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and particularly th* U.S. Navy had adaaantly r«fu««d any Sovltt offvr to 

 r«duc« or vvvn discufti thv problM of tactical naval nuclaar waapons. 



Fortunately, President Gorbachev responded in'kind, and went further by 

 proposing a autual total eliaination of tactical nuclear weapons at sea. 

 President Bush did not take President Gorbachev up on his offer. But in early 

 July 1992, President Bush announced his Septeaber proposals had been fully 

 iapleaented, i.e. that no eore ships or submarines carried tactical weapons 

 during peacetiee, and that B57 nuclear depth boabs deployed overseas in the 

 U.K. and Italy had been brought back to the United States. We are awaiting a 

 parallel announceaent froa the Russian Navy. Ua also hope that despite 

 President Bush's position, we aay see the total eliaination of tactical naval 

 nuclear weapons soon. 



Uj — Qrttnpeace Nuclear Free 8ta* Activities in the Soviet.Union and Russia 



Two years ago, spurred by our investigation of naval nuclear accidents, 

 we began to focus on naval nuclear probleas in the Soviet Union. Since 

 February 1990, I personally have visited Russia six tiaes for extended 

 periods. I Just returned froa a three-week trip, including two weeks in tha 

 Vladivostok and Khabarovsk regions on 9 August. Other Oreanpeacers have spent 

 siailar aaounts of tiae there, and we also have a Greenpeace Russia office in 

 Moscow. 



We have aade a special effort to go where the probleas are. I have bean 

 to the Vladivostok area three tiaas, Patropavlovsk-Kaachatskii once, 

 Severodvinsk on the Uhite Sea twice, once to fluraansk, and have aade several 

 visits to ftoscow. Other Oreenpeacars have visited these areas and 

 Krasnoyarsk. Also we have brought a Greenpeace boat to Huraansk on the Kola 

 peninsula and Nakhodka in the Far East, and landed a teaa on Novaya Zealya, 

 the Russian nuclear-test site, in October 1990. 



In each of these trips wa have distributed translated copies of our 

 inforaation dealing with Russian naval accidents. Ua have also sought further 

 Inforaatian about nuclaar concerns in the regions and about probleas with the 

 Soviet nuclear subaarine force in general. 



To verify ind expand our database of inforaation, w« have ebtainad 

 official docuaents relating to these probleas, visited sites of nuclear 

 contaaination and storage areas with radiation aeasuring instruaents, and held 

 aeetings with supreae soviet aeabers, people's deputies, local ecologists and 

 environaental authorities, health officials, radiation aonitoring specialists, 

 subaarine plant officers, and senior Navy captains and adairals with 

 responsibilities relating to nuclear subaarines. 



He also held a unique conference in Aoscow in Septeaber 1991 in 

 conjunction with the Russian Inforaation Agency to exaaine the deadly nuclear 

 legacy of the Soviet Navy. At this conference we asseabled citizens, 

 officials, and specialists for the first tiae froa Petropavlovsk, Vladivostok, 

 Severodvinsk, and Kuraansk with western specialists and Moscow officials to 

 share inforaation about the probleas in their regions. Ue also brought 



