Citizen Inspections: LOS ALAMOS LAB

At Los Alamos, the "Citizen Verification Team" included Pakistani-born physicist Zia Mian and Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton.  Their announced intention was to inspect three particular facilities in America's premier nuclear city, with these goals:

"1) to educate the public about the United States' own weapons of mass destruction;
2) to call for international transparency regarding all programs which design, produce, or stockpile weapons of mass destruction; and
3) to inspire a process of societal verification to bolster nonproliferation and disarmament efforts."

The six-member team, looking somewhat official in identical U.N.-style blue windbreakers, was met at the main entrance by a lab official who told them "You are uncleared visitors to our laboratory, and by law are not allowed access to our facilities."

"That's exactly what Iraq says," responded Dr. Mian, a specialist on nuclear proliferation in South Asia. The team then undertook a walking tour to the gate of each questionable facility, and used each location as a backdrop to describe to the media how LANL is breaking international law, defying U.N. resolutions, and immorally threatening human security.

For more information contact the  Los Alamos Study Group, 212 E. Marcy St. #7, Santa Fe, NM 87501. (505)982-7747, e-mail: lasg@igc.org

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last updated July 10 1998