armi nucleari

[Alessandro Marescotti <kfqma at tin.it>]

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 20:33:00 -0400
From: Dietrich Fischer <102464.1110 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Preventing nuclear terrorism
Sender: Dietrich Fischer <102464.1110 at compuserve.com>
To: ceu <ceu at csis.pace.edu>

GLOBAL DEMILITARIZATION                          October 12, 1999

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To: president at whitehouse.gov

Subject: Preventing nuclear terrorism

Cc:
Boris Yeltsin, President, Russia <webmaster at gov.ru>,
Tony Blair, Prime Minister, Britain <gbrun at undp.org>,
Jacques Chirac, President, France <fraun at undp.org>,
Jiang Zemin, President, China <chnun at undp.org>,
Ehud Barak, Prime Minister, Israel <pm at pmo.gov.il>,
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, India <indun at undp.org>,
M M Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister, Pakistan <pakistan at undp.org>

Dear Mr. President,

     A series of bombs exploded recently in Moscow, and the United
States has not been spared of terrorism, with bombings at the World
Trade Center in New York, the Federal Building in Oklahoma City and
the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.  If any of these bombs had
been nuclear, hundreds of thousands could have been killed.

     Unless we abolish all nuclear weapons, they will sooner or
later become available to terrorists.  As long as we claim we need
these weapons because they improve our security, this gives other
nations and terrorist groups the wrong message that these are
effective and usable weapons.  Experience shows that suicide
bombers are not deterred by the threat of retaliation.

     Only the complete abolition of all nuclear weapons with
thorough international verification can spare us from such a
catastrophe.  We need unannounced random inspections anywhere at
anytime to ensure that nobody builds or maintains nuclear arms.

     The International Atomic Energy Agency, which has the mandate
to verify the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, is too week, since
it can only inspect suspected nuclear weapons facilities if the
host government agrees.  This is as if a suspected drug smuggler
could tell a border guard, "You may check under my seat, but don't
open the trunk."  Such an "inspection" would be meaningless.

     Of course, at present most national governments would strongly
oppose random inspection as a violation of their national
sovereignty.  But it is remarkable that when airlines began to
inspect people's luggage for weapons and explosives after a series
of fatal hijackings, many passengers reacted the same way,
insisting that they were protected from such intrusive searches by
their right to privacy.

     Today most air travelers willingly accept inspections of their
luggage, knowing that only if everyone's luggage is searched for
bombs, including their own, can they be safe.  Sooner or later, the
world's governments will come to the same sensible conclusion.  The
question is only whether that will occur before or after the first
terrorist nuclear bomb explodes.

     Mr. President, in your September 29 address to the annual
meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, you
asked, "Will our children be free from the threat of nuclear
weapons?"  You can help make it happen!  We urge you to call a
meeting of the nuclear powers to initiate the immediate disabling
of all nuclear weapons.  As President Kennedy said, "We must
abolish these weapons, or they will abolish us."

Sincerely yours,
[Your name, post address & country]
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Best regards,

Sue & Marvin Clark
Co-directors
Global Demilitarization
42 Maple Ave.
Troy, NY, 12180 USA

Administrative Board Members

Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Laureate, honorary member
Mary Evelyn Jegen, SND, Pax Christi International
Dietrich Fischer, Author, Professor, Pace University
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