-Caveat Lector- Washington - Kucinich to Introduce Congressional Bill to Ban Space-based Weapons on October 2, 2001 WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Tuesday, October 2, 2001 Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) will introduce into the U.S. Congress land-mark legislation to ban space-based weapons. About his space-based weapons bill Kucinich says, "We signed the ABM treaty nearly 30 years ago; which requires a reduction in strategic arms, nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. Weaponization of space clearly violates that treaty. My bill will call for an immediate and permanent termination of research, testing, manufacturing, production and deployment of all space-based weapons systems and components by any person, agency or contractor of the U.S. government." A ban on space-based weapons is supported by three long-time proponents of peace in space, all directors of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS), a nonprofit foundation. ICIS was formed: (1) to focus attention on this legislation and a forthcoming world treaty to ban all space-based weapons, (2) to transform the space-based weapons industry into a world cooperative space industry, (3) to apply alternative energy and other technologies to solving urgent and potential human and the environmental problems, and (4) to educate about who we are in relation to the universe though the MISSION POSSIBLE plan of action. Dr. Carol Rosin, President of ICIS, a former educator, space and missile defense consultant, aerospace executive and spokesperson for the late Dr. Wernher von Braun, "father of rocketry," has testified before the US Congress and international leaders. According to Military Space (July '84) "Rosin is regarded to be the original political architect of the move to stop the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) and ASATs (Anti-satellite weapons)." Rosin says, "We've learned that stating the dangers, costs, and fallacies of the space-based weapon system will not stop them from being researched and developed, whether it is called the SDI, NMD, BMD or Star Wars. We've heard the ever-changing rationales for why this system is supposedly needed. In fact, under the guise of 'national security' and 'it's only research(!)' this has become the largest R&D program in history. We are calling for just the removal of the mandate to weaponize space and, simultaneously, for continued non-space-based weapons civil, military and commercial space R&D, applications and exploration." "This bill will soon become U.S. law, and a forthcoming world treaty will enact the world law to ban space-based weapons," Rosin says. "The timing is right. Everyone and everything is in place. It will be easy to transform the space-based weapons industry into a cooperative world space industry that will stimulate the economy, create new jobs and training programs, and expand a strong national and global security system based on a world cooperation. "We can have space battle stations and weapons pointed towards earth and into space, or we can build space habitats, hospitals, schools, farms, laboratories, industries, hotels and resorts, elevators and craft that will free us to explore the universe to find out more about ourselves and our neighbors. Imagine the exciting opportunities and benefits that will be made available to all. It's our choice," Rosin concludes. ICIS Co-Director and General Counsel, Daniel Sheehan, a Harvard Law School graduate, is famous for an impressive body of legal work including the Karen Silkwood case, Pentagon Papers case, Three Mile Island, and the Iran Contra case, and Mr. Sheehan successfully represented Harvard psychiatrist John Mack in a tenure review process. Commenting on a ban on space-based weapons, Sheehan says, "During my thirty years in the field of public interest law and public policy, I have supervised professional investigations into the illegal smuggling of weapons-grade plutonium, the illegal supply of arms to terrorist organizations by covert operations and government agents, and into ultra-"black" weapons programs unknown even to the most trusted congressional officials," says ICIS General Counsel and Co-Director Daniel Sheehan. "I have come to believe that keeping weapons out of inter-planetary space is the most important contribution we can make to the future of this planet. The time to begin this task is now." ICIS Co-Director Alfred Webre, a Yale Law School graduate and former delegate to the UNISPACE Conference in Vienna, Austria, says "The forthcoming Kucinich legislation represents a major cooperative world space development." Webre adds, "On July 26, the same date that Congressperson Kucinich announced his forthcoming bill to ban space-based weapons, the Foreign Minister of Canada, John Manley, announced in Hanoi that 'Canada would be very happy…to launch an initiative to see an international convention preventing the weaponization of space.' Congressman Kucinich reciprocated the Canadian initiative stating, 'I am pleased with the recent news from our neighbor to the north that Canada is ready to join an international effort to prohibit weapons in space.' " CONTACT: Dr. Carol Rosin, ICIS - Institute for Cooperation in Space A (501-C-3) non-profit Foundation P.O. 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