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Financial Times, 11 October 2005 TWO SIDES OF THE SAME NUCLEAR COIN Letter from Dr Gerd Leipold. Sir, It was with surprise that we read the final line of your editorial "Nuclear peace prized" (October 8), which asked: "But would Greenpeace rather have no nuclear policeman at all?" Quite the reverse! As your editorial pointed out, the International Atomic Energy Agency's founding principles are "ambiguous" and open to abuse. Nowhere is this more clear than in its dual role of nuclear salesman and nuclear policeman. It is the nuclear salesmen that Greenpeace would rather not have. The IAEA's nuclear policemen need to be free to work - to condemn and control clandestine nuclear programmes - uninhibited by the contradiction of their own proliferation pedlars who are obliged under the non-proliferation treaty to assist signatories in the development of civil nuclear programmes, which means assisting them to acquire the very technologies and materials of the military atom. This has clearly been the case for Iraq, North Korea and Iran where the IAEA brokered technology and expertise exchange from the Russian and western nuclear industries. The 50-year-old "Atoms for Peace" Faustian bargain must once and for all be broken. There are not two types of nuclear technology and nuclear materials: Atoms for Peace and Atoms for War are two sides of the same coin. It is our hope that Mohamed ElBaradei, strengthened in recent months by his victory over the unipolar view of the US and appointment to a third term as chief of the world's nuclear police, and now further strengthened as a Noble peace laureate, will seize the moment and push for the reform of the agency, removing its nuclear promotional role and instead focus all of its efforts on preventing nuclear proliferation. There is no role in the 21st century for nuclear power. It is a dangerous source of proliferation, an inevitable target of terror; it is expensive and we still do not know how to dispose of the long-lived deadly nuclear wastes. Nor does it have any significant role in combating global warming. Greenpeace believes the twin threats of nuclear proliferation and global warming can be solved to a large degree by developing green and peaceful renewable energy sources. Gerd Leipold, Executive Director, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam, The Netherlands _________________________________ SOUTH ASIANS AGAINST NUKES (SAAN): An informal information platform for activists and scholars concerned about Nuclearisation in South Asia South Asians Against Nukes Mailing List: archives are available @ two locations May 1998 - March 2002: <groups.yahoo.com/group/sap/messages/1> Feb. 2001 - to date: <groups.yahoo.com/group/SAAN_/messages/1> To subscribe send a blank message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> South Asians Against Nukes Website: www.s-asians-against-nukes.org SOUTH ASIANS AGAINST NUKES (SAAN): An informal information platform for activists and scholars concerned about the dangers of Nuclearisation in South Asia SAAN Website: http://www.s-asians-against-nukes.org SAAN Mailing List: To subscribe send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAAN Mailing List Archive : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SAAN_/ ________________________________ DISCLAIMER: Opinions expressed in materials carried in the posts do not necessarily reflect the views of SAAN compilers. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SAAN_/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
