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>Dear Peace and Enviro colleagues:
>
>Here is an article I believe will be of great interest. The article, below,
>describes the lauch of an international "Pledge Campaign" -- which touches
>the confluence where true science, disarmament and democracy meet.
>
>=46or a copy of the Scientists' and Engineers'  Pledge form and other
>background materials discussed in the article, check out the web sites of
>the four sponsoring organizations -- www.igc.org/tvc for Tri-Valley CAREs
>(includes a downloadable pdf pledge form), www.lasg.org for the Los Alamos
>Study Group (includes an electronic pledge form), www.wslfweb.org for
>Western States Legal Foundation (pdf pledge form) and www.nrdc.org for
>Natural Resources Defense Council.
>
>Here is the article. Happy reading...
>
>Scientists urged to renounce arms work
>
>=46ebruary 20, 2001
>By Glenn Roberts Jr.
>STAFF WRITER,
>Tri-Valley Herald/Alameda Newspapers Group
>
>Three anti-nuclear groups and a national environmental organization have
>begun an international campaign asking scientists and engineers to pledge
>not to perform work relevant to weapons of mass destruction.
>
>
>Launched in San Francisco during this weekend's annual meeting of the
>American Association for the Advancement of Science, the campaign asks
>researchers to pledge never to participate in "the design, development,
>testing, production, maintenance, targeting, or use" of weapons of mass
>destruction.
>
>Those who take the pledge are asked to renounce "research or engineering
>that... (will likely) be used by others" to study weapons of mass
>destruction.
>
>Joseph Rotblat, a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in 1995 for his
>nuclear nonproliferation work, has endorsed the pledge campaign.
>
>In a written statement, Rotblat said, "At a time when science plays such a
>powerful role in the life of society, when the whole destiny of mankind may
>hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all
>scientists to be fully conscious of that role and conduct themselves
>accordingly."
>
>                                        Responsibility
>
>He added, "I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their
>responsibility to humanity."
>
>The campaign was organized by Livermore-based Tri-Valley Communities
>Against a Radioactive Environment, Oakland-based Western States Legal
>=46oundation, New Mexico's Los Alamos Study Group, and the national Natural
>Resources Defense Council.
>
>Andreas Toupadakis, 46, a former Lawrence Livermore Laboratory chemist who
>quit his job Jan. 31, 2000, because he said he could no longer justify his
>weapons-related work, supports the pledge.
>
>Toupadakis, who spoke at the Saturday event launching the pledge, said he
>hopes that graduate students will consider committing to the pledge before
>they embark on their career paths.
>
>"This pledge is trying to bring awareness to graduate students, to make
>sure that they don't join places where they will regret it afterward," he
>said Monday.
>
>By studying what agencies are paying for research, scientists and engineers
>can try to determine whether the work will likely benefit weapons of mass
>destruction, Toupadakis said. Scientists must realize that there is an
>important link between weapons work and the foreign policy of the United
>States.
>
>Toupadakis said that since he left the lab, "I do what I like now -- I
>don't do what I don't believe in."
>
>Marylia Kelley, executive director for Tri-Valley Communities Against a
>Radioactive Environment said the campaign collected about 18 signatures on
>Saturday, and scientists attending the conference were encouraged to take
>time to mail in their pledges after the event.
>
>Michio Kaku, a theoretical physics professor at City University in New
>York; Charles Schwartz, emeritus physics professor at University of
>California, Berkeley; Pervez Hodbhoy, a visiting physics professor from
>Pakistan; and Zia Mian, a research scientist at Princeton University, are
>also among the pledge's supporters.
>
>"This is an international drive," Kelley said. "Our goal is an education
>campaign -- (to make researchers) aware of the different guises under which
>nuclear weapons research and development hides."
>
>She added, "If scientists and engineers refuse to do (weapons) work, then
>no matter how much money governments are willing to put into it, it won't
>happen."
>
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>                                                 =A91999-2001 by MediaNews
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>
>
>Marylia Kelley
>Tri-Valley CAREs
>(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
>2582 Old First Street
>Livermore, CA USA 94550
>
><http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!
>
>(925) 443-7148 - is our phone
>(925) 443-0177 - is our fax
>
>Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
>CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
>Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
>Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the
>U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
>campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert.
>
>
>
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