From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #43 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 Saturday, November 28 1998 Volume 01 : Number 043 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:52:48 EST From: DavidMcR@aol.com Subject: (abolition-usa) Two items from today's (11.23) NY Times Skip if you get the Times. The first is on page one, reminding us why the death penalty is so risky. Hayes Williams, a Black, entered prison at 19 and has left it thirty years later, based on the willingness of a federal judge to rule that the prosecution had withheld evidence in the 1967 case that would have proved him innocent. The story documents how Hayes Williams remains "in jail" in spirit. But let's realize, somewhat unnerved, by what a narrow chance he escaped being executed for a crime with which he had nothing to do. Page eight is at least as scary - and of great value to all of us in the peace and disarmament movement. It documents how Gore (one of the brightest and best) rejected a CIA report in 1995 because it reported Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to be personally corrupt. This didn't fit Gore's and the Administration's line. The report was sent back to the CIA "with a barnyard epithet scrawled across its cover". As a result the CIA analysts now say they are censoring themselves and that when they found it cost a German business executive $1 million just to get a meeting with Chernomydrdin to discuss deals in Russia, it decided not to circulate the report outside the CIA. Some of us have long argued for the abolition of the CIA - this fairly large story on page eight outlines some of the reasons the CIA can't do its job - even we wanted it to. Peace, David McReynolds - - 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, 24 Nov 1998 09:30:58 -0500 From: "David Culp" Subject: (abolition-usa) Defense Secretary Cohen on START II and No First Use DEFENSE SECRETARY COHEN ON START II AND ON NO FIRST USE Defense Department News Briefing Monday, November 23, 1998 - 10 a.m. (EST) ... Q: On another subject, if I may. The German government is now pressing that NATO make a major reversal of policy and declare no first use of nuclear weapons. In connection with that, the New York Times is reporting, the report's been around for a long time, the United States would like, the U.S. military would like to unilaterally cut nuclear weapons even if START II isn't approved because we simply can't afford the budget crisis to maintain them. I wonder if you'd comment on those two issues. Secretary Cohen: Since we have the new German Minister of Defense coming tomorrow perhaps we could discuss the new German position as far as the strategic doctrine is concerned for NATO. It is our position that this doctrine is viable. It's something that is integral to the NATO strategic doctrine. We think it makes sense and there's good rationale for keeping it as it is. That we have reduced our nuclear stocks rather dramatically, certainly at the theater level, and even at the strategic level under START I, hopefully coming down to START II levels as soon as the Russian Duma ratifies START II. We think that the ambiguity involved in the issue of the use of nuclear weapons contributes to our own security, keeping any potential adversary who might use either chemical or biologicals unsure of what our response would be. So we think it's a sound doctrine. It was adopted certainly during the Cold War, but modified even following and reaffirmed following at the end of the Cold War. It is an integral part of our strategic concept and we think it should remain exactly as it is. With respect to the issue of nuclear levels, Congress of course has mandated that we maintain our nuclear levels at the START I levels until such time as the Russian Duma ratifies START II. We are, pursuant to congressional direction at least, exploring a variety of options which even according to the New York Times this morning, a report that was filed with Congress last spring was "a highly classified document." We intend to keep it at that level for the time being. Q: Do you personally believe that it would be viable to unilaterally cut U.S. weapons given the budget constraints on the cost of maintaining these thousands of... Secretary Cohen: As I've indicated before, it is costly to the United States to maintain those levels. It is more costly to Russia to maintain those levels. That is the reason why we have tried on each and every occasion to persuade our Russian counterparts it's in their interest as well as the United States to ratify START II as quickly as possible so we can reduce the levels down to the START II levels and then move on to START III. Q: Have you or any other Pentagon official quietly recommended to the Administration that there be consideration of unilateral cuts as the New York Times story reports? Secretary Cohen: I can't comment whether anyone has recommended such a proposal. We're looking at a variety of options in terms of how we deal with the issue of maintaining START I levels consistent with the congressional mandate ... - - 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, 24 Nov 1998 19:48:08 -0700 From: nukeresister@igc.org (Jack & Felice Cohen-Joppa) Subject: (abolition-usa) Tahitians jailed for 1995 nuclear test protests [e-mail preface from the editors: this information comes from a letter and news clippings in French, which we do not read, sent by Gabriel Tetiarahi. Friends helped with translation, and a copy of this was sent to Gabriel Tetiarahi, but we have not yet received his reply with more accurate information, as noted at end. Republication is encouraged - please cite source: the Nuclear Resister.) From the Nuclear Resister #114, November 16, 1998: Tahitians Jailed for Protesting French Nuclear Tests In September of 1995, the French colonialists began their final series of nuclear tests beneath the atolls of the south Pacific. In Tahiti, the growing international anti-nuclear protests were joined by trade unionists and advocates for independence. France detonated the first of the series on September 6, and the next day outraged protesters occupied the runway of the international airport at Papeete. Police, portraying the protest as a serious threat to the tourist-based economy of Tahiti, moved forcefully to break it up, and provoked a riotous response. Afterwards, at least sixty people - including four supporters from a French pacifist community - faced criminal charges. Some of those charged had suffered serious beatings at the hands of the police who arrested them. Most were charged with disturbing air traffic, while others faced such charges as instigation, destruction of furniture, assault on public servants, stealing, carrying objects to serve as weapons, and provoking damage of buildings. Three years later, their trial finally took place last September. The Palace of Justice was specially renovated for the trial and police and reserve troops mobilized, in preparation for the number of defendants and large crowd expected. The trial proceeded in a calm and serious manner, as defendants were given the opportunity to tell the story of their protest. Some placed the blame for the riots squarely on the shoulders of French President Jacques Chirac. Testifying for the defense on behalf of several nongovernmental organizations, Gabriel Tetiarahi, a leader of the pro-independence group Hiti Tau, said the only "crime" committed was the success of protesters in preventing Chirac from completing all ten of his planned nuclear tests at Murorua and Fangataufa atolls. The defendants were convicted on September 22, and sentences were announced on October 20. Thirty-three were sentenced to probation and suspended fines. Twenty-eight others received prison sentences (some, in part, suspended or suspended upon payment of fine), fines equivalent to about $300-$800, and probation. The most severe sentences were reserved for the accused leaders of the protests. Hiro Tefaarere, lead organizer of A Tia I Mua, a trade union organization, was sentenced to three years in prison, 18 months suspended, plus loss of rights for five years. Ronald Terorotua, former secretary general of A Tia I Mua, was sentenced to two years, one suspended, plus loss of rights for three years. Terorotua says they will appeal the conviction. After subtracting suspended sentences, at least eleven others will serve one to six months behind bars: Henri Temaititahio, Albert Temataholoa, and Winfred Lacour, six months; Eugene Teriitua Yao Tham Sao, Emile Teuahau, Alexandre Puupuu, Irvine Paro, and Timau Heitaa, three months; Henri Moana, two months; and Rosette Pautu and Georges Mendiola, one month. support action Letters of support and solidarity may be sent to the prisoners c/o Hiti Tau, POB 8075, Taravao, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Financial support for the families of those in prison, particularly those serving longer sentences, is requested and will also be accepted by Hiti Tau. (Editors' Note: At press time, we could not confirm that the 13 are now serving their jail sentences, but we assume that they are based on translations of the information we have received. And until more information regarding bank transfers is available, we presume contributions of currency are readily exchanged in Tahiti. For updates as they become available, call the Nuclear Resister at (520)323-8697, email: nukeresister@igc.org or check our website at http://www.nonviolence.org/nukeresister) _____________________________________ the Nuclear Resister "a chronicle of hope" P.O. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 22:04:58 EST From: Mecta@aol.com Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Two items from today's (11.23) NY Times I did not get the New York Times, is it possible to get the article on why the CIA should not exist? - - 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, 26 Nov 1998 20:10:42 -0800 From: Shundahai Network Subject: (abolition-usa) WARD VALLEY SIGN ON LETTER PLEASE SEND YOUR REPLIES TO: swv1@ctaz.com THANK YOU Important! Please sign onto this letter by December 5 asking Governor-elect Gray Davis to stop the proposed Ward Valley nuclear waste dump. We plan on presenting this letter to the Governor - Elect in a Dec. 7th meeting. Please reply to swv1@ctaz.com and forward to other groups. Thank you for your support. Dear Governor-Elect Davis: We are a broad coalition of Sovereign Tribal Governments, environmental and social justice groups, indigenous environmental networks, international non-governmental organizations, cancer survivors, scientists, physicians, and other concerned citizens all opposed to the proposed nuclear waste dump at Ward Valley. This project has plagued the Wilson administration for the last eight years and has attracted growing public opposition. The Spring 1998 occupation of the site by Native Americans and environmental activists coupled with the analysis by state Democratic leaders concluding that the proposed method of land acquisition violates state law, has indefinitely delayed the federal review of the project. The dump threatens contamination of area aquifers and the Colorado River, source of water for over 22 million people. It would destroy critical habitat for the threatened desert tortoise and desecrate sacred ancestral land for five Native American tribes. Economic analyses of the proposed project have concluded that the dump would be financially unviable. The 1998 Congressional Research Service report found that the vast majority of waste slated for Ward Valley would come from nuclear power plants. The National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency resolved that the dump project would violate environmental justice mandates and recommended that EPA act to end the project. We strongly urge you to stop this ill-fated project once and for all. Withdraw the state of California's request for the land and cease the state's legal actions regarding Ward Valley. Protect our precious water resources, uphold environmental justice, and ensure that the California taxpayer would not be burdened with the astronomical clean-up costs of a leaking dump. Signed, 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 ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< ><<><< 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: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:05:51 EST From: LCNP@aol.com Subject: (abolition-usa) Job announcement - LCNP The Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy has a position open for Associate Director in its New York office. Responsibilities would include managing legal and policy research, fundraising, managing the development and use of outreach tools including email, newsletter and website, and assisting with the coordination and implementation of programs. For further details contact LCNP, lcnp@aol.com, ph (1) 212 818 1861. - - 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, 26 Nov 1998 16:55:44 +1100 From: hcaldic Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) WARD VALLEY SIGN ON LETTER Shundahai Network wrote: > > PLEASE SEND YOUR REPLIES TO: swv1@ctaz.com > THANK YOU > > Important! Please sign onto this letter by December 5 asking > Governor-elect Gray Davis to stop the proposed Ward Valley nuclear > waste dump. We > plan on presenting this letter to the Governor - Elect in a Dec. 7th > meeting. Please reply to swv1@ctaz.com and forward to > other groups. Thank you for your support. > > Dear Governor-Elect Davis: > > We are a broad coalition of Sovereign Tribal Governments, > environmental > and social justice groups, indigenous environmental networks, > international > non-governmental organizations, cancer survivors, scientists, > physicians, and other concerned citizens all opposed to the proposed > nuclear waste > dump at Ward Valley. > > This project has plagued the Wilson administration for the last eight > years and has attracted growing public opposition. The Spring 1998 > occupation > of the site by Native Americans and environmental activists coupled > with > the analysis by state Democratic leaders concluding that the proposed > method > of land acquisition violates state law, has indefinitely delayed the > federal review of the project. > > The dump threatens contamination of area aquifers and the Colorado > River, source of water for over 22 million people. It would destroy > critical > habitat for the threatened desert tortoise and desecrate sacred > ancestral > land for five Native American tribes. > > Economic analyses of the proposed project have concluded that the dump > > would be financially unviable. The 1998 Congressional Research Service > report > found that the vast majority of waste slated for Ward Valley would > come > from nuclear power plants. The National Environmental Justice Advisory > > Council (NEJAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency resolved that > the dump > project would violate environmental justice mandates and recommended > that EPA act to end the project. > > We strongly urge you to stop this ill-fated project once and for all. > Withdraw the state of California's request for the land and cease the > state's legal actions regarding Ward Valley. Protect our precious > water > resources, uphold environmental justice, and ensure that the > California > taxpayer would not be burdened with the astronomical clean-up costs of > a > leaking dump. > > Signed, > Helen Caldicott MD > 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 > > ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< ><>< > > SHUNDAHAI NETWORK > "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" > 5007 Elmhurst St., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304 > Phone:(702)647-3095 (FAX)647-9385 > Email: shundahai@shundahai.org > http://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. - - 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: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 21:18:15 -0500 From: Peter Weiss Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) The Iraq Crisis and U.S. Nuclear Weapons Dear Timothy Bruening: Your letter is excellent. Francis' additions would make it even better. Peter Weiss Boyle, Francis wrote: > > Dear Timothy: For what it is worth: The IAEA has already stated that Iraq > has no nuclear weapons capability. Also, if I remember correctly, the former > UNSCOM Inspector, Ray Zalinskas has already said in public that at least 90% > of Iraq's chemical and biological warfare capability has been destroyed. > This is just a bogus issue that the United States and Britain are currently > using to build public support for a war of extermination against the People > of Iraq. We must not fall into their trap. > Best regards, > Francis Boyle > Francis A. Boyle > Law Building > 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. > Champaign, IL 61820 > 217-333-7954(voice) > 217-244-1478(fax) > fboyle@law.uiuc.edu > > > ---------- > > From: Timothy Bruening[SMTP:tsbrueni@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us] > > Reply To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > > Sent: Sunday, November 22, 1998 3:32 AM > > To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com; fcnl@IGC.APC.ORG; mcli@igc.org; > > pamembers@IGC.APC.ORG; shundahai@shundahai.org; wrl@IGC.APC.ORG; > > wslf@IGC.APC.ORG; wilpfnatl@igc.org; pasacramento@igc.org; ldazey@igc.org; > > wslf@IGC.APC.ORG; abeier@igc.org; planevada@aol.com; wiednerb@aol.com; > > iio1@pge.com > > Subject: (abolition-usa) The Iraq Crisis and U.S. Nuclear Weapons > > > > I am trying to write a letter about the contradiction between U.S. > > insistence that Iraq rid itself of weapons of mass destruction and submit > > to > > UN inspectors to determine if Iraq has done so, and U.S. refusal to rid > > itself of its nuclear weapons or submit to international inspection of its > > nuclear arsenal. Below is my proposed outline. Please help me flesh it > > out. > > > > I. For over 7 years, the U.S. has insisted that Iraq rid itself of its > > weapons of mass destruction and submit to UN inspectors to determine if > > Iraq > > has done so, using sanctions and threats of air strikes to force Iraq to > > comply. > > > > II. At the same time, the U.S. refuses to negotiate a treaty to eliminate > > nuclear weapons, in defiance of the World Court, 87% of the American > > public, > > about 60 retired high ranking military officials, and 117 former civilian > > leaders. > > > > A. The DOE's Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program to > > continue and expand U.S. nuclear weapons design, testing, development, and > > production. > > > > 1. NIF > > > > 2. subcritical testing > > > > 3. computer simulations > > > > 4. SSMP undermines nuclear non-proliferation efforts. > > > > III. The U.S. refuses to allow international inspections of its nuclear > > arsenal, and arrests Citizen Inspectors who try to inspect U.S. military > > facilities. > > > > IV. To end the hypocrisy, give Iraq and North Korea no excuse to resist > > inspections or keep weapons of mass destruction, and end the threat of > > nuclear war, the U.S. should: > > > > A. Take half its nuclear warheads off alert and remove them from > > their delivery vehicles. > > > > B. Invite international inspectors in to verify above steps. > > > > C. Call on all the other nuclear states to do A and B, and call > > for > > the negotiation of a Nuclear Abolition Treaty. > > > > D. Promise to de-alert and remove the rest of its nuclear warheads > > once C has occurred. > > > > > > - > > 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. - - 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: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 23:23:28 -0500 From: Peter Weiss Subject: [Fwd: (abolition-usa) The Iraq Crisis and U.S. Nuclear Weapons] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------04A3C98AC6436DC5F3280BEA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - --------------04A3C98AC6436DC5F3280BEA Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <365F5D67.A99633CB@igc.org> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 21:18:15 -0500 From: Peter Weiss Reply-To: petweiss@igc.org X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; uuencode=0; html=0; linewidth=0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) The Iraq Crisis and U.S. Nuclear Weapons References: <9171552F3022D1118B9F00805FFEB5460111FABA@law-mail.law.uiuc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Timothy Bruening: Your letter is excellent. Francis' additions would make it even better. Peter Weiss Boyle, Francis wrote: > > Dear Timothy: For what it is worth: The IAEA has already stated that Iraq > has no nuclear weapons capability. Also, if I remember correctly, the former > UNSCOM Inspector, Ray Zalinskas has already said in public that at least 90% > of Iraq's chemical and biological warfare capability has been destroyed. > This is just a bogus issue that the United States and Britain are currently > using to build public support for a war of extermination against the People > of Iraq. We must not fall into their trap. > Best regards, > Francis Boyle > Francis A. Boyle > Law Building > 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. > Champaign, IL 61820 > 217-333-7954(voice) > 217-244-1478(fax) > fboyle@law.uiuc.edu > > > ---------- > > From: Timothy Bruening[SMTP:tsbrueni@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us] > > Reply To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com > > Sent: Sunday, November 22, 1998 3:32 AM > > To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com; fcnl@IGC.APC.ORG; mcli@igc.org; > > pamembers@IGC.APC.ORG; shundahai@shundahai.org; wrl@IGC.APC.ORG; > > wslf@IGC.APC.ORG; wilpfnatl@igc.org; pasacramento@igc.org; ldazey@igc.org; > > wslf@IGC.APC.ORG; abeier@igc.org; planevada@aol.com; wiednerb@aol.com; > > iio1@pge.com > > Subject: (abolition-usa) The Iraq Crisis and U.S. Nuclear Weapons > > > > I am trying to write a letter about the contradiction between U.S. > > insistence that Iraq rid itself of weapons of mass destruction and submit > > to > > UN inspectors to determine if Iraq has done so, and U.S. refusal to rid > > itself of its nuclear weapons or submit to international inspection of its > > nuclear arsenal. Below is my proposed outline. Please help me flesh it > > out. > > > > I. For over 7 years, the U.S. has insisted that Iraq rid itself of its > > weapons of mass destruction and submit to UN inspectors to determine if > > Iraq > > has done so, using sanctions and threats of air strikes to force Iraq to > > comply. > > > > II. At the same time, the U.S. refuses to negotiate a treaty to eliminate > > nuclear weapons, in defiance of the World Court, 87% of the American > > public, > > about 60 retired high ranking military officials, and 117 former civilian > > leaders. > > > > A. The DOE's Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program to > > continue and expand U.S. nuclear weapons design, testing, development, and > > production. > > > > 1. NIF > > > > 2. subcritical testing > > > > 3. computer simulations > > > > 4. SSMP undermines nuclear non-proliferation efforts. > > > > III. The U.S. refuses to allow international inspections of its nuclear > > arsenal, and arrests Citizen Inspectors who try to inspect U.S. military > > facilities. > > > > IV. To end the hypocrisy, give Iraq and North Korea no excuse to resist > > inspections or keep weapons of mass destruction, and end the threat of > > nuclear war, the U.S. should: > > > > A. Take half its nuclear warheads off alert and remove them from > > their delivery vehicles. > > > > B. Invite international inspectors in to verify above steps. > > > > C. Call on all the other nuclear states to do A and B, and call > > for > > the negotiation of a Nuclear Abolition Treaty. > > > > D. Promise to de-alert and remove the rest of its nuclear warheads > > once C has occurred. > > > > > > - > > 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. - --------------04A3C98AC6436DC5F3280BEA-- - - 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: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 07:08:37 -0500 From: Peace through Reason Subject: (abolition-usa) SpaceNews: Nov. 28 1998 http://www.oregonlive.com/todaysnews/9811/st112709.html Space program considers Hanford to make plutonium Friday, November 27 1998 By James Long of The Oregonian staff In a move that is raising an outcry from environmental groups, the federal government is considering a role for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the U.S. space program. The Department of Energy, which makes plutonium-powered electrical generators for NASA and military spacecraft, is thinking of relocating its production plant from Ohio to Hanford, in southeast Washington. The agency also is considering reopening a Hanford research reactor, the Fast Flux Test Facility, to manufacture plutonium-238, a rare and hugely expensive isotope that runs the generators. The generator assembly plant could mean as many as 120 jobs and a $6 million payroll for the former nuclear weapons complex. If Hanford also restarted the Fast Flux reactor to make Pu-238, an additional 400 to 600 jobs would be created, with a payroll of as much as $30 million. But Hanford has competition for both projects. The Energy of Department is considering five other sites for the generator assembly plant, including the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory near Idaho Falls. The Idaho facility and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory near Clinton, Tenn., also are in the running as possible sites for irradiating neptunium "targets" to produce Pu-238. Oak Ridge and Hanford are under consideration for fabricating and processing the targets. A dozen activist organizations oppose relocating the generator project to Hanford, particularly if it includes reopening Fast Flux. "It would take us back to plutonium production," said Tom Carpenter, a Seattle lawyer for the watchdog Government Accountability Project. Carpenter worries not only about the environmental problems of an active reactor, such as the creation of nuclear waste, but also what he said were unanswered questions about operating an unconventional reactor in modes for which it was not designed. Fast Flux was completed in the 1970s for research into fuels and materials for fast-breeder reactors that were never built. Those reactors were designed to create more nuclear fuel than they used. Carpenter said isotope production would require running the reactor harder than normal, using highly enriched fuel. He said critics, including engineers within the Energy Department, think this could make the reactor harder to control and increase the risk of an accident. But the Energy Department said that, in any event, it could not reopen Fast Flux without proving its safety to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The possibility of using Fast Flux to make Pu-238 was proposed less than two months ago, while Energy Secretary Bill Richardson was still studying a proposal to restart the reactor to make tritium for nuclear weapons. Tritium, a heavy form of hydrogen, has a half-life of only 12.3 years and must be replenished regularly to assure the reliability of the bombs. The United States quit making tritium in 1989 and has maintained its nuclear stockpile by scavenging the hydrogen isotope -- the "H" in H-bombs -- from retired weapons. That option will soon run out, and the department is studying several new sources, including the Fast Flux. The earlier proposal would use the reactor to create tritium and new medical isotopes for treating cancer and other diseases. But the Pu-238 proposal presents a conundrum: For the Hanford reactor to make economic sense, Energy Department officials said, it would have to manufacture tritium for the bomb program. But creating Pu-238 would take up almost the whole capacity of the reactor, leaving little room for making tritium. Al Farabee, manager of the mothballed reactor, sees no possibility that Fast Flux could simultaneously meet U.S. requirements of 2 to 5 kilograms annually of Pu-238 for spacecraft and 1.5 kilograms of tritium for bombs. A Pu-238 program, by itself, could not be justified economically, Farabee said, although medical isotopes could be made alongside the Pu-238 or beside the tritium. But the medical isotopes would be largely experimental and would not have enough of a market in the near future to help pay for the reactor. Farabee said that operating the Fast Flux reactor would cost $80 million to $90 million annually to operate Fast Flux. If Hanford is chosen only to assemble the space generators, Energy Department officials said, the work would be done at the half-billion dollar Fuel and Materials Examination Facility, which was built alongside the Fast Flux reactor in the 1970s but never used. Encapsulated Pu-238 fuel elements would be shipped to Hanford from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. If the Fast Flux reactor is reopened to make Pu-238, several scenarios are possible. The neptunium targets that are bombarded with neutrons in the reactor to make Pu-238 could be shipped off site, possibly to Oak Ridge, for chemical reprocessing to recover the plutonium and recycle the neptunium. Pu-238 oxide powder would then be shipped to Los Alamos, encapsulated in irridium and forwarded to Hanford. The entire operation also could be done at Hanford. According to an Energy Department study, processing the neptunium targets to obtain as much as five kilograms of Pu-238 annually would create about 4,000 gallons of high-level nuclear waste. But that amount is dwarfed by the more than 50 million gallons of waste in 177 huge underground tanks at Hanford. The Energy Department is building a multibillion dollar vitrification system to turn that waste into glass. That system also would be available for space generator waste. The United States gets its Pu-238 from stocks that were created at South Carolina's Savannah River weapons complex before 1989 and from Russia. In 1992, the Energy Department signed a contract with Russia to buy as much as 40 kilograms for the space program. But the continuing turmoil in Russia has cast doubts on the reliability of the supply, leading to the current plan to resume domestic production. _______________________________________________________________________ * 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: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 07:09:07 -0500 From: Peace through Reason Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews: Nov. 28 1998 1. http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdnews/metro/wmissing.phtml Missing bombs are called a legacy of the Cold War 2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-11/28/058l-112898-idx.html Armageddon Moves Inside The Computer 3. http://www.abcnews.com/sections/world/DailyNews/starr981123.html Pentagon Fears Rogue N. Korea Nuclear Program 4. http://nt.excite.com/news/bw/981125/usec USEC Annual Meeting Date Set - BETHESDA, Md. 2/2/99 - ---------------------------------- 1. http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdnews/metro/wmissing.phtml Missing bombs are called a legacy of the Cold War Friday, November 27, 1998 By J. SCOTT ORR NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - Information is sketchy about what happened that warm July night 41 years ago. It was the height of the Cold War, a time when Americans feared that at any moment a nuclear attack would shatter the calm of the nation's post-war happy days. On this night - July 28 or 29, the records aren't clear - - when a pair of bombs dropped off the coast of Atlantic City, N.J., they came not from one of the Soviet Union's feared TU-95 Bear bombers, but from a U.S. Air Force C-124 cargo plane. The bombs each contained about a ton of high explosives, enough to level a city block. The good news was that when these bombs fell, their nuclear payload - grapefruit-sized hunks of plutonium capable of delivering the impact of up to 47,000 tons of TNT - stayed aboard as the crippled cargo plane returned to an airport near Atlantic City. The bombs, called Mark 5s, survived impact with the Atlantic, one 50 miles from shore, the other 75 miles out. By Nov. 1, 1957, the Air Force had called off its search for the lost bombs, leaving them to the whims of North Atlantic tides. They are still out there. The two Mark 5s are among a group of 11 known U.S. nuclear bombs, or parts of bombs, that were lost during the Cold War because of aircraft malfunctions or accidents. Most are at sea. At least four live nuclear payloads are out there. "If you thought syringes on the beaches were bad a few years ago, imagine if a nuclear bomb were to wash up. Lots of heavy things wash ashore," said Stephen Schwartz, a scholar at the Brookings Institution and the editor of "Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940." Schwartz, a leading expert on Cold War nuclear policy, said it is remarkable that there weren't more serious nuclear accidents, given the constant movement of nuclear weapons during the '50s and '60s. "These weapons didn't just sit around in bunkers somewhere until things got hot. . . . We put those weapons out of harm's way by deploying them all over the world. There were B-52s carrying nuclear bombs flying around the world constantly for a good couple of decades," Schwartz said. Despite dozens of acknowledged mishaps over the years, the Pentagon points out that "there never has been even a partial inadvertent U.S. nuclear detonation." In a 1981 report on nuclear weapons accidents during the Cold War, the Department of Defense said that only two of the accidents "resulted in widespread dispersal of nuclear materials." There is no way of knowing the full extent of this Cold War legacy, even though the Pentagon has acknowledged the existence of the missing U.S. bombs. There could be dozens more weapons at large that were lost by the Soviets and other nuclear powers. A 1989 report from Greenpeace estimated that some 50 warheads are scattered on ocean floors worldwide. "The Russians had many, many accidents, but of course they have not been forthcoming about them. And I wouldn't be surprised if the British, the French and the Chinese had their share as well," Schwartz said. Schwartz, who has spent years poring over declassified Pentagon documents about so-called "broken arrow" incidents, said the Atlantic City accident was fairly typical of the kinds of circumstances that left bombs and bomb components scattered about the globe. The Pentagon routinely declines to talk about nuclear weapons. But in its 1981 report, the Defense Department released sketchy summaries of 32 "broken arrow" accidents involving nuclear weapons. According to the Pentagon report, most of the accidents happened in the '50s and early '60s, during the days of the Air Force's "airborne alert" when nuclear weapons were kept airborne around the clock to respond to any attack from the Soviets. Airborne alert was terminated in 1968, largely because of the two accidents that resulted in significant contamination by nuclear materials. The first of those accidents happened on Jan. 17, 1966, when a B-52 collided with a KC-135 refueling aircraft over Palomares, Spain. Two of four nuclear bombs were recovered, but the high explosive charges in the other two went off on contact with the ground, scattering radioactive material. On Jan. 21, 1968, a B-52 crashed seven miles southwest of the runway at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. Four nuclear weapons burned in the crash, spreading radioactive contamination over sea ice. Though the incidents at Palomares and Thule are the best known of the Air Force's nuclear mishaps, at least the nuclear payloads were easily accounted for at both locations. In other incidents, however, nuclear warheads remain unaccounted for. In one case, two bombs fell from a B-52 as it broke up over Goldsboro, N.C., on Jan. 24, 1961. One of the bombs parachuted to the ground safely, but the second free-fell and hit the ground. The thermonuclear portion of that bomb, which contained uranium, could not be recovered from waterlogged farmland despite excavation to a depth of 50 feet. The Air Force purchased an easement prohibiting digging at the site and left the bomb there. On March 10, 1956, a B-47 was lost in clouds over the Mediterranean Sea. No trace of the plane, its crew or its cargo of two nuclear capsules was ever found. On Dec. 5, 1965, an A-4e Skyhawk warplane rolled off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga and sank, along with a live hydrogen bomb, 80 miles from Okinawa. In 1989, the United States told Japan that the bomb had leaked radioactive material. - ------------------------------ 2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-11/28/058l-112898-idx.html Armageddon Moves Inside The Computer Los Alamos Is Calculating A New Nuclear Testing Era By Mark Leibovich Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, November 28, 1998; Page A01 LOS ALAMOS, N.M.-When Department of Energy engineer John Pedicini was 27, he exploded his first brainchild -- a large nuclear device -- and felt a surge of patriotism as the Nevada desert quaked. That was in the mid-1980s, when the Evil Empire seemed as tangible as the underground detonations that measured the strength of the nation's nuclear arsenal. Today, Pedicini is waging a new race, one known to few beyond the shrinking community of nuclear weapons designers here at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Far from desert bunkers, their pursuit is unfolding on a massive computer that can perform more calculations in one second than a hand-held calculator can in 3 million years. "I'm here because I wonder if [Russian President Boris] Yeltsin's economy will keep falling apart," said Pedicini. "I worry that Russia will go the way of [Germany's] Weimar Republic in the 1920s, and they will become a threat to us again." Such vigilance still pervades America's nuclear birthplace. But as the Cold War recedes deeper into history, the lab's basic mission has undergone a seismic shift. The United States stopped developing nuclear weapons in 1989 and ceased underground testing in 1992; that leaves about 8,000 warheads in today's U.S. stockpile (the exact number is classified). Now the scientists entrusted with maintaining these weapons must create a simulated testing ground. Computer skills have become a gold standard. And Los Alamos has reinvented itself. Earlier this month, the Department of Energy, which oversees nuclear weapons, announced that the "world's fastest computer," called "Blue Mountain," was fully operating at Los Alamos. It was the latest milestone of a transformation that has seen the laboratory's elite group of Cold War physicists replaced by -- or transformed into -- a new generation of nuclear nerds. At the crux of this evolution is the U.S. government's $4.5 billion-a-year effort to preserve its nuclear weapons. Called "Stockpile Stewardship," the project's objective is to maintain the reliability of aging weapons systems without the benefit of the underground detonations used for decades. The weapons project requires a computing system powerful enough to produce a three-dimensional likeness of how a device would perform if exploded. It would portray the heat, light and chaos of a nuclear detonation and, virtually speaking, place the scientists inside a bomb as it unchains the greatest destructive power unleashed by human beings. The project has infused the lab with fresh urgency following a post-Cold War identity crisis. In the early 1990s, "there was a sense that we would just grab the peace dividend and get out of the weapons business," said Gilbert G. Weigand, deputy assistant secretary for strategic computing and simulation at the Energy Department. Technicians feared this would render them overeducated maintenance workers. Or worse, unemployed. But stockpile stewardship has presented fresh challenges, many made up of bits and bytes rather than protons and neutrons. While the program includes noncomputerized tasks, such as the routine transport of weapons between facilities, the simulation work represents its leading edge, many weapons scientists here say. Aging is perhaps the most persistent foe in the modern arms race. By 2004, the average age of the weapons in the stockpile will be nearly 20 years, or the expected lifespan of many of these weapons at the time they were constructed. During the Cold War, older weapons were retired and new ones designed to take their place. But just as urgent is the aging of the Cold War scientists who built the arsenal. Their ranks are dwindling fast, at Los Alamos and at its sister, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. These are the last U.S. scientists to design nuclear bombs, the last to run underground tests. "In the next 10 or 15 years, most of the people who helped develop these devices will no longer be alive," said Mark Goldman, director of government programs for Silicon Graphics Inc., which holds the $121.5 million contract to build the Los Alamos Blue Mountain supercomputer on which the simulations will be performed. Weigand would not divulge exactly how many nuclear weapons designers are still employed by the government, citing national security concerns. Speaking broadly, he put the figure at "a couple of hands full." Pedicini, at 41 among the youngest desert veterans, is one of the few scientists with firsthand knowledge of how these weapons were built and how they behave when they explode. It makes him a prized informant. Like anthropologists taking oral histories, younger Los Alamos scientists and computer programmers are plumbing their older colleagues' memories in taped interviews. They ask why tests were conducted in certain ways, why one set of diagnostics was used and not another, how certain components behaved. By amassing these anecdotal accounts, the scientists can glean the intangibles behind the objective test data and create a more true-to-life simulation. The Los Alamos supercomputer can run at nearly 3 teraflops at peak, or 3 trillion operations per second. The ultimate goal will be to produce a 100-teraflop system by 2004. Scientists determined that it will take that much computing power to fully replicate the conditions inside a bomb. The Energy Department's weapons laboratories have been pioneers of advanced computing. Los Alamos, Livermore, and Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque traditionally have been among the first testing incubators for the world's fastest computers. The labs now boast of their high-tech capability. Livermore is especially proud of its in-progress $1.2 billion laser facility, the most elaborate assembly of its kind, expected to be complete by 2003. On Oct. 28, the Energy Department announced that a system capable of 3.88 trillion calculations per second at peak performance had been built by IBM technicians for Livermore. Code-named "Pacific Blue," the Livermore system was said to surpass "Option Red" at Sandia as the world's fastest. The next day, a Silicon Graphics spokesman said that its Los Alamos machine -- "Blue Mountain" -- would have a "theoretical peak performance" of 4.2 trillion calculations per second, exceeding Pacific Blue's 3.88. A Los Alamos spokesman later revised the estimate downward, to about 3 trillion. Blue Mountain was up and running a week later. Blue Mountain will afford weapons testers an unprecedented level of realism in their simulations, said Steve Younger, the associate lab director for nuclear weapons at Los Alamos. The machine now fills a tightly guarded Los Alamos floor the size of a small hockey rink. The disc memory is contained on a separate floor, and the cooling system is housed in the basement. The machine runs on 1.6 megawatts of electrical power, and is connected by 500 miles of fiber cable. "There is no blueprint for what we're trying to achieve now," said Charlie Slocomb, a 27-year lab veteran who oversees computing-related programs at Los Alamos. When Slocomb takes a visitor inside, a red light flashes to indicate the presence of someone without security clearance. He marvels at the creation-in-progress, pointing to water flowing in an elegant stream over a blue and gold cooling box. Blue Mountain's cooling system requires about 40,000 gallons of water a day. The laboratory's supercomputing power also is being put to nondefense applications. Frank Harlow, a 45-year lab veteran, is building a simulation system to help firefighters predict the path of wildfires. Harlow works in a trailer lined with white boards and computer terminals, part of the lab's 43 square miles. With long gray hair and a hoop earring, Harlow, 70, defies the strait-laced stereotype of the defense industry. In fact, when J. Robert Oppenheimer founded the laboratory 56 years ago, he fostered an idiosyncratic, flatly structured and oddly countercultural mentality that persists. "To think that Silicon Valley invented this high-tech work culture would be a mistake," said Janet Bailey, author of "The Good Servant: Making Peace With the Bomb at Los Alamos." But scientists here remain acutely suspicious of the "uncleared" world, delineating between those "inside the fence" and "outside the fence." Within the campus border, a short drive from the downtown junction of Trinity and Oppenheimer avenues, guides still follow visitors into some restrooms. Seventy percent of the laboratory's budget still goes to defense-related programs, and the Energy Department -- which oversees stockpile stewardship -- will spend an estimated $45 billion over the next 10 years under the program. Still, Cold War veterans here say, it can be difficult to conjure urgency without an easily recognized enemy. Nostalgia still abounds for the life-and-death headiness of beating the Soviets, and for the sport of underground testing. "Blowing a huge hole in Nevada was great for the ego," said Jas Mercer-Smith, the deputy chief of nuclear weapons here. Mercer-Smith is an astrophysicist who said he once supervised a nuclear test that registered 4.8 on the Richter scale. "A lot of people here felt betrayed by the end of testing," he said, and not just because they were fun. "Nuclear weapons play the same role in society as the witches in the Grimms' fairy tale," Mercer-Smith said. "Their job is to scare small children. Personally, I'm worried that this country hasn't been scary enough lately." It's hard to be scary with nuclear weapons that can't be detonated, Mercer-Smith said. "Historically, preserving a technology without new innovation has not worked well," he said. How exactly will the bombs chip, crack and crumble when they explode? "We can't know for sure any more," he said. "But we built these things, and now we're stuck taking care of them." - ------------------------------ 3. http://www.abcnews.com/sections/world/DailyNews/starr981123.html Pentagon Fears Rogue N. Korea Nuclear Program Building an Atomic Economy? By Barbara Starr ABCNEWS.com In 1994 Washington agreed to give North Korea two advanced nuclear reactors and 500,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil a year in return for Pyongyang halting its nuclear program. "This is not something that can go on forever." -U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen W A S H I N G T O N, Nov. 23 - Four years after North Korea vowed to halt development of nuclear weapons, the Clinton administration is growing increasingly convinced Pyongyang is pursuing the atomic bomb with a vengeance. Washington's most urgent concern is a suspected underground nuclear facility under construction at Kumchang-ni, some 25 miles northeast of Yongbyon. Yongbyon is the site where North Korea is believed to have made enough plutonium for one or two bombs before the 1994 accord in which it promised to halt nuclear development. The Kumchang-ni site, which includes a massive underground excavation, has been under construction for some years. But recent activity there has been especially disturbing to the United States. Based on its analysis of satellite imagery, the Pentagon believes the North Koreans are building either an underground power plant or nuclear fuel processing facility. North Korea denies the allegations. No Nukes Deal Violated? Washington's conclusion is based on the size of the excavation and construction of several dams nearby. U.S. intelligence estimates the project will take four to six years to finish, although an accelerated effort could see the plant done in as little as two years. The facility, when finished, will be able to produce enough plutonium to build eight to 10 nuclear weapons a year, analysts believe. In October 1994, North Korea signed a so-called framework agreement in which it froze its nuclear weapons program in exchange for billions of dollars in aid. The agreement specifically focused on a plutonium facility then under construction at Yongbyon. But all military nuclear programs were to be abandoned as part of the agreement, in favor of fuel oil shipments and construction of commercial nuclear power plants. Stopping Short of Official Rebuke While the Clinton administration has not yet publicly confirmed the existence or purpose of the site, Defense Secretary William Cohen strongly implied that North Korea has violated the 1994 agreement by developing an underground nuclear facility. "This is not something that can go on forever," said Cohen. "We are concerned about reports that we have had about the developments in North Korea as to whether they are complying with the agreed framework. We are going to need inspection of the site or sites that might be involved." Cohen declined however to verify reports that U.S. and South Korean scientists have already found traces of plutonium in water and soil samples at both Kumchang-ni and Yongbyon. A Pattern of Belligerence The underground nuclear facility is just one part of North Korea's overall effort to expand its weapons development efforts. It is widely assumed that Pyongyang wants to place atomic weapons on its ballistic missiles. To accomplish that goal, the North also is stepping up its missile development efforts. So far, the severe economic crisis in the North doesn't appear to be hampering any of the programs. In late August, North Korea for the first time tested a three-stage Taepo Dong I missile with a range of 1,250 miles. Now the United States believes an underground launch facility at Yongo Dong could be completed next year. Two additional launch facilities at Sangnam-ni and Yongnim Up may be completed in the next three to four years. Still another facility is under construction at Chiha-ri to handle Scud missile launches. Missiles for Sale While North Korea clearly is pursuing both nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles for its own military forces, it also is trying to export both as commodities that can earn the government desperately needed cash. North Korea has already exported the No Dong missile to Iran for its Shahab ballistic missile program and to Pakistan for its Ghauri ballistic missile program. U.S. intelligence analysts also believe that North Korea may eventually try to market the Taepo Dong as a launch vehicle for nations trying to deploy satellites. Recent talks between U.S. and North Korean officials on possible inspections of the underground facility adjourned without any agreement. Now U.S. officials hope to resume the talks. While the 1994 agreement may be fraying at the edges, for the moment, there may be no other option but to hold on to it. [Photo] North Korea is alleged to have sold missiles to the other countries pictured here. Click a country name, [Iran, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, Syria], to see where various missiles could hit: a Scud C missile (Range: 550 kilometers), a No Dong missile (Range: 1,000 kilometers), or a Taepo Dong 1 missile (Range: 2,000 kilometers). (ABCNEWS.com) - ----------------------------------- [I include this in case there are any activists near Bethesda that would like to attend this meeting. You might have to buy a share of stock to raise your voice.] 4. http://nt.excite.com/news/bw/981125/usec USEC Annual Meeting Date Set BETHESDA, Md. (BUSINESS WIRE) - USEC Inc. (NYSE:USU) has set the date for its first Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The meeting will be held on February 2, 1999 at 10 a.m. at the Bethesda Marriott Hotel, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, Maryland. Shareholders of record on December 4, 1998 will be entitled to attend and vote at the meeting, or vote by proxy. USEC Inc. is the world leader in production and sales of uranium fuel enrichment services for commercial nuclear power plants. A global energy company with customers in 14 countries, the Company's operations involve approximately 5,000 people. With headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, the Company manages production plants in Kentucky and Ohio, and is developing an advanced laser enrichment technology in California. _______________________________________________________________________ * 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. 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