From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #47 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Thursday, December 10 1998 Volume 01 : Number 047 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 19:14:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) DOE's Cimerron press release News Media Contact: For Immediate Release: Derek S. Scammell, 702-295-3521 December 8, 1998 Jim Danneskiold, 505-667-1640 Matthew Donoghue, 202-586-5806 DOE to Conduct Fifth Subcritical Experiment Scientific Data to Help Ensure the Safety and Reliability Of the Stockpile Without Nuclear Testing The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will conduct its fifth subcritical experiment in Nevada on December 9. Subcritical experiments produce essential scientific data and technical information to support DOE's Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear testing. The experiments are called "subcritical" because no critical mass is formed, no self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction can occur and therefore no nuclear explosion can result. The experiments are fully consistent with the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The experiment will address physics to be used in modeling the nuclear explosion process in simulation codes. The experiment consists of a set of experimental packages to measure early time dynamic behavior of special nuclear material (SNM). Two identical experimental assemblies will be fielded with different diagnostic suites, that will measure the properties of plutonium. Each assembly will be composed of SNM and high explosives. The experiment will be conducted at the Nevada Test Site's U1a Complex, 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The U1a Complex is an underground laboratory of horizontal tunnels about one-half mile in length mined at the base of a vertical shaft, approximately 960 feet beneath the surface, designed to contain these experiments in a safe and secure environment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Last Updated December 08, 1998 Disclaimer Please send questions and comments to the webmaster http://www.nv.doe.gov ******************************************** WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, CA USA 94612 Tel: (510)839-5877 Fax: (510)839-5397 wslf@igc.apc.org ********** Part of ABOLITION 2000 ********** Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:55:23 -0700 From: "Robert Kinsey" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) SIGN ON TO OPPOSE RUSSIAN REACTORS, WESTERN FUNDING Sign On Bob Kinsey Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of Nuclear War - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 22:33:39 -0700 From: "Robert Kinsey" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) SIGN ON TO OPPOSE RUSSIAN REACTORS, WESTERN FUNDING Please sign on: Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, United Church of Christ, Rocky Mountain Conference - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 08:12:52 -0500 From: Peace through Reason Subject: (abolition-usa) Space and Waste News: 12/8/98 A quick note: I'm going to be away from a computer from December 22nd to 28th, if anyone wants to pick up the slack. If you check http://www.webcrawler.com/news/242/ scroll to the end of the page, and type in "nuclear OR plutonium OR uranium OR radioactiv???" - then sort by date -- you'll get quick and easy access to articles from all over the world. (et in dc - prop1@prop1.org) 1. http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec98/1998L-12-08-09.html PRODUCING PLUTONIUM TO POWER SPACE MISSIONS 2. http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec98/1998L-12-08-01.html Incoming California Governor Squeezed on Nuclear Waste Disposal 3. http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec98/1998L-12-06g.html -- It DOES Matter - Healing Our World: Weekly Comment - -------------------------------------- 1. http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec98/1998L-12-08-09.html AmeriScan: December 8, 1998 PRODUCING PLUTONIUM TO POWER SPACE MISSIONS The Department of Energy (DOE) intends to prepare an environmental impact statement to assess the impacts of establishing a domestic capability to produce plutonium to power future space missions. The DOE wants to produce (Pu-238) including the storage of neptunium-237 (Np-237), fabrication of Np-237 targets, irradiation of targets to produce Pu-238, and the processing of these targets to isolate the Pu-238 and recycle the Np-237. The Pu-238 would be used in advanced radioisotope power systems for potential future space missions. Locations to be analyzed for the fabrication of Np-237 targets and for processing the irradiated targets include the Radiochemical Engineering Development Center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the Fuels and Materials Examination Facility at the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington. Facilities for the irradiation of targets for Pu-238 production include the Advanced Test Reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, the Fast Flux Test Facility at the Hanford Site, Washington, and the High Flux Isotope Reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Public comments are welcome to January 4, 1999. Contact Colette Brown, Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology (NE-50), U.S. Department of Energy, 19901 Germantown Road, Germantown, Maryland 20874, Tel: 301-903-6924; Fax: 301-903-1510; Email: Colette.Brown@HQ.DOE.GOV * * * "COVER-UP" OF 54 SEAL DEATHS AT SEABROOK NUCLEAR PLANT Fish Unlimited, the international fisheries conservation group, said today that they have confirmed that the operation of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire is responsible for the deaths of at least 54 juvinile seals since 1993. The seals are killed by being caught up in the intake systems used to draw water into the reactor to cool it from the Atlantic Ocean. The seals are caught against the intake screens and are either drowned or dismembered. "This is an outrageous finding," said Bill Smith, executive director of Fish Unlimited. "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, National Marine Fisheries Service and other agencies have known about violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act for some time and have engaged in a cover-up to keep it from becoming public knowledge. While there could have been a fine of up to $25,000.00 for each seal killed there has been nothing." The operators of the Seabrook facility have recently applied to National Marine fisheries for a permit to legally kill 34 seals annually. * * * ... GREEN ENERGY IMPROVES THE ECONOMY Wisconsin can reduce 21 percent of the projected growth in emissions of gases contributing to global warming between 1990 and 2010, while creating 8,500 new jobs and $490 million in disposable income. These are the main findings of a 1998 report by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Department of Energy. "This study shows that the scare-mongering by some Wisconsin industries is wildly off base," said Steven Clemmer, senior energy analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists. Clemmer found that a 75 percent increase in renewable energy use by 2010 would reduce the projected growth in Wisconsin's global warming gases between 1990 and 2010 by an additional 10 percent, while creating 3,316 more jobs and $81 million in higher disposable income. "The amount of electricity saved would be equivalent to the electricity consumed annually in Wisconsin by over one million households," said Clemmer. - ----------------------------------------------- 2. http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec98/1998L-12-08-01.html Incoming California Governor Squeezed on Nuclear Waste Disposal By Philip M. Klasky, Environment News Service SACRAMENTO, California, December 8, 1998 (ENS) - While the new members of the California state legislature were being sworn in Monday, Native American leaders and environmental activists delivered a letter signed by over 135 organizations calling for Governor-elect Gray Davis to reject the proposal for a controversial nuclear waste disposal site at Ward Valley, California. Gray Davis The letter asks Davis to withdraw the state of California's request for the land and bring to an end the decade long fight over the Ward Valley project. Signatories include some of the nation's largest environmental organizations, indigenous rights groups and environmental organizations from Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia. For the last eight years, outgoing California Governor Pete Wilson has made construction of the nuclear disposal site a centerpiece of his political agenda. The Ward Valley site is supported by the California Radioactive Materials Management Forum (Cal Rad Forum), a group of public and private institutions and corporations that use radioactive materials and generate low-level radioactive waste in the four-state Southwestern Low-Level Waste Disposal Compact region of Arizona, California, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Members are universities, medical centers, electric utilities with nuclear power plants, industrial and manufacturing firms, and professional societies in engineering, science, radiation safety, and the medical sciences. The Cal Rad Forum is currently seeking an opportunity to meet with Governor-elect Davis to "discuss the issue and options," according to David Krueger, chairman, Cal Rad Forum and director, Environmental Health and Safety, ICN Pharmaceuticals. Speaking to Forum members on November 6, immediately after the election, Krueger pointed out that Arizona's Governor Jane Hull, a Republican, won re-election. "This is the first time during the attempts to get Ward Valley approved that the two states have Governors of different parties. California has a compact or contract with Arizona and the Dakotas to provide disposal capacity for 30 years. If Mr. Davis and the new Legislature cannot resolve the issues related to Ward Valley, I would not be surprised if Arizona seeks relief in Federal Court. That scenario was not likely while the two states were headed by the same party, as has been the case for many years," Krueger. The nuclear industry plans to bury "low-level" radioactive wastes from nuclear power plants and medical facilities in shallow, unlined trenches at Ward Valley. Critics of the plan point out that the site is located above an aquifer, 18 miles from the Colorado River, and in the midst of critical habitat for the endangered desert tortoise. The Ward Valley land is considered sacred aboriginal territory by the five lower Colorado River Indian tribes who have conducted a long-term vigil at the site. Demonstration against Ward Valley at the California State House, 1998. Earlier this year, the top Democratic leadership of the California state legislature alleged that the method by which the Wilson administration has attempted to obtain the federal land at Ward Valley is illegal. This claim, coupled with the historic 113 day occupation of the site by Native American and environmental activists, halted a federal environmental review of the proposal. The letter delivered to Governor-elect Davis Monday states that the Ward Valley project would threaten the Colorado River, source of water for 22 million people in the United States and Mexico and violate environmental justice mandates. Davis also received a letter from Reverend Jesse Jackson delivered by representatives of the Rainbow Coalition stating that, "Indian peoples and communities of color should not be the dumping ground for dangerous wastes and reckless waste disposal projects." San Francisco Supervisor Gavin Newsom wrote to Davis reminding him that the City and County of San Francisco passed a resolution this last year opposing the Ward Valley project. Los Angeles, Berkeley, Marin, Imperial and San Bernardino Counties have passed similar resolutions. As State Controller, Davis opposed the radioactive waste disposal project on both environmental and economic grounds. Davis authored a report that found, based on experience at other failed and leaking dump sites, that leakages at the Ward Valley facility could cost California taxpayers as much as $500 million in clean-up costs. During his recent election campaign, Davis expressed serious concerns about the proposed contractor, US Ecology, who was licensed by the Wilson administration to build the facility. Formerly known as Nuclear Engineering Company, US Ecology has left a trail of leaking dumps and litigation across the country. All four of their nuclear waste dumps, in Washington, Kentucky, Illinois and Nevada, are leaking. Their Maxey Flats, Kentucky facility was put on the EPA's Superfund list of most polluted sites after plutonium and other radioactive wastes were discovered leaking from the facility. Earlier this year, Nebraska turned away a US Ecology nuclear waste dump proposal over concern about the company's track record compounded by the firm's deteriorating financial condition. In her bid for re-election, California Senator Barbara Boxer successfully campaigned on her long-standing opposition to the Ward Valley disposal site. Public opinion polls show that a majority of Californians oppose the project, although many are unaware of the proposal. The Wilson administration has been an aggressive proponent of disposal of radioactive wastes at Ward Valley. The state of California, along with US Ecology, is currently suing the federal government in federal district court in an attempt to force the government to transfer the land at Ward Valley to the state and begin construction. Davis has yet to indicate what he decide to do about the proposed Ward Valley project once he assumes office in January 1999. - ------------------------------------------ Lastly, if you're interested in animal testing (I know it's not nuclear): 3. http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec98/1998L-12-06g.html -- It DOES Matter - Healing Our World: Weekly Comment I won't reproduce this here, but it has compelling photos. _______________________________________________________________________ * NucNews - subscribe: prop1@prop1.org - http://prop1.org ("Nuclear") * _______________________________________________________________________ - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 13:23:09 -0500 From: "David Culp" Subject: (abolition-usa) Russia conducts subcritical nuclear test Russia conducted a subcritical nuclear test today (Wednesday) at its = Novaya Zemlya test site, according to the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS. As most of you know, DOE announced it will conduct a subcritical nuclear = test today at the Nevada Test Site, code-named "Cimarron". - -------------------------------------------- David Culp Plutonium Challenge 245 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5761 E-mail: dculp@igc.org CTBT: Ratification in 1999! - -------------------------------------------- - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 11:01:34 -0800 From: "Save Ward Valley" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) SIGN ON TO OPPOSE RUSSIAN REACTORS, WESTERN FUNDING Sign on-- Molly Johnson Save Ward Valley 107 F Street Needles, CA 92363 ph. 760/326-6267 fax 760/326-6268 www.shundahai.org/SWVAction.html http://earthrunner.com/savewardvalley www.ctaz.com/~swv1 http://banwaste.envirolink.org www.alphacdc.com/ien/wardvly4.html www.greenaction.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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 15:43:53 -0500 From: "David Culp" Subject: (abolition-usa) Talbott goes to Moscow for START talks; Albright calls for START III negotiations to begin in January U.S. DELEGATION IN MOSCOW FOR NUCLEAR, ECONOMY TALKS Wednesday, December 9, 9:56 AM ET=20 MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott arrived in Russia Wednesday for high-level talks on nuclear and economic issues, a U.S. official said. ...=20 The official said Talbott, a Russia expert fluent in the language, would discuss the START-2 arms control treaty, which has yet to be approved by the Russian parliament, other nuclear non-proliferation issues and financial and economic subjects. ... - ---------- NATO, RUSSIA REPORT UNACCUSTOMED HARMONY Wednesday, December 9, 10:30 AM ET=20 By Paul Taylor, Diplomatic Editor=20 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO invited Russia Wednesday to its 50th anniversary summit in Washington next year after a show of new warmth between the former Cold War adversaries amid talk of long-delayed progress on nuclear disarmament. NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright issued the invitation to Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov ...=20 Albright said he told her that the Russian parliament would finally ratify the long-stalled Start-2 strategic arms reduction treaty by the end of this month and she hoped to launch talks on a Start-3 accord for more radical cuts when she visits Moscow next month.=20 - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 19:51:39 -0800 (PST) From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) US subcritical test delayed Greetings, friends Due to technical difficulties, DOE did not detonate its subcritical test, code-named "Cimarron," as scheduled today. The test is now scheduled to take place tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 10. Following is DOE's press release. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Media Contact: For Immediate Release: Derek S. Scammell, 702-295-3521 December 9, 1998 Jim Danneskiold, 505-667-1640 Fifth Subcritical Experiment Delayed at the Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) placed its fifth "subcritical" experiment, Cimarron, on a one-day hold today at the Nevada Test Site. DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory decided against conducting the experiment today, as originally scheduled, due to technical difficulties they encountered with the experiment's diagnostic package. The scheduled experiment will address the physics to be used in modeling the nuclear processes in simulation codes. The experiment will consist of a set of experimental packages to measure early time dynamic behavior of special nuclear material. Subcritical experiments are scientific experiments to obtain technical information in support of the Department of Energy's program to maintain the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear testing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Last Updated December 09, 1998 Disclaimer Please send questions and comments to the webmaster http://www.nv.doe.gov ******************************************** WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, CA USA 94612 Tel: (510)839-5877 Fax: (510)839-5397 wslf@igc.apc.org ********** Part of ABOLITION 2000 ********** Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 08:20:37 -0800 From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) new "Cimarron" subcrit update Hello Friends, This is Reinard. I just spoke with Darwin Morgan at DOE as I am sure that many of you have. He was unable to confirm when "Cimarron" will be exploded. It will definitely not be today 12/10/98. There is a slight possibility that it might happen on Friday 12/11 but it is unlikely. They have scheduled a dry run for this afternoon at 3pm pacific standard time and we might know more after that. Thank you for all the faxes and letters sent to the White house and DOE demanding that they cancel the Subcritical test. It is making an impact. If you have not had the opportunity to send a protest letter in, please do so. http://www.igc.org/tvc/ the Tri Valley CARES web page has a sample letter that you can send. Yesterday, 3 people from Shundahai Network and Alliance for Atomic Veterans were arrested at the Nevada Test Site in protest of Cimarron. My self and Susi Snyder will be going to Federal Court on January 27 (which is the date of the first test at the Nevada Test Site) over our Sept 8, lock down action on top of the federal building to bring public attention to the subcriticals. This is our first time in Federal Court so we are looking forward to the experience. I am sure whoever hears the schedule of the test first will let everyone else know. Keep up the faith and continue to be strong! Peace, Reinard ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< SHUNDAHAI NETWORK "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" out,out5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304 Phone:(702)647-3095 (FAX)647-9385 Email: shundahai@shundahai.org 0000,0000,fefehttp://www.shundahai.org Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: Healing Global Wounds Alliance, a multi-cultural alliance to foster sustainable living and break the nuclear chain; and Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 14:23:28 -0800 From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) subcrit reschedueled for 12/11/98 Just got a call from Darwin Morgan at DOE. He said they have reschedueled the test for Friday, Dec 11, 1998 3pm Pacific Satndard Time. ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< SHUNDAHAI NETWORK "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" out,out5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304 Phone:(702)647-3095 (FAX)647-9385 Email: shundahai@shundahai.org 0000,0000,fefehttp://www.shundahai.org Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: Healing Global Wounds Alliance, a multi-cultural alliance to foster sustainable living and break the nuclear chain; and Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 17:57:20 -0800 (PST) From: Timothy Bruening Subject: (abolition-usa) A newsletter article about Iraq In a Sacramento-Yolo Peace Action newsletter, I read that respected British newspapers reported that the latest Iraq crisis was "triggered by the U.S. refusal to commit to lifting the oil embargo even if Iraq fully complies with requirements to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction". Which British newspapers published those reports and when did they do so? I also read that Israel has up to 400 thermo-nuclear warheads. Where did that figure come from? TIME's estimate was a little over 100 in May. I also read that the oil embargo against Iraq has killed over one million, with as many as 7,000 dying each month. Where did those figures come from? - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 17:57:14 -0800 (PST) From: Timothy Bruening Subject: (abolition-usa) Subcritical test letter Below is my draft of a letter to the editor about the Cimarron subcritical test. I am asking for suggestions on how to improve this letter. U.S. TO VIOLATE COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY FOR THE 5TH TIME! Since last July 2, the Department of Energy (DOE) has conducted 4 subcritical nuclear tests (the most recent on September 26). A subcritical test involves an amount of plutonium too small to produce a nuclear explosion, but still provides information about nuclear weapons explosions. In the near future, the U.S. will conduct a 5th subcritical test, code named Cimarron. I believe that subcritical nuclear tests clearly violate the spirit of the historic Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) signed in September 1996 by President Clinton. The CTBT commits the U.S. "not to carry out any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion...". The intent of the CTBT is to pave the way for the elimination of nuclear weapons by halting the development of new nuclear weapons. The subcritical tests can provide information which helps the U.S. develop new nuclear weapons. The DOE claims these experiments are permissible because the CTBT does not define "nuclear weapon" test. However, I believe that subcritical nuclear tests do violate the CTBT because they are intended to help the U.S. develop new nuclear weapons. These tests make global adoption of the CTBT less likely by encouraging other nations to copy the U.S. decision to continue testing and update their nuclear arsenals. These tests especially contradict the condemnation expressed by the U.S. government against India and Pakistan for conducting their own series of nuclear weapons tests earlier this year, and against North Korea for allegedly building an underground nuclear weapons facility. How can we credibly condemn India, Pakistan, and North Korea for testing or allegedly possessing nuclear weapons if we conduct nuclear weapons tests? The subcritical tests are part of a massive "Stockpile Stewardship and Management" program, intended to maintain and expand U.S. nuclear weapons capabilities well into the next century. A DOE document admits that "The ability to design nuclear weapons is the core of DOE program and is utilized in all other aspects of the program ... The nuclear design capability will be maintained by pursuing an understanding of the underlying physics of nuclear weapons and exercising the process of design of nuclear weapons ... A limited number of new nuclear component design requirements are foreseeable in the future." (U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Defense Programs, Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan, February 29, 1996, unclassified version, p. VII-3). During the next decade, taxpayers will spend about $45 billion for this program, an annual rate higher than the Cold War average. Thus, it is fair to say these tests are intended to signal to the rest of the world an unflagging U.S. commitment to nuclear weapons as the ultimate "big stick." Please call the Department of Energy and the White House and your Congressional representatives and demand that the U.S. cancel all future subcritical tests, and also demand that the U.S. stop all new and modified nuclear weapons development, close down the Nevada Test Site and all nuclear weapons development facilities except for disarmament programs, and begin immediate clean up and containment of the nuclear nightmare caused by the U.S. Nuclear Weapons program. Below are phone numbers and addresses to call and write: President Bill Clinton, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC 20500, (202) 456-1111. Secretary of Energy, 1000 Independence Ave, Washington DC, 20585 To leave a message for Bill Richardson, new Secretary of DOE call the 202 586 6210 and the press office at 202 586 5806. Members of Congress (202)224-3121. Senators Boxer and Feinstein (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510). Representatives (U.S. House, Washington, D.C., 20515). - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:29:03 -0800 (PST) From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) Cimerron delayed again: DOE's press release du jour News Media Contact: For Immediate Release: Derek S. Scammell, 702-295-3521 December 10, 1998 Jim Danneskiold, 505-667-1640 Fifth Subcritical Experiment Rescheduled at the Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site The U.S. Department of Energy's fifth "subcritical" experiment, Cimarron, has been delayed until December 11, at 3:00 p.m.(PST) at the Nevada Test Sites U1a facility. It was originally scheduled for December 9. The Department's Los Alamos National Laboratory cites continuation of technical difficulties they have encountered with the experiment's diagnostic package as the reason for the delay. The experiment will address the physics to be used in modeling the nuclear processes in simulation codes. The experiment will consist of a set of experimental packages to measure early time dynamic behavior of special nuclear material. Subcritical experiments are scientific experiments to obtain technical information in support of the Department of Energy's program to maintain the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear testing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Last Updated December 10, 1998 Disclaimer Please send questions and comments to the webmaster http://www.nv.doe.gov ******************************************** WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, CA USA 94612 Tel: (510)839-5877 Fax: (510)839-5397 wslf@igc.apc.org ********** Part of ABOLITION 2000 ********** Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:29:05 -0800 (PST) From: Jackie Cabasso Subject: (abolition-usa) US prepares for paramilitary, right-wing, anti-nuclear groups! Greetings, collegues. Losing sleep worrying about paramilitary, right-wing, anti-nuclear groups wanting to raise public awareness about nuclear issues and willing to sacrifice lives to further their cause? I kid you not. I came across this press release on the DOE's Nevada Test Site web page. Check out the last paragraph! -- Jackie Cabasso News Media Contact: For Immediate Release: Derek S. Scammell, 702-295-3521 November 25, 1998 Darwin Morgan, 702-295-3521 Department of Energy to Sponsor Weapons of Mass Destruction Training Course for First Responders Training will strengthen cooperation between government and state agencies who may be called upon to respond to a terrorist threat, or act of terrorism This year, according to the ICT International Terrorism News Archive, terrorists affiliated with 66 different groups have been linked to more than 270 bomb attacks, kidnapings, murders, massacres, fire bombings, rocket attacks, and highjackings throughout the world. Most of these terrorist incidents occurred in the Middle East, Asia and South America. However, Osama bin Ladin=s East Africa Network was linked to the recent U.S. Embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar al-Salam, East Africa. Closer to home, Ramizi Yousef was sentenced to 240 years in prison on January 8, 1998, for masterminding the World Trade Center bombing; and Timothy McVeigh was convicted in June 1997 of the Oklahoma City bombing, and later sentenced to death. Incidents such as these are rare, thanks in part to the efforts of the United States intelligence and law enforcement agencies, who actively exchange information with other countries to prevent terrorist groups from establishing themselves in the United States and perpetrating other terrorist attacks against American civilians, businesses and defense installations. However, the United States cannot afford to be complacent -- first responders such as law enforcement agencies, fire, police and medical personnel must be trained, and kept aware of the ever-present terrorist threat, and if called upon, be able to deal with any conventional, nuclear, chemical or biological threat or terrorist incident within their respective communities. Here in Nevada, federal, state, county and Las Vegas first-line emergency responders have been given the opportunity to participate in a Weapons of Mass Destruction Training Course for First Responders November 30 through December 3 at the U.S. Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site. The four-day course consists of about 15-hours of classroom instruction on such topics as terrorism, conventional, nuclear, chemical, and biological incidents, and the wearing and care of protective equipment. The classroom instruction will be followed by 2-day, 16-hour field exercise at the Nevada Test Site, which will give about 130 students practical, handsBon experience on what they learned in the classroom. The actual hands-on, two-day field exercise at the Nevada Test Site will be based on the following scenario. Intelligence information gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation over a period of several months on the Good Earth Movement, a small, right wing, paramilitary group that is against nuclear power. The group wants to raise public awareness about nuclear issues and is willing to sacrifice lives, their own as well as others', to further their cause. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Last Updated December 03, 1998 Disclaimer Please send questions and comments to the webmaster http://www.nv.doe.gov ******************************************** WESTERN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION 1440 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, CA USA 94612 Tel: (510)839-5877 Fax: (510)839-5397 wslf@igc.apc.org ********** Part of ABOLITION 2000 ********** Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - - 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:24:42 -0000 From: "Sally Light" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) new "Cimarron" subcrit update Hi, all - As of late afternoon on 12/10/98, the news from NTS is that they will attempt the test on Friday, 12/11/98, at 3 pm. Of course, in view of the problems DOE's had with "Cimarron" so far, it remains to be seen whether the test will actually occur. Thanks to all who turned out yesterday and today for actions to protest "Cimarron," and especially to those who were arrested. Peace .... Sally Light, Tri-Valley CAREs. - ---------- > From: Shundahai Network > To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com; abolition-caucus@igc.org; rherried@roxy.sfo.com; nuke-waste@igc.org; a-days@motherearth.org; news@ens-news.com; wiseamster@antenna.nl; nukenet@envirolink.org; bulletin@bullatomsci.org; wipp-activism-rmpjc@igc.org > Subject: (abolition-usa) new "Cimarron" subcrit update > Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 4:20 PM > > Hello Friends, > > > This is Reinard. > > > I just spoke with Darwin Morgan at DOE as I am sure that many of you have. He was unable to confirm when "Cimarron" will be exploded. It will definitely not be today 12/10/98. There is a slight possibility that it might happen on Friday 12/11 but it is unlikely. They have scheduled a dry run for this afternoon at 3pm pacific standard time and we might know more after that. > > > Thank you for all the faxes and letters sent to the White house and DOE demanding that they cancel the Subcritical test. It is making an impact. If you have not had the opportunity to send a protest letter in, please do so. http://www.igc.org/tvc/ the Tri Valley CARES web page has a sample letter that you can send. > > > Yesterday, 3 people from Shundahai Network and Alliance for Atomic Veterans were arrested at the Nevada Test Site in protest of Cimarron. > > > My self and Susi Snyder will be going to Federal Court on January 27 (which is the date of the first test at the Nevada Test Site) over our Sept 8, lock down action on top of the federal building to bring public attention to the subcriticals. This is our first time in Federal Court so we are looking forward to the experience. > > > I am sure whoever hears the schedule of the test first will let everyone else know. > > > Keep up the faith and continue to be strong! > > > Peace, Reinard > > ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< > ><<><< ><<><< > > > SHUNDAHAI NETWORK > > "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" > > out,out5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV > 89108-1304 > > Phone:(702)647-3095 (FAX)647-9385 > > Email: shundahai@shundahai.org > > 0000,0000,fefehttp://www.shundahai.org > > > Shundahai Network is proud to be part of: > > > Healing Global Wounds Alliance, a multi-cultural alliance to > > foster sustainable living and break the nuclear chain; and > > > Abolition 2000: A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons > > > ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< > ><<><< ><<><< > > > > > - > 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. 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