Al2 - Sunday, December 2, 1984 - North Shore News

NUCLEAR THREAT

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS are so grim that
if the buildup of nuclear weapons is not halted,
nuclear annihilation will become a mathematical

certainty.

That was the message Dr.
Helen Caldicout, president
emeritus of the American
Physicians for Social Re-
sponsibility, delivered to a
capacity audience at UBC's

By JOANNE MacDONALD

minutes, hundreds of mil-
hons of human beings. The
seventh Trident about to be
launched will violate the

Physician warns of
‘global gas oven’

ratified by, but it has been
abided by. Russia ratified it.
It's possible one of these
could induce nuclear winter,
we're not sure, and destroy
all life on the planet,’’ said
Caldicott, adding the U.S.
has a total of 30,000 nuclear
bombs compared to the
Soviet Union's 20,000. She
said Reagan also plans to

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day. not signed by America, or the next 10 years.

Caldicott said over half
the U.S. scientists and

engineers are currently
working “to create a global
gas oven "

“They're making a lot of
money out of it, it’s terrific
fun, it’s intellectually very
challenging and boy, are -
they moving toward = an-
nihilation. They are so
stupid,’’ said Caldicott.
‘The same is happening in
the Soviet Umon. They are

so stuptd.”’
Caldicott said = surveys
done in Canada, New

Zealand, Austraha, the U.S.
and Scandinavia show up to
78 per cent of children know
they will be killed in a nu-
clear war before adulthood.

‘“‘They (children) see us
unconcerned, lacking in
courage to change the

priorities in our lives to save
their lives. And children are
very perceptive. They know

we're frightened,’’ said
Caldicott. ‘‘Children = are
totally vulnerable to the

truth. We have brought our
children into a world where
they perceive and know they
have no future.’”

She slammed U.S. foreign
policies concerning the arms
race, dismissing the pohcy of
deterrence which grew out of
the 1960s **Somewhere
along the line in the nuclear
age, America and ( anada
lost their souls, as did the
Soviet Unton *"" She also crit
rized President Ronald
Reagan for failng to negou
ate a bi-lateral disarmament

NEWS photo Chris Cameron
DR. HELEN Caldicott addresses a Vancouver audience in

her role as president of the Physicians for Social Responsi-
bility.

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world leaders. ‘*The hostility
between Russtan and
America is greater than at
any time since the Russian
Revolution. Men like Averill
Harriman aré saying never
before have we been closer
to nuclear war, even during
the Cuban missile crisis.”’
She detailed the horrors of
nuclear war in the event that
a 20 megaton bomb its drop-
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vegetation and animal life
destroyed.

‘The Russians have 8,500
bombs they can drop on us
in half an hour. We've got
11,000 we can drop on them
in a similar period of time.
There are only 200 major
cities in North America. The
Federation of American
Scientists say if the attack
occurs in the summer, this
continent could burn, coast
to coast, north to south and
disappear,”’ said Caldicott.

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