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WHAT'S NEW IN INES?
=================== WNII No. 8/1998 ===================
Dateline of this issue: 26 April 1998
Editor: Tobias Damjanov, Am Beckerkamp 12/app 26 D-21031 Hamburg, Germany
phone/fax*: (49-40) 7269 2394 [*for fax messages, call before]
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INES homepage: http://www.mindspring.com/~us016262/ines.html
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INES MEMBERSHIP UPDATE
Do not forget to inform us about changes of your email address or your homepage!
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============ Member Organisations' + Project Groups' News ============
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=== > INES Students Network
A report on the Students Congress, Dortmund, 13-15 Feb 98, is now available in German at:
http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/home/vms/fiedeler/Congress.html
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=== > Australia: Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)
As a result of an exchange of emails concerning the search for the correct email address of SGR Australia, Alan Cottey from Norwich/UK <> (who was recently in Australia) wrote that ''... SGR Australia is currently inactive but has not just disintegrated. Rather, it was decided to put the organisation on ice, so the old membership list would be available if times changed and reactivation became possible.'' He also mentioned the email address of Bob Hunter <> previously active with SGR Australia.
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=== > Italy: Unione Scienzati Per Il Disarmo (USPID)
The Italian ''Union of Scientists for Disarmament'' presents on its webpage, among other things, an interesting reference list of ''Documents of Special Interest'' which covers the following subjects:
--- Reports of special commissions on disarmament and prevention of conflicts.
--- Nuclear weapons data
--- Strategic nuclear weapons
--- Tactical nuclear weapons
--- Nuclear Weapons Research after the Comprehensive Test Ban
--- Nuclear proliferation and control of nuclear material
--- Ballistic Missile Defense
--- Chemical and Biological Weapons
--- NATO Expansion
--- Iraqi special
--- Documents in Italian
You can approach this page directly at: http://www.dsi.unimi.it/~uspid/Read/
For further questions, !!! mailto < >
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=== > USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF)
NAPF has just published No.1/Spring 1998 of its journal ''Waging Peace Worldwide''. Main articles include:
--- NATO's Expansion: Provocation Not Leadership (by Douglas Roche)
--- Peace in the Twenty-first Century (by Alan Cranston)
--- Keep Sacred the Miracle of Existence (by General Lee Butler)
To obtain a hardcopy !!! mailto < >
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NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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=== > NPT PrepCom documents on the Web
During the NPT Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) meeting in Geneva from 27 April - 8 May, Stephen Young, a senior analyst of the British-American Security Information Council (BASIC) will be at the spot, whose primary tasks will be to ensure that as many key documents from the PrepCom as possible are available to all. He will be placing speeches, official texts, draft language and anything else he thinks is useful on BASIC's website: <http://www.basicint.org>
If you have any questions, !!! mailto < >
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BRIEFINGS
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=== > UN Explores Special Session on Disarmament
The United Nations is exploring the possibility of convening a Special Session of the 185-member General Assembly on global disarmament. The General Assembly has had three Special Sessions on disarmament so far: in 1978, 1982 and 1988. Although a declaration was adopted unanimously at the first session, the second and third sessions failed to reach agreement on a programme of action on global disarmament.
At a recent meeting of the UN Disarmament Commission, there was unanimous agreement among developing nations for a fourth Special Session on unanimous agreement among developing nations for a fourth Special Session on disarmament. Ambassador Makirim Wibisono of Indonesia, chairman of the 132-member Group of 77 developing nations, said the main focus in the disarmament field should be the pursuit of further deep reductions in current weapons stockpiles, with a view to their ultimate elimination. At the same time, he said, there was a need to curb the vertical and horizontal proliferation of nuclear weapons and banning the use of fissile materials for weapons purposes. The Indonesian envoy also called for guidelines and recommendations for the establishment of new nuclear-free zones "as a viable means of enhancing peace, and security, both globally and regionally."
The USA, however, has already pointed out that a cash-strapped world body cannot afford the luxury of a Special Session at a time when it is faced with more pressing needs. The UN's last Special Session on disarmament in 1988 cost about $7.5 million. A new session could possibly cost an estimated $20 million, according to US officials.
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CONFERENCES - MEETINGS - SEMINARS
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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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=== > 2-4 July 1998: Nuclear disarmament, safe disposal of nuclear materials or new weapons developments? Where are the national laboratories going? Villa Olmo, Como/Italy For details,
!!! goto < http://osfmi.mi.infn.it/~landnet/NDSDNM.html >
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INES WEB- AND EMAIL SERVICE
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A full list of all INES e-mail addresses and homepages is available upon request.
!!! mailto < >
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=== > Regional Coordinator for Australia and New Zealand Dr. John Peet:
!!!NOTE Dr. Peet's web page: http://www.cape.canterbury.ac.nz/njp.htm
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