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Thursday, April 17, 2003
Interviews Available
"NASA's Strategic Plan"
* Military
* Nuclear
Today, NASA administrator and former Secretary of the Navy Sean
O'Keefe
addressed the National Press Club about "NASA's Strategic Plan."
The
following analysts are available for interviews:
ALICE
SLATER, (212) 726-9161, (212) 744-2005, aslater@gracelinks.org
,
http://www.gracelinks.org/nuke/starwars/
Director of
the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, Slater
said today:
"NASA's strategic plan involves the acceleration of
militarizing
space. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers was
head of
U.S. Space Command when it published its 1998 'Visions for 2020'
report
which talked of 'dominating the space dimension of military
operations
to protect U.S. interests and investment.' In January 2001 the
space
commission chaired by Donald Rumsfeld affirmed the same vision -- to
dominate
the globe from the high ground of space -- with the official
imprimatur
of an incoming Secretary of Defense.... It's particularly
troubling
that this strategic plan is being announced only days before the
convening
of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee meeting in
Geneva."
Slater will be going to Geneva for that conference. She added:
"The
U.S. is sabotaging global disarmament. Hopes for meaningful progress
towards
nuclear disarmament have been shattered, particularly by the
shameless
grab to dominate space." [ A PDF file of "Visions for 2020" is
at:
http://www.gsinstitute.org/resources/extras/vision_2020.pdf -- and the
Rumsfeld
space commission report is at:
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/space20010111.html
]
BRUCE
GAGNON, (352) 337-9274, globalnet@mindspring.com
,
Director of
the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space,
Gagnon said
today: "Immediately after his appointment by George W. Bush,
O'Keefe
told the nation that all of NASA's missions in the future would be
'dual use.'
This of course means that the distinction between civilian and
military
technologies will be rubbed out. The military takeover of the
space
program is near complete."
KARL
GROSSMAN, (631) 725-2858, kgrossman@hamptons.com
,
http://www.fair.org/extra/writers/grossman.html
Professor
at the State University of New York, Grossman is author of "The
Wrong
Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet." He said
today:
"At all of our peril, O'Keefe is moving to expand NASA's program of
using
nuclear power in space -- including reviving the decades-old notion
of building
nuclear-powered spacecraft. What if the Columbia shuttle had
been
nuclear-powered? Nuclear debris would have spread over Texas and
Louisiana.
Still, two days after the Columbia tragedy, NASA advanced its
new $3
billion space nuclear program, Project Prometheus. It is being
pushed
despite the development of new safe space energy systems, including
solar-electric
propulsion and solar sails."
For more
information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam
Husseini, (202) 347-0020, (202) 421-6858; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
Global
Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box
90083
Gainesville,
FL. 32607
(352)
337-9274
(352)
871-7554 (Cell Phone)
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