From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #338 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 Tuesday, July 11 2000 Volume 01 : Number 338 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:21:48 +1000 From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign Subject: (abolition-usa) US DEFENCE SECY COHEN IN SYDNEY, 15/16 JULY PLS SIGN/SEND PLEASE SIGN AND/OR SEND THE LETTERS BELOW Dear Australian NGOs, US defence Secretary William Cohen will be in Sydney talking to foreign minister Downer and defence minister John Moore on the 15th and 16th. A vigil will be held outside where he is staying (probably the intercontinental Hotel in Sydney) from 12 noon to 2pm Sunday. (organised by Dennis Doherty and myself) Talks will be held on Monday in HMAS Kuttubul in Potts Point. In the meantime, I am urging people who are in any way concerned over what NMD might do to the global disarmament agenda to: Fax our foreign minister Alexander Downer on 02-6273-4112 (or on 08-8370-8166 if you are in SA) Fax Cohen himself on 1-703-695-1149. If you are an organisation, please sign the letters below as well as sending one yourself along similar lines. There is a short letter to Cohen, a short letter to Downer re Cohen, and the same sample letter that I have been circulating round the whole planet for people to send to Clinton, Cohen, Bush, and Gore. Happy faxing! After faxing Downer and Cohen, You may want to use the two websites below to fax Clinton as well.(this is for free) Greenpeace now has a website from which you can send a fax about BMD to Clinton. it is: http://www.stopstarwars.org/ You should also visit the 'Dont Blow it' website at http://DontBlowit.org. from which you can send the president a free e-postcard. 1) SHORT SAMPLE LETTER FOR AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE AND NGOS TO SEND TO COHEN (PLEASE ALSO SIGN IT IUF YOU ARE AN NGO) FRIENDS OF THE EARTH AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE SA, AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE SYDNEY AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE S. COAST PAX CHRISTI NSW SYDNEY ANTI-BASES COALITION PEOPLE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT W.A., RE: NMD WILLIAM S. COHEN, DEFENCE SECRETARY, UNITED STATES, +1-703-695-1149 cc Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer 02-6273-4112, 08-8370-8166, 6261-2151. US EMBASSY CANBERRA, 02-6214-5970,6214-5930 US CONSULATE SYDNEY 9373-9125 Dear Defence Secretary Cohen, I am writing in view of your trip to Australia. No doubt the subject of NMD formed part of your discussions in Beijing. The organizations named above, and signed below, wish to point out that the Australian Senate on 29th June, passed a motion in which it called on your country: 1)Not to deploy a national missile defence system. 2)Called on the US and Russia to proceed with the early implementation and entry into force of START-II and negotiation of START-III as soon as possible, 3)Called on you to outline how you will implement the final document of the NPT Review Conference requirement that nuclear weapons play a diminishing role in security policies, 4)Urged the US and Russia to maintain the integrity of the ABM treaty. The failure last Saturday of the NMD test, indicates that an NMD system cannot make a positive contribution to the security of the US or its allies including Australia. Concern over the possible deployment of NMD has been expressed by the UN Secretary General, Russia, China, the European Union, France, Germany, Sweden, and Non-Aligned Movement and the New Agenda Coalition. 50 US Nobel prizewinners including some of the most respected names in Physics, have urged you not to proceed with NMD. Accordingly we too, urge you to take note of the Australian Senate resolution and not to proceed with NMD. Signed: John Hallam, Friends of the Earth Australia Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee SA., Adelaide Babs Fuller- Quinn, Coordinator, Australian Peace Committee Sydney, Doreen Borrow, Australian Peace Committee South Coast, Jack Forward, Central Coast Peace Forum, Dennis Doherty, Pax Christi New South Wales, Hannah Middleton, Sydney Anti-Bases Coalition, Jo Vallentine, People for Nuclear Disarmament Western Australia, Pauline Mitchell, Secy., Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament,(CICD) Melbourne, 2)LETTER FOR AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE AND NGOS TO SEND TO FOREIGN MINISTER DOWNER (PLEASE ALSO SIGN IT IF YOU ARE AN NGO) FRIENDS OF THE EARTH AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE S.A., AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE SYDNEY SOUTH COAST PEACE COMMITTEE CENTRAL COAST PEACE FORUM PAX CHRISTI NSW SYDNEY ANTI-BASES COALITION PEOPLE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT W.A., ATTN ALEXANDER DOWNER 02-6273-4112, 08-8370-8166 CC DFAT, 02-6261-2151 SENATOR LYN ALLISON, 02-6277-3087 SENATOR MEG LEES, 02-8295-8911 LAURIE BRERETON 9349-8089 RE: VISIT OF US DEFENCE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN Dear Alexander Downer, The organizations named above and signed below are writing with respect to the imminent visit of US Secretary for Defence, William S. Cohen, to urge you to make the strongest possible expressions of concern with respect to US proposals to deploy a National Missile Defence (NMD) system, which when tested over last weekend, failed completely. National Missile Defence has been criticized as being at the same time, both ineffective, probably physically impossible, and at the same time destabilizing. Expressions of strong concern over it have been made at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York, by UN secretary General Kofi Annan, by the European Union, France, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, by the Non-Aligned Movement, by the New Agenda Coalition, and others. Russia has threatened that if the US violates the ABM treaty, as deployment of NMD would, it will 'tear up' arms control agreements to date. China will almost certainly greatly increase the size of its currently minimal nuclear deterrent force if NMD is deployed. Both these developments will lead the world back to nuclear arms- racing. Within the US, 50 US Nobel prizewinners (Half the Nobel prizewinners in the US) have written to President Clinton to ask that NMD not proceed. The American Physical Society, the top physics body in the US, has expressed the almost unanimous opinion that NMD as proposed is physically impossible. The Australian Senate on 29th June, passed a motion calling on the US not to proceed with NMD. It called for: 1)The US Not to deploy a National Missile Defence (NMD) system. 2)Called on the US and Russia to proceed with the early implementation and entry into force of START-II and negotiation of START-III as soon as possible, 3)Called on nuclear weapons states to outline how they will implement the final document of the NPT Review Conference requirement that nuclear weapons play a diminishing role in security policies, 4)Urged the US and Russia to maintain the integrity of the ABM treaty. In view of both the clearly destabilizing effects of the deployment of NMD and of its highly problematic technical aspects which mean that it will make no contribution (or a negative one) to the security of either the US or US allies including Australia, we urge you to make the very strongest representations to defence Secretary Cohen when he visits this coming weekend. Signed John Hallam, Friends of the Earth Australia, Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee SA, Babs Fuller-Quinn, Coordinator, Australian Peace Committee Sydney, Doreen Borrow, Coordinator, South Coast Peace Committee, George Gotsis, Coordinator, Greek Peace Committee, Sydney, Jack Forward, Central Coast Peace Forum, Dennis Doherty, Pax Christi New South Wales, Hannah Middleton, Sydney Anti-Bases Coalition, Jo Vallentine, People for Nuclear Disarmament Western Australia, Pauline Mitchell, Secy., Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament, Melbourne, 3)SAMPLE LETTER FOR WHOLE PLANET TO SEND TO BILL CLINTON, WILLIAM S. COHEN, MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, BUSH, GORE, AND RELEVANT CONGRESSIONAL SUBCOMMITTEES. (Do not sign this. It is to give you more ideas as to what to write to Cohen and to Clkinton if you would like to write to Clinton) PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, 1-202-456-2461, SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT 1-202-647-6047 SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE, WILLIAM S. COHEN 1-703-695-1149 cc George Bush Al Gore Dear President Clinton, William Cohen, Madeleine Albright, and Presidential candidates, I am writing to urge you not to proceed with proposals for a national ballistic missile defence system. Missile defence schemes respond to a nonexistent or exaggerated threat, are not the solution to real threats, make the rest of the US's security environment less safe, sabotage nuclear disarmament efforts to which the US is legally committed along with the rest of the world, and show contempt for the opinions of US allies and the rest of the world. At the recent NPT Review Conference, the US together with 187 other countries, signed a final declaration that commits it to an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the total elimination of its nuclear arsenal. Plans to deploy a missile defence system threaten that vital goal, to which the US is legally committed. At the very same conference, the UN Secretary General, and representatives of Russia, China, the UK, France, Sweden, the European community, the New Agenda Coalition and the Non- aligned movement have all expressed strongly that they believe the ABM treaty is the cornerstone of global strategic stability. They do not think it should be modified to allow a missile defence system, still less abrogated unilaterally. On your recent European trip, leaders of Europe and Russia have made the same point. America simply cannot ignore the strongly repeated opinion of the whole world, that the ABM treaty should not be modified to permit BMD. Furthermore: 1)The threat that the national missile defence system is supposed to address, namely that of missile - equipped so- called 'rogue states' is in all likelihood, nonexistent. 2) A state that really wished to inflict serious damage on the US would probaby rather smuggle a nuclear explosive device into a US city by means that are more reliable and more difficult to trace than missiles. 3)There are serious doubts as to whether this system can work at all, or as to whether any missile defence system can ever work. The problems posed even by relatively simple decoys are probably technically insoluble. 4)National (and theatre) missile defence schemes are unsustainably costly, and cost estimates are likely to rise without limit. Instead of pursuing missile defence, it is vital that the US focus on real solutions to global strategic security. The highest priorities have to be the elimination of as many warheads as possible under any START-III agreement with Russia, and the removal of strategic missile forces from high alert status as advocated by the Canberra Commission, subsequent UN resolutions and the final NPT declaration. In this respect, the commitment of Candidate Bush to deep cuts in warhead numbers and to reductions in alert status are worthy of support. Commitments to costly and dangerous missile defence schemes are worthy only of opposition. Yours Sincerely, Signed .... John Hallam Friends of the Earth Sydney, 17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042 Fax (61)(2)9517-3902 ph (61)(2)9517-3903 nonukes@foesyd.org.au http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd - - 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, 11 Jul 2000 08:17:12 -0400 From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews 00/07/11 - Daybook; Prez Candidates; 7/16 and 7/18 Announcements - --=====================_15281100==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [NucNews posted through July 5, 2000 at= http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm. Interactive archives posted at http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews - YOU send articles! et] 1) Washington Daybook, by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times. http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-2000711215727.htm 9:30 a.m. =97 House Commerce oversight and investigations subcommittee= holds a hearing, "Weaknesses in Classified Information Security Controls at DOE's Nuclear Weapons Laboratories." Location: 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2927. 10 a.m. =97 Armed Services special oversight panel on Department of= Energy reorganization holds a hearing on implementation issues related to the establishment of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Location:= 2212 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-4151. 11 a.m. =97 Resources energy and mineral resources subcommittee holds a hearing to examine laws, policies and practices of the Interior and Energy departments relating to payments to their employees from outside sources. Location: 1324 Longworth House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2761. Land mines conference =97 all day =97 Physicians for Human Rights and the= U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines hold a conference on land mines. Location:= Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Ave. NW. Contact: 202/543-1094. =20 First Monday 2000 rally =97 1 p.m. =97 The Alliance for Justice and= Physicians for Social Responsibility sponsor a rally to start First Monday 2000, a= major anti-gun violence event and national day of action scheduled for Oct. 2,= 2000, to spark discussion and activism to reduce gun violence. Attorney General= Janet Reno participates. Location: National Education Association, 1201 16th St.= NW. Contact: 202/371-1999 or 202/822-6070. 2) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES VICE PRESIDENT GORE - Travels to Little Rock, Ark. George W. Bush - Royal Oak and Detroit, Michigan 12:00 p.m. - Judson Center, 4410 West 13 Mile, Royal Oak, MI, 248/549-1719 6:15 p.m. - : Michigan Republican Party's Max Fisher Dinner,= Marriott Detroit Renaissance Center, Ballroom on 4th floor, 400 Renaissance Center, Detroit, MI, 313/568-8000 Ralph Nader - Baltimore, MD 2:45 pm - Address to the delegates NAACP National Convention=20 Convention Center Baltimore, MD Pat Buchanan - New York 2:00 PM - Fundraiser/Reception at The Princeton Club, 15 West 43rd Street, NYC, NY - ---- 3) JULY 16, 2000 - US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO COMMEMORATE TRINITY Sunday, July 16, will mark the 55th anniversary of the world's first nuclear test, Trinity," on Mescalero Apache land near Alamagordo, New Mexico. As= part of the ellowship of Reconciliation's 40-day People's Campaign for= Nonviolence, the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS will commemorate this solemn anniversary by conducting a vigil on the Mall in Washington, DC from 2 - 4= pm, to remind the American public that nuclear weapons research, development and testing is ontinuing today. The vigil will debut a spectacular, huge new banner, made by Bay area graphic artist, Susan Dembowski, which lists in alphabetical order all 1000+ US nuclear tests, from Trinity to the most= recent subcritical. (The next subcritical test at the Nevada Test Site on Western Shoshone land is expected in August.). While holding the banner,= participants will read aloud the names of the tests as part of a litany of "remembrance= for the nuclear age." The vigil will conclude with the sounding of a World Word II-era air raid siren. Groups around the country are encouraged to organize their own Trinity commemorations. The complete list of tests and the litany of "remembrance= for the nuclear age" are available upon request, by e-mail or fax, from Western States Legal Foundation (wslf@earthlink.net) or the Atomic Mirror (pamela@atomicmirror.org). Later in the week, a press release will also be available. PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOUR GROUP IS PLANNING AN EVENT so we can include it in the release. IMPORTANT: If you know people who will be in Washington, DC on July 16 and= who would be available to join the vigil please let us know, and help us to get= in touch with them. The banner, in seven sections, requires at least 14 people= to hold it! The Fellowship of Reconciliation's 40-day People's Campaign for Nonviolence in Washington D.C. from July 1 through August 9 is calling for= an end to our culture of violence and injustice, for disarmament, and for the creation of a culture of nonviolence and justice. The US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS is the US section of the Abolition 2000 Global Network.= Western States Legal Foundation is serving as its interim clearinghouse. If your= group received a US AMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Resource Booklet (yellow cover) in the mail a few months ago and hasn't yet sent back the enclosed questionnaire, please do so now! Or, let us know if you need another copy= and we'll send one along. WE HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON!! -- Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation and Pamela Meidell, The Atomic Mirror, on behalf of the= Coordinating Committee of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS, 1440 Broadway,= Suite 500, Oakland, California 94612 USA, Tel: + 1 (510) 839-5877, Fax: + 1 (510) 839-5397 - ------- 4. JULY 18 - Come Protest the STAR WARS SCANDAL * US Capitol=20 * East House Lawn=20 * Tuesday, July 18=20 * 11 am - 12 Noon Join Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Peace Action and our 50-foot mock nuclear missile as we protest wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on a weapon that won't work. Led by Rep. Kucinich, 53 representatives wrote FBI Director Louis Freeh on= June 15, 2000 to request a special investigation into the alleged coverup of= faulty Star Wars tests revealed by MIT professor Ted Postol. Dr. Postol's letter to the White House has been classified and he has since been visited by Defense Security Officers in an attempt to further silence the truth. It's Time to Blow the Lid Off . . . . . . the Star Wars Rush to Failure For more information, contact Peace Action at 202.862.9740x3002. For information about PAEF's missile stop tour, click here:=20 http://www.peace-action.org/missile_stop.html. James C. Bridgman=20 Research & Resource Coordinator=20 Peace Action Education Fund=20 mailto:jbridgman@peace-action.org=20 http://www.peace-action.org=20 202.862.9740x3041=20 fax: 202.862.9762=20 1819 H St., NW, #425=20 Washington, DC 20006=20 ___________________________________________________ Today's Newspapers and Archives: http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm Interactive Archives (since 6/10/00): http://www.onelist.com/archive/NucNews Subscribe to NucNews: mailto:prop1@prop1.org (NucNews-Subscribe) Submit URL/Article: mailto:NucNews@onelist.org About NucNews: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm Excellent e-mail news resources: DOE Watch - doewatch@onelist.com - http://members.aol.com/doewatch=20 Downwinders - downwinders@onelist.com - http://www.downwinders.org/=20 EnviroNews - environews@envirolink.org -= http://www.envirolink.org/environews=20 Planet Ark/Reuters - mailto:anna@planetark.org -= http://www.planetark.org/news/ Radbull (Radiation Bulletin) mailto:radbull-request@energy-net.org=20 Quick Route to U.S. Congress: http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm (Senators' Websites) http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html (Representatives' Websites) http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Pending Legislation - Search) Presidential Candidates' Websites: George W. 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1) Washington Daybook, by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-2000711215727.= htm

    9:30 a.m. =97 House Commerce oversight and investigations= subcommittee holds a hearing, "Weaknesses in Classified Information= Security Controls at DOE's Nuclear Weapons Laboratories." Location:= 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2927.

    10 a.m. =97 Armed Services special oversight panel on= Department of Energy reorganization holds a hearing on implementation= issues related to the establishment of the National Nuclear Security= Administration. Location: 2212 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact:= 202/225-4151.

    11 a.m. =97 Resources energy and mineral resources= subcommittee holds a hearing to examine laws, policies and practices of the= Interior and Energy departments relating to payments to their employees= from outside sources. Location: 1324 Longworth House Office Building.= Contact: 202/225-2761.

Land mines conference =97 all day =97 Physicians for Human Rights and the= U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines hold a conference on land mines. Location:= Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Ave. NW. Contact: 202/543-1094.
 
    First Monday 2000 rally =97 1 p.m. =97 The Alliance for= Justice and Physicians for Social Responsibility sponsor a rally to start= First Monday 2000, a major anti-gun violence event and national day of= action scheduled for Oct. 2, 2000, to spark discussion and activism to= reduce gun violence. Attorney General Janet Reno participates. Location:= National Education Association, 1201 16th St. NW. Contact: 202/371-1999 or= 202/822-6070.

2) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

VICE PRESIDENT GORE - Travels to Little Rock, Ark.

George W. Bush - Royal Oak and Detroit, Michigan
        12:00= p.m. - Judson Center, 4410 West 13 Mile, Royal Oak, MI, 248/549-1719
        6:15 p.m. - := Michigan Republican Party's Max Fisher Dinner, Marriott Detroit Renaissance= Center, Ballroom on 4th floor, 400 Renaissance Center, Detroit, MI,= 313/568-8000

Ralph Nader - Baltimore, MD
        2:45 pm -= Address to the delegates   NAACP National Convention = Convention Center Baltimore, MD

Pat Buchanan - New York
        2:00 PM -= Fundraiser/Reception at The Princeton Club, 15 West 43rd Street, NYC,= NY

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3) JULY 16, 2000 - US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS NATIONAL DAY OF= ACTION TO COMMEMORATE TRINITY

Sunday, July 16, will mark the 55th anniversary of the world's first= nuclear test, Trinity," on Mescalero Apache land near Alamagordo, New= Mexico. As part of the ellowship of Reconciliation's 40-day People's= Campaign for Nonviolence, the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS will= commemorate this solemn anniversary by conducting a vigil on the Mall in= Washington, DC from 2 - 4 pm, to remind the American public that nuclear= weapons research, development and testing is ontinuing today. The vigil= will debut a spectacular, huge new banner, made by Bay area graphic artist,= Susan Dembowski, which lists in alphabetical order all 1000+ US nuclear= tests, from Trinity to the most recent subcritical. (The next subcritical= test at the Nevada Test Site on Western Shoshone land is expected in= August.). While holding the banner, participants will read aloud the names= of the tests as part of a litany of "remembrance for the nuclear= age." The vigil will conclude with the sounding of a World Word II-era= air raid siren.

Groups around the country are encouraged to organize their own Trinity= commemorations. The complete list of tests and the litany of= "remembrance for the nuclear age" are available upon request, by= e-mail or fax, from Western States Legal Foundation (wslf@earthlink.net) or= the Atomic Mirror (pamela@atomicmirror.org). Later in the week, a press= release will also be available. PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOUR GROUP IS= PLANNING AN EVENT so we can include it in the release.

IMPORTANT: If you know people who will be in Washington, DC on July 16 and= who would be available to join the vigil please let us know, and help us to= get in touch with them. The banner, in seven sections, requires at least 14= people to hold it! The Fellowship of Reconciliation's 40-day People's= Campaign for Nonviolence in Washington D.C. from July 1 through August 9 is= calling for an end to our culture of violence and injustice, for= disarmament, and for the creation of a culture of nonviolence and justice.= The US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS is the US section of the= Abolition 2000 Global Network. Western States Legal Foundation is serving= as its interim clearinghouse. If your group received a US AMPAIGN TO= ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Resource Booklet (yellow cover) in the mail a few= months ago and hasn't yet sent back the enclosed questionnaire, please do= so now! Or, let us know if you need another copy and we'll send one= along.

WE HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON!! -- Jackie Cabasso, Western States Legal= Foundation and Pamela Meidell, The Atomic Mirror, on behalf of the= Coordinating Committee of the US CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS, 1440= Broadway, Suite 500, Oakland, California 94612 USA, Tel: + 1 (510)= 839-5877, Fax: + 1 (510) 839-5397

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4.  JULY 18 - Come Protest the STAR WARS SCANDAL

* US Capitol
* East House Lawn
* Tuesday, July 18
* 11 am - 12 Noon

Join Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Peace Action and our 50-foot mock nuclear= missile as we protest wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on a weapon that= won't work.

Led by Rep. Kucinich, 53 representatives wrote FBI Director Louis Freeh on= June 15, 2000 to request a special investigation into the alleged coverup= of faulty Star Wars tests revealed by MIT professor Ted Postol. Dr.= Postol's letter to the White House has been classified and he has since= been visited by Defense Security Officers in an attempt to further silence= the truth.

It's Time to Blow the Lid Off . . . . . . the Star Wars Rush to Failure

For more information, contact Peace Action at 202.862.9740x3002. For= information about PAEF's missile stop tour, click here:
http://www.peace-action.org/missile_stop.html= .

James C. Bridgman
Research & Resource Coordinator
Peace Action Education Fund
mailto:jbridgman@peace-action.org
http://www.peace-action.org
202.862.9740x3041
fax: 202.862.9762
1819 H St., NW, #425
Washington, DC 20006




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- --=====================_15281100==_.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. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 06:58:59 -0700 (PDT) From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: U.S. Sets Stage for New Mini-Nuke Design Dear Tara and other interested colleagues: You wrote: I just received an e-mail on the mini-nukes, and while it is very informative , it is also frustrating that by the end of the email I still do not know who I should be protesting to. It would be much more effective to tell the recipients how to take action. Thanks, Tara Reply: Thanks for your note asking how the provision in the Senate Armed Services Report mandating research and development activity on a new "mini-nuke" can be stopped. I have appended that article again below for clarity. The mini-nuke language is section 1018 of the Senate Armed Services Committee Report. The "assessment" and attendant R&D for mini-nukes can be stopped in two ways. First, the Senate Defense Authorization has yet to go before the whole Senate for a vote. Folks can call their Senators and ask them to "strike" the language in that section -- meaning take it out. If that doesn't occur, then the second opportunity to "strike" that mini-nuke language will come when the Senate and House have a conference committee (probably in mid to late August) to work out the places where one body's language is different than the other. Since there was no such mini-nuke language in the House bill, the Senators and Representatives who are participating on the conference committee can decide to put it in or strike it out. Therefore, folks can also call their Representative and ask him or her to work with the conference committee to make sure the mini-nuke language is taken out. I hope the above does not sound too esoteric or complicated. In short, it means that both your Senatrors and your Representative have an opportunity to get rid of the mini-nuke language NOW. Calls should be made by constituents in July to give them a chance to get educated on this topic. You may want to send them a copy of the article with your comments. Peace, Marylia The original article: U.S. Sets Stage to Design New, Deep-Burrowing "Mini-Nuke" by Sally Light and Marylia Kelley from Tri-Valley CAREs' July 2000 newsletter, Citizen's Watch The Senate Armed Services Committee Report includes a provision for Fiscal Year 2001 that would "require the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to assess requirements and options for defeating hardened and deeply buried targets. The provision would expressly authorize the Department of Energy (DOE) to conduct any limited research and development that may be necessary to complete such assessments." (Sec. 1018) If approved by the full Congress and the President, this new law would lift certain key restrictions imposed by a 1994 law barring the DOE nuclear weapons labs from conducting research and development that could lead to the production of a precision, low-yield nuclear weapon with an explosive force of less than 5 kilotons. Thus, the change would enable the Livermore and Los Alamos labs to design an entirely new nuclear weapon for the U.S. arsenal, a "mini-nuke" capable of burrowing up to 1,000 feet underground before detonating. In the 1990s, the weapons labs "modified" an existing B61 to create the B61-11, with a variable yield beginning at 50 kilotons and an earth-penetrating capability of about 300 feet. If developed, the new "mini-nuke," would be tailor-made for use in conventional conflicts, and against non-nuclear adversaries. This continues an already insanely dangerous trend in U.S. nuclear policy, one in which various existing nuclear bomb designs are being "modified" or "refurbished" to make them more "usable." As soon as it was deployed, the U.S. considered using the B61-11 earth-penetrator against Khadafy, and, according to one former Pentagon official, the current idea would lead to a lower-yield, "deep penetrator that could hold at risk a rogue state's deeply buried weapons or Saddam Hussein's bunker without torching Baghdad." Design studies for a new "mini-nuke," savage the spirit, not to mention the preambular language, of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and abrogate the disarmament imperative in Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. According to a June 12, 2000, article by Walter Pincus in the Washington Post, support for this new, low-yield nuclear weapon comes from a small group of senior Republican Senators and nuclear weapons lab officials (no surprise). This cadre of Strangeloves also thinks the U.S. should scuttle the CTBT altogether and resume full-scale underground nuclear blasts. As Sandia Lab President C. Paul Robinson explains it, "The U.S. will eventually need a new, low yield nuclear weapon." In a wider context, the Senate authorization for "mini-nuke" research must be seen as part of an overall U.S. plan to keep nuclear weapons forever. Witness, as two more examples, the current push to revive Star Wars and the U.S. Space Command's plan to militarily control the earth from the sky by 2020, using space-based nuclear weapons and exotic laser technology. Public outcry is crucial. What we all do, or fail to do, right now will impact our Mother Earth's future. Call us for copies of the NPT, CTBT or the U.S. Space Command's "Vision 2020" report. See also articles & fliers inside. 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! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - 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. - - 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, 11 Jul 2000 07:07:22 -0700 (PDT) From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) mini-nukes Hi colleagues. Just a short note to follow on my comments regarding stopping the current mini-nukes language in the Senate bill. I hope you all understand that as important as stopping that provision is (and it is important!), a lot of mini-nuke research has gone on and will continue in the weapons design labs (Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia). Stopping this latest Senate attempt to facilitate even more mini-nuke R&D must be part of our overall efforts to (1) change U.S. nuclear weapons policy, (2) stop the U.S. nuclear weapons program, called Stockpile Stewardship, in all its aspects, and (3) achieve disarmament! Peace, Marylia 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! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - 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. - - 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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