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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

War Memorial Gym Mon- SALT Hi treaty, which was build 17,000 more bombs in 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

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She denounced President Ronald Reagan for his plans to build 30 more Trident submarines, each Trident sub carnes 24 missiles, with 240 bombs (each equivalent

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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- ped in Vancouver: persons turning into human missiles,

being vaporized, Park Royal 5605 E. Hastings decapitated, or melted, 926-1610 299-9737 buildings being flattened,

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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