Resources
BOOKS
Arms Control Reporter
Arms Control Reporter, an annual reference journal that covers efforts to limit all types of conventional and non-conventional weapons, which is designed to guide and inform the arms control professional, working as a diplomat, researcher, journalist, or advocate. Information at http://www.armscontrolreporter.org
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy by Arjun Makhijani
Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change by Brice Smith,
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? An Assessment of the Final Report of the WMD Commission and Its Implications for U.S. Policy, May 2007 (with Western States Legal Foundation and the Reaching Critical Will project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom).
Full text of Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security online
Reaching Critical Will/Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Model Nuclear Inventory 2007 by Reaching Critical Will of WILPF, available online for free in PDF and HTML or hard copy for purchase.
ARTICLES AND PAPERS
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Fact sheet: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: What Next?
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Steve Rendall, "Ignoring the U.S.'s 'Bad Atoms': For the New York Times, Washington is NPT's enforcer, not a violator"
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
Good Faith: A Fundamental Principle of International Law, John Burroughs, News in Review, Final Edition, No. 9, 28 April – 9 May 2008
Ending U.S. Reliance on Nuclear Weapons and Achieving Their Global Elimination: Wise Policy and Required by Law, Statement of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, March 2008
Trial of the Ground Zero Three, Port Orchard, Washington, January 2007
The WMD Commission One Year Later: Impact and Assessment, John Burroughs, Disarmament Diplomacy, summer 2007
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
14-page summary of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, including the "Clean Dozen" Policy recommendations, a proposed fully renewable electricity grid, and the Roadmap of timelined steps to get from here to a carbon-free, nuclear-free future.
Gender and Disarmament: NGO presentation to the 2008 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee
New York Metro, Abolition 2000
Sustainable Energy, Shifting the Paradigm: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
A Sustainable Energy Future is Possible Now
Counterpunch Article: Seize the Moment for a Nuclear Free World: The Iran Opening
Counterpunch Article: There's No Such Thing as a Peaceful Nuke: A Nobel Prize for Chernobyl?
Yes Magazine: The ABCs of Nuclear Disarmament
A Roadmap for US Presidential Leadership for Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Proliferation: Finding the Common Thread
A Sustainable Energy Future is Possible Now!
Time for an International Renewable Energy Agency: Nuclear Power is No Solution to Global Warming
Reaching Critical Will/Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
"The Relevance of Gender for Eliminating Weapons of Mass Destruction," Carol Cohn, Felicity Hill, and Sara Ruddick
What is Disarmament? A basic overview of the disarmament cause. What do we want? Why do we want it? How are we going to get it? by Felicity Hill, former director of WILPF UN office, and Oliver Meier, formerly of VERTIC.
Decoding Disarmament Diplomacy: A manual for those learning about disarmament Includes an acronym decoder, nuclear fuel cycle glossary, descriptions of major treaties and institutions, and more. Written by Felicity Hill, former director of WILPF UN office.
Fact Sheet: The Environment and the Nuclear Age
Fact Sheet: Health Affects and the Nuclear Age
Fact Sheet: Indigenous People and the Nuclear Age
Fact Sheet: Nuclear Energy
Fact Sheet : The Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Western States Legal Foundation
Nuclear Weapons Forever: The U.S. Plan to Modernize its Nuclear Weapons Complex, Western States Legal Foundation Information Brief, Andrew Lichterman, Spring 2008
War is Peace, Arms Racing is Disarmament: The Non-Proliferation Treaty and the U.S. Quest for Global Military Dominance, Andrew Lichterman, WSLF special report, 2005. full document (pdf) summary (6 pages, pdf) Information Brief version (2 pages, pdf)
"After Arms Control: Experts and Disarmament in a Changed World" Andrew Lichterman, International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation Information Bulletin No. 22, December 2003
Next generation strategic weapons and the possibility of arms races to come, Andrew Lichterman, DisarmamentActivist.org, 2007
"Divine Strake"and the talk of a nuclear attack on Iran, Andrew Lichterman, DisarmamentActivist.org, 2007
For more information on the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, related high-tech weapons programs, and their impacts on disarmament efforts, visit the WSLF Document Library
PRESENTATIONS
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Carbon Free Nuclear Free powerpoint presentation http://www.ieer.org/carbonfree/CFNF-slides.pdf
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Nuclear Weapons and the Human Future PowerPoint presentation (big file ~50 Mb)
Western States Legal Foundation
StratCom in Context: The Hidden Architecture of U.S. Militarism, Presentation by Jacqueline Cabasso at the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space annual meeting, Omaha, Nebraska April 12, 2008 (pdf files) text slides
Security at the Crossroads: National Security vs. Human Security, Jacqueline Cabasso, presentation at conference on "A European Union for Peace and Solidarity," Paris, France: March 10, 2008. pdf.
AUDIO AND VIDEO CLIPS
Positions of the Presidential candidates on nuclear energy
Barack Obama on nuclear energy
John McCain on nuclear energy
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
A three-minute summary of the book Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy
An hour-long Interview with Dr. Arjun Makhijani: 'Debunking the "nuclear renaissance" from the Ecological Options Network
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
27,000 Holocausts, Pinky Show interview with John Burroughs, February 7, 2007
What is a Crime Against Humanity? Pinky Show interview with Peter Weiss, December 11,
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Nuclear Weapons and the Human Future," a 20-minute video introduction to the issue, outlining the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's case against nuclear weapons. You can preview the video and order a free DVD copy at http://www.wagingpeace.org/dvd
Western States Legal Foundation
"In the Shadow of the Bomb Nuclear Proliferation in a Time of War," on Other Voices," Peninsula Peace and Justice Center's Award-Winning Monthly Forum & TV Program.
FEATURE FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES
The Last Atomic Bomb by Robert Richter and Kathleen Sullivan
White Light Black Rain by Steven Okazaki
The Mushroom Club by Steven Okazaki
Genie in a Bottle: Unleashed by Stephen Sotor and Trace Gaynor
Final Frontier: Explores or Warriors? by Stephen Sotor and Trace Gaynor
Original Child Bomb by Carey Schonegevel
Two powerful, recent films about Chernobyl:
Chernobyl Heart by Maryann De Leo
Half-life: A Journey to Chernobyl by David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabskyhttp://www.half-life.org.uk/
Older films:
Dark Circle by Judy Irving and Chris Beaver
Nagasaki Journey by Judy Irving and Chris Beaver
The Atomic Filmmakers: Behind the Scenes
Cult Classics:
Black Rain
Dr. Strangelove On the Beach
Atomic Cafe
The Day After
Hiroshima Mon Amour
WEB GUIDES AND RESOURCES
Reaching Critical Will/Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Dirty Dozen: Corporate Partners in Mass Destruction Profiles of thirteen (a baker's dozen) corporations that are deeply involved in researching, developing, and manufacturing nuclear weapons and nuclear power.
List of disarmament and arms control treaties.
UN General Assembly Fact Sheet: Why is the General Assembly important for disarmament?
Background information and primary resources on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
NGO statements from the 2008 NPT Preparatory Committee
Background information and primary resources on the Conference on Disarmament
Reaching Critical Will's Guide to the CD
Background information and primary resources from the UN Disarmament Commission
Information about Gender and Disarmament
Resources for Disarmament Education
Resources and information on Iran's nuclear programme
Resources and information on North Korea's nuclear programme
Information about the US-India Deal
Database of contact information for disarmament NGOs around the world
PETITIONS AND ACTIONS
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Preformatted pdf postcards for mailing to presidential candidates and excutive agencies demanding concrete steps towards elimination of nuclear arsenals.
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Petition: Sign on the Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Statement of Principles.
New York Metro--Abolition 2000
Campaign to support International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has compiled quotes from the major candidates for US president. View quotes for all current candidates (as well as former candidates).
Reaching Critical Will/Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Petitioning Congress to declare August 6 Nuclear Disarmament Day
Join the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in petitioning Congress to declare August 6 National Nuclear Disarmament Day. Gather signatures at your Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day events and all through August. Mail them to WILPF, 1213 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107 by September 5 for delivery to Congress during the week of September 15. Download the petition here
Western States Legal Foundation
Engaging Cities in Advocacy for a Nuclear Weapon Free World
Together with Mayors for Peace and the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, WSLF is working to make the connection between nuclear weapons and the military-industrial complex that sustains them and the social and economic crisis facing our cities. Find out more about how you can get involved on the Engaging Cities web page.
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SPEAKERS
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
6935 Laurel Ave. Suite 201
Takoma Park, Maryland, 20912, USA
Tel. 1-301-270-5500
Fax 1-301-270-3029
www.ieer.org
Dr. Arjun Makhijani is The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research's president and was the principal author of the first ever study on the energy efficiency potential of the U.S. economy (1971) and the first detailed technical and economic analysis to show that a fully renewable energy economy is feasible in the United States (Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, 2007). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (specialization: nuclear fusion). His 1978 analysis of Tennessee Valley Authority electricity system was instrumental in the cancellation of eight nuclear power plants by the TVA Board between 1978 and 1982 (see Foreword by S. David Freeman to Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free). He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in November 2007 for "his tireless efforts to provide the public with accurate and understandable information on energy and environmental issues." He was a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award of the Tides Foundation in 2007.
Jennifer Nordstrom is coordinating the campaign for a Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free (CFNF) US energy policy for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. She is organizing national and regional networks for CFNF and is an entertaining and dynamic speaker on the subject. Before coming to IEER, Nordstrom served as the project manager of the Reaching Critical Will project (www.reachingcriticalwill.org) of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. There, she organized global civil society networks at the international level, focusing on international policy and law on nuclear weapons. She also served as the NGO liaison to the UN for the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the UN General Assembly's First Committee on Disarmament and International Security. She is experienced at long-distance web organizing, as well as in-person organizing with diverse groups. She has engaged in advocacy with diplomats, international civil servants, and US legislators. She has written and edited newsletters covering international nuclear disarmament processes, was the editor of the 2007 Model Nuclear Inventory, a co-author of the book Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security?, and has been published in several disarmament journals. She has spoken at the UN and various peace and disarmament conferences in the US and abroad.
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP)
866 UN Plaza, Suite 4050
New York, NY 10017-1830 USA
Tel. (212) 818 1861
Fax: (212) 818 1857
www.lcnp.org
John Burroughs, Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP) in New York (www.lcnp.org), is a specialist on treaty regimes and international law relating to nuclear and other non-conventional weapons. He represents LCNP at Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty meetings and the United Nations, and in U.S. networks and campaigns including United for Peace and Justice and the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. He is co-editor and contributor, Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security (1997); co-editor and contributor, Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties (2003); and author, The Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the International Court of Justice (1998). He also has published articles on disarmament issues in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the World Policy Journal, and other journals. Dr. Burroughs is also an adjunct professor of international law at Rutgers Law School - Newark.
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1
Santa Barbara, CA 93108-2794
Tel: (805) 965-3443
www.wagingpeace.org
David Krieger, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Dr. Krieger has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia on issues of peace, security, international law, and the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Richard Falk, Chair of the Board, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He is the Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a recipient of the UNESCO Peace Education Prize.
Prof. Falk has provided expert testimony in many high profile cases and legislative and administrative hearings. He is the author, co-author or editor of more than 40 books on international law and the law of war.
Rick Wayman, Director of Programs, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Rick Wayman joined the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in 2007. Rick came to the Foundation from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in London, England, where he worked as Press & Communications Officer during the intense campaign to prevent the replacement of Trident, the UK's nuclear weapons system.
Nick Roth, Washington DC Office Director, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He edits the NuclearFiles.org Project, which provides educators, students and concerned citizens worldwide access to primary source documents, historiography, and comprehensive analysis on the political, legal and ethical challenges of the Nuclear Age. Having worked both in the United States and abroad, he has implemented educational programs relating to nuclear history, policy and disarmament.
Steve Stormoen, Youth Empowerment Coordinator, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He is a recent graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has worked on issues of nuclear abolition and militarism for a number of years.
Nick Robinson, Program Associate, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He is a recent graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has worked on issues of nuclear abolition and militarism for a number of years.
Reaching Critical Will/Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Reaching Critical Will
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, UN Office
777 UN Plaza, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10017
tel: 212.682.1265
fax: 212.286.8211
www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Ms. Ray Acheson is the project associate of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She edits and writes for all of Reaching Critical Will's publications, organizes civil society involvement in multilateral disarmament meetings, and conducts research on critical issues related to disarmament. Ray is also the associate editor of the Arms Control Reporter, a reference journal that provides information and analysis on international arms control and disarmament issues. She has worked extensively with the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, an organization founded during the Nuclear Freeze movement of the 1980s, tracking the manufacture and trade of conventional weapon systems. Ray graduated from the University of Toronto with an Honours BA in Peace and Conflict Studies.
Western States Legal Foundation
Western States Legal Foundation
655 13th Street, Suite 201
Preservation Park
Oakland, CA 94612 USA
phone: (510) 839-5877
fax: (510) 839-5397
www.wslfweb.org
Jackie Cabasso, Eexcutive Director. Jackie has served as executive director of Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF) since 1984. A leading voice for nuclear weapons abolition, Jackie travels frequently, speaking at public hearings, conferences and rallies, and meeting with organizers throughout the world. She has participated as a non-governmental organization representative in regular review sessions of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since 1994. In 1995, she was a "founding mother" of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. Jackie serves on the Steering Committee of United for Peace and Justice and convenes its Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security working group. She has written for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the journal Social Justice. She is a co-author of Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? U.S. Weapons of Terror, the Global Proliferation Crisis and Paths to Peace (2007), and Risking Peace: Why We Sat in the Road (1985), an account of the mass nonviolent protest at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab in 1983. She currently serves as North American Coordinator for Mayors for Peace.
Andrew Lichterman is a lawyer and the principal research analyst for the Western States Legal Foundation. He has represented peace and environmental activists in settings ranging from defense of demonstrators in cases arising out of nonviolent direct action protests to environmental proceedings concerning the impacts of nuclear weapons research, development, testing, and deployment. Mr. Lichterman writes extensively on U.S. nuclear weapons and military space programs and their impacts on international arms control regimes and prospects for disarmament. In recent years his main focus has been on making connections between disarmament work and broader movements for real human security--for peace, a fair and democratically controlled economy, and an ecologically sustainable way of life.
