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Steps to a nuclear-free world

Auteur	LAKA
	1-01-2-12-03.pdf
Datum	1995
Classificatie	1.01.2.12/03 (LAKA (VML.KERNENERGIEARCHIEF))
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STEPS TO A NUCLEAR-FREE WORLD

INTRODUCTION

From January 12 to October 12 1995, hundreds of people plan to walk through a 
large part of Europe for a nuclear free world. The walk is being organised by For 
Mother Earth and starts in Brussels. It will go through Paris, London, Antwerp, 
Frankfurt, Prague, Vienna, Bratistava, Kiev, Chernobyl, Minsk and will end in 
Moscow.

From the start it was obvious that the walk would be, among other things, a good 
way to spread information on several nuclear issues which are currently relevant 
in many European countries and on international issues especially relevant in 1995.
.... In 1995 it is exactly 50 years ago that the dawn of the nuclear age broke. On 
July 16, 1945, the first ever nuclear test explosion took place, followed two weeks 
later by the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
.... Exactly 25 years ago a treaty came into being, aimed at stopping the spread of 
nuclear weapons: the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
In 1995 an extension conference will take place in New York.
.... 40 years after the first call for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) by 
president Nehru of India, no such treaty has yet been accomplished. Talks have 
been going on in the Conference for Disarmament of the UN to achieve such a 
treaty in 1995.
.... October 12, 1995 is the International Day for Solidarity with Indigenous People. 
For Mother Earth wishes to raise awareness on how nuclear developments continue 
to affect Indigenous People (i.e. nuclear testing, uranium mining and nuclear waste), 
thus violating these people's rights to self-determination.
For those reasons we felt we had to do something important in 1995… and after 
six months of preparation, we can honestly say we succeeded in getting the Walk 
on the road.

Hopefully the Walk will be the feather which softly falls onto the scale, and makes 
the difference for a complete halt of nuclear testing, a drastic review of the NPT…
and empowers local activists in their, struggle for a nuclear-free world.

This brochure is part of the information that will be spread during the 'Walk across 
Europe'. It presents the first half of the whole nuclear information project. The 
second part will contain status reports of some 30 countries and reports on special 
topics (i.e., results of the NPT extension conference, Hiroshima/Nagasaki, US-
Euratom Treaty). Each country report will deal with country-related up-to-date 
information and will be published during the nine months walk. You can obtain 
these reports during the walk at the For Mother Earth information desk, or at the 
international office in Gent, Belgium.