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WHAT'S NEW IN INES?
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No.14/2001
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Dateline: April 6, 2001
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This is the weekly electronic information service of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
Editor: Tobias Damjanov, e-mail:
INES homepage: http://inesglobal.org
INES International Office
INES Chair: Prof. Armin Tenner [Please note that the first "1" in q18 is the number one, while the last "l" is a "L"]
CONTENTS of WNII No. 14/2001
MEMBERSHIP AND PROJECTS' NEWS
INES members and the current US-Chinese tensions
- On April 3, Carl Conetta, Co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives of the US-based INES member organisation The Commonwealth Institute, and editor of the "Chinese Military Power" web page, was quoted as stating: "China spends a smaller percentage of its much smaller wealth on the military than we do, about the equivalent of $60 billion per year -- we spend about five times as much. People have focused on China increasing its military spending, but over the last decade, China has actually lost ground when you look at military spending in the regional context, including Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and India. They're doing their best to modernize, but China remains the largest military museum in the world."
- Dr David Krieger, INES Vice Chair and President of the US-based INES member organisation Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, has just published an article entitled "Putting the Chinese Slipper on the Other Foot". The article was posted through INESnet; you can get it also from:
- If you wish to learn details about the US surveillance aircraft EP-3E Aries II, visit: http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/collect/ep-3.htm or: http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/ep-3_aries.htm
USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), The Sunflower, No. 47, April 2001 Back issues: http://www.wagingpeace.org/sf/index.html Events are listed at: http://www.wagingpeace.org/calendar/events_current.html
The April issue of The Sunflower covers the following:
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Perspectives:
- Helms' Man at Armageddon and the State Department (by David Krieger)
- The Guardian Calls US "Ultimate Rogue State"
- Top Ten Reasons Why the US Should Keep Nuclear Weapons
- Non-Proliferation: US Should Help Russia Secure Nuclear Weapons and Materials
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Star Warriors:
- US Space Command Now in Charge of Cyber Warfare
- Rumsfeld Report on Avoiding a Space Pearl Harbor
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Ballistic Missile Defense Systems:
- Russia Won't Immediately Abandon ABM Treaty
- Germany Shifts Policy on Missile Defense
- US Denies Asking South Korea for Support on NMD
- Bush Administration Misses Deadline on Radar Construction Site
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Nuclear Energy:
- Russia Plans Floating Nuclear Power Plant
- German Protesters Stop Waste Shipment
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Nuclear Matters:
- Pacific Atoll Near Collapse
- Pakistan Evolves Nuclear Doctrine
- FAQ of the Month: What is the link in the NPT between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy?
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Nuclear Insanity:
- Rumsfeld Stuck in Cold War Time Warp
- Center for Security Policy Demonstrates Re-emerging Cold War Mentality
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NAPF Happenings:
- Foundation Launches Joint Project with INESAP [see also the report in WNII 12/2001]
- People for Peace Campaign
- Swackhamer Peace Essay Contest
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Actions You Can Take:
- NAPF Appeal to End the Nuclear Weapons Threat to Humanity
- Stop the Militarization of Space!
- National Mobilization Against Star Wars!
- Bush Pulls Plug on Climate Issue
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Resources:
- "The Missile Defence Debate: Guiding Canada's Role," a report from the Liu Centre for the study of global issues at the University of British Columbia: http://www.liucentre.ubc.ca/report/Defencereport.html
- The Japan-based Citizens' Nuclear Information Center (CNIC) has created a leaflet on international marine transportation of Japanese nuclear materials: http://www.cnic.or.jp
- The new edition of the Acronym Institute's newsletter, "Disarmament Diplomacy" (No. 54, February 2001) is now available online at: http://www.acronym.org.uk/dd54.htm
- "The Arms Control Reporter," the newsletter of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, is now available online at: http://www.idds.org/openindex.html
- "Ballistic Missile Defense and the Asia-Pacific," a new publication from the Pacific Campaign for Disarmament and Security, is available online at: http://www.island.net/~pcdsres
- "Report of the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization," a new report from US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld highlighting US plans for outer space, is available at: http://www.defenselink.mil
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Save the Climate Treaty!
Flood the White House with Your Faxes! This is an action proposal by Friends of the Earth Climate Team and CorpWatch. You can find all details at: http://www.corpwatch.org/action/2001/012.html
BRIEFINGS
Ballistic Missile Defence: selected new resources
- "The Rogue State Doctrine and National Missile Defense" is the title of The Cato Institute Foreign Policy Briefing No. 65. It is written by Ivan Eland, director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute, and Daniel Lee, a former research assistant at the Cato Institute. You can find an Executive Summary at: http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-065es.html The Briefing in full is downloadable at: http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb65.pdf
- "The MTCR [Missile Technology Control Regime] and the Future of Ballistic Missile Non-Proliferation" is written by Mark Smith, and published in "Disarmament Diplomacy" Issue No 54. You can find it at: http://www.acronym.org.uk/54smith.htm
- "World Missile Chart - Countries Possessing Ballistic Missiles" is published by the US-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: http://www.ceip.org/files/projects/npp/resources/ballisticmissilechart.htm
- "The Costs of Ballistic Missile Defense" is written by Christopher Hellman, a senior analyst at the US-based Center for Defense Information. You can find this article at: http://www.cdi.org/hotspots/issuebrief/ch5/index.html#update
- The US-based Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers is regularly publishing its "NMD/START Update" which you can find at: http://www.clw.org/coalition/nmdnews
"Defining the Debate on Controlling Biological Weapons" (from: Nuclear Policy Project Flash, Volume 3, Number 13, April 2, 2001)
The Carnegie Corporation of New York published a report by B. Alan Rosenberg, in which Rosenberg states that while biological weapons are the most threatening of all weapons of mass destruction, the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, intended to curb the development of biological weapons, lacks verification or enforcement measures. Rosenberg states that there are currently behind-the-scenes efforts by a small community of interested international policy and academic experts, but that these efforts face the threat of compromises leading to useless enforcement mechanisms. Similar to the debate over ballistic missile proliferation, Rosenberg argues much of the attention focuses on preparing for an attack rather than preventing one. Rosenberg discusses using mechanisms for biological weapons nonproliferation similar to those used in the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention and includes an appendix on the history of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention The document can be downloaded at: http://www.carnegie.org/pdf/bioweb.pdf
CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, SEMINARS
Innovations for an e-Society. Challenges for Technology Assessment
First Announcement - Call for Papers
- Date: 17-20 October 2001
- Venue: Berlin, Germany
- Organized by the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Germany, and VDI/VDE-IT Information Technologies GmbH, Germany (supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF))
For more details, visit: http://www.itas.fzk.de/e-society
INES WEB AND E-MAIL SERVICE
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All INES e-mail addresses and homepages are available upon request from:
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