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Our New DVD is Now Available - Order a Free Copy Today
The Foundation's new DVD, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, is now available. The featured 8-minute video, available in both English and Spanish, highlights the importance of US leadership to achieve a nuclear-free world.
Click here to preview the video and order your free copy.
Daniel Ellsberg's Memoirs: The American Doomsday Machine
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Distinguished Fellow Daniel Ellsberg is releasing installments of his memoirs The American Doomsday Machine. Read them here as they are released or subscribe to our RSS feed.
Ellsberg spent six years researching and consulting with the US government on nuclear war planning, and is best known for releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
Installment 1: American Planning for a Hundred Holocausts
US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World at the UN
On September 24, 2009, President Barack Obama chaired a special session of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) focusing on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. The UNSC unanimously passed Resolution 1887, which calls for a nuclear weapons-free world. The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation applauds President Obama for his leadership and provides suggestions for next steps (see below).
- Press Release: Obama's Leadership at UN Security Council Applauded
- Analysis: A Major Step Forward on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament by David Krieger
- Analysis: David Krieger's Interview with Jack Rice on Air America Radio
- Data: UN Security Council Resolution 1887
- Fact Sheet: White House Fact Sheet on UNSC Resolution 1887
- Transcript: President Obama's Remarks to the UN Security Council
A Petition to President Obama for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has joined with organizations around the US and the world in a petition campaign calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. It will be presented at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in May 2010.
Click here to sign the petition online
Click here to download a paper copy of the petition.
Additional Reading
- Daredevils for Peace by Judith Mayotte
- Building Cultures of Peace by Riane Eisler
- Preventing Omnicide by David Krieger
- The Berlin Wall Had to Fall, But Today's World Is No Fairer by Mikhail Gorbachev
- 'A World Without Nuclear Weapons' Might Still be Possible by Phyllis Bennis
- The Atomic Bombing, The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and the Shimoda Case: Lessons for Anti-Nuclear Legal Movements by Yuki Tanaka and Richard Falk
- Nuclear Disarmament Now by Bill Wickersham
- Hiroshima Beckons Obama by John Einarsen
- Daisaku Ikeda's Proposal for Nuclear Weapons Abolition by David Krieger
- The Commitment to a Nuclear-Free World: A Historical Perspective by Lawrence Wittner
- Statement on the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize by David Krieger
- Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia by Chris Hedges
- Make a Career of Humanity by Paul Chappell
- Still Loving the Bomb After All These Years by David Krieger
- Statement of Hope In a Year of Opportunity: Seeking a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World by the World Council of Churches
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