Editor,
Nuclear weapons are poor tools for making peace. Nukes are indiscriminate weapons of mass murder. They kill women, children, the sick, the ill and anyone nearby. They contaminate the gene pool of future generations with mutations and cancers. That is why weapons of mass destruction are called terror weapons, and people around the world have worked hard to get rid of them.
So why is UNM hosting a think tank meeting in the SUB on new nukes and how they can be used, most likely against Iran?
The Iranians and others who have been told they cannot have self-defense capabilities have noticed our country's plans for a new generation of offensive nukes and have pointed out the hypocrisy.
Our country used nukes on
Japan at the end of World War II, not to save lives, but to terrorize and intimidate the Soviets into abandoning the ideal of socialism. The U.S. corporate class fears it may lose control of the oil-rich Middle East to rising nationalist movements. The use of nukes for oil is not unthinkable these days.
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They expect us to ignore a nuclear war planning session hosted by UNM, which will help the oil companies.
This and other things going on at UNM recently cause me great concern. I have heard speakers appeal for help to hunt down and kill people opposed to U.S. hegemony. I have seen faculty and top administrators, who should know better, stand by while speakers praise CIA torture and killing in front of students.
Newspapers have carried reports of faculty who participate in research on directed-energy weapons that fry human tissue.
I have heard faculty deny
researching nuclear power for "Star Wars" weapons. UNM researchers have enabled breakthroughs for powerful anti-satellite lasers for the Air Force.
When I raised some of these immoral, illegal and unethical issues at a regents' meeting, I was told that the millions brought in by faculty doing these projects would trickle down to help everyone. I disagree strongly with war profiteering.
It is obvious that money from the military industrial complex has caused great harm at UNM, much as a criminal breaking into a house would steal all the jewels and assets.
If you are concerned about UNM facilitating a new nuclear attack, then come to the think tank meeting Friday from 1:30 to
4 p.m. at the SUB. Voice your concerns - the world will thank you.
Robert L. Anderson
UNM alumnus
