On Wed, 12 Jul 1995 Dalibor.Stys at placebio.lu.se wrote:
> 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
> 41 Erik Tiderman Humboldt State University, USA
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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.jp>keshi 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
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