Citizens Inspections: Questionnaire

This form has been written to help citizen weapon insepctors to gather information related to the storage of nuclear weapons. Citizens inspections can also be carried out at sites where weapons are also developed, tested, manufactured, transported, and in locations from where their use is planned.
Citizen inspections can also be carried out at site where weapons other than nuclear weapons (especially those that inflict long term unnecessary suffering such as Depleted Uranium, Chemical and Biological weapons) are being developed, tested, manufactured, transported and in locations from where their use is planned.
In these case, you will need to adapt the questions.

You can find more details on the international law referred to in these questions in the inspection handbook.

Please send any interesting responses you receive to these questions, or any feedback on this form to: pol@motherearth.org

Inspection details

Name of Inspector:________________
Time beginning of Inspection: _________
Name of site being inspected: _____________________
Date of Inspection: _____________________

Person being interviewed:
Name: _____________________
Age: _____________________
Soldier / Police / Civilian (delete those which do not apply)
Rank / Function: _____________________
Normal place of employment (in many cases extra police and soldiers will be brought in to the area): _____________________
Number of years service: _____________________

Questions:

1. Do you know about any nuclear weapons being stored in this site?
If yes, ask for some evidence.
If no, you can confront the interviewee with evidence that you already have.
The respondent might say that they can't answer that question. If that is the case, you can inform them about the Nuremberg Principles which give everyone (politicians, military, civilians) the duty to prevent war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The International Court of Justice ruled (July 1996) that these principles also apply to nuclear weapons.

2. What type of nuclear weapons are being stored on this site? How many are being stored?

3. From which country do these nuclear weapons come? Who has control over the nuclear weapons?

4. In the case that the nuclear weapons are from a foreign country, ask the person about his knowledge of the Non-proliferation treaty. The nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty states that nuclear weapons cannot be transferred from a nuclear weapon state to a non nuclear weapon state.

5. Are you aware of the effects of nuclear weapons?
Nuclear weapons cause massive amounts of deaths, unnecessary suffering, and cannot distinguish between soldiers and civilians, and would affect countries not involved in conflict.

6. Do you think it could ever be morally justified to use nuclear weapons?

7. Are you aware of the International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the use or threat of nuclear weapons, issued in July 1996?
This advisory opinion stated that, for the reasons mentioned above, the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons would generally be against international law.

8. Do you think that it can be justified to spend money on nuclear weapons that could be better spent on housing, education, health etc?

9. Do you have any other comments that you would like to make?

10. Can we carry out an inspection of the inside of the base?