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Editor: Tobias Damjanov
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phone/fax: (49-40) 7269 2394 [for fax messages, call before]
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=== > NGO statement on fissile materials, controls, inventory and IAEA safeguards to the delegates of the second Preparatory Committee meeting for the NPT Review Conference in the year 2000 from April 27 to May 8, 1998 in Geneva
Author: edited by Martin Kalinowski in an open process to which 40 experts were invited individually. Input was provided and reflections were given by a number of experts, especially by Owen Greene, F.H. Hammad, Wolfgang Liebert and Arjun Makhijani
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============= Member Organisations' + Project Groups' News =============
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=== > Re: Cassini Mission to Saturn
INES member organisation ''Southern California Federation of Scientists'' (USA) has sent a letter to the INES office (26 Feb 1998) making the following points:
''Dear INES,
Please be advised that the SCFS is opposed to any INES participation in the Noflyby Campaign. Admittedly there is a small risk of a burn-up in the Earth atmosphere with a maximum worst-case number of deaths, based upon SCFS calculation, of 6,000 people (...)
''It is important that INES credibility on the truly gigantic problems of world peace and nuclear disarmament (as well as environmental pollution) not be diluted by participation in such a relatively small problem as Cassini. Our estimate of the importance of Abolition 2000 as compared with the Noflyby Campaign is at least 1:1,000,000,000.
''Therefore, we hope that precious INES resources will not be wasted on Cassini.
Cordially
Sheldon C. Plotkin, Ph.D.,P.E.
Member SCFS Executive Board''
Southern California Federation of Scientists (SCFS), 3318 Colbert Avenue, Suite 200, Los Angeles, California 90066, USA; Tel./Fax: (1-310) 390 3898
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=== > Canada: Science for Peace
With the support of the Canadian INES member Science for Peace, a very interesting poll on Canadian attitudes towards nuclear weapons has been conducted recently initiated by the Canadian Peace Alliance. According to the findings, the majority of Canadians believe that nuclear weapons pose a threat to world security rather than enhancing world security. When asked to choose between these two alternate perceptions, 75% of Canadians say that the existence of nuclear weapons make the world a more dangerous place. A summary of this poll was published via <abolition-caucus> which you can obtain from the WNII editor.
!!! For the full document mailto Canadian Peace Alliance < > or Science for Peace < >
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=== > USA: Council for Responsible Genetics
Briefing Papers currently available at <http://essential.org/crg/>:
--- Sign our No Patents on Life Petition
--- BRCA-1 and Breast Cancer
--- Preventing Genetic Discrimination
--- FAQs about Genetic Discrimination in Life and Disability Insurance
--- The "Gay Gene"
--- Genetic Privacy
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=== > USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF)
1))) The latest issue of NAPF's electronic newsletter ''The Sunflower'' (No. 11-1998) carries, among other things, the following news articles:
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
NATO Expansion Threatens Nuclear Disarmament
NRDC Reports Progress in Nuclear Disarmament
DETERRENCE
U.S. Post-Cold War Nuclear Globalism
U.S. Study Supports "Irrationality" as Official Strategy
WHERE DO RETIRED NUCLEAR BOMBS GO?
Surplus Plutonium: MOX Vs. Vitrification
CONTINUATION OF THE ARMS RACE
Subcritical test conducted
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
U.S. Still Owes $1.3 Billion to UN
NUCLEAR WASTE
Major Anti-Nuclear Protest in Ahaus, Germany
Japanese Waste Shipment
Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump
HISTORICAL NOTE
Eisenhower's Predelegation of Nuclear Strike to Military
2))) NOTE: You can subscribe to NAPF Action Alert Network "Act Now!":
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=== > New email address
For the time being, the international IPB Office in Geneva has a new email address: < >
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=== > NPT PrepCom Geneva, 27 April - 8 May 1998
Dear friends,
There is a lot of NGO material floating around currently via Internet. If you are interested in it while being a non-subscriber to the abolition-listservers (abolition-caucus, abolition-europe, etc.), you can contact me. I am collecting this material and can mail it to you. [see also ''INESAPlist references'' in this WNII issue]
However, I'd like to draw your attention to two major recent mailings:
--- Abolition 2000 Letter sent to all Embassies (which you could use as a draft for lobbying your own government)
--- Latest Update of the Schedule of NPT PrepCom Events
Tobias Damjanov, WNII Editor
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=== > NEW publication:
Maclellan, Nic/Chesneaux, Jean: After Moruroa: France in the South Pacific
Ocean Press: Melbourne, April 1998 [ISBN 1-876175-05-2 paper, Aust$29.95]
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!!! NOTE: Events listed here are being published only once due to limited space. Changes, however, will be taken into account (marked with ''UPDATE'')
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=== > 11-15 May 1998: Conference on Colonialism and Nuclear Weapons + Symposium on Peace and Ecology
Kadena, Japan
!!! INFO: International Committee of Non-Violent Action (Japan)
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