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CONTENTS of WNII No. 33/1999

• NUCLEAR WEAPONS
• India's nuclear doctrine
• "Security and Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention"
• SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
• CSD Report: preparations for CSD 2000, outcomes from CSD 1999
• BRIEFINGS
• International Year of Culture for Peace (web ref)
• CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, SEMINARS
• First International African Continental and Global Youth Assembly
• INES WEB- AND EMAIL SERVICE

No new or changed email or web addresses in this issue.
NOTE: All INES e-mail addresses and homepages are available upon request from: <>

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

!!! Abolition 2000 homepage: http://www.abolition2000.org

For the latest nuclear weapons abolition grassroots news, visit: http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/news/

India's nuclear doctrine  http://www.indianembassy.org/policy/CTBT/nuclear_doctrine_aug_17_1999.html

On 17 August, a Draft Report of India's National Security Advisory Board on the Indian Nuclear Doctrine has been published (see URL indicated above). The following articles assessing this document and its politico-military consequences can be obtained from the WNII editor:

• 'Create credible n-arsenal' (The Hindu, August 18, 1999)
• Deterrence & Debate (The Times of India, August 18, 1999)
• Indian draft N-doctrine will ignite an arms race (by Praful Bidwai in New Delhi)
• Clinton writes to Vajpayee, U.S. calls N-doctrine a wrong step (by Aziz Haniffa, India Abroad News Service, 19 Aug 1999)
• India Drafts Doctrine on Nuclear Arms. Policy Proposal Seen Directed at Pakistan (by Pamela Constable, The Washington Post, August 18, 1999)
• India's nuclear doctrine causes unease in US (by Ramesh Chandran, 19 August 1999)

Also very interesting are two articles with regard to India's capability to produce a neutron bomb:

• India can make neutron bomb: Chidambaram (The Hindu, August 17, 1999)
• India Says It Can Make Neutron Bomb As Result of Tests Performed Last Year (The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 17, 1999)

(both articles are available from the WNII editor, as well)

"Security and Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention"

"Security and Survival" by Merav Datan and Alyn Ware attempts to answer the questions

--- How to eliminate nuclear weapons?

--- How to verify and enforce nuclear abolition?

--- How to safeguard nuclear materials?

--- Should delivery vehicles be eliminated?

and make the case for a nuclear weapons convention. This new publication is a resource for policy makers, diplomats, disarmament specialists, scientists, academics, activists, journalists, and anyone interested in exploring the political, legal and technical aspects of complete nuclear disarmament. It includes a model treaty for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Available for US$10 plus postage and handling ($2 in the US/Canada/Mexico. $6 elsewhere) from:  IPPNW, email:

in Europe: from IALANA, email ; in the Pacific from Alyn Ware, email ; Summary: http://www.stimson.org/clusters/tokyoforum.htm ;  Full (Lengthy) Report, released August 4, 1999: http://serv.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/English/final1-e.htm

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

CSD Report: preparations for CSD 2000, outcomes from CSD 1999

The NGO Steering Committee for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) has just published a very useful and comprehensive report, including, among other things, all upcoming events, listservers and other helpful details related to next year's "CSD 8" (17 April - 5 May 2000).

If you are interested in this report, please send your request to the WNII editor.

BRIEFINGS

International Year of Culture for Peace (web ref)

Concerning the International Year of Culture for Peace in 2000, which UNESCO is opening on 14 September, the French peace organisation "Appel des Cents" (Appeal of the Hundred) has opened a particular website: http://www.paix2000.org

CONFERENCES - MEETINGS - SEMINARS

Events listed here are being published only once due to limited space.  Changes, however, will be taken into account (marked with ''UPDATE'')

First International African Continental and Global Youth Assembly

• Date: 21-26 May 2000
• Venue: Freetown, Sierra Leone
• Organized under the auspices of the Twenty-first Century African Youth Movement and collaborating organizations
• The conference will focus on two projects: Access to technology and the creation of an International Youth Business Mentoring Programme.
• A discussion group and mailinglist have been set up to which you can subscribe by sending send a blank e-mail to:    or by going to: http://www.egroups.com/list/african2000

Please feel free to contact the moderator of this group at or visit http://www.egroups.com/info/help.html

For more details, contact Mustapha Chouikha    mailto:

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