| | Nuclear Weapons Exact a Terrible Price, by Urs Cipolat |
 | | The impending expiration of its lab oversight contracts with the Department of Energy offers UC [University of California] a unique opportunity to disengage from aiding and abetting in the violation of international law and the potential commission of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws of war. |
 | | New nuclear weapons research and design programs, combined with the expansion of nuclear weapons labs, undermine the international non-proliferation regime, stimulate the spread of nuclear weapons, and enhance the risk of these horrific weapons actually being used. |
 | | This has been confirmed at the last Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference in 2000, when the United States signed on to "An unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon States to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals leading to nuclear disarmament to which all States parties [to the NPT] are committed under Article VI." |
| www.wagingpeace.org /articles/2004/05/06_cipolat_weapons-price.htm (433 words) |