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OREPA celebrates world court opinion on nuclear weapons on Sunday at Y-12
http://oakridgetoday.com/2013/07/04/orepa-celebrates-world-court-opinion-on-nuclear-weapons-on-sunday-at-y-12/
OREPA celebrates world court opinion on nuclear weapons on Sunday at Y-12
July 4, 2013 By John Huotari
Members of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance and supporters gather across from the Y-12 National Security Complex to protest the plant’s proposed Uranium Processing Facility in April. OREPA will read a 1996 world court opinion on nuclear weapons during a Sunday vigil.
An Oak Ridge organization that opposes the nuclear weapons production work at the Y-12 National Security Complex has organized a Sunday reading of a world court opinion on the legality of the use, or threat of use, of nuclear weapons.
Open to the public, the reading will be part of a 5 p.m. weekly Sunday vigil at the main entrance to Y-12 at East Bear Creek and Scarboro roads.
It will celebrate the 17th anniversary of the International Court of Justice, or World Court, decision in 1996, the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance said in a press release. It’s the seventh year OREPA has marked the World Court anniversary with a public reading.
“It started out as a one-time reading to mark the 10th anniversary,” said OREPA coordinator Ralph Hutchison. “But as we read it, we found the document to be compelling, and we decided to repeat it the next year. And here we are, seven years later, still reading.”
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“While the court issued split rulings on several of the issues raised by the arguments, it spoke with one voice when it ruled, unanimously, that nuclear weapons states have ‘an obligation to achieve nuclear disarmament,’” the release said. “The court’s language echoes and strengthens the commitments made by the United States in 1969 when it promised, in signing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to pursue nuclear disarmament negotiations ‘at an early date.’”
Hutchison said the ruling has particular power today because the Nonproliferation Treaty is “in danger of unraveling with disastrous consequences.” He alleged that the work being done at Y-12 to extend the lifetimes of U.S. nuclear warheads is “in clear defiance of the court’s ruling.” He cited a claim made by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who testified in U.S. District Court in Knoxville that the nuclear weapons work at Y-12 is unlawful.
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OREPA said it has held nonviolent vigils for peace every Sunday for more than 13 years at Y-12. For more information, contact Hutchison at (865) 776-5050 or orep@earthlink.net
OREPA celebrates world court opinion on nuclear weapons on Sunday at Y-12
July 4, 2013 By John Huotari
Members of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance and supporters gather across from the Y-12 National Security Complex to protest the plant’s proposed Uranium Processing Facility in April. OREPA will read a 1996 world court opinion on nuclear weapons during a Sunday vigil.
An Oak Ridge organization that opposes the nuclear weapons production work at the Y-12 National Security Complex has organized a Sunday reading of a world court opinion on the legality of the use, or threat of use, of nuclear weapons.
Open to the public, the reading will be part of a 5 p.m. weekly Sunday vigil at the main entrance to Y-12 at East Bear Creek and Scarboro roads.
It will celebrate the 17th anniversary of the International Court of Justice, or World Court, decision in 1996, the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance said in a press release. It’s the seventh year OREPA has marked the World Court anniversary with a public reading.
“It started out as a one-time reading to mark the 10th anniversary,” said OREPA coordinator Ralph Hutchison. “But as we read it, we found the document to be compelling, and we decided to repeat it the next year. And here we are, seven years later, still reading.”
<snip>
“While the court issued split rulings on several of the issues raised by the arguments, it spoke with one voice when it ruled, unanimously, that nuclear weapons states have ‘an obligation to achieve nuclear disarmament,’” the release said. “The court’s language echoes and strengthens the commitments made by the United States in 1969 when it promised, in signing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to pursue nuclear disarmament negotiations ‘at an early date.’”
Hutchison said the ruling has particular power today because the Nonproliferation Treaty is “in danger of unraveling with disastrous consequences.” He alleged that the work being done at Y-12 to extend the lifetimes of U.S. nuclear warheads is “in clear defiance of the court’s ruling.” He cited a claim made by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who testified in U.S. District Court in Knoxville that the nuclear weapons work at Y-12 is unlawful.
<snip>
OREPA said it has held nonviolent vigils for peace every Sunday for more than 13 years at Y-12. For more information, contact Hutchison at (865) 776-5050 or orep@earthlink.net
The OREPA website is http://orepa.org/
