights. Therefore, it is essential that security programs and activities
>> clearly differentiate between legitimate terrorist threats and the
rights of
>> the public to peacefully assemble, exercise free speech, organize and
>> educate.
>>
>> #11. The mixed oxide nuclear fuel (MOX) program must be eliminated
>> immediately. Giving the green light to a proposed commercial plutonium fuel
>> fabrication plant in South Carolina fosters the creation of a plutonium
>> economy and increases the likelihood of a terrorist-created catastrophe.
The
>> manufacture of MOX fuel for use in commercial U.S. nuclear reactors,
>> establishes not only more deadly terrorist targets at the plants themselves
>> (due to the greater amount of plutonium in the MOX fuel than current
reactor
>> fuel), but also creates thousands of transports between the fabrication
site
>> and the reactors, vulnerable to sabotage or theft. Such a project puts the
>> trigger component of nuclear weapons into the commercial sector where it
>> cannot adequately be protected.
>>
>> The NRC must refuse the licensing of the MOX plant and Duke Power must
>> withdraw its reactors from the MOX program. Surplus weapons plutonium
has no
>> place as a commercial fuel and sends a dangerous message to the rest of the
>> world that plutonium is a commodity, not a waste to be secured out of
harm's
>> way. The licensing of a plutonium fuel fabrication plant flies in the face
>> of any government's avowal to protect its people from lethal attack or
>> disaster.
>>
>> #12. The U.S. must initiate an expedited phaseout of nuclear power, improve
>> energy efficiency in all sectors of our economy and initiate a rapid
>> transition to renewable electricity sources. Linked through the extensive
>> and fragile electrical grid system, we recognize that nuclear power plants
>> are one of the most vulnerable components of our electric power
>> infrastructure and present the largest risk of catastrophic damage. As
such,
>> nuclear power poses an unacceptable risk to our society and environment.
>>
>> The phaseout of nuclear power must take place within the context of a
>> transition to a least-cost, environmentally sustainable national energy
>> system, based on full exploitation of decentralized energy efficiency and
>> renewable energy sources, available through existing technology. A
>> distributed, sustainable energy system will provide numerous economic,
>> public health and environmental benefits beyond reducing the terrorist
>> threat to our nation's infrastructure. Such a transition will spur
>> innovation and channel resources into more labor-intensive sectors of the
>> economy, providing the nation with an engine for continued economic growth
>> and job creation.
>>
>> In conclusion, we believe that this is the direction we must take: We will
>> either shift from our use of nuclear power to a new era of sustainable
>> electricity production for our country, or we will remain vulnerable to our
>> reactors and, very possibly, pay an unthinkable price. We can and must do
>> better for our families, our country, our freedom and the planet.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Scott Denman
>> Executive Director
>> Safe Energy Communication Council
>> Washington, DC
>>
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