Dear friends,
I have got this letter and I did not sign it. I would like read it ind to read
and consider my comments to it before you decide to sign it.
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1 SHIMIZU Seishi Physics,University of Tokyo,Japan
2 Yuichi Nishihara Physics,University of Tokyo,Japan
3 Hirohisa TANIGUCHI Physics,University of Tokyo,Japan
4 Takashi Tomoeda Physics,University of Tokyo,Japan
5 Tomoki KOBAYASHI Physics,University of Tokyo,Japan
6 Munehito ARAI Physics,University of Tokyo,Japan
7 Akira Okazaki Physics,University of Tokyo,Japan
8 Atsushi Matsumura Physics, Tohoku University, Japan
9 Kouta Yamamoto Chemistry,Tohoku University,Japan
10 Yasushi UJIOKA Degremont S.A., France
11 Toru Hara Universite de Paris Sud, France
12 Rene Bakker CEA - Sacley, France
13 David Garzella Universite de Paris Sud, France
14 Henk Blok Vrije Universiteit/NIKHEF, Amsterdam
15 Igor Passchier NIKHEF, Amsterdam
16 Ard van Sighem NIKHEF, Amsterdam
17 Johan Noordhoek KOL Leiden
18 C.M.C.M. van Woerkens Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden
19 Annemarie Borst, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
20 Gijs Nelemans Universiteit Utrecht
21 Susanne Buiter Universiteit Utrecht
22 Yvo Kok Paleomagnetic Lab., Utrecht
23 Thom Pick Paleomagnetic Lab., Utrecht University
24 Dagmar Olbertz Universiteit Utrecht
25 Eleonore Stutzmann Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,
France
26 Nicole Girardin Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,
France
27 Francois Girardin Ecole Nat. Sup. des
Telecommunications,France
28 J.-P. Chaboureau Lab. Meteorologie Dynamique,France
29 F. CHERUY Lab. Meteorologie Dynamique, France
30 Herve Grenier Universite Louvain-la-Neuve, Begium
31 Olivier Lai Observatoire de Paris (Meudon), France
32 Christophe Dumas Institute For Astronomy (USA) + Obs de
Paris (France)
33 Alan Harris Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA)
34 David Rabinowitz Carnegie Institution of Washington (USA)
35 Conel Alexander Carnegie Institution of Washington (USA)
36 Sara Russell Smithsonian Institution (USA)
37 David W Peate University of Heidelberg, Germany
38 Nick Skelton Genentech, Inc. (USA)
39 Mikael Akke Columbia University, USA
40 Goran Carlstrom University of Lund, Sweden
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Dear Mesdames and Sirs,
This is a chain letter to urge the french
government to stop nuclear tests.
If you agree with us, please add your name to the list above,
and send copies to your freinds.
We will add up the lists that had come back to us, and send it
to the French Government.
If you happen to be the hundredth,two hundredth, three hundredth,
and so on, on the list, please send a copy of the mail back to the
addresses below, so that we can keep track of this project. If you have
any comment please send mails to us. And also,
if you are multi-lingual and have friends who may not understand
English, please translate this message and add it to the end of the mail.
Thank you very much.
******* addresses of the organizers
shimizu at femto.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jpkeshi at uticeaix1.icepp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp <- please use this adress
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COMMENTS OF DALIBOR STYS, PLANT CELL BIOLOGY, LUND UNIVERSITY,SWEDEN
In my opinion, this letter is based on assumption that there is no point in
performing tests of modern nuclear weapons if not globally, than at least in the
case of France. There are many reasons why this assumption is not correct.
1) There is number of nations in the world who are allowed to have nuclear
weapons and in the same time allowed to kill their own citizens. Namely: China,
Pakistan, India, Russia and perhaps Iran, Iraq, North Korea, ....
2) There is little hope that democracy will spread rapidly into countries listed
in previous paragraph. Majority of these countries is poor and people there have
little or no access to information about foreign countries. On top of it,
democratic countries are very slow in helping democratic nations or movements.
Few recent examples from Europe: Czechoslovakia 1938, Hungary 1954,
Czechoslovakia 1968, Poland 1979, not speaking about Bosnia these days. Do you
really think that somebody would be willing to help democratic uprising in
China?
3) There is no guarantee that a rich democratic country will never turn into a
dictatorship. Examples after World War II - Czechoslovakia and Argentina. Thus
if only USA were left with advanced nuclear weaponry it would be a piece of cake
for a dictator to start negoatiation with the other dictators about division of
the planet.
The argument about the democratic traditions is not quite valid. The democratic
tradition is a poorly defined term. The anglo-saxonic countries like to count
from the 12th century, France likes to count from late 18th but there was couple
of bloody dictators in these countries since that. With exception of
Switzerland, the rest of Europe is in even worse situation.
Having the previous arguments in mind, I decided that I strongly support
existence of several independent lines of development of advanced nuclear
weaponry in democratic countries. Perhaps, I am not so proud on mankind and not
so confident in its bright future. I think, however, that it might be usefull to
open the textbook of modern history time by time.
With best wishes
Dalibor Stys
