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CONTENTS of WNII No. 6/2001

• Membership and Projects' News:
  • USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), The Sunflower, No. 45, February 2001
• Nuclear Weapons:
  • Israel: The dangers of thinking with a nuclear warhead
  • "The Global Nuclear Balance: A Quantitative and Arms Control Analysis"
• Briefings:
  • US National Missile Defense: Selected articles released in February 2001
• Conferences, Meetings, Seminars:
  • UPDATE: NoStar Wars. An international conference to Keep Space for Peace
• INES Web- and Email Service

MEMBERSHIP AND PROJECTS' NEWS

USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), The Sunflower, No. 45, February 2001                       Back issues: http://www.wagingpeace.org/sf/index.html   Events are listed at: http://www.wagingpeace.org/calendar/events_current.html  

The February issue of The Sunflower covers the following:

• Tribute to Sam Day, Peace Activist
• Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems: US Navy Conducts Test of Theater-wide BMD system
• Depleted Uranium:
  • Depleted Uranium Causing Balkan Syndrome
  • IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) Confirms Possession of DU Ammunition
• Nuclear Matters:
  • Ukraine Ratifies the CTBT
  • New Zealand Government Expresses Concern Over MOX Shipment
  • Trident Protesters Found "Not Guilty"
• Nuclear Testing: India Tests Advance Intermediate-range Missile
• Book Reviews: Paul Rogers: Losing Control: Global Security in the Twenty-first Century
• Nuclear Insanity: Declassified Documents Reveal US Considered Bombing China
• NAPF Happenings and Actions You Can Take
• Resources:
  • Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen's Annual Report to the President and the Congress is now available online in pdf format: http://www.dtic.mil/execsec/adr2001/
  • "Nuclear Weapons, Morals, Ethics and Law" by Jonathan Granoff is now available in pdf format online at: http://www.law2.byu.edu/lawreview/archives/2000/4.htm
  • A report of the US Air Force war game positing space warfare with China in 2017 is available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58813-2001Jan28.html
  • The City of Arcata Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Commission invites you to visit its new, updated website, which features an extensive list of nuclear weapons contractors that it is boycotting: http://www.arcatacityhall.org/nukefree/

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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

Grassroots News: http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/news/

Israel: The dangers of thinking with a nuclear warhead

This is the speech by Issam Makhoul, Member of Knesset, Israel, which he held at the Uppsala Seminar on Nuclear Weapon Free Zones: Crucial Steps Towards A Nuclear- Free World, September 1-4, 2000. It was only recently that this contribution has been made available.

You can obtain this speech as an rtf-formatted email attachment from the WNII editor.

"The Global Nuclear Balance: A Quantitative and Arms Control Analysis" http://www.csis.org/military/globalnuclearbal.pdf  

The US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released an updated "The Military Balance," (*) which contains reports prepared by CSIS's Anthony H. Cordesman. The reports are divided by region and subregion, and cover the trends in conventional forces, nuclear forces, proliferation, military effort and spending, procurement and arms import activity, force modernization, and force quality. Among the reports is "The Global Nuclear Balance: A Quantitative and Arms Control Analysis," which provides a detailed description of the nuclear balance, trends in nuclear forces, and their impact on arms control.

(*) http://www.csis.org/military/index.html  

BRIEFINGS

US National Missile Defense: Selected articles released in February 2001

Upon request, I can make available an rtf-formatted email attachment carrying the following articles:

• Europe's Role in National Missile Defense (By Tomas Valasek, Senior Analyst, Center for Defense Information (CDI), USA)
• Impact of NMD on Russia, Nuclear Security (By Dr. Bruce Blair, President, Center for Defense Information (CDI), USA)
• Remarks of US Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld at the Munich Conference on Security Policy, February 2-4, 2001
• Russian Security Official Warns U.S. Against National Missile Defense (By Colleen Barry; Associated Press, 05 February 2001)
• Additional readings (Provided by "START Web Site News", February 7, 2001)

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, SEMINARS

UPDATE: NoStar Wars. An international conference to Keep Space for Peace (see WNII 26/2000:E9) http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyorks/gnconf  

• Date: 4-6 May 2001 [+] Venue: Leeds, UK
• Hosted by Yorkshire CND and supported by Martin Ryle Trust and CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
• The weekend includes the annual meeting of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and Scientists for Global Responsibility (UK), an INES member organisation.
• Subjects include:
  • The threat from National and Theatre Missile Defence,
  • the development of the Space Based Laser,
  • the use of space for military domination,
  • space research and ethics,
  • the Outer Space Treaty and space law,
  • Globalisation,
  • Echelon.
  • Campaigning,
  • information
  • discussion Workshops.

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