From: Lisa Ledwidge / IEER Subject: (abolition-usa) New IEER postings: water contamination, cleanup standards, Date: 03 Jan 2002 12:18:20 -0600 --=====================_4357179==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I thought you might be interested in these items. They are the four latest postings to IEER's web site. (Apologies for multiple postings.) Science for Democratic Action vol. 10 no. 1 (November 2001) http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_10/10-1/index.html Includes an article on threats to the Snake River Plain aquifer from migrating nuclear waste, an interview with a former Idaho trout farmer, and more. Setting Cleanup Standards to Protect Future Generations: The Scientific Basis of Subsistence Farmer Scenario and Its Application to the Estimation of Radionuclide Soil Action Levels (RSALs) for Rocky Flats (December 2001) http://www.ieer.org/reports/rocky/toc.html IEER report, also press release and statements Securing the Energy Future of the United States: Oil, Nuclear, and Electricity Vulnerabilities and a post-September 11, 2001 Roadmap for Action (November 2001) http://www.ieer.org/reports/energy/bushtoc.html IEER report, also press release De-alerting Russian and US nuclear weapons: A path to reducing nuclear dangers (Moscow, 2001) http://www.ieer.org/russian/pubs/dlrtbk-e.html Briefing book published under the auspices of the Institute of International Economy and Foreign Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences Lisa Ledwidge Outreach Coordinator and Editor, Science for Democratic Action Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) 2104 Stevens Ave. South | Minneapolis, MN 55404 USA phone: (612) 879-7517 | fax: (612) 879-7518 ieer@ieer.org | http://www.ieer.org Lisa Ledwidge Outreach Coordinator and Editor, Science for Democratic Action Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) 2104 Stevens Ave. South | Minneapolis, MN 55404 USA phone: (612) 879-7517 | fax: (612) 879-7518 ieer@ieer.org | http://www.ieer.org --=====================_4357179==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" I thought you might be interested in these items. They are the four latest postings to IEER's web site. (Apologies for multiple postings.)

Science for Democratic Action vol. 10 no. 1 (November 2001)
http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_10/10-1/index.html
Includes an article on threats to the Snake River Plain aquifer from migrating nuclear waste, an interview with a former Idaho trout farmer, and more.

Setting Cleanup Standards to Protect Future Generations: The Scientific Basis of Subsistence Farmer Scenario and Its Application to the Estimation of Radionuclide Soil Action Levels (RSALs) for Rocky Flats (December 2001)
http://www.ieer.org/reports/rocky/toc.html
IEER report, also press release and statements

Securing the Energy Future of the United States: Oil, Nuclear, and Electricity Vulnerabilities and a post-September 11, 2001 Roadmap for Action (November 2001)
http://www.ieer.org/reports/energy/bushtoc.html
IEER report, also press release

De-alerting Russian and US nuclear weapons: A path to reducing nuclear dangers (Moscow, 2001)
http://www.ieer.org/russian/pubs/dlrtbk-e.html
Briefing book published under the auspices of the Institute of International Economy and Foreign Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Lisa Ledwidge
Outreach Coordinator and Editor, Science for Democratic Action
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
2104 Stevens Ave. South | Minneapolis, MN 55404 USA
phone: (612) 879-7517 | fax: (612) 879-7518
ieer@ieer.org | http://www.ieer.org
Lisa Ledwidge
Outreach Coordinator and Editor, Science for Democratic Action
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
2104 Stevens Ave. South | Minneapolis, MN 55404 USA
phone: (612) 879-7517 | fax: (612) 879-7518
ieer@ieer.org | http://www.ieer.org --=====================_4357179==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Bruce Gagnon speaks in Berkeley on January 14, 2002 Date: 03 Jan 2002 23:56:20 +0000 Friends, Please join NDE for the following outstanding event which is part of its current "Monday Night Series" on nuclear and "Star Wars" issues. This is the first of our 2002 presentations, and the kick-off of Bruce Gagnon's California speaking tour. Please share this announcement so that everyone can make plans to attend. Many thanks. In peace, Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience BRUCE GAGNON, Coordinator, Global NetworkAgainst Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, speaks on "STAR WARS" AND THE WEAPONIZATION OF SPACE. When: Monday, January14, 2002, at 6 pm Where: Wesley Student Center, 2398 Bancroft Way (at Dana), across from UC Bruce Gagnon is an internationally-acclaimed activist and organizer who travels throughout the US and abroad, speaking on the global threat that "Star Wars" poses. Come learn about the interrelationships of missile defense, weaponization of space, and the US' "Vision for 2020" program that aims to control the planet from orbiting, armed, space stations by the year 2020. Following Bruce's presentation, there will ample time for Q & A and discussion. Light refreshments will be available. All are welcome. Donations are not required, but are appreciated. The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space is the leading network addressing these issues. Its 2002 annual conference will be in Berkeley May 10-12, hosted by Nevada Desert Experience. Speakers from the US and other nations willparticipate, and Rep. Barbara Lee will be a keynoter. For more information, please call Nevada Desert Experience at (510) 527-2057. You can also access the Global Network's web site at www.space4peace.org - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT! Help Stop Indo-Pak War: Peace Letter seeks NGO Signatures Date: 04 Jan 2002 17:45:30 +1000 Dear NGO or Parliamentarian, Do you think that you/your organisation could endorse this? It is to be sent urgently to the governments of India and Pakistan. This letter to the governments of India and Pakistan is now soliciting signatures from organisations, parliamentarians, and prominent persons most urgently, and in view of the situation, needs to be sent as soon as possible. Do you think you might be able to sign it and/or pass it on to others who would endorse it? (To sign/endorse just email me back with details of your name, name of organisation, position, and location including country) John Hallam PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA A.B. VAJPAYEE, SOUTH BLOCK, NEW DELHI, 110-004 +91-11-301-6857 +91-11-301-9545, 91-11-972-2-664-838 MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS INDIA +91-11-301-0700 UN MISSION Fax. + 1 212 490 9656 Aust. High Commission - 6273-1308, 6273-3328 PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF OF PAKISTAN, 0011-92-51-920-3938, 0011-92-51-920-1968 0011-92-51-811390 FOREIGN MINISTER OF PAKISTAN +92-51-920-7217 +92-51-920 0420 or 820-420 UN Mission Fax. + 1 212 744 7348 Aust. High Commission - 6290-1073 UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY - GENERAL KOFI ANNAN Dear Presidents, Prime Ministers, Secretary-General, and Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan, The undersigned groups and parliamentarians, representing people and organizations worldwide write to you to express our extreme concern over the possibility of conflict between your two countries. A military conflict could all too easily become a devastating nuclear exchange, which could destroy both countries as functioning entities, with casulties in the millions. Some projections suggest that up to 150 million people might die, depending on the exact scenario. Military action, or a threat of military action, could all too easily lead to an outcome that is not in anyone's interest. Military solutions to the Kashmir problem should therefore be ruled out. It is therefore urgent to initiate a dialogue on Kashmir in whatever is the most effective manner, leading to a real solution to the Kashmir problem. We do not seek to prescribe in detail any particular solution to the Kashmir issue. Rather we point out that the losses that would be incurred equally by both nations in a nuclear exchange are so vast, and so incomprehensible, that no political, security, or other goal whatsoever could possibly justify taking the risk of those losses. Eliminating the risk of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan is a goal which must take precedence over all other possible political and security goals as it concerns the continued physical survival of both nations. The religious traditions of both Islam and Hinduism place a high value on peace. Whoever provides a peaceful and just way out of this crisis will have the gratititude of both Indians, Pakistanis, and the world as a whole. We therefore urge India and Pakistan: --To move their troops, especially 'strategic units', but also all military formations, back from the border. --To instruct their troops not to return fire if fired upon --To immediately enter discussions both at SAARC and elsewhere which will stabilize the situation. --To immediately restore road and rail links --To enter discussions as to the most appropriate way in which to pursue terrorist organisations. and in the longer term: --To enter a dialogue aimed at providing a mutually acceptable solution to the Kashmiri problem. --To enter discussions aimed at eliminating the risk of a nuclear exchange between the two countries, under any cicumstances. --To work towards lasting solutions toward peace and stability in the region. Finally, we urge that both nations take seriously the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons to which other nations have agreed, and eliminate the risk of the annihilation of both parties by dismantling their nuclear arsenals. We trust that through these and other representations, a peaceful solution to the current crisis will be found. Signed [Organizations and Parliamentarians Signatures] John Loretz, International Physicians for the prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) John Hallam, Friends of the Earth Australia, Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee, Jo Vallentine, People for Nuclear Disarmament W.A., Martin Butcher, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) Washington, USA, Marylia Kelly, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, US, Carol Wolman, Nuclear Peace Action Group of Mendocino, CA. Alice Slater, Global Resource and Action Centre for the Environment, (GRACE) NY, USA, Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands CND, UK, Harsh Kapoor, South Asians Against Nukes, Sukla Sen EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity) Mumbai (Bombay) - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) URGENT! Prevent Indo-Pak war - Pls Sign Peace Letter to Indian, Date: 05 Jan 2002 19:34:44 +1000 Do you think that you/your organisation could endorse this? It is to be sent urgently to the governments of India and Pakistan. This letter to the governments of India and Pakistan is now soliciting signatures from organisations, parliamentarians, and prominent persons most urgently, and in view of the situation, needs to be sent as soon as possible. Do you think you might be able to sign it and/or pass it on to others who would endorse it? (To sign/endorse just email me back with details of your name, name of organisation, position, and location including country) John Hallam PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA A.B. VAJPAYEE, SOUTH BLOCK, NEW DELHI, 110-004 +91-11-301-6857 +91-11-301-9545, 91-11-972-2-664-838 MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS INDIA +91-11-301-0700 UN MISSION Fax. + 1 212 490 9656 Aust. High Commission - 6273-1308, 6273-3328 PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF OF PAKISTAN, 0011-92-51-920-3938, 0011-92-51-920-1968 0011-92-51-811390 FOREIGN MINISTER OF PAKISTAN +92-51-920-7217 +92-51-920 0420 or 820-420 UN Mission Fax. + 1 212 744 7348 Aust. High Commission - 6290-1073 CC UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY - GENERAL KOFI ANNAN Dear Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan, The undersigned groups and parliamentarians, representing people and organizations worldwide, write to you to express our extreme concern over the possibility of conflict between your two countries. A military conflict could all too easily become a devastating nuclear exchange, which could destroy both countries as functioning entities, with casulties in the millions. Some projections suggest that up to 150 million people might die, depending on the exact scenario. Military action, or a threat of military action, could all too easily lead to an outcome that is not in anyone's interest. Military solutions to the Kashmir problem should therefore be ruled out. It is urgent to initiate a dialogue on Kashmir in whatever is the most effective manner, leading to a real solution to the Kashmir problem. We do not seek to prescribe in detail any particular solution to the Kashmir issue. Rather we point out that the losses that would be incurred equally by both nations in a nuclear exchange are so vast, and so incomprehensible, that no political, security, or other goal whatsoever could possibly justify taking the risk of those losses. Eliminating the risk of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan is a goal which must take precedence over all other possible political and security goals as it concerns the continued physical survival of both nations. Whoever provides a peaceful and just way out of this crisis will have the gratititude of both Indians, Pakistanis, and the world as a whole. We therefore urge India and Pakistan: --To move their troops, especially 'strategic units', but also all military formations, back from the border. --To instruct their troops not to return fire if fired upon --To immediately enter discussions both at SAARC and elsewhere which will stabilize the situation. --To immediately restore road and rail links --To enter discussions as to the most appropriate way in which to pursue terrorist organisations. and in the longer term: --To enter a dialogue aimed at providing a mutually acceptable solution to the Kashmiri problem. --To enter discussions aimed at eliminating the risk of a nuclear exchange between the two countries, under any cicumstances. --To work towards lasting solutions toward peace and stability in the region. Finally, we urge that both nations take seriously the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons to which other nations have agreed, and eliminate the risk of the annihilation of both parties by dismantling their nuclear arsenals. We trust that through these and other representations, a peaceful solution to the current crisis will be found. Copy to : UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY - GENERAL KOFI ANNAN with the request to exercise his good offices to facilitate and ensure that both the governments of India and Pakistan take immediate steps in conformity with this appeal for peace by the undersigned organisations and concerned individuals. Signed [Organizations and Parliamentarians Signatures] INDIAN AND PAKISTANI GROUPS Sukla Sen EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity) Mumbai (Bombay) Harsh Kapoor, South Asians Against Nukes (SAAN), S.V. Kirubaharan, Secy, Tamil Centre for Human Rights (THCR) France, Dr Balakrishna Kurvey, President, Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament, and Environmental Protection,(IIDEP) Nagpur, India, Prof Ram Puniyami, IIT-Mumbai, Akhila Rahman, Asiapeace, Berkley, CA., USA, Ritu Primlani, Thimakaa, San Francisco, USA, Zahid Hussain, President, Sustainable Resource Foundation, (SURF) Islamabad, Pakistan, Yasmin Zaidi, Islamabad, Pakistan, INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS John Loretz, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Boston, Mass, USA, Wiliam Peden, Greenpeace International,Lond, UK, Ricardo Navarro, Chair, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) RUSSIAN/CIS GROUPS Oleg Bodrov, Chair, 'Zelenyi Zvit' (Green World), Sosnovy Bor, Russia, Vladimir Slivyak, ECODEFENSE, Russia, Alisa Nikoulina, Social-Ecological Union, Russia, US GROUPS Robert K. Musil, Executive Director, , Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) Washington, USA, Marylia Kelly, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, US, Carol Wolman, Nuclear Peace Action Group of Mendocino, CA. Alice Slater, Global Resource and Action Centre for the Environment, (GRACE) NY, USA, Preston J. Truman, Downwinders, Idaho, USA, Phyllis W. Stanley, Environmental and Peace Education Centre, Florida, USA, Molly Johnstone, Director, Grandmothers for Peace, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA, CANADIAN GROUPS Senator Douglas Roche, OC, Canada, Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Sue Fraser, Secy, Vancouver Islanders for Nuclear Disarmament, BC, Canada, UK GROUPS Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands CND, UK, Jenny Maxwell, Vice-Chair, CND-UK, London, Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB), UK, Simon Bowens, Yorkshire CND., Yorkshire, UK, George Farebrother, Secy, World Court Project, Hailsham, UK, Dr Wolfgang Hertle, Archiv-Aktiv, Hamburg, Germany, Hans-Peter Richter, German Peace Council, Germany, Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Bad Ischl, Austria, Professor Bent Natvig, Chair, Pugwash Committee of Norway, Oslo, Norway, Constantin Lacatus, President, Sibenii Pacifisti, Sibiu, Romania, Steve Leeper, Global Peacemakers Association, Hiroshima, Japan, Yumi Kikuchi, Founder, Global Peace Campaign, Japan, Satomi Oba, Plutonium Action Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, Haruko Moritaki, Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Hiroshima, Japan, Haruko Moritaki, Association for Peace Exchange with Indian and Pakistani Youth, Hiroshima, Japan, AUSTRALIAN GROUPS John Hallam, Friends of the Earth Australia, Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee, Jo Vallentine, People for Nuclear Disarmament W.A., Hilel Freedman, Nuclear-Free Australia, Melb, Aust, Robert J. Hunter, President, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Sydney, Aust, Robin Chapple MLC, Greens, W.A., Mining and Pastoral Region, Perth, W.A., NZ GROUPS Lawrence F.J. Ross, Secy, New Zealand Nuclear-Free Peacemaking Association, - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rosalie Tyler Paul Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) URGENT! Prevent Indo-Pak war - Pls Sign Peace Date: 07 Jan 2002 09:49:47 -0500 (EST) Please add us to your list of US endorsers and thank you for doing this work. Rosalie Tyler Paul, Chair - Peace Action Maine, USA >Do you think that you/your organisation could endorse this? > >It is to be sent urgently to the governments of India and Pakistan. > >This letter to the governments of India and Pakistan is now soliciting >signatures from organisations, parliamentarians, and prominent persons most >urgently, and in view of the situation, needs to be sent as soon as >possible. > >Do you think you might be able to sign it and/or pass it on to others who >would endorse it? > >(To sign/endorse just email me back with details of your name, name of >organisation, position, and location including country) > >John Hallam > > > > >PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA A.B. VAJPAYEE, >SOUTH BLOCK, NEW DELHI, 110-004 >+91-11-301-6857 +91-11-301-9545, 91-11-972-2-664-838 > >MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS INDIA >+91-11-301-0700 UN MISSION Fax. + 1 212 490 9656 >Aust. High Commission - 6273-1308, 6273-3328 > >PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF OF PAKISTAN, >0011-92-51-920-3938, 0011-92-51-920-1968 0011-92-51-811390 > >FOREIGN MINISTER OF PAKISTAN >+92-51-920-7217 +92-51-920 0420 or 820-420 >UN Mission Fax. + 1 212 744 7348 Aust. High Commission - 6290-1073 > >CC >UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY - GENERAL KOFI ANNAN > >Dear Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Foreign Ministers of India and >Pakistan, > >The undersigned groups and parliamentarians, representing people and >organizations worldwide, write to you to express our extreme concern over >the possibility of conflict between your two countries. > >A military conflict could all too easily become a devastating nuclear >exchange, which could destroy both countries as functioning entities, with >casulties in the millions. Some projections suggest that up to 150 million >people might die, depending on the exact scenario. > >Military action, or a threat of military action, could all too easily lead >to an outcome that is not in anyone's interest. > >Military solutions to the Kashmir problem should therefore be ruled out. >It is urgent to initiate a dialogue on Kashmir in whatever is the most >effective manner, leading to a real solution to the Kashmir problem. > >We do not seek to prescribe in detail any particular solution to the >Kashmir issue. Rather we point out that the losses that would be incurred >equally by both nations in a nuclear exchange are so vast, and so >incomprehensible, that no political, security, or other goal whatsoever >could possibly justify taking the risk of those losses. > >Eliminating the risk of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan is a >goal which must take precedence over all other possible political and >security goals as it concerns the continued physical survival of both >nations. > >Whoever provides a peaceful and just way out of this crisis will have the >gratititude of both Indians, Pakistanis, and the world as a whole. > >We therefore urge India and Pakistan: >--To move their troops, especially 'strategic units', but also all military >formations, back from the border. >--To instruct their troops not to return fire if fired upon >--To immediately enter discussions both at SAARC and elsewhere which will >stabilize the situation. >--To immediately restore road and rail links >--To enter discussions as to the most appropriate way in which to pursue >terrorist organisations. > >and in the longer term: >--To enter a dialogue aimed at providing a mutually acceptable solution to >the Kashmiri problem. >--To enter discussions aimed at eliminating the risk of a nuclear exchange >between the two countries, under any cicumstances. >--To work towards lasting solutions toward peace and stability in the region. > >Finally, we urge that both nations take seriously the goal of eliminating >nuclear weapons to which other nations have agreed, and eliminate the risk >of the annihilation of both parties by dismantling their nuclear arsenals. > >We trust that through these and other representations, a peaceful solution >to the current crisis will be found. > >Copy to : UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY - GENERAL KOFI ANNAN >with the request to exercise his good offices to facilitate and ensure that >both the governments of India and Pakistan take immediate steps in >conformity with this appeal for peace by the undersigned organisations and >concerned individuals. > >Signed [Organizations and Parliamentarians Signatures] > >INDIAN AND PAKISTANI GROUPS >Sukla Sen EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity) Mumbai (Bombay) >Harsh Kapoor, South Asians Against Nukes (SAAN), >S.V. Kirubaharan, Secy, Tamil Centre for Human Rights (THCR) France, >Dr Balakrishna Kurvey, President, Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament, >and Environmental Protection,(IIDEP) Nagpur, India, >Prof Ram Puniyami, IIT-Mumbai, >Akhila Rahman, Asiapeace, Berkley, CA., USA, >Ritu Primlani, Thimakaa, San Francisco, USA, > >Zahid Hussain, President, Sustainable Resource Foundation, (SURF) >Islamabad, Pakistan, >Yasmin Zaidi, Islamabad, Pakistan, > >INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS >John Loretz, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War >(IPPNW), Boston, Mass, USA, >Wiliam Peden, Greenpeace International,Lond, UK, >Ricardo Navarro, Chair, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) > >RUSSIAN/CIS GROUPS >Oleg Bodrov, Chair, 'Zelenyi Zvit' (Green World), Sosnovy Bor, Russia, >Vladimir Slivyak, ECODEFENSE, Russia, >Alisa Nikoulina, Social-Ecological Union, Russia, > >US GROUPS >Robert K. Musil, Executive Director, , Physicians for Social Responsibility >(PSR) Washington, USA, >Marylia Kelly, Tri-Valley CARES, Livermore, US, >Carol Wolman, Nuclear Peace Action Group of Mendocino, CA. >Alice Slater, Global Resource and Action Centre for the Environment, >(GRACE) NY, USA, >Preston J. Truman, Downwinders, Idaho, USA, >Phyllis W. Stanley, Environmental and Peace Education Centre, Florida, USA, >Molly Johnstone, Director, Grandmothers for Peace, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA, > >CANADIAN GROUPS >Senator Douglas Roche, OC, Canada, >Desmond Berghofer, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver, BC, Canada, >Sue Fraser, Secy, Vancouver Islanders for Nuclear Disarmament, BC, Canada, > >UK GROUPS >Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands CND, UK, >Jenny Maxwell, Vice-Chair, CND-UK, London, >Lindis Percy, Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB), UK, >Simon Bowens, Yorkshire CND., Yorkshire, UK, >George Farebrother, Secy, World Court Project, Hailsham, UK, > >Dr Wolfgang Hertle, Archiv-Aktiv, Hamburg, Germany, >Hans-Peter Richter, German Peace Council, Germany, > >Matthias Reichl, Centre for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Bad Ischl, >Austria, > >Professor Bent Natvig, Chair, Pugwash Committee of Norway, Oslo, Norway, > >Constantin Lacatus, President, Sibenii Pacifisti, Sibiu, Romania, > >Steve Leeper, Global Peacemakers Association, Hiroshima, Japan, >Yumi Kikuchi, Founder, Global Peace Campaign, Japan, >Satomi Oba, Plutonium Action Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, >Haruko Moritaki, Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, >Hiroshima, Japan, >Haruko Moritaki, Association for Peace Exchange with Indian and Pakistani >Youth, Hiroshima, Japan, > >AUSTRALIAN GROUPS >John Hallam, Friends of the Earth Australia, >Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee, >Jo Vallentine, People for Nuclear Disarmament W.A., >Hilel Freedman, Nuclear-Free Australia, Melb, Aust, >Robert J. Hunter, President, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Sydney, >Aust, >Robin Chapple MLC, Greens, W.A., Mining and Pastoral Region, Perth, W.A., > >NZ GROUPS >Lawrence F.J. Ross, Secy, New Zealand Nuclear-Free Peacemaking Association, > > > > >- > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] US TO RESUME UNDERGROUND TESTING. Date: 08 Jan 2002 19:35:34 -0800 Dear Mitsuo and all -- It is important to understand the context for today's Washington Post story on resumption of U.S. underground testing. The report that the U.S. might resume underground nuclear testing in the coming years is only one part of a comprehensive "Nuclear Posture Review" (NPR) that was released today -- in a classified (top secret) version only -- to members of the U.S. Congress. U.S. NGOs are trying to get an unclassified version, but we don't know if we'll be successful. However, based on other documents, including U.S. government documents, it is likely that the NPR reaffirms the centrality of threat of use of nuclear weapons in U.S. national security policy. It is believed that the approach recommended is to maintain maximum flexibility with regard to arsenal size and capabilities, with minimum codification by treaty. While unilateral cuts in U.S. strategic arms may be recommended in the short term, maintaining the capability to rapidly increase the arsenal size will be stressed. Similarly, the capability to modify existing nuclear weapons or develop new weapon types will be maintained. Development of new or modified weapon types with new military capabilities may even be recommended. Part of this capability may involve resumption of full scale underground tests at some point in the future. According to later news stories today (see below) quoting U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, among others, the NPR does not contain a formal recommendation to resume testing. What it likely does contain is a recommendation to reduce the amount of time it would take for the U.S. to prepare a full-scale underground nuclear test to less than 2 years -- the current estimate. In short, the NPR as a whole represents a U.S. commitment to "nukes forever," with as few treaty restrictions as possible. In addition to shortening the amount of time needed to prepare a nuclear test, we are likely to see a move in the next few months to remove the current Congressional restriction on research and development of mini-nukes. We need to keep the whole picture in mind while we oppose individual components such as nuclear testing. And it's more important than ever that we cooperate internationally in our efforts to abolish nuclear weapons and end war. Look for renewed Abolition 2000 activities in the coming months. -- Jackie Cabasso RUMSFELD: U.S. TO KEEP NUCLEAR TEST BAN FOR NOW Reuters -- January 8, 2002 by Charles Aldinger Washington - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday reasserted U.S. commitment to a nuclear testing moratorium for now as the Pentagon sent Congress a new top-secret proposal to overhaul the nation's nuclear policy. But Rumsfeld, speaking before defense officials briefed congressional staffers on the Nuclear Policy Review, left open the possibility that future underground tests might be needed to keep the shrinking U.S. nuclear arsenal ``safe and reliable.'' "It (the report) certainly does not recommend nuclear testing. Any indication of that would be incorrect," the secretary told reporters at the Pentagon. A move by Washington to resume tests after a 10-year halt would certainly draw international protests. The Washington Post reported that the Bush administration intended to raise the possibility that it might resume testing after a decade-long moratorium as Washington cuts its strategic arsenal in the years ahead from about 6,000 warheads to a level of 1,700-2,100 proposed by President Bush. Rumsfeld said Bush would continue for now to observe a self-imposed 1992 U.S. moratorium on nuclear testing. No Testing "Is the Preference" ``The president is observing the moratorium and has said so,'' the secretary said. But, he said, ``any country that has nuclear weapons has to be respectful of the enormous lethality and power of those weapons, and has a responsibility to see that they are safe and reliable.'' ``To the extent that can be done without testing, clearly that is the preference. And that is why the president has concluded that, thus far, that is the case,'' Rumsfeld added. Any decision to resume testing would be sure to provoke protests from other countries, including U.S. allies. The Post reported the review would urge a quicker process of resuming testing should that become necessary, saying this raised the possibility of a resumption. Under current Energy Department guidelines it would take two years to arrange the first test, the newspaper said. Bush's father, former President George Bush, imposed a moratorium on underground nuclear testing in 1992, which was upheld by former President Bill Clinton. The Senate decided in 1999 not to ratify the proposed international Comprehensive Test Ban treaty, which is aimed at a global ban on all nuclear tests. The treaty would go into formal effect only after ratification by 44 countries that either possess nuclear weapons or are capable of building them. A number of those countries, including the United States, China, Pakistan, India, North Korea and Israel, have not ratified the treaty. Bunker Busting Bombs Rumsfeld refused to discuss details of the classified nuclear review, including whether or not it recommended designing new and small nuclear arms intended to penetrate and destroy underground bunkers such as those used by al Qaeda guerrillas in Afghanistan. ``I'm disinclined to respond to that ... the nuclear posture review is classified,'' he said when asked about so-called nuclear ``earth-penetrators.'' ``We have been working on earth-penetrators, non-nuclear, for a long time,'' the secretary said. ``When someone says to me: 'Are you worried about deep penetrating, given all the tunneling that is going on?' Of course you are, and therefore you design deep penetrators -- not nuclear.'' The Post said that Congress has since 1994 prohibited the Energy Department's nuclear weapons laboratories from conducting research or development on a new, low-yield nuclear weapons or precision low-yield warhead. The Nuclear Posture Review was sparked in part by Bush's promise to sharply cut the U.S. nuclear arsenal, already declining from levels attained during the Cold War. It is also believed to contain top-secretinformation on targeting of such U.S. weapons in the future. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) More on nuke testing, posture review, "reserve" arsenal-WP Date: 09 Jan 2002 06:23:18 -0700 Nuclear Arms Plan: Saving, Not Scrapping Many Weapons Covered by Bush-Putin Pact Would Go Into Reserve, Congress Told By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 9, 2002; Page A04 The Bush administration told Congress yesterday that many of the warheads, bombs and intercontinental missiles involved in the president's promised two-thirds reduction of deployed strategic nuclear forces over the next 10 years would be kept in reserve under its new strategic policy, according to congressional sources. In a top-secret briefing on the results of the Bush administration's year-long Nuclear Posture Review, J.D. Crouch, assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, said it had not yet been determined how many of the roughly 4,000 nuclear warheads and bombs and hundreds of land- and submarine-based intercontinental missiles taken out of operational use would be destroyed and how many would be stored and available for redeployment, the sources said. At his summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in December, Bush announced the United States would reduce its deployed nuclear warheads from today's 6,000 to between 1,700 and 2,200 over the next decade. He did not say how many of those weapons would be destroyed and how many would be put in reserve as a "hedge" against some unforeseen future threat, as the Clinton administration had done with its reductions under the START I agreement. One senior Democratic congressional expert on nuclear weapons said yesterday after the closed briefing that he believed the only firm plans disclosed yesterday were for destruction of the 50 Peacekeeper ICBM silos, an arrangement agreed upon under the still-unratified START II treaty. "They did not tell us how the remaining promised reductions would be made; they did not know what the remaining nuclear force structure would look like; and they were not sure how many would be stored or destroyed," he added. A Republican source said details remain "to be fleshed out, but the administration was taking a good first step." Because the briefing was classified, this source declined to comment on any details but said many were contained in the highly classified report that was distributed at the sessions. They were attended mostly by House and Senate staff members because Congress is in recess. Daryl G. Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, said yesterday that based on what he had heard from the briefing, "if the reduced nuclear weapons are kept intact and available for redeployment, it makes a mockery of the reductions." Crouch, according to congressional sources, also said the administration would seek additional funds to increase the speed at which nuclear testing could resume if needed, as reported yesterday. But Crouch insisted, as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld did in talking to reporters earlier yesterday, that the administration has no immediate plans to resume testing. Rumsfeld said the Bush administration would continue for now to observe a self-imposed 1992 U.S. moratorium on nuclear testing. But, the defense secretary added, "Any country that has nuclear weapons has to be respectful of the enormous lethality and power of those weapons, and has a responsibility to see that they are safe and reliable." "To the extent that can be done without testing, clearly that is the preference. And that is why the president has concluded that, thus far, that is the case," Rumsfeld added. An administration source said yesterday the administration had not determined how much more money would be needed to reduce the present two-year guideline for the estimated time it would take to resume underground nuclear testing. "The administration will work with Congress to determine the appropriate funding level," said a spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Energy Department agency that runs the nuclear weapons complex. The preliminary costs for preparing underground nuclear tests are "substantial," according to a former senior official of the Clinton Energy Department. This ex-official added that unless a test is for policy reasons, "because they want to resume testing," it also would take a year or more to decide what type of test is needed, "particularly if it is to correct some problem in an existing weapon." The prospect that the Bush administration is considering a resumption of testing to maintain the reliability of its scaled-back operational nuclear arms stockpile yesterday caused a stir among arms control advocates. Stephen Schwartz, publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said the Energy Department "has yet to make a public case as to how nuclear testing would be better than the current arrangement. If the Bush administration wants to develop new nuclear weapons, it should be honest and make the case publicly. If the administration is afraid of making waves, if it feels it cannot justify the change it seeks to make, then perhaps there is something wrong with the policy." Seeking additional funds to enable a faster resumption of testing "will produce a policy debate in Congress" on testing, according to Kimball of the Arms Control Association. "Since it would amount to giving prior approval for testing, the debate would be substantial," he added. Robert B. Barker, who ran the Pentagon's nuclear weapons programs in the first Bush administration, said yesterday that the original test moratorium was forced on the former president by a congressional amendment passed by Democrats and a few Republicans. A day before leaving office [in 1993], Bush sent a classified report to Congress as required by the amendment, Barker said recently. "In it Bush called the cessation of testing a mistake and called for the repeal of the legislation." =A9 2002 The Washington Post Company Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! 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