Nuclear Weapons Abolition

[Alessandro Marescotti <kfqma at tin.it>]

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 04:07:19 -0500
From: Dietrich Fischer <102464.1110 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Human fallibility
Sender: Dietrich Fischer <102464.1110 at compuserve.com>
To: Dietrich Fischer <102464.1110 at compuserve.com>

GLOBAL DEMILITARIZATION                         November 24, 1999

For those favoring Nuclear Weapons Abolition,

If you are interested in spending a few minutes to urge political
leaders of the nuclear weapons nations, by email, to disable all
the nuclear weapons in the world by the year 2000, please continue
below the ******'s.
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Monthly reminder: please copy, paste and mail the following or
similar email, post or fax messages to the President of the USA
each month.  Also please send copies to the Heads of State of the
other nuclear weapons nations as shown below.  Some email addresses
are via the countries' Permanent Missions to the United Nations.

If you want a list of the post addresses, fax, phone numbers, etc.,
of the other nuclear Heads of State, please request them from us.

If you are an officer of a peace, environmental or religious
organization: In your next correspondence with your members, please
urge them to also send these messages each month by email, post
card, letter, fax or phone.

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To: president at whitehouse.gov

Subject: Human fallibility

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>,
Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan <pakistan at undp.org>

Dear Mr. President,

     As we mourn the dead from Egyptian Airline Flight 990, we must
recognize again that technical systems do fail from time to time. 
Humans cannot achieve perfection.  An accident involving nuclear
weapons would be incomparably more catastrophic.  We urge you to
take a courageous initiative to call on the leaders of all nuclear
weapons states to disable their nuclear weapons now, before they
may be used because of a technical or human failure.

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
Bill Price, Director, World Peacemakers
Bill Hartung, Author
Organizations are for identification only

Emailings monthly since July 1996

PS   In October, I took over from Marvin Clark to send out these
monthly mailings.  Due to a mistake on my part, the entire list of
email addresses was accessible to everyone for 15 minutes after the
last mailing on October 12, until I discovered and corrected the
mistake.  Therefore, you received several email messages intended
only for me.  I sincerely apologize for that.  It proves again that
despite the best intentions we are only human, and accidents do
happen.  I wish to thank all those who sent supportive comments. 
Those who asked have been deleted from the list.  My incoming
mailbox was temporarily full and I may have missed a few of those
wishing to be taken off the list.  If that applies to you, please
send me another "delete" request.
With many thanks and best regards, Dietrich Fischer
  



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