Subject: headlines

                  NUKE-NET  HEADLINE  ALERT  '95
 
     (Aug. 8) UPI is reporting that two anti-nuclear
activists were arrested at Lockheed Martin Missile and Space
facility for allegedly vandalizing missile components.  A group
identifying itself as Jubilee Plowshares claimed the pair poured
their blood on a casing of a Trident D-5 missile in a symbolic
conversion process. 
 
     (Aug. 8) UPI is reporting that France says it would not be
hurt if Australia cancels uranium sales contracts.  Australia
sold a total of 3,994 tons of uranium oxide, worth $142.8 million 
to Japan, Korea, France and the United States in 1993 and 1994.
 
     (Aug. 8) UPI is reporting that peace activists from all over
the globe gathered at the hypocenter of the second atomic bomb
attack and called on France to halt its planned Pacific nuclear 
tests.
 
     (Aug. 14) Reuter is reporting that Russia plans to start
supplying nuclear fuel to Iran in 2001 for a thirty year period.
 
     (Aug. 17) Reuter is reporting that China conducted its
second nuclear test since the renewal of the Non-Proliferation
Treaty earlier this year.  The blast at the Lop Nor test site
came at 9 a.m. and created a shock registering 5.6 on the Richter
scale according to the Australian Geological Survey Organization.
 
     (Aug. 17) Reuter is reporting that Japan delivered a strong
protest to China over its latest nuclear test on Thursday and
threatened to cut development aid to Beijing as the nation's atom
bomb victims seethed with anger.
 
     (Aug. 17) Reuter is reporting that many nations have reacted
angrily to the China's nuclear test.  China refuses to pledge
that it will abide by a planned Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
next year.
 
     (Aug. 17) Reuter is reporting that a Greenpeace activist who
helped arrange an unprecedented anti-nuclear protest in Beijing
called China's underground nuclear blast on Thursday a disaster
for international efforts to pass a comprehensive test ban.
    "What they've just done is an act of tremendous international
provocation," said Ann Dingwall, who was deported by China to
Hong Kong on Wednesday.  "I think it's got the potential to cause
a genuine international crisis, it could completely destroy the
comprehensive test ban treaty talks."
 
     (Aug. 17) Reuter is reporting that anti-nuclear protestors
cannot find a suitable vessel for charter to attend a protest at
the Mururoa Atoll despite having $.5 million dollars to spend.
 
     (Aug. 18) Reuter is reporting that Kazakhstan's foreign
minister is protesting China's latest nuclear test.
Environmentalists say that underground tests in Lop Nor,
situated 750 miles from the Kazakh border, have increased
background radiation levels in the capital Almaty, located close
to the Chinese frontier.  "We urge the government of the People's
Republic of China to abide by the world community's calls and
join the moratorium on nuclear tests pending an all-embracing
deal to end nuclear tests," his statement said.   
 
     (Aug. 18) Reuter is reporting that about 25 Greenpeace
environmental activists blocked the entrance to the Chinese
Embassy in Vienna for about three hours to protest China's latest
underground nuclear test.  The demonstrators who were chained
together and attached to cement barrels, carried a huge banner
that read in both German and Chinese: "China - stop using nuclear
weapons."
    After the protesters refused repeated police requests to
move, officers with bolt cutters moved in to cut the chains and
carry them away.  The demonstrators offered only passive
resistance.  There were no injuries or other disturbances, and
police said they made no arrests.    
 
     (Aug. 18) Reuter is reporting that an editor for Jane's
Defense Weekly says China is developing a better offensive
nuclear arsenal and not a defensive one.  China appears to be
trying to increase the number of devices it can place aboard a
Multiple Reentry Vehicle to make each missile substantially more
effective.
 
     (Aug. 18) Reuter is reporting that Australian legislators
called off a planned protest voyage to France's South Pacific
nuclear test site, blaming unscrupulous entrepreneurs for
scuttling the widely publicized expedition.  Upon inspection of
the vessels which were hired, they turned out to be rusted and
deteriorated beyond the point of safety.
 
     (Aug. 18) Reuter is reporting that the President of the
Philippines issued the following statement:  "The Philippines
urges China, as well as France, to abandon plans for further
nuclear tests, which have raised serious concerns about the
sincerity of the nuclear weapons states and deter disarmament
initiatives, including the conclusion of a test ban treaty."
 
     (Aug. 18) Reuter is reporting that Denmark, Finland,
Iceland, Norway and Sweden issued the following statement, "The
Nordic countries deeply regret that China on Thursday morning
conducted its second underground nuclear test of the year. 
Atomic tests constitute an ongoing threat to the health of
mankind and the global environment.  The Nordic countries would
remind China that it was one of 178 states which called for the
greatest restraint on conducting nuclear tests on the part of
atomic powers at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference in New
York this spring." 
 
     (Aug. 18) Reuter is reporting that Japan is reacting to
China's most recent nuclear test by planning to cut financial
aid. 
 
     (Aug. 18) Reuter is reporting that New Zealand's opposition
politicians sent a letter of protest to the Chinese Embassy
saying China is "gravely out of step with world opinion."
 
     (Aug. 18) Reuter is reporting that European Commission
scientific experts are to meet French counterparts next week to
discuss Paris's proposed Pacific nuclear tests.  The EURATOM
treaty which governs EU nuclear matters, says the Commission must
give its assent for "particularly dangerous" experiments which
are liable to affect the territories of other EU member states.
 
     (Aug 18) UPI is reporting that two French-national
Polynesians have filed a complaint to the European Court of Human
Rights over French plans to resume nuclear testing saying it
would violate several rights guaranteed by the European
Convention on Human Rights, including "the right to life."
 
     (Aug. 19) Reuter is reporting that a ceremonial Polynesian
canoe that left the Cook Islands on Friday for the Mururoa atoll
was forced to return home after only six hours because of rough
seas.  The Cook Islands Premier said, "We know for a fact that