QUESTIONNAIRE FOR NUCLEAR ABOLITION NETWORK PARTICIPANTS

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At a meeting in Philadelphia on November 18, 1995 participants agreed to adopt and support the statement of the NGO Abolition Caucus calling upon all states to take eleven steps to achieve nuclear weapons abolition. They are listed below. Please indicate:

(a) Degree of active interest your organization has for each step: none, some, moderate, much. Add other comments if you want to.

(b) Specific issues you are focusing on for steps #4.

(c) On page two, tactics you are using.

Eleven Steps

(1) Initiate in 1995 and conclude by the year 2000 negotiations on a nuclear weapons abolition convention that requires the phased elimination of all nuclear weapons within a timebound framework, with provisions for effective verification and enforcement.

(2) Immediately make an unconditional pledge not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons.

(3) Rapidly complete a truly comprehensive test ban treaty with a zero threshold and with the stated purpose of precluding nuclear weapons development by all states.

(4) Cease to produce and deploy new and additional nuclear weapons systems, and commence to withdraw and disable deployed nuclear weapons systems.
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START II ... Implementing NPT ... START III .. Preserving ABM Treaty ... Zero Alert ... Other

(5) Prohibit the military and commercial production and reprocessing of all weapons-usable radioactive materials.

(6) Subject all weapons-usable radioactive materials and nuclear facilities in all states to international accounting, monitoring, and safeguards, and establish a public international registry of all weapons-usable radioactive materials.

(7) Prohibit nuclear weapons research, design, development, and testing through laboratory experiments including but not limited to non-nuclear hydrodynamic dynamic explosions and computer simulations, subject all nuclear weapons laboratories to international monitoring, and close all nuclear test sites.

(8) Create additional nuclear weapons free zones such as those established by the treaties of Tlatelolco and Raratonga.

(9) Recognize and declare the illegality of threat or use of nuclear weapons, publicly and before the World Court.

(10) Establish an international energy agency to promote and support the development of sustainable and environmentally safe energy sources.

(11) Create mechanisms to ensure the participation of citizens and NGOs in planning and monitoring the process of nuclear weapons abolition.

Tactics you are using, such as policy statements, lobbying (focused on who?), education (for who?), media, grassroots organizing, mobilization of grassroots networks, electioneering, petitions, sign-on letters, special events, rallies, vigils, civil disobedience, and any other tactics.

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NUCLEAR ABOLITION SUMMIT