Date: Mon X-Status: NucNews-1- 3/15/99 - DOE Richardson; Trident; Y2K Ottawa Nuc Plant (2) NucNews-2- 3/15/99 - Israel/Dutch; US Senate Missile Defense Debate; Perry NucNews-3- 3/15/99 - Peace Park/Prop1 (Reuters); Radioactive sludge CO; Uranium Tailings UT; Military War Games US Cities NucNews-4- 3/15/99 - Three Mile Island Sale (2) NucNews-5- 3/15/99 - Arms Sales; War Games/Training NucNews-6- 3/15/99 - Y2K Military Games; '92 Military Civilians NucNews-7- 3/15/99 - China - Arsenal (2); Zhu Uneasy NucNews-8- 3/15/99 - China Spies - Farce (China); No Question (US) NucNews-9- 3/15/99 - Los Alamos Spies Past; Nukes & Spooks; GOP -------- (1) 1. Guarding Our Nuclear Security By Bill Richardson [U.S. DOE Secretary] Monday March 15 1999 Washington Post Letters http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/15/036l-031599-idx.html 2. Stealthy Submarines (Trident) Monday March 15 1999 Washington Post Letters http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/15/038l-031599-idx.html 3. The hard sell of nuclear waste Public's distrust of Ottawa will hinder plan By Peter Calamai - Toronto Star Science Reporter March 15 1999 http://www.thestar.com/thestar/editorial/news/990315NEW01c_NA-NUKES15.html 4. The Year 2000 Bug: Behind the Hype Sunday's Canada News Briefs - March 14 1999 Associated Press http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990314/V000382-031499-idx.html [Letter to Editor: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/edit/letters/letterform.htm] TORONTO (AP) -- The millennium bug is losing its nerve. With each passing day there is more evidence to suggest the Y2K time-bomb is a dud and Jan. 1 2000 will herald the biggest anti-climax in history. -------- (2) 5. Fallout From a Crash Dutch Israelis Still Feel the Heat From Flaming '92 El Al Disaster By Charles Trueheart Washington Post Foreign Service Monday March 15 1999 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/15/049l-031599-idx.html 6. Senate to Debate Missile Defense By Tom Raum Associated Press Monday March 15 1999 http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990315/V000440-031599-idx.html The Senate opens debate today on the measure by Cochran and Sen. Daniel Inouye D-Hawaii to commit the Pentagon to fielding a system to protect the 50 states from a ballistic missile attack as soon as technologically possible. 7. Ex-Defense Chief [Perry]: US Threat Likely By Robert Burns AP Military Writer Sunday March 14 1999 Washington Post http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990314/V000107-031499-idx.html ------ (3) [We're kind of tickled about this one. et] 8. PROTESTERS ON CONSTANT VIGIL NEAR WHITE HOUSE http://news.lycos.com/stories/politics/19990314rtpolitics-protesters.asp Reuters - March 14 1999 By Mark Weinraub [and Teri Schultz TV Reporter] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They have outlasted U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush and they plan on outlasting President Clinton too. The protesters that maintain a constant vigil against nuclear weapons just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House have been on the job for the past 18 years and do not plan on going anywhere.... The protesters say they have been successful enough to get their proposition passed as a Washington D.C. ballot initiative and that D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.... 9. FARMERS FEAR SLUDGE IS RADIOACTIVE By J. Sebastian Sinisi Denver Post Staff Writer March 15 1999 http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0315c.htm March 15 - DEER TRAIL - Farmers and environmental activists gathered at a public meeting Sunday to oppose an Environmental Protection Agency plan to transport sludge from the Lowry Landfill for use as fertilizer near this Eastern Plains community claiming the sludge is radioactive. 10. Tailings a step nearer capping (Moab 10.5 million-ton uranium mine Utah) March 14 1999 Jennifer Toomer-Cook Deseret News http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0 1249 70001505 00.html? 11. Disturbing the peace This isn't the first time the military has practiced war games in U.S. cities http://www.sfbg.com/News/33/23/Features/warc.html March 10 1999 San Francisco Bay Guardian ---------- (4) 12. Sale of Nuke Plant Key for Business (Three Mile Island-1) By H. Josef Hebert Associated Press Writer Monday March 15 1999 Washington Post http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990315/V000438-031599-idx.html 13. TMI is first nuke plant to change hands http://www.usatoday.com/news/ndssun07.htm 3/14/99- USA Today March 14 1999 ALSO: Reactor deal watched to see if nuclear energy still competitive March 14 1999 CNN http://cnn.com/US/9903/14/nuke.reactor.sale.ap/index.html ---------- (5) 14. Arms Around the World Mother Jones March 9 1999 http://www.motherjones.com/arms/ 15. Training for Next War Army Slow to Change By STEVEN LEE MYERS March 15 1999 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/army-reform.html ---------- (6) [Voice your concern over this thinly veiled exercise in a Y2K? maneuver.] 16. One nation under guard March 10 1999 By Gar Smith http://www.sfbg.com/News/33/23/Features/war.html [Linked off New York Times story about military the following should be of interest to conversion activists -- written in 1992. et] 17. Civilian Mission Is Proposed For Military After Cold War By ERIC SCHMITT June 24 1992 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/early/062492army-coldwar.html WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee today proposed using military engineers medics and other specialists to help civilian agencies and private groups address problems of inner cities. ---------- (7) 18. Will Beijing's Nuclear Arsenal Stay Small or Will It Mushroom? http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/031599china-military.html March 15 1999 By DAVID E. SANGER and ERIK ECKHOLM New York Times Buried deep in the mountains 150 miles east of Xian where the Chinese built a terra cotta army to protect the remains of the Emperors lies a far smaller but lethal force: a half dozen or so intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the United States. 19. China could be building up arsenal http://www.webcrawler.com/news/u/990315/05/news-china-spies NEW YORK March 15 (UPI - March 15 1999) China has built a nuclear arsenal that is clearly defensive in design but some officials are wondering if the Asian nation is looking to improve its weaponry to more offensive ones. 20. China's Zhu Rongji 'Uneasy' Over U.S. Ties http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990315/04/news-china BEIJING (March 15 1999 Reuters) - Beijing feels "uneasy" at the anti-China mood in Washington Premier Zhu Rongji said Monday alluding to a row over alleged Chinese theft of U.S. nuclear secrets. He told a news conference he expected a hostile and unfriendly atmosphere when he visits the United States next month. ---------- (8) 21. Theft Report Is a 'Farce ' China Says http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/031599china-nuclear.html March 15 1999 By ERIK ECKHOLM New York Times BEIJING -- China's state news agency Sunday rejected assertions that its spies stole nuclear-weapon designs from the United States as a "farce" and a "fabrication" by forces out to sabotage Chinese-American relations. 22. 'No Question ' U.S. Says Leak Helped China March 15 1999 New York Times DAVID E. SANGER http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/031599china-military-react.html ---------- (9) 23. Los Alamos Spies Then and Now March 15 1999 DAVID HOLLOWAY New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/15holl.html 24. Of Nukes & Spooks ESSAY / By WILLIAM SAFIRE March 15 1999 Washington Post http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/safire/031599safi.html 25. Administration GOP spar over spy case http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncssun03.htm 3/14/99- USA Today March 14 1999 _____________________________ A fast way to keep up to date: Subscribe to NucNews !! Nearly daily e-mail updates on nuclear plutonium uranium and radioactivity news gleaned from a variety of newspapers online. To subscribe: prop1@prop1.org Say "Subscribe NucNews" (plus whatever other information you want to give us about your work ) NucNews Archive: http://prop1.org/nucnews/nucnews.htm