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No. 7/1997 ---------------------------------------------------------
Dateline: 31 Aug 1997
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Dear members and friends of INES,
It seems that "What's New in INES?" is filling a certain gap - at least, to some extent. I am mentioning this because I would like to thank all of you who have recently responded so positively to my efforts. However I'd also like to take this opportunity to ask you again to provide me with information about what is going on in your organisation, what your plans are, your experiences, your ideas. The quality of "What's New in INES?" depends on your response.
I should not forget to thank again Kate Maloney for the proofreading. Without her contribution, I would not be able to edit "What's New in INES?".
Best regards to all of you,
Tobias Damjanov
Editor, "What's New in INES?"
Kreutzkamp 33, D-21465 Reinbek, Germany
e-mail:
Note: Except as indicated, all web and ftp links are working as of 4 Sep. 1997; e-mail links are not verified.
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++++++ INES MEMBERSHIP UPDATE++++++
=== > INESAP email discussion list
Similar to INESnet, the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP) has a email discussion list of its own which provides a forum "for networking during the NPT review and extension process, as well as for general discussion of issues concerning the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and missiles." If you would like to subscribe to the INESAP list you should know the following:
=== > INEStec discussion list envisaged
At the recent INES Council Meeting, a new INES project called "Problems in technology for sustainable future" was discussed (see "What's New in INES?" No. 5). Among other things, establishing an email discussion list under the name INEStec was considered. If you are interested in the planning of the list please contact:
Paul Collander, c/o Nokia, POB 45, FIN-00211 Helsinki, Finland; Tel.: (358-9) 4376 6519, Fax: (358-9) 4376 6067, e-mail:
=== > 12th International Week Of Science and Peace (IWOSP)
Information from the Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR), UK
IWOSP is the Monday to Sunday which includes Armistice Day, which makes it 10 - 16 November this year. Plans are shaping up. Malcolm MacCallum and I are following up the valuable expression of support for IWOSP96 by about 50 MPs, who signed Nigel Jones' Early Day Motion.
Although IWOSP does not formally define a 'theme for the year' it does of course take note of the topical. This year the UN Climate Convention to be held in Kyoto in December is an obvious focus, especially because of the Kyoto Journey Project, in which environmentalists representing NGOs and journalists will attend the Convention. They will travel by rail and boat to highlight the irony that other participants will be adding literally millions of air-miles to the world's already large tally. More detail can be found on the web site http://www.uea.ac.uk/~e256/kyoto/journey.html .
IWOSP can give significant support to the project, with 'send-off', 'welcome' or 'background' events in many countries from Western Europe to Japan. There will be at least one such event in the UK.
SGR's Annual Conference and AGM will, as is becoming a regular feature, be an IWOSP event. The date is Saturday 15 November. Another annual event which is part of IWOSP is the Dick Synge Memorial Event, organised by the Norwich Research Park. The exact date and other details are to be announced. IWOSP will again be supporting the Campaign to Free Vanunu and there are several other events which I expect to be part of IWOSP. Updated information will appear on SGR's web site http://www.gn.apc.org/sgr/ and on the IWOSP web site http://www.jca.or.jp/iwosp or can be obtained from the SGR Office. If you would like to be part of a send-off event for the Kyoto travellers, or take part in an IWOSP event of any kind, or can offer suggestions as to events which might become part of IWOSP, please let me know.
[Membership applications are decided upon by the INES Council or the INES
Executive Committee]
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++++++ ABOLITION 2000 NEWS ++++++
=== > Stop nuclear weapons proliferation
The US-based organisation "Global Demilitarization" is currently promoting an email campaign which we would like to introduce to you:
--- To:
Subject: Stop nuclear weapons proliferation
Dear Mr. President,
In the beginning of the nuclear weapons era only the USA had 2 of them. Now 7 other nations have a few to 1000's in their arsenals. Numerous additional countries also have the capability to produce nuclear weapons.
"We continue to do something that is insane, which is trying to develop new types of nuclear weapons... We're strongly motivating other countries and terrorists to do the same. The last thing we're doing is deterring the North Koreas of the world. We're saying to them: We're more secure with nuclear weapons, but you're not. How can that be true?" Quote from Dr. Theodore Taylor, top nuclear weapons designer in the 1950's and now an advocate for abolition.
The best way to prevent proliferation is to have world-wide abolition.
Mr. President, we urge you to have the will, make a firm stand, do the moral thing. Lead the way and get all nuclear weapons disabled during your final term of office.
Sincerely yours,
[Your name, post address & country]
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Since the Prime Minister of Israel is the only other one with Email, please also send the following: [Please advise us if there are others with Email].
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To:
Subject: Stop nuclear weapons proliferation
Dear Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu,
In the beginning of the nuclear weapons era only the USA had two of them. Now 7 other nations have a few to many thousands in their arsenals. Numerous additional countries also have the capability to produce nuclear weapons.
"We continue to do something that is insane, which is trying to develop new types of nuclear weapons... We're strongly motivating other countries and terrorists to do the same. The last thing we're doing is deterring the North Koreas of the world. We're saying to them: We're more secure with nuclear weapons, but you're not. How can that be true?" Quote from Dr. Theodore Taylor, top nuclear weapons designer in the 1950's and an advocate for abolition.
The best way to prevent proliferation is to have world-wide abolition.
We urge Israel to set a good example. Follow the lead of South Africa and demonstrate that another nation can destroy its arsenal of nuclear weapons.
Sincerely yours,
[Your name, post address & country]
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Sincerely,
Administrative Board Members
Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Laureate, honorary member
Mary Evelyn Jegen, SND, Pax Christi International
Dietrich Fischer, Author, Professor, Pace University
Bill Price, Director, World Peacemakers
Bill Hartung, Author
Organizations are for identification only
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++++++ SPECIAL TOPIC (I) ++++++
===> Appeal of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Mairead Corrigan-Maguire and Adolfo Perez Esquivel are calling on you to sign the following Appeal: "There is only one way to fight violence with non-violence: education. The future of the world depends on our willingness to really change an our willingness to finish with the culture of violence, either physical, psychological or economic. Our mentalities are archaic, we ofen continue to raise our children according to ideas carried over from times of war and conquest. We must abandon outmoded principles and teach our children that the other is not an enemy. We must dare to tell the young and even tell them in their History books, that it is better and more useful for the world to live with dignity instead of to die as a hero. That is conscience, rather than obedience, which is the basis of human life.
The true challenge today, the real stake which determines the future, is to arrive for the first time to live together, with self-respect, respect for the others and for the environment. It seems so simple but there is nothing more complicated. In order to bring hope, it is our desire that the UNO along with the governments of every country of the world, represented by the UNO, adopt a resolution declaring:
1 - the year 2000 'The Year of Education for Non-Violence'
2 -the years 2000 to 2010 'A Decade for The Culture of Non-Violence' so that non-violence will be finally taught."
The movement around this Appeal was started by committed individuals who prefer to keep it independent of any state intervention.
You can use the following form to sign the Appeal: I sign and I support the Appeal of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, so that the year 2000 be declared "The Year for the Education of Non-Violence", the years 2000 to 2010 be declared "A Decade for the Culture of Non-Violence", so that non-violence be taught.
Family name___________________________
First name_____________________________
Age_________
Profession_____________________________
Full address:
Post code_____________
Town__________________________________
Country________________________________
Signature_______________________________
Cut this coupon out and send it urgently to: Appeal of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates: Partage avec les enfants du monde (Share with the children of the World), 58, avenue de Huy, BP 20797, F-60207 Compiegne Cedex 2, France;
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=== > Selected sources of information concerning the Cassini Mission
++++++ Web pages
http://www.democrats.org.au/democrats/media/961028to961124/765ml.html
http://www.greenspiration.org/Article/GlobalRussianRoulette.html
http://www.panix.com/~levner/nygreens/issues/nukes/cassini/home.htm
http://www.wired.com/news/topframe/1054.html
http://www.crl.com/~gherbert/Space/Cassini/Solar.html(pro-nuclear Cassini)
http://www.rain.org/~openmind/cassini.htm ("The Real News Page" (TRNP), USA)
http://www.uic.com.au/nip18.htm (Uranium Information Centre Ltd, Australia)
http://ans.neep.wisc.edu/~ans/point_source/AEI/AEI_index.html("Atomic Energy Inside" on radiation's health effects)
http://www.fas.org/bethepr.htmor http://www.fas.org (Federation of American Scientists)
++++++ NASA Web links: (NASA's e-mail for the public:
)
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1997/97-173.txt (press releases)
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/NASA/addresses.html (for comments from the public)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/
++++++ Related Usenet Newsgroups
++++++ Literature
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/kg9509na.htm
--- Karl Grossman: Risking The World: Nuclear Proliferation in Space; at:
http://209.48.2.20/MFF/CAQ/CAQ57.risk.html
--- Karl Grossman: The Wrong Stuff: Nukes In Space; at:
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/thewrong.htm
http://caq.com/CAQ57.risk.html
--- Karl Gossman: The Wrong Stuff; August 1997 (ISBN: 1-56751-125-2) US$22.95
Common Courage Press, 1 Red Barn Road, Monroe ME 04951, USA; Tel.: (1-207)
525 0900,
--- Russell D. Hoffman: Alternatives To NASA; Feb 1997 --- Russell Hoffman: Response to Draft Supplemental EnvironmentaL Impact Statement; at:
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/dsei9704.htm
--- Russell Hoffman: Violations of International Outer Space Treaty; at:
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/trea9704.htm
--- Dr. Ernest Sternglass:"Secret Fallout - Low-Level Radiation From
Hiroshima to Three-Mile Island"; at:
http://www.ratical.com/radiation/SecretFallout/SF.txt
--- Hans Bethe's letter to President Clinton, President Clinton's response, a New York Times article of June 17, 1997, on the letter, and Senator Moynihan's comments on the letter; at:
http://www.fas.org/bethepr.htm
++++++ On the military connection:
--- Karl Grossman: The Wrong Stuff: Nukes In Space; at:
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/thewrong.htm
http://caq.com/CAQ57.risk.html
++++++ NEW PUBLICATIONS ++++++
=== > (Japanese) Research Association for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons: Petition on Nuclear Policy of Japanese Government (26 June 1997) English translation of a letter to Japan's Prime Minister Hashimoto issued by 39 specialists and campaigners. Signatories include people from variety of organizations across Gensuikin, Gensuikyo and others, which is a unique and encouraging event in Japan. The organizer of the petition is Naomi Shohno, President of the Research Association for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. !INFO! Contact: Research Association for theAbolition of Nuclear Weapons, SY Bldg. 3F, 12-9 Hatchobori Naka- ku, Hiroshima 730, Japan; . The letter is available via email from: (Hiro Umebayashi, International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for Disarmament and Security)
===> Schroyer, Trent (ed.): A World that Works: Building Blocks for a Just and Sustainable Society New York: Bootstrap Press, 1997
===> Sclove, Richard E.: Democracy and Technology New York: Guilford Press, 1995 Guilford Press, USA;
===> The Loka Institute (The Loka Institute, att: Dick Sclove, Executive Director, POB 355, Amherst, MA 01004, USA; T; e-mail: ,http://www.amherst.edu/~loka) publishes "an occasional series of electronic postings on democratic politics of science and technology" via a discussion list. If you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Loka Institute's E-mail list, please send a message to: <>. The last posting was on "Science, Inc. Versus Science For Everyone" containing the following articles:
(A) The Rapture of Science/The Capture of Science
(B) Does Public Science Drive Private Innovation?
(C) Does Private Innovation Serve The Public Good?
(D) Democratizing Science & Innovation
(E) Afterword: Media Coverage of Science
(F) About the Loka Institute (including Internship Opportunities)
(G) Notes to "Science, Inc. versus Science-for-Everyone"
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++++++ CONFERENCES - MEETINGS - SEMINARS ++++++
NOTE: Events listed here are being published only once due to limited space.
Changes, however, will be taken into account. Then they will be marked with "!CHANGE [reference to the issue of "What's New In INES?" in which they were mentioned first]!"
=== > Central Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone
Tashkent/Uzbekistan, 14-16 Sep 1997
Organized by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
!INFO! Dr. Martin Kalinowski (INESAP), e-mail:
=== > Scientists for Global Responsibility 1997 AGM (Annual General Meeting)
and Conference "Sharing the Responsibility" Mary Ward House, Tavistock Place, London WC1, 15 November.
The invited speaker at this year's conference is Dr John Adams, who is Reader in Geography at University College London, and author of two books and many articles on Risk Management, the theme of this year's plenary session. Provisional themes for workshops include: Politics and Science; Non-Lethal Weapons; and Grassroots Empowerment and Effectiveness. !INFO! For further information on the programme and a registration form please contact the SGR Office, e-mail:
===> Humanitarian Aspects of Nuclear Security Moscow, 25-26 Nov 1997 !INFO! Organised by the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Volhonka street, 14, Moscow, Russia; [call only Tuesdays from 1 to 2 pm]
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++++++ INES WEB- AND EMAIL SERVICE ++++++
Here you will find the list of homepages and email addresses of INES member
organisations.
Please always check whether all details are correct.
Send an email to concerning changes and amendmends.
Note:
Addresses listed for the first time here are marked with !NEW!
Addresses which have changed are marked with !CHANGE!
===> HOMEPAGES:
HOMEPAGES:
INES homepage:http://www.mindspring.com/~us016262/ines.html
American Engineers for Social Responsibility (USA): http://www.mindspring.com/~us016262/aesr.html
Cooperation for Peace, Baltic International Center of Human Education (Latvia): http://garcia.bc.lu.lv/bc
IANUS (Germany):http://www.th-darmstadt.de/ze/ianus/welcome.html
INESAP (Germany): http://www.th-darmstadt.de/ze/ianus/inesap/inesap.html
INES-DEV (France): http://www-com.grenet.fr/inesdev
!NEW! National Trade Union of Scientific Researchers SNCS (France): http://www.cnrs-bellevue.fr/~sncs
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (USA):http://www.napf.org
Research Institute for Peace Policy (Germany): http://www.schmillen.de/ff.htm (not available, 4 Sep. 97)
Scientists for Global Responsibility (UK): http://www.gn.apc.org/sgr/
Science for Peace (Canada): http://www.math.yorku.ca/sfp
Scientists' Initiative "Responsibility for Peace" (Germany): http://fuj.physik.uni-dortmund.de/NaWi/
Swedish Engineers and Scientists against Nuclear Arms (Sweden): http://www.algonet.se/~fimk/maine.htm
Technology Professionals for Life (Finland): http://katto.kaapeli.fi/~tep
Third World Forum (Senegal): http://www.refer.sn/sngal_ct/cop/ftm/ftm.htm
The 21st Century Project (USA): http://www.utexas.edu/depts/lbj-school/21cp/
Union of Democratic Scientists BdWi (Germany): http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~rillingr/bdweb.html
USPID - Union of Scientists for Disarmament (Italy): http://www.dsi.unimi.it/~uspid
EMAIL ADDRESSES:
INES Executive Committee Members:
+++ INES Executive Committee Members (in alphapetical order):
(as elected on 27 July 1997)
--- Prof. Davidson, Ogunlade:
--- Dr. Ezz, Esmat:
--- Dr. Krieger, David:
--- Prof. Masperi, Luis:
--- Prof. Matousek, Jiri:
--- Dr. Ollivier, Marc:
--- Otto, Ulrike:
--- Dr. Peet, John:
--- Prof. Petrosjan, Valery S.:
--- Prof. Ryden, Lars: , or:
--- Prof. Spitzer, Hartwig:
Deputies:
--- Prof. Amin, Samir:
--- Prof. El-Mously, Hamed:
--- Dr. Peet, Katherine:
+++ "INES Newsletter":
--- Editor: Prof. Armin Tenner:
Organisational Members (countrywise):
Argentine: --- Bariloche Group of Scientists:
Australia: --- Asia Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA):
Canada: --- Science for Peace: .
Cuba: --- Movimiento Cubano por la Paz y la Soberania de los Pueblos (Cuban Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples):
Czech Republic: --- Institute of Environmental Chemistry and Technology:
El Salvador: --- Centro Salvadoreno de Tecnologia Apropiada CESTA (Salvadorian Centre for Applied Technology):
Finland: --- Technology Professionals for Life:
France: --- Syndicat National des Chercheurs Scientifique SNCS (National Trade Union of Scientific Researchers):
!NEW! --- Syndicat National des Travailleurs de la Recherche Scientifique
SNTRS-CGT (National Trade Union of Workers in Scientific Research)
Germany: --- Berghof-Stiftung fuer Friedens- und, Konfliktforschung (Berghof Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research): --- Bund demokratischer Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler BdWi (Union of Democratic Scientists): --- Interdisziplinaere Arbeitsgruppe Naturwissenschaft, Technik und, Sicherheitspolitik IANUS (Interdisciplinary Working Group on Natural Science, Technology and Security Politics): --- International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP): ---
--- Naturwissenschaftler-Initiative "Verantwortung fuer den Frieden" (Scientists' Initiative "Responsibility for Peace"): ; or: --- Schleswig-Holsteinisches Institut fuer Friedenswissenschaften SCHIFF (Schleswig Holstein Institute for Peace Sciences SHIP):
Italy: --- Unione Scienzati Per Il Disarmo USPID (Union of Scientists for Disarmament): (Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino)
Japan: --- Study Group for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament:
Latvia:--- Cooperation for Peace, Baltic International Center of Human Education Latvia:
!NEW! Malta:
--- Malta Council for Science and Technology:
Mexico: --- Sociedad mexicana de Fisica (Mexican Physics Society):
Netherlands --- Pugwash Nederland:
Pakistan: --- Sustainable Development Network (SDN): Zia Mian: !NEW! From 2 Sep, Zia Mian has the following ne email address:
Russian Federation: --- Centre for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology: --- Green Cross Russia: --- Socio-Ecological Union (SEU):
Senegal: --- Third World Forum:
Sweden: --- Swedish Engineers and Scientists against Nuclear Arms:
UK: --- Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR):
USA: --- Buddhist Perception of Nature: (Eric Hol) --- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research: --- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: ; or: --- Scientists and Engineers for Responsible Technology (SERT): --- The 21st Century Project:
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