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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Green Peace and French Nuke Tests
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 10:02:56 EDT
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> I recently saw an editorial on the Rainbow Warrior sinking from the French
> viewpoint.  It seemed to suggest that French nuclear test are underground
> and have been for a while.  This surprised me, because I thought they were
> still doing atmospheric testing.  Are they indeed doing underground testing,
> and if so what are Green Peace's objections to this?

The next scheduled French nuclear test is an underground test but I don't
believe the French have ever disavowed all atmospheric nuclear testing.
Moreover Green Peace is opposed to ALL nuclear tests because such
tests are a pivotal part of the nuclear arms race and allow the
continued development of nuclear weapons.  Green Peace has held demonstrations
in both Moscow and Washington opposing nuclear testing by the Soviet Union
and the United States, besides their actions in the Pacific against France.
Currently there is a month long sit-in at the U.S. nuclear test sites in
Nevada to prevent American nuclear tests.  Reagan has yet to respond to
the Soviets unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests.  However the Soviet
testing moratorium has scarcely been mentioned by the media or commentators
except when it was first announced.  It is the first such unilateral move
since Kennedy's moratorium on atmospheric nuclear testing which later led
to the Limited Test Ban Treaty- a treaty which, according to our own
Joint Chiefs of Staff, has never been broken by either the Soviet Union
or the U.S.
Reagan does not want to stop nuclear tests because they would interfere
with plans to develop more advanced nuclear weapons and possible
x-ray powered Star Wars stations.
      "Peace in the World, or the World in Pieces!"
        tim sevener whuxn!orb