From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
Subject: series on the nuclear establishment:  deadliest addiction of all
Followup-To: sci.med.physics
Summary: introduction to an info-dissemination series on nuclear technology
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords: secrecy, extreme behaviour, rationalization, lies, self-destructive
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:15:27 GMT


 The life of the Individual only has meaning insofar as it aids in making the
 life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful.   Life is sacred, that
 is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate.
                                                           -- Albert Einstein



         The classical marks of a social addiction are all present in the
    nuclear military scenario:  secrecy, extreme behaviour, rationalization,
    lies and self-destructive actions.  The nuclearization process has
    involved a colossal brain-drain from civilian needs and has usurped the
    lion's share of financial and resource reserves of nations.  In fact, it
    has no doubt bankrupted both countries in the lethal race:  the U.S.S.R.
    and the U.S., although not all of the facts are out as yet (Aug. '91),
    especially U.S. bank collapses.


  so wrote Dr. Rosalie Bertell in Part I of her testimony before the World 
  Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet held in Miami, Florida, November 8-12,
  1991.  i have spent the recent months preparing a series of online versions 
  of transcripts of speechs, copies of articles, out-of-print books, as well 
  as segments from books current or still in print and phone interviews with
  some of their authors.  
  
  with this data assembled, i begin today with this introduction, announcing 
  the posting schedule of a LARGE presentation of information about the 
  nuclear establishment and the true health costs of this technology which 
  will be sent out to netland in the hopes of helping to stimulate interest
  in and understanding of this unique and ultimate addiction that is killing 
  all life on Mother Earth for all time.  we DO have a choice to make here.  

  some will argue i am being too "blindered" here and that if i were really 
  serious about saving the earth i wud attack the addiction to oil consumption
  with the same fervor.  certainly it is true the creation of nuclear fission 
  products from bomb testing, power plant emissions and accidents, as well as 
  the entire nuclear fuel cycle from mining to waste storage is not the only
  cause of environmental degredation we see daily increasing.  fossil fuels,
  products from the chemical industry, and the general waste of our consumer-
  oriented culture all contribute to pollution of the biosphere.  but none of
  these other "ingredients" have the degree of devasting biological impact on
  the gene pool--the essence of our collective future--that man-made 
  radioactive fission products have.  

  500 years ago the credo was: 
  
                        For God, For Glory and For Gold

  that's what the stockmarket and the boardroom are.  this kind of "value" 
  system is just plain wrong.  the true costs of the nuclear technology that 
  has been developed behind the national security curtain of secrecy and lies
  since the early 1940s have become tragically apparent to all with an
  understanding and awareness of the knowledge available from the historical 
  record of research.  "The scale of potential damage was foreseen by Rachel 
  Carson, Linus Pauling, and Andrei Sakharov, and was later supported by 
  warnings from John Gofman, Arthur Tamplin, Alice Stewart, Thomas Mancuso, 
  Karl Morgan, Carl Johnson and Ernest Sternglass." (from "Deadly Deceit," 
  chp. 1)  the information *is* out there.
  
  in the spirit of learning and expanding one's capacity to better understand
  how this industrial world really works, and how we are collectively caught 
  up in a society whose number-one agenda is the production of death, i list 
  below the title lines of the posts already completed and will begin posting
  today (usually one per day).  i wanted to list this "table of contents" to 
  help those interested see that there is a larger emphasis here than simply 
  pouring out some articles about the health effects of radioactivity.
  
  i spoke briefly on the fown last night with Dr. Jay Gould, one of the 
  authors of "Deadly Deceit, Low-Level Radiation, High-Level Coverup," and was
  asking him about the reality of the DOE essentially being engaged in further
  promotion of the nuclear industry and all the money poured into it, 
  supposedly being part of "domestic spending."  he responded with the 
  following as a summation of what we're really dealing with, and have been 
  dealing with, for almost 50 years:


       The knowledge that nuclear radiation was harmful and really affected
    the biological basis for life was known from the very beginning back in
    1943.  In fact as I relayed in "Deadly Deceit" in 1943 (you'll find
    this in the wonderful book, "The Making of the Atom Bomb," by Richard
    Rhodes) Fermi came to Oppenheimer and said, `Look I'm generating all
    this strontium-90 in my powered reactor at the University of Chicago.'
    He said, `Why do we need a bomb--we can just dump this over the German
    land mass.  We'll kill as many people as we want.'  Then Oppenheimer
    takes this to Teller who tells him, `Yes that's true, we know that from
    animal studies.  But we can't be sure that they'll die quick enough,
    soon enough.'
       So it means that back even then in '43, they knew that the atom bomb
    was a biological weapon.  And so for fifty years they've been trying to
    cover that up.  There are so many federal agencies that are really part
    of this conspiracy.  So once you know that, everything else falls into
    place.  All the lies and the whole direction of the work of the
    National Cancer Institute is to avoid this connection.  So they look
    for viral causes of cancer and ignore the very basic fact that we're
    living in a world that continues to be filled with radiation that is 
    affecting all of us through damaging the immune system, the immune 
    response.
       By the way all this was written about in 1958 by Andrei Sakharov who
    was doing the same animal experiments, who actually tried to warn the
    world--warn the Russians--of this terrible thing.  And for his pains he
    was kicked out.
       And now the National Cancer Institute is the "AIDS" establishment.
    After spending a trillion dollars for trying to find a viral cause for
    cancer--ignoring the obvious--they're now doing the same thing with
    AIDS.  It is really the ultimate of corruption, of scientific
    corruption.


  the larger emphasis is that the contamination of the exquisite life-support 
  systems we have depended on and evolved from for billions of years is being
  undermined to a before-now unprecedented lethal degree in the span of less 
  than the past fifty years by secrecy, lies and suppression of information 
  which, if it was publically acknowledged and commonly available, would see
  people demand the cessation of the employment of nuclear technology 
  overnight.  in the U.S., if the American people knew the truth about low-
  level ionizing radiation and its effects on the human immune system there 
  would be no nuclear issue.  The information that follows speaks for itself.



  on october 26, dollar bill announced from little rock a clinton/gore
  consumer bill of rights which included:

     1.  The Right to Safety - To be protected against the marketing of
         goods which are hazardous to health or life.
     2.  The Right to be Informed - To be protected against fraudulent,
         deceitful, or grossly misleading information, advertising,
         labeling or other practices, and to be given the facts needed
         to make an informed choice.
       [ . . . ]
     4.  The Right to be Heard - To be assured that consumer interests
         will receive full and sympathetic consideration in the
         formulation of government policy and fair and expeditious
         treatment in its administrative tribunals.
     5.  The Right to Consumer Education -- To help consumer education
         become an integral part of regular school instruction, community
         services and educational program for people out of school; to
         ensure that consumers have the assistance necessary to plan and
         use their resource to their maximum potential and greatest
         personal satisfaction.

  this is an exceedingly propitious time for those committed to helping shift
  the value system of this tired and constipated cultural mind-set preoccupied 
  with "stuffism," into a way of life rooted in sharing and caring about the 
  common needs all of us have.  push to be heard.  strive to educate others.  
  push to force the kind of changes critical to the continued survival and 
  support needed to ensure the lives of the seventh generation yet unborn.  as
  Einstein so eloquently states, life is indeed sacred.  
  

                Know that the people who are the richest
                are not those who have the most,
                    but those who need the least.


  the following schedule is provided as a "heads up" listing of what's coming
  --sort of an alternative "viewing guide" (details of the following one-
  liners are included below) now beginning on sgi.talk.ratical:



Subject: Dr. Rosalie Bertell: "Quietly Eating Radioactivity"
Subject: Dr. Rosalie Bertell: 16 Million Radiation Deaths and Counting (1989)
Subject: Dr Rosalie Bertell @ World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet,11/91
Subject: Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Rosalie Bertell, President of the IICPH
Subject: Dr. Bertell: The Health of the Oceans -- military waste accumulates

Subject: Nuclear Witnesses--Dr Rosalie Bertell, Mathematician & Med. Researcher
Subject: Nuclear Witnesses--Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, Physicist
Subject: Nuclear Witnesses--Dr. John Gofman, Medical Physicist

Subject: Overview: "Deadly Deceit, Low-Level Radiation, High-Level Coverup"
Subject: "Deadly Deceit," SILENT SUMMER--Chernobyl fallout in '86 dosed us all
Subject: The BEIR V Report in "Deadly Deceit, Low-Level Rad/High-Level Coverup"
Subject: "Deadly Deceit, Low-Level Rad., High-Level Coverup," It's Not Too Late

Subject: fallout from nuclear tests PERMEATES our world

Subject: phone interview w/Dr. Ernest Sternglass, author of "Secret Fallout"
Subject: "Secret Fallout, Low-Level Radiation from Hiroshima to TMI" (1982)

Subject: Nuclear Cover-Up: 49+ years old, going strong, and killing us all
Subject: our plutonium economy & a free democracy are a contradiction in terms
Subject: speech by Narayan Desai on Hiroshima Day, August 6, 1992

Subject: Testimony of R. Bertell--World Women's Congress, 11/91 intro & PART I
Subject: WWC: Stmt of Sen. Anjain, Rongelap, Republic of Marshall Islands to UN
Subject: Testimony of R. Bertell at World Women's Congress, 11/91  PART II
Subject: WWC: Critique of ICRP structure and membership by Dr. Rosalie Bertell
Subject: Testimony of R. Bertell at World Women's Congress, 11/91  PART III
Subject: WWC: Stmt of R. Bertell on Continued Distress in Marshall Islands, '89
Subject: Summary Estimate of # of Radiation Victims Globally '45-'88 (WWC PtIV)
Subject: Report Card for Measuring Your Nation's Progress Toward Sanity (WWC:V)

Subject: NGF: On the Responsible Care of Radioactive Materials
Subject: NGF: Nuclear Guardianship -- the problem of "solutions"
Subject: NGF: On Guilt, Grief, Responsibility, and Mythology
Subject: NGF: on-going nuclear contamination from US/ex-USSR weapons and sites
Subject: NGF: Nuke contamination & Cousteau Society's proposed Bill of Rights
Subject: NGF: call to attention to radioactive results of nuclear technology
Subject: NGF: Values Are Everything -- each of us must & IS CAPABLE OF deciding
Subject: Twilight's Last Gleaming, A dramatic exhibit of our nuclear inventory
Subject: NGF: Action Plan For Radioactive Waste

Subject: "Killing Our Own, The Disaster of America's Experience w/Atomic Rad."

Subject: to disconnect from feelings about the nuclear threat is insane
Subject: "No Immediate Danger:  Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth" 1991
Subject: Terry Tempest Williams:  "The Clan of One-Breasted Women"
Subject: No Immediate Danger? damaging cells, genes the future beyond repair
Subject: Nucleogenic Illness: The Work of the IICPH, 12/86

Subject: "Poisoned Power, The Case Against Nuclear Power Plants" (1971)

Subject: "Nature" 9/92: Thyroid Cancer after Chernobyl soaring 
Subject: No One Escapes Harm: The Essential Story of In-Utero Irradiation 11/92
Subject: new book:  "1 in 3:  Women with Cancer Confront an Epidemic"
Subject: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Labs:  A Bulwark Against Test Bans
Subject: partial U.S. nuclear accidents list




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  transcripts of 3 speeches, curriculum vitae and an article written in 1984
  by Dr. Rosalie Bertell.  She has a doctorate in Biometry, which is the use 
  of mathematics to understand and predict biological processes, for example
  in cancer research.  For more than twenty years she has worked with health-
  oriented environmental protection with special emphasis on the consequences 
  of radioactive radiation.  She is the President of the International 
  Institute of Concern for Public Health in Toronto, Canada, and one of the 
  founders of the International Commission for Health Professionals in Geneva.
  This Commission works with health personnel to secure human rights.  She has
  been a consultant for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the US 
  Environmental Protection Agency. In her book "No immediate danger, Prognosis
  for a radioactive earth," (Women's Press, London 1985) she sums up the 
  damaging effects of low-level radiation, the genetic damage to human beings 
  as well as the effects of the increasing background radiation from nuclear 
  power plants and the nuclear weapons industry.

Subject: Dr. Rosalie Bertell: "Quietly Eating Radioactivity"
Subject: Dr. Rosalie Bertell: 16 Million Radiation Deaths and Counting (1989)
Subject: Dr Rosalie Bertell @ World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet,11/91
Subject: Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Rosalie Bertell, President of the IICPH
Subject: Dr. Bertell: The Health of the Oceans -- military waste accumulates

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  the next 3 are successive chapters from the monumental 1982 book, "Nuclear
  Witnesses, Insiders Speak Out," by Leslie J. Freeman.  With permission of 
  the author and the publisher, i am VERY pleased to be able to include these
  three segments on three people who have spent a majority of their 
  professional lives and experiences learning about the nuclear establishment
  and the effects of low-level ionizing radiation.  the information provided
  here is some of the most informative and revealing i have read anywhere.
  from the Author's Note:

        It is the premise of this book that if the American people knew the
     truth about radiation there would be no nuclear issue.  The
     information speaks for itself.  In this book people who have had
     direct personal experience with the nuclear establishment speak about
     what they learned.  They did not necessarily start out as proponents
     or opponents of nuclear power;  they are people who have in common a
     genuine respect for hard work.  In almost every case they found their
     integrity as workers threatened by involvement with the nuclear
     establishment.  When they mentioned that something was done sloppily,
     that some regulation was being violated, that something was dangerous,
     their concerns were ignored, trivialized, rationalized, or twisted.
     Some, unable to work under such conditions and feeling their sense of
     decency outraged and their survival in jeopardy, began to speak
     publicly.  Then they found out what they were up against:  it wasn't
     just their boss, it wasn't just their boss's boss:  it was the union,
     the utility company, the military-industrial complex that were
     insisting on the myth that nuclear power was "safe."  No one was
     permitted to challenge this myth and retain credibility.  Nuclear
     energy existed for the "benefit" of the people and nuclear weapons
     were necessary for "national security."
        The stories in this book are evidence that even in the face of
     intimidation, people still believe their own experience matters and
     that other people matter.  They are concerned about the lives of their
     children and the continuation of the species.  These people know that
     when people hear the truth, they listen.

Subject: Nuclear Witnesses--Dr Rosalie Bertell, Mathematician & Med. Researcher
Subject: Nuclear Witnesses--Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, Physicist
Subject: Nuclear Witnesses--Dr. John Gofman, Medical Physicist

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  next, four segments from Dr. Jay Gould and Benjamin Goldman's revised and
  updated 1991 edition of "Deadly Deceit, Low-Level Radiation, High-Level
  Coverup."  from chapter one and eleven:

      . . .  On rare occasion, there has been official acknowledgement of
     the deep-seated political motivations for understating the potential
     health effects of low-level radiation.  For example, William H. Taft,
     a U.S. State Department attorney, said in 1981:

        The mistaken impression [that low-level radiation is hazardous]
        has the potential to be seriously damaging to every aspect of
        the Department of Defense's nuclear weapons and nuclear
        propulsion programs. . . .  It could adversely affect our
        relations with our European allies.[1]

     This book offers reason to suspect that the lethal nature of low-level
     radiation is no "mistaken impression."  The scale of potential damage
     was foreseen by Rachel Carson, Linus Pauling, and Andrei Sakharov, and
     was later supported by warnings from John Gofman, Arthur Tamplin,
     Alice Stewart, Thomas Mancuso, Karl Morgan, Carl Johnson and Ernest
     Sternglass. . . .
        There has been an almost complete absence of serious debate in 
     American scientific and medical journals about the effect of ingested
     or inhaled fission products on the hormonal and immune systems.  A 
     distinction should be made between the nuclear scientists who permitted
     national security to take precedence over unwanted truths, and the 
     majority of scientists and physicians who have been unaware of the 
     evidence that free radical-induced biological damage may be thousands 
     of times more efficient at low doses of radiation than at high ones.

Subject: Overview: "Deadly Deceit, Low-Level Radiation, High-Level Coverup"
Subject: "Deadly Deceit," SILENT SUMMER--Chernobyl fallout in '86 dosed us all
Subject: The BEIR V Report in "Deadly Deceit, Low-Level Rad/High-Level Coverup"
Subject: "Deadly Deceit, Low-Level Rad., High-Level Coverup," It's Not Too Late

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  some will recognize this very short post from last december.  it has always
  stuck in my mind.  radioactive fallout is going to be here for what might as
  well be eternity.  do we REALLY comprehend this?

Subject: fallout from nuclear tests PERMEATES our world

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  with the permission of the author i have put his out-of-print 1982 book
  "Secret Fallout, Low-Level Radiation from Hiroshima to TMI" by Dr. Ernest J.
  Sternglass on-line in both "ascii-viewable" form as well as having worked up
  a "prettified" hardcopy PostScript file version.  from the jacket of the 
  book:

        In "Secret Fallout" Dr. Ernest Sternglass, Professor of Radiation
     Physics at the University of Pittsburgh, presents the evidence he has
     for twenty years battled to bring before the public--the cumulative,
     devastating effects of low-level radiation on our health.
        In the early 1960s, when nuclear testing filled the rains with
     radioactivity, Dr. Sternglass discovered a related increase in fetal
     deaths, infant mortality, and certain kinds of cancer.  His studies
     were disregarded, discredited, or suppressed--even though documents
     available under the Freedom of Information Act make clear that top-
     level government officials were aware of the accuracy of his findings.
        Nuclear power plants became the topic of his studies in 1970, and
     he gathered data showing that nuclear emissions have resulted in
     increased genetic defects, mental retardation, and death among
     newborns, as well as death due to lung disease in all age groups.
     Nuclear power plants have nonetheless proliferated.
        Dr. Sternglass made headlines in 1979 by a study linking the
     decline in Scholastic Aptitude Test scores that has puzzled educators
     to past atomic testing.  Most recently, he has looked at the evidence
     of the aftereffects of the Three-Mile Island incident and found that,
     contrary to popular opinion, tragedy was not averted:  Infant and
     fetal deaths rose dramatically in the months following the accident.

  to introduce the book i'm including a transcript of an hour and a half fown 
  interview i conducted with Dr. Sternglass on Wednesday, November 11 wherein 
  we discussed what has happened since 1982 and how this story continues to go
  on and on in terms of the lies & suppression of information perpetrated and 
  perpetuated by the governments of the industrialized nations--especially the
  United States and Great Britain.  Dr. Sternglass is a tireless champion of 
  the public's right to know.

Subject: phone interview w/Dr. Ernest Sternglass, author of "Secret Fallout"
Subject: "Secret Fallout, Low-Level Radiation from Hiroshima to TMI" (1982)
         complete book in fourteen parts

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  next a set of posts that focus on the politics of the nuclear establishment.
  first, Norman Solomon, co-author of the 1982 book "Killing Our Own" which is
  also included in this list, speaks in an especially lucid manner about the 
  almost 50-year-old nuclear age and industry and its continuous promotion by 
  official mythologies about the "peaceful atom," about how we are "safe" from 
  the deadly toxicity of high-level and low-level radioactive material, fall-
  out, waste, and contamination of the biosphere, and about how the production 
  and operation of nuclear power plants and the nuclear weapons assembly line
  --not to mention "temporary" radioactive waste sites--make us "secure.
  the second discusses how our plutonium economy "must be protected by police
  state methods.  "We just cannot have something that can be used for nuclear 
  bombs and can damage and mutate human life with the lethalness of millions 
  of cancer doses per pound floating about in a free society . . . plutonium 
  provides the first rational justification for widespread intelligence 
  gathering against the civilian population. . .  Social control is justified,
  particularly as far as the plutonium economy is concerned, by the over-
  riding necessity to avoid the catastrophe which might occur either through 
  carelessness, disobedience, or `terrorism.'  This cultivated attitude 
  enables the Western technocrats to represent themselves to the public as the
  guardians of the society in the emergency situation they themselves inspired
  and engineered."
  and finally the transcript of a talk given by the son of the man who was 
  Gandhi's chief scribe and secretary for 25 years--who grew up in Gandhi's 
  ashram--about nuclear power and weapons and about how their existence is 
  founded on the truth about their effects on all life and on Mother Earth 
  herself being hidden and classified and kept from the people so that such 
  death dealing material and death producing industry is able to continue and 
  continue killing and weakening our spiritual as well as our physical selves.

Subject: Nuclear Cover-Up: 49+ years old, going strong, and killing us all
Subject: our plutonium economy & a free democracy are a contradiction in terms
Subject: speech by Narayan Desai on Hiroshima Day, August 6, 1992

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  this next set is a set of segments from the very large five-part Testimony
  of Dr. Rosalie Bertell's Testimony prepared for the World Women's Congress 
  for a Healthy Planet held in Miami, Florida, November 8-12, 1991.  There was
  more I would have like to have scanned on-line, however the poorer quality 
  of the xeroxed copy i purchased presented rather daunting time factor consi-
  derations for correcting the errors that would be included. As a compromise, 
  I chose to prepare the opening sections of Parts I, II and III, with an 
  additional accompanying document from each, as well as the complete portions 
  of Part IV and Part V.  Parts I-III are outlined as follows:

    1.  War and preparation for war are addictive anti-social behaviours 
        which are destroying the environment, human culture and life, and 
        ultimately the earth's life-giving, sustaining capability.

    2.  The ravages of preparation for war have been hidden by governments,
        especially by the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, 
        France and China, and most victims of this war-making pollution 
        have been allowed to suffer and die without either assistance or 
        compensation.

    3.  The burden of suffering from the deaths and disabilities caused by 
        military activities and pollution falls disproportionately on women
        and children, although they have little or no power to make 
        decisions about, participate in or profit from any of the 
        activities involved.

Subject: Testimony of R. Bertell--World Women's Congress, 11/91 intro & PART I
Subject: WWC: Stmt of Sen. Anjain, Rongelap, Republic of Marshall Islands to UN
Subject: Testimony of R. Bertell at World Women's Congress, 11/91  PART II
Subject: WWC: Critique of ICRP structure and membership by Dr. Rosalie Bertell
Subject: Testimony of R. Bertell at World Women's Congress, 11/91  PART III
Subject: WWC: Stmt of R. Bertell on Continued Distress in Marshall Islands, '89
Subject: Summary Estimate of # of Radiation Victims Globally '45-'88 (WWC PtIV)
Subject: Report Card for Measuring Your Nation's Progress Toward Sanity (WWC:V)

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  the next set is from the Spring 1992 issue of a very innovative publication
  called the "Nuclear Guardianship Forum" published by a group called the 
  Nuclear Guardianship Project.  On the Responsible Care of Radioactive 
  Materials inaugurates the Forum to confront the moral challenges posed by 
  radioactive contamination around the Earth:  

        Our most enduring legacy to future generations will be the
     radioactive materials generated over the last fifty years by nuclear
     power and weapons production, including structures and equipment
     contaminated at every step of the fuel cycle as well as all categories
     of waste.  The toxicity of these materials, with their proven capacity
     to cause cancers, immune disease, birth disorders, and genetic
     mutation, constitutes an unprecedented and monumental assault on
     organic life.  To safeguard ourselves and future generations, all
     these contaminants must be kept out of the biosphere now and for
     thousands of years.
        We who are living now, whether "pro-nuclear" or "anti-nuclear,"
     need to consider together how we are to isolate the radioactive
     materials we have produced.  We need to consider our responsibility
     for their ongoing containment, and the immediate steps this
     guardianship requires of us. . . .
        To facilitate an in-depth conversation on this vital concern, the
     Nuclear Guardianship Forum is launched as an occasional publication.
     It grows out of the Nuclear Guardianship Project, a citizen effort to
     come to grips with the moral, political, and technical challenge posed
     by the radioactive materials our generation has produced.
        You are invited to join this conversation

Subject: NGF: On the Responsible Care of Radioactive Materials
Subject: NGF: Nuclear Guardianship -- the problem of "solutions"
Subject: NGF: On Guilt, Grief, Responsibility, and Mythology
Subject: NGF: on-going nuclear contamination from US/ex-USSR weapons and sites
Subject: NGF: Nuke contamination & Cousteau Society's proposed Bill of Rights
Subject: NGF: call to attention to radioactive results of nuclear technology
Subject: NGF: Values Are Everything -- each of us must & IS CAPABLE OF deciding
Subject: Twilight's Last Gleaming, A dramatic exhibit of our nuclear inventory
Subject: NGF: Action Plan For Radioactive Waste

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  another out-of-print book, "Killing Our Own," was published 10 years but the
  level of detail and supporting references is exhaustive and as informative
  today as then.  in the introduction Dr. Benjamin Spock writes:

     This is the frightening story of the damage that has already been done
     to our own people--to children even more than to adults--by the
     unlocking of the power of the atom.  It investigates the testing of
     our nuclear weapons, the sloppy practices within the nuclear industry,
     and the problems with our atomic power plants.  It is also about the
     future damage to be expected from mutation in our genes from
     radiation.

  the extensive interviews and research conducted by the authors make this
  a work that has withstood the test of time.  it is every bit as pertinent
  and timely today as when it was published ten years ago.  (i haven't quite
  finished this yet and am not sure how many sections it will be comprised of
  but from the looks of it i wud guess around 20.  the footnotes are massive.
  of course a PostScript version of this will also be available.)

Subject: "Killing Our Own, The Disaster of America's Experience w/Atomic Rad."

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  these next five present the voices and wisdom of three women.  the women's
  perspective is deeply needed in this situation.  women have throughout 
  history set aside their personal priorities in order to give birth and to 
  assist the dying.  such a connection with the essence of life gives women 
  the power of perception and understanding that is sorely lacking in the 
  current state of world affairs that still attempts to shore up the tottering
  dominator hierarchy paradigm.  if we solve this nuclear death-wish riddle it
  will be because women are at last able to join in a true partnership and 
  share equally the responsibility of the seventh generation of our 
  descendants yet unborn.

Subject: to disconnect from feelings about the nuclear threat is insane
Subject: "No Immediate Danger:  Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth" 1991
Subject: Terry Tempest Williams:  "The Clan of One-Breasted Women"
Subject: No Immediate Danger? damaging cells, genes the future beyond repair
Subject: Nucleogenic Illness: The Work of the IICPH, 12/86

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  Drs. John W. Gofman and Arthur R. Tamplin published this book in 1971.  over
  20 years later, it still is one of the best expositions on exactly what 
  nuclear pollution will do to the Earth and to all cellular life that has
  been evolving here for billions of years.  both former research associates 
  at Lawrence Livermore Radiation Laboratory (Gofman was an Associate Director
  from 1963-69) they bring formidable professional credentials to bear upon
  this tremendously educational treatise on the grave dangers of nuclear
  pollution.  from the jacket:

        Dr. Arthur R. Tamplin is a graduate of UC Berkeley, with a BA degree
     in biochemistry and a Ph.D. in biophysics.  As a group leader in the 
     Biomedical Division at Lawrence, he has been responsible for developing
     the ability to predict the ultimate distribution with the biosphere--
     particularly the concentration in man--of each radionuclide produced in
     in the explosion of a nuclear device. . . .
        Dr. John W. Gofman has degrees from the University of California, a 
     Ph.D. in nuclear-physical chemistry (at Berkeley) and an M.D.  He is
     a professor of Medical Physics at Berkeley. . . .
        Dr. Gofman is a co-discoverer of U232, PA232, U233, and PA233; and 
     of slow and fast neutron fissionability of U233.  He also is co-inventor
     of the urnayl acetate and columbium oxide processes for plutonium
     separation.  He has taught in the radioisotope and radiobiology fields
     for over 20 years, and has done research in radiochemistry, 
     macromolecules, lipoproteins, coronary heart disease, 
     arterioscleroisis, trace element determination, x-ray spectroscopy,
     chromosomes and cancer and radiation hazards.

  (i still have not fully worked this up in on-line form so do not know how
   many parts it will consist of.  of course a PostScript version of this 
   will also be available.)

Subject: "Poisoned Power, The Case Against Nuclear Power Plants" (1971)

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  some more articles--the first three up-the-minute from this fall--on the 
  lethal health effects of ionizing radiation as well as more background in 
  the history of nuclear technology in terms of how the weapons labs promote 
  its continuance and nuclear accidents related to power plants, bomb and 
  bombers, submarines and aircraft carriers, bomb tests, processing, storage 
  and shipping, and some miscellaneous events.

Subject: "Nature" 9/92: Thyroid Cancer after Chernobyl soaring 
Subject: No One Escapes Harm: The Essential Story of In-Utero Irradiation 11/92
Subject: new book:  "1 in 3:  Women with Cancer Confront an Epidemic"
Subject: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Labs:  A Bulwark Against Test Bans
Subject: partial U.S. nuclear accidents list



--
     "We are able to inform you that ancient grandfathers, the great stands
   of cedar and redwoods, are in danger of extinction by chainsaws.  The 
   maple, chief of trees, is dying from the top down, as was prophesied by
   Ganiodaiio, Handsome Lake, in 1799.  Great rivers and streams are filled
   with chemicals and filth, and these great veins of life are being used 
   as sewers.
     "We were told the female is sacred and carries the gift of life as our
   Mother Earth, the family is the center of our life and that we must build
   our communities with life and respect for one another.
     "We were told the Creator loves children the most, and we can tell the
   state of affairs of the nation by how the children are being treated.
     "When we return to Onondaga, we will begin our Great Midwinter
   ceremonies.  We will tie the past year in a bundle and give thanks once
   again for another year on this earth.
     "This was given to us, and we have despoiled and polluted it.  If we are
   to survive, dear friends and colleagues, we must clean it up now or suffer
   its consequences.
     . . .  But Lyons also remembered turning to Leon Shenandoah, chief of 
   the Grand Council of the Six Nations Confederacy.  "My chief, he doesn't 
   say much, but I asked and he said, `They're not taking it serious enough.  
   I don't think they realize what's going to happen to them.  What's coming.'
   He would have liked to see less posturing.  We have our prophecies.  We 
   know what is coming down the road.'"
                        -- Onondaga Chief Oren Lyons, on the Global Forum he 
                           helped organize on Environment and Development for 
                           Survival held in Moscow, January 15 to 19, 1990.



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