SAN DIEGO 1997

The speaker schedule already reads like a compiled reference list from Access to Energy and is becoming even better as additional outstanding people agree to participate. So far, the confirmed speakers are: Sallie Baliunas, staff astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Deputy Director of the Mount Wilson Institute, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the George C. Marshall Institute, will speak about the ozone depletion fraud that is beginning to wreak hundreds of billions of dollars of damage world-wide as technology is distorted to fit political agendas.

Bernard Cohen, Professor of Physics and Director of the Radon Project at the University of Pittsburgh and an internationally respected authority in health physics, will discuss his research showing a correla- tion between home radon levels and lung cancer (the higher the radon levels, the lower the cancer death rate at the ordinarily found radon lev- els) and its implications regarding the no-threshold hypothesis.

R. Michael Dowe, Jr., Chief Executive Officer of Information Systems Laboratories, will discuss Electron-Beam Irradiation - a safe and economical procedure for eliminating food-borne disease.

Gordon Edwards, Professor of Biological Science and Medical Entomologist at San Jose State University, will speak about DDT and other pesticides - their enormous benefits in the saving of hundreds of millions of human lives and their realistic biological risks.

Robert Jastrow, Director of the Mount Wilson Institute and Director of the George C. Marshall Institute, will speak about current tech- nology available for strategic defense and the urgent need to deploy it.

Cresson Kearny, America's foremost expert on expedient civil defense and on jungle warfare equipment and procedures, will speak about both of these subjects.

Stanford S. Penner, Professor of Engineering Physics at the University of California at San Diego and Editor-in-Chief of Energy - The International Journal, will speak about United States energy supplies for the 21st Century. If your primary interest is access to energy, this presentation alone will be worth the trip.

Michael Sanera, co-author with Jane Shaw of Facts Not Fear - A Parent's Guide to Teaching Children About the Environment, will speak about environmental education - as it is and as it ought to be.

Edward Teller will speak about the Use of Observation Satellites to Observe Political or Natural Events of Interest and will present the annual Edward Teller award to the person he has chosen as the 1997 recipient (Dr. Teller, for reasons of age and health, is considering video taping this year's presentation in order to avoid the rigors of travel.)

Robert Zubrin, America's foremost advocate of immediate human travel to Mats and colonization of that planet, will speak about Mars travel and habitability and the Mars Direct project.

There will be six additional speakers of comparable accomplishment and expertise. The remainder of the program will be announced in the April issue of Access to Energy.

The DDP meeting format will provide one full hour for each speaker's presentation. There will also be ample opportunity to ask questions and to meet with the speakers individually at two luncheons, the dinner and awards banquet, and various breaks in the formal schedule. Registtation for the meeting is $95 per person., which includes both luncheons and the banquet.. Rooms at the Bahia for participants are $99 per night single or double. A CD-ROM including audio recordings, some with figures and manuscripts, of the 1991 through 1996 DDP meetings will be available at a discount at the meeting.

The 1997 meeting begins on Friday afternoon with recreational activity and a reception Friday evening. All of the formal presentations will be on Saturday and Sunday. The banquet is Saturday evening. Sunday evening there will be an opportunity for participants who are not invited speakers to make short presentations.

This is the 15th annual meeting of DDP, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. The conference is co-sponsored by Access to Energy and Physicians for Civil Defense. There are a limited number of rooms, SO it would be wise to register early with DDP, 2509 North Campbell, Box 272, Tucson, AZ 85719-3362, telephone (520) 325-2680.

Founded as an organization with a special interest in emergency response to natural and man-made disasters, DDP has expanded its purview to include, in addition, many of the slow-motion disasters of our time - especially those resulting from the political misuse of science. Dr. Jane M. Orient is responsible for the excellent annual meetings which have grown in popularity as a result of the very outstanding in- dividuals who have agreed to participate.