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  • NAPF Honors David Krieger at the 2019 Evening for Peace

    NAPF Honors David Krieger at the 2019 Evening for Peace

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    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation honored David Krieger at the 2019 Evening for Peace, which took place on October 20, 2019.

    David co-founded the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in 1982 and has led the organization as its President for nearly four decades. He has dedicated his life’s work to ending the nuclear age and has been a mentor, a respected colleague, and an inspiration to countless people across the globe.

    Use the arrows on the photo below to scroll through our 2019 Evening for Peace photo album.

    2019 Evening for Peace

    Highlights of the 36th Annual Evening for Peace

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    Soka University Koto Club

    The Koto Club of Soka University of America performed at the Evening for Peace.

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    Anna Ikeda

    Anna Ikeda, Program Associate for the SGI Office of UN Affairs, presented David Krieger with the Soka Award of Honor.

    Audio of Anna Ikeda’s award presentation.

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    Daniel Ellsberg

    Transcript of NAPF Distinguished Fellow Daniel Ellsberg’s remarks.

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    Perie Longo

    Perie Longo read three poems at the Evening for Peace.

    A Poem for the Crossroads by David Krieger.

    I Refuse by David Krieger

    For David Krieger by Perie Longo.

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    Sandy Jones and Hal Maynard

    Sandy Jones and Hal Maynard performed an original song they wrote for David Krieger.

    Video and audio coming soon.

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    Mara Sweeney

    Dr. Mara Sweeney spoke passionately about David Krieger: her father, “the peace dude.”

    Transcript of Mara Sweeney’s remarks.

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    Robert Laney

    NAPF Board Chair Robert Laney delivered remarks about David Krieger’s career.

    Transcript of Robert Laney’s remarks.

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    David Krieger

    NAPF President David Krieger accepted the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award.

    Transcript of David Krieger’s remarks.

    Audio of David Krieger’s remarks.

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    Rick Wayman

    NAPF’s incoming CEO, Rick Wayman, delivered closing remarks on the past, present, and future of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

    Transcript of Rick Wayman’s remarks.

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    Issue #264 – July 2019

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    Perspectives

    • New Modes of Thinking by David Krieger
    • Why We Brought Hammers to a Nuclear Fight by Patrick O’Neill
    • U.S. Setting the Stage for War with Iran by Silvia De Michelis
    • Yes, the Trump-Kim DMZ Meeting Was a Breakthrough – Here’s What Should Come Next by Christine Ahn

    U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

    • U.S. Drastically Understaffing Arms Control Office
    • Plutonium Pit Plan Raises Questions

    Nuclear Proliferation

    • Nuclear-Armed Countries Upgrading Arsenals While Total Number of Weapons Decreases

    Nuclear Disarmament

    • U.S. Conference of Mayors Highlights Nuclear Disarmament
    • Multiple Cities and States Support Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

    Nuclear Insanity

    • One-Third of U.S. Supports Nuclear War on North Korea, Knowing It Would Kill One Million

    Nuclear Waste

    • Nuclear Waste Storage Plan Draws Criticism

    Resources

    • This Summer in Nuclear Threat History
    • Is Your Bank Financing Nuclear Weapons?
    • Nuclear Weapons and the 2020 Presidential Candidates

    Foundation Activities

    • Peace Literacy in the Workplace: Summer Workshop in Corvallis, Oregon
    • Peace Literacy and Alternatives to Violence
    • Sadako Peace Day

    Take Action

    • Put a Formal End to the Korean War

    Quotes

    Perspectives

    New Modes of Thinking

    “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” ~Albert Einstein

    This is a prescient warning to humanity from the greatest scientist of the 20th century, the individual who conceived of the enormous power that could be released from the atom.

    What did Einstein mean?

    To read more, click here.

    Why We Brought Hammers to a Nuclear Fight

    On April 4, 2018, the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King’s assassination, I joined six other Catholic pacifists in an attempt to symbolically enflesh the prophet Isaiah’s command to “beat swords into plowshares.”

    After cutting a lock, we entered Naval Station Kings Bay in St. Marys, GA with hammers, baby bottles of blood and crime scene tape to expose the horrific D-5 nuclear weapons aboard the Trident submarines that imperil life as we know it on Planet Earth.

    We used high drama as a wake-up call to hopefully get people thinking about the fate of the earth and human survival. Never before has our world been more at risk of the prospect of nuclear war. The Doomsday Clock, maintained by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, stands at two minutes to midnight.

    To read the full op-ed in the Raleigh News & Observer, click here.

    U.S. Setting the Stage for War with Iran

    Three episodes [Iran shooting down a U.S. drone, and two attacks against oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman], which left no casualties, set into motion powerful forces within the Trump administration that have the apparent intention to wage war against Iran whilst lacking the support of provable hard evidence.

    In the immediate aftermath of the incident concerning the explosion of part of the two oil tankers, the U.S. put forward a narrative depicting Iranians as “evil-doers” – George Bush’s favorite exploited expression in the run-up to the war against Iraq in 2003. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has defined these alleged Iranian attacks as “a clear threat to international peace and security.” This harkens back to when U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, lied about evidence of the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq at the United Nations Security Council, and obtained the support the U.S. needed to pave the way to war.

    To read more, click here.

    Yes, the Trump-Kim DMZ Meeting Was a Breakthrough – Here’s What Should Come Next

    President Donald Trump did what no sitting U.S. president has done: he crossed the demarcation line dividing the two Koreas at Panmunjom and set foot on North Korean soil. Not only that, he greeted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and together they traversed the cement border and met South Korean President Moon Jae In. Then, President Trump sat down with Kim for a 50-minute conversation in the Freedom House in South Korea.

    It’s time to acknowledge that the root cause of the nuclear crisis is the continuing state of war between the United States and North Korea. The Korean War is not over: we have yet to replace the 1953 ceasefire with a formal peace agreement.

    To read the full op-ed by NAPF Adviser Christine Ahn in Newsweek, click here.

    U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

    U.S. Drastically Understaffing Arms Control Office

    The U.S. Office of Strategic Stability and Deterrence Affairs has become critically understaffed during the first two years of the Trump presidency, with its staff decreasing from 14 to 4. The arms control office is tasked with negotiating and implementing nuclear disarmament treaties, and its main mission is to implement the remaining nuclear arms control agreements with Russia, namely New START.

    The current situation leaves the State Department unequipped to pursue nuclear arms control negotiations prior to New START’s expiration date of February 21, 2021. If it is allowed to expire, the U.S. and Russia (formerly the Soviet Union) would be without any type of formal arms control agreement for the first time since 1972.

    Julian Borger, “U.S. Arms Control Office Critically Understaffed Under Trump, Experts Say,” The Guardian, July 1, 2019.

    Plutonium Pit Plan Raises Questions

    A proposal by the Department of Energy (DOE) to expand production of plutonium pits – the core of a nuclear weapon – at the Savannah River Site is drawing criticism from local watchdogs. Savannah River Site Watch claims that DOE’s pit production plan is “unfunded, unjustified, and unauthorized.”

    SRS Watch spokesman Tom Clements said that pit production at the Savannah River Site would create more waste streams harmful to the area without doing anything to address the waste already stored at the site. The DOE is seeking public feedback for a federally mandated Environmental Impact Statement and said that they are following the guidelines laid out by the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act.

    Wes Cooper, “Proposed Plutonium Pit Expansion Raising Questions,” WJBF, June 27, 2019.

    Nuclear Proliferation

    Nuclear-Armed Countries Upgrading Arsenals While Total Number of Weapons Decreases

    The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) announced that all nuclear weapons-possessing states are continuing to upgrade their arsenals, despite overall reductions in total nuclear weapons worldwide. At the beginning of this year, the nine nuclear weapons states were estimated to possess approximately 13,865 nuclear weapons, down from SIPRI’s 2018 estimate of 14,465. Of the new total, 3,750 are currently deployed. Nearly 2,000 of the deployed nuclear weapons are kept on high alert.

    This decrease can be largely attributed to continuing quantitative reductions by the U.S. and Russia, whose arsenals still account for over 90 percent of all nuclear weapons. The U.S. and Russia, along with the other nuclear-armed nations, are all engaged in qualitative upgrades of their arsenals.

    Kelsey Reichmann, “Here’s How Many Nuclear Warheads Exist, and Which Countries Own Them,” Defense News, June 16, 2019.

    Nuclear Disarmament

    U.S. Conference of Mayors Highlights Nuclear Disarmament

    On July 1, the U.S. Conference of Mayors unanimously passed a resolution calling on all U.S. presidential candidates to make their positions on nuclear weapons known, and to pledge U.S. global leadership in preventing nuclear war, returning to diplomacy, and negotiating the elimination of nuclear weapons.

    Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of Hiroshima, spoke at the conference. He said, “As mayors, you are working every day for the well-being of your citizens, but all your efforts could be for naught if nuclear weapons are used again. I would also like to point out that, while every one of the nuclear-armed states is spending billions of dollars to modernize and upgrade their arsenals, that money could be much more productively spent to meet the needs of cities and the people who live in them.”

    The full text of the resolution is available here.

    Multiple Cities and States Support Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

    In addition to the U.S. Conference of Mayors resolution summarized in the previous article, many cities and states have declared their support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the Back from the Brink Campaign.

    The Oregon State Legislature and the New Jersey General Assembly both passed resolutions. They were joined by numerous cities, including Santa Barbara (USA), Vancouver (Canada), and Edinburgh (Scotland).

    Click the links for more information on the ICAN Cities Appeal and the Back from the Brink Campaign.

    Nuclear Insanity

    One-Third of US Supports Nuclear War on North Korea, Knowing It Would Kill One Million

    The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in collaboration with YouGov, published a survey showing that over one-third of the U.S. population would support a preemptive strike on North Korea, even knowing that the strike would be nuclear in nature and that over one million people would be killed.

    One standout fact the survey noted was the difference between “preference” and “approval,” whereby respondents replaced their personal preferences with deference to the President. For example, while only 33 percent of respondents preferred a preemptive nuclear strike, 50 percent would approve of one if carried out.

    Tom O’Connor, “One-Third of US Supports Nuclear War on North Korea, Knowing It Would Kill One Million, Report Shows,” Newsweek, June 24, 2019.

    Nuclear Waste

    Nuclear Waste Storage Plan Draws Criticism

    Plans by New Jersey-based Holtec International to store nuclear waste in New Mexico are running into opposition from state officials. Rep. Deb Haaland wrote to both the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to voice her concerns.

    Criticisms leveled against Holtec’s plan include the lack of funding for infrastructure improvements needed to safely transport and store the waste, with Haaland’s main concern being that existing rail lines in the state aren’t built to withstand the weight of the specially-reinforced drums that hold the waste. Haaland is also worried that the government’s history of inaction around nuclear waste could lead to New Mexico becoming a de facto permanent storage site. Holtec International is currently seeking a 40-year license from regulators to build a storage complex near Carlsbad.

    Susan Montoya Bryan, “Nuclear Waste Storage Plan Draws Criticism,” Albuquerque Journal, June 21, 2019.

    Resources

    This Summer in Nuclear Threat History

    History chronicles many instances when humans have been threatened by nuclear weapons. In this article, Jeffrey Mason outlines some of the threats that have taken place in the summer, including the September 18, 1980 incident in which a technician’s dropped wrench caused a massive explosion, leading to a nine-megaton W53 nuclear warhead being launched hundreds of feet out of its silo.

    To read Mason’s full article, click here.

    For more information on the history of the Nuclear Age, visit NAPF’s Nuclear Files website.

    Is Your Bank Financing Nuclear Weapons?

    Who is trying to profit from weapons of mass destruction? A new report from PAX entitled “Shorting Our Security – Financing the Companies that Make Nuclear Weapons” details which financial institutions are investing $748 billion in companies that produce nuclear weapons.

    Is your bank on the list? If you don’t see your bank on the list, find out if it has a parent company that is. You can review the report and search for your bank’s name here.

    Nuclear Weapons and the 2020 Presidential Candidates

    The Union of Concerned Scientists has created a series of videos in which candidates running for U.S. President in 2020 discuss their views on nuclear weapons.

    To see which candidates have commented, and to watch the videos, click here.

    Foundation Activities

    Peace Literacy in the Workplace: Summer Workshop in Corvallis, Oregon

    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and the Phronesis Lab at Oregon State University invite you to a three-day workshop in August 2019 in Corvallis, Oregon.

    The workshop is geared toward helping both employers and employees build the skills needed to develop more collaborative, empathy-driven workplaces. Our model combines West Point leadership training with the best practices in non-violence developed by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. We use this unique formulation to help you diminish work-place tensions, promote productive communication, and understand the structural and interpersonal dynamics that can lead to harassment and bullying. We help you to re-imagine a workplace where people value each other and find more enjoyment in what they do.

    For more information and to register, click here.

     

    Peace Literacy and Alternatives to Violence

    On May 26, NAPF Peace Literacy Director Paul K. Chappell gave the keynote address to more than 140 Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) volunteers, including training facilitators, at Mills College in Oakland, California.

    Steven Gelb, professor at the University of San Diego and AVP workshop facilitator, reported, “[Paul’s] compellingly original synthesis of the role of meaning and purpose as foundational to both peace work and conflict was immensely helpful to this audience of experienced peace educators.”

    Chappell explained that the frameworks of Peace Literacy offer a new understanding of aggression, rage, and trauma and how Peace Literacy skills can be used at school, at work, and with family, friends, and those we do not yet know. Peace Literacy also offers radical empathy, vision, and realistic hope.

    To read more about Paul’s Work with the Alternatives to Violence Project, click here.

    Sadako Peace Day on August 6

    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s annual Sadako Peace Day commemoration will take place on August 6 at Westmont College in Montecito, California.

    There will be music, poetry, and reflection in remembrance of the victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of all innocent victims of war.

    Click here to download a flyer with more information.

    Take Action

    Put a Formal End to the Korean War

    The Korean War was paused in 1953 with an Armistice Agreement. Today, over 65 years later, there is still no peace treaty putting a formal end to this war.

    A resolution authored by Rep. Ro Khanna aims to change this. The resolution, H.Res. 152, calls upon the United States to formally declare an end to the war and would affirm that the United States does not seek armed conflict with North Korea.

    If you are in the United States, click here to encourage your Representative to co-sponsor the resolution.

    Quotes

     

    “The destructive power of nuclear weapons cannot be contained in either space or time. They have the potential to destroy all civilization and the entire ecosystem of the planet.”

    — The International Court of Justice, in its 1996 ruling on the illegality of nuclear weapons. This quote appears in the book Speaking of Peace: Quotations to Inspire Action, which is available to purchase in the NAPF Peace Store.

     

    “If we are to bring together positive thinking that peace is a good thing that improves the quality of life, it will heal the division in the hearts of people who have been separated by different ideology and views.”

    — South Korean President Moon Jae-in, speaking about his vision for building positive peace between North and South Korea.

     

    “Let’s imagine a planet where we can all live in peace together and not be fretting about whether our rival has one more bomb – that can obliterate the world inside and out – than us.”

    Lila Woodard and Anne Arellano, teenage activists and performers with Le Petit Cirque, speaking at an event celebrating the city of Bergen, Norway passing a resolution supporting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

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    Alex Baldwin
    Silvia De Michelis
    David Krieger
    Carol Warner
    Rick Wayman

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    Perspectives

    • Imagination and Nuclear Weapons by David Krieger
    • There Is No Check on Trump’s Rage Going Nuclear by Anne Harrington and Cheryl Rofer
    • I Oversaw the U.S. Nuclear Power Industry. Now I Think it Should Be Banned by Gregory Jaczko

    U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

    • U.S. Boycotts Conference on Disarmament

    Nuclear Proliferation

    • China Rules Out Joining U.S.-Russia Arms Control Deal

    Nuclear Disarmament

    • Poll: Most Americans Want to Stay in Arms Control Agreements
    • More Cities and States Support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    Nuclear Insanity

    • U.S. and North Korea Test Missiles Minutes Apart
    • Ohio Middle School Closed Indefinitely After Enriched Uranium Found Inside

    Nuclear Testing

    • U.S. Radioactive Waste Dump in Marshall Islands Is Leaking
    • France Acknowledges Polynesian Islands “Strong-Armed” into Nuclear Tests

    Resources

    • World Nuclear Stockpile
    • Halt a March to War with Iran

    Foundation Activities

    • Peace Literacy in the Workplace: Summer Workshop in Corvallis, Oregon
    • 2019 Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future
    • 2019 Poetry Contest
    • Sadako Peace Day

    Take Action

    • Sign the Petition to Dismiss Charges Against Nuclear Disarmament Activists

    Quotes

    Perspectives

    Imagination and Nuclear Weapons

    Einstein believed that knowledge is limited, but imagination is infinite.

    Imagine the soul-crushing reality of a nuclear war, with billions of humans dead; in essence, a global Hiroshima, with soot from the destruction of cities blocking warming sunlight. There would be darkness everywhere, temperatures falling into a new ice age, with crop failures and mass starvation.

    With nuclear weapons poised on hair-trigger alert and justified by the ever-shaky hypothesis that nuclear deterrence will be effective indefinitely, this should not be difficult to imagine.

    In this sense, our imaginations can be great engines for change.

    To read more, click here.

    There Is No Check on Trump’s Rage Going Nuclear

    As president of the United States, Trump has absolute authority to launch nuclear weapons—without anyone else’s consent. In the past, it was taken for granted that the president would follow an established protocol that included consultation with the military, his cabinet, and others before taking such a grave step, but Trump is not legally bound to these procedures. Presidential launch authority is a matter of directive and precedent rather than specific law.

    To read the full piece in Foreign Policy, click here.

    I Oversaw the U.S. Nuclear Power Industry. Now I Think it Should Be Banned

    Two years into my term [as Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission], an earthquake and tsunami destroyed four nuclear reactors in Japan. I spent months reassuring the American public that nuclear energy, and the U.S. nuclear industry in particular, was safe. But by then, I was starting to doubt those claims myself.

    Before the accident, it was easier to accept the industry’s potential risks, because nuclear power plants had kept many coal and gas plants from spewing air pollutants and greenhouse gases into the air. Afterward, the falling cost of renewable power changed the calculus. Despite working in the industry for more than a decade, I now believe that nuclear power’s benefits are no longer enough to risk the welfare of people living near these plants.

    To read the full op-ed in the Washington Post, click here.

    U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

    U.S. Boycotts Conference on Disarmament

    The United States walked out of the UN Conference on Disarmament on May 28 in protest of Venezuela assuming the rotating presidency of the forum. As Venezuela took up the one-month presidency, U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood left the session and announced a boycott while Venezuela’s ambassador Jorge Valero chairs it. Wood said that a representative of Venezuela’s “interim leader,” Juan Guaido, should assume the seat.

    U.S. Boycotts U.N. Arms Forum as Venezuela Takes Chair,” Reuters, May 28, 2019.

    Nuclear Proliferation

    China Rules Out Joining U.S.-Russia Arms Control Deal

    China dismissed the possibility of entering into negotiations for a trilateral arms control deal alongside the United States and Russia, highlighting that the U.S. has failed to uphold its international commitments. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang warns of “growing instabilities and uncertainties in the field of international strategic security.”

    In February, the White House withdrew from the 1987 intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) treaty. Washington argued that Moscow’s Novator 9M729 missile violated the agreement’s restrictions, while Russian officials counterclaimed that the Pentagon’s own Aegis Ashore defense system in Eastern Europe violated the treaty. Though not a party to the agreement, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang claimed the move could “trigger a series of adverse consequences.”

    Tom O’Connor, “China ‘Will Never’ Join Arms Control Deal with U.S. and Russia, Says Donald Trump has Not Even Followed Past Agreements,” Newsweek, May 20, 2019.

    Nuclear Disarmament

    Poll: Most Americans Want to Stay in Arms Control Agreements

    A new poll suggests that the public favors a more constrained nuclear posture and is growing more skeptical of weapons that are in the U.S. arsenal already. A majority of respondents also favored restraining the President from launching a nuclear strike before seeking congressional approval.

    Eighty percent of respondents – including 77 percent of Republicans – favor extending the New START Treaty beyond its 2021 expiration. Two-thirds of respondents, including most Republicans, said the U.S. should stay in the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. About 60 percent of respondents favored phasing out U.S. ICBMs. Seventy-five percent of respondents overall (including six in ten Republicans) supported legislation requiring that the President obtain permission from Congress before launching an attack.

    Patrick Tucker, “Poll: Americans Want to Stay in Nuclear Arms Control Agreements,” Defense One, May 20, 2019.

    More Cities and States Support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    In May, more progress was made with cities and states declaring their opposition to nuclear weapons and their support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Paris signed on to the ICAN Cities Appeal, joining other major world cities including Toronto, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Berlin, Geneva, and Washington, DC.

    In the U.S., resolutions in support of the TPNW and supporting the five-point platform of the Back from the Brink campaign passed the Oregon Senate and the New Jersey Assembly.

    To see the full list of cities that have signed the ICAN Cities Appeal, click here.

    Nuclear Insanity

    U.S. and North Korea Test Missiles Minutes Apart

    On May 9, the U.S. and North Korea tested missiles within minutes of one another. The U.S. tested a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile and, on the same day, a Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missile. North Korea tested short-range missiles.

    Rick Wayman, Deputy Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, said, “By testing ballistic missiles this month, both the U.S. and North Korea risk blowing up the delicate progress that has been achieved to date through diplomacy.” He continued, “Neither party is right in this chest-thumping exercise, particularly while there remains a possibility of diplomatically eliminating all nuclear threats on the Korean Peninsula and actually achieving peace in a conflict that has gone on for nearly seven decades.”

    Tom O’Connor, “U.S. and North Korea Launch Missiles at Same Time: What They Have and Why They Should Stop,” Newsweek, May 9, 2019.

    Ohio Middle School Closed Indefinitely After Enriched Uranium Found Inside

    An Ohio middle school has closed for the remainder of the academic year after tests discovered traces of enriched uranium and neptunium-237 inside. While the source has not yet been identified, some locals have been quick to blame the nearby Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which previously produced enriched uranium, including weapons-grade uranium, for the U.S. government until 2001. Nearby homes and bodies of water have also tested positive for both enriched uranium and neptunium.

    Anne White, Assistant Secretary for the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management division, which is in charge of cleaning up the Portsmouth site, resigned due to the scandal.

    David Brennan, “Ohio School Closed After Enriched Uranium Discovered Inside,” Newsweek, May 14, 2019.

    Nuclear Testing

    U.S. Radioactive Waste Dump in the Marshall Islands Is Leaking

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that a concrete dome built to contain highly-radioactive waste from U.S. atomic bomb tests in the 1940s and 50s is leaking radioactive material into the Pacific Ocean. Guterres described the structure on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands as “a kind of coffin.”

    The dome is cracking from years of exposure to the elements, and concerns abound that the dome could break apart if hit by a tropical cyclone. The U.S. has thus far refused any responsibility for the situation.

    “The consequences of these [tests] have been quite dramatic, in relation to health, in relation to the poisoning of waters in some areas,” Guterres said.

    Nuclear ‘Coffin’ May Be Leaking Radioactive Material into Pacific Ocean, U.N. Chief Says,” CBS News, May 16, 2019.

    France Acknowledges Polynesian Islands “Strong-Armed” into Nuclear Tests

    France has officially acknowledged for the first time that French Polynesians did not willingly enter into an agreement to accept 193 nuclear tests over a 30-year period. France also admitted that it is responsible for compensating islanders for the illnesses caused by the fallout.

    Henry Samuel, “France Acknowledges Polynesian Islands ‘Strong-Armed’ into Dangerous Nuclear Tests,” The Telegraph, May 24, 2019.

    Resources

    World Nuclear Stockpile

    Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris of the Federation of American Scientists are the leading experts in estimating the size of global nuclear weapons inventories. Matt Korda is a new co-author of these reports, which are published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Nuclear Notebook. The authors estimate that there are currently 13,850 nuclear weapons in the world, with 92% in the arsenals of the U.S. and Russia.

    To read more, click here.

    Halt a March to War with Iran

    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation joined 60 other U.S. organizations in signing a letter asking members of Congress to take decisive action to halt a march to war with Iran. The letter reads in part, “Congress cannot be complicit as the playbook for the 2003 invasion of Iraq is repeated before our eyes. The administration has increasingly politicized intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program, and falsely asserts ties between Iran and al-Qaeda….The American people do not want another disastrous war of choice in the Middle East. Congress has the chance to stop a war before it starts. Please take action before it is too late.”

    To read the full letter, click here.

    Foundation Activities

    Peace Literacy in the Workplace: Summer Workshop in Corvallis, Oregon

    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and the Phronesis Lab at Oregon State University invite you to a three-day workshop in August 2019 in Corvallis, Oregon.

    The workshop is geared toward helping both employers and employees build the skills needed to develop more collaborative, empathy-driven workplaces. Our model combines West Point leadership training with the best practices in non-violence developed by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. We use this unique formulation to help you diminish work-place tensions, promote productive communication, and understand the structural and interpersonal dynamics that can lead to harassment and bullying. We help you re-imagine a workplace where people value each other and find more enjoyment in what they do.

    Early-bird registration ends June 15, so register soon. More information is available here.

     

    2019 Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future

    On May 9, Elaine Scarry delivered the 18th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future. Scarry teaches at Harvard University, where she is the Cabot Professor of
    Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value. She lectures nationally and internationally on nuclear war, law, literature, and medicine. The title of her talk was “Thermonuclear Monarchy and a Sleeping Citizenry.”

    A video of Scarry’s important lecture is available at this link.

    2019 Poetry Contest

    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 2019 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards is accepting submissions through July 1. The contest encourages poets to explore and illuminate positive visions of peace and the human spirit.

    The Poetry Awards include three age categories: Adult, Youth 13-18, and Youth 12 & Under.

    For more information on the contest, click here.

    Sadako Peace Day on August 6

    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s annual Sadako Peace Day commemoration will take place on August 6 at Westmont College in Montecito, California.

    There will be music, poetry, and reflection in remembrance of the victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of all innocent victims of war.

    Click here to download a flyer with more information.

    Take Action

    Sign the Petition to Dismiss Charges Against Nuclear Disarmament Activists

    The Kings Bay Plowshares 7, a group of seven nuclear disarmament activists, engaged in a symbolic and nonviolent action at the Trident nuclear submarine base at Kings Bay, Georgia on April 4, 2018, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    The activists now face 25 years in prison, and their trial is expected to begin soon.

    Click here to add your name to the petition.

    Quotes

     

    “Only one individual is necessary to spread the leavening influence of ahimsa [nonviolence] in an office, a business, a school, or even a large institution.”

    Mohandas K. Gandhi. This quote appears in the book Speaking of Peace: Quotations to Inspire Action, which is available to purchase in the NAPF Peace Store.

     

    “The real question is: How the hell do we get rid of these nuclear weapons that are threatening the entire planet? And I would be aggressive in doing that. Right now, we have a president who wants to spend more and more money on the military and more money on nuclear weapons. I want to see us not abrogate treaties with Iran or anyplace else, which have controlled the growth of nuclear weapons. I want to see us be aggressive in bringing the world together again to figure out how we can substantially not only reduce military spending worldwide, but how we can reduce the ongoing and long-term threat of nuclear weapons.”

    Sen. Bernie Sanders, responding to a question about whether he would be willing to use nuclear weapons if elected President.

     

    “Most people assume that if something hasn’t happened, it won’t happen. But that is psychology, not reality. Some of those who have spent their careers managing U.S. nuclear weapons believe that we have been extraordinarily lucky that nuclear weapons have not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”

    Zia Mian, Alan Robock, and Sharon Weiner, in an op-ed about the importance of the New Jersey Assembly passing a resolution against nuclear weapons.

    Editorial Team

     

    Alex Baldwin
    David Krieger
    Carol Warner
    Rick Wayman

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    Perspectives

    • Participation in the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference by David Krieger
    • The Madness of Nuclear Deterrence by Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Moving the Nuclear Football, from 1946 to 2019 by Ray Acheson

    U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

    • Trump Administration Wants Heavy Revision of New START Treaty
    • U.S. Launches Nuclear-Capable ICBM
    • U.S. Refuses to Declassify Size of Current Nuclear Arsenal

    Nuclear Disarmament

    • Panama Ratifies the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    Nuclear Insanity

    • UK Holds Thanksgiving Ceremony for Nuclear Weapons at Westminster Abbey

    Resources

    • Which Companies Are Building Nuclear Weapons?
    • Toward a New Era of Peace and Disarmament: A People-Centered Approach
    • World Military Spending Tops $1.8 Trillion

     

    Foundation Activities

    • 2019 Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future
    • Peace Literacy and Virtual Reality
    • 2019 Poetry Contest
    • 2019 Video Contest Winners Announced
    • The Truth-Teller: From the Pentagon Papers to the Doomsday Machine

    Take Action

    • Tell Congress to Embrace the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    Quotes

    Perspectives

    Participation in the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference

    The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was opened for signatures in 1968 and entered into force in 1970. Despite its name, the NPT sought not only to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation, but also, in Article VI, called for good faith negotiations for an end to the nuclear arms race at an early date, for nuclear disarmament, and for general and complete disarmament. The treaty also had provisions for review conferences to be held at five-year intervals and for an extension conference to be held 25 years after the treaty entered into force. The purpose of the extension conference was for the parties to the treaty to decide by a majority vote whether the treaty should be extended indefinitely, for a period or periods of time, or not at all.

    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, as well as dozens of other civil society groups working on nuclear disarmament, took note of the general lack of effort and progress by the nuclear-armed parties to the treaty in fulfilling their Article VI nuclear disarmament obligations for good faith negotiations for ending the nuclear arms race and for nuclear disarmament. Given this, these organizations favored some version of an extension for periods of time, and for the periodic extensions to be contingent upon clear progress toward nuclear disarmament made by the nuclear-armed parties to the treaty. We saw this as a unique opportunity to put pressure on the nuclear weapons states to fulfill their nuclear disarmament obligations under the treaty, rather than continuing indefinitely to ignore those obligations, as they had done for the first 25 years of the treaty’s existence.

    To read more, click here.

    The Madness of Nuclear Deterrence

    “Deterrence cannot protect the world from a nuclear blunder or nuclear terrorism,” George Shultz, William Perry and Sam Nunn recently wrote. “Both become more likely when there is no sustained, meaningful dialogue between Washington and Moscow.” I agree with them about the urgent need for strategic engagement between the U.S. and Russia. I am also convinced that nuclear deterrence, instead of protecting the world, is keeping it in constant jeopardy.

    To read the full op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, click here (paywall).

    Moving the Nuclear Football, from 1946 to 2019

    What does it mean to make a commitment? As one of arguably the most basic of human interactions, to most of the world’s population it entails an agreement, an obligation, or a duty; a dedication to follow through on a promised activity. But apparently this definition does not hold for the nuclear-armed states—the governments of which continue, year after year, review cycle after review cycle, to change the goalposts or to move the football (the nuclear football, if you will), like Lucy does with Charlie Brown.

    Cartoons aside, the “commitments” made by the nuclear-armed states for the past 50 years have seriously suffered from lack of implementation and impressive backtracking. On the eve of the 2020 [NPT] Review Conference, one of the nuclear-armed states (the United States) has asserted that all of these past commitments are out of date and out of step with today’s “international security environment”—this apparently being a specific, discrete artifact that is unconnected from this state’s own behavior and entirely related to the poor behavior of others.

    To read more, click here.

    U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

    Trump Administration Wants Heavy Revision of New START Treaty

    The Trump Administration has stated that it is interested in renewing the New START Treaty with Russia, but only if there are significant revisions. Specifically, the administration has indicated that it wants a pact that China can join, and it also wants new types of weapons, such as Russia’s new nuclear-armed underwater drone, to be covered by the treaty.

    Democrats have said that they are eager to preserve one of the last effective arms control treaties that exist, and are urging the Trump administration to do a straightforward five-year extension of the New START Treaty, which is currently set to expire in 2021.

    “Those who are calling for bringing new kinds of weapons into the extension process or adding new parties like China are really talking about a new treaty,” said Joan Rohlfing, president of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. “It’s disingenuous.”

    Rachel Oswald, “Trump Wants to Renew and Revise a Key Russian Nuclear Weapons Treaty. It has Democrats Nervous,” Roll Call, May 6, 2019.

    U.S. Launches Nuclear-Capable ICBM

    On May 1, the United States conducted a test launch of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). On that day, Rick Wayman, Deputy Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, was in New York City taking part in the Non-Proliferation Treaty conference at the United Nations.

    Wayman said, “Violating the Iran Deal. Withdrawing from the INF Treaty. The relative stability of the post-Cold War era is being systematically dismantled by the Trump administration. Testing an ICBM during the Non-Proliferation Treaty conference is a feather in the cap of those who despise international cooperation.”

    Willis Jacobson, “Unarmed Minuteman III Missile Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base,” Santa Ynez Valley News, May 1, 2019.

    U.S. Refuses to Declassify Size of Current Nuclear Arsenal

    In a marked reverse from Obama-era policy, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has denied a request to declassify the current size of its nuclear arsenal. While there was no formal reason given, the DOD has been looking for greater transparency from China recently, and such a denial may be a “leveling” of the playing field, though the value of such a move is dubious. Despite this jockeying, the number of nuclear weapons has never really been a secret in the United States. Declassification simply allows officials to openly discuss the stockpile. The DOD’s reasoning remains unclear in light of these factors. Whether this is simply a knee-jerk reaction to Obama-era policy, or a sign of renewed secrecy about nuclear weapons remains to be seen.

    Steven Aftergood, “Pentagon Blocks Declassification of 2018 Nuclear Stockpile,” Federation of American Scientists, April 17, 2019.

    Nuclear Disarmament

    Panama Ratifies the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    On April 11, Panama ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, becoming the 23rd nation to ratify the treaty. The treaty will enter into force 90 days after the 50th nation ratifies it.

    Click here for an updated list of which countries have signed and ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

    Nuclear Insanity

    UK Holds Thanksgiving Ceremony for Nuclear Weapons at Westminster Abbey

    On May 3, Westminster Abbey hosted a service of thanksgiving to mark 50 years of the UK possessing a continuous at-sea nuclear weapons system. Prince William was among the guests who gathered in the famous church to celebrate the possession of nuclear weapons.

    Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said, “It was truly sickening to hear Westminster Abbey’s bells played like wedding bells as guests left the nuclear weapons thanksgiving service. We hope government and church learn from today and that we never see a repeat of such an inappropriate event. Instead, every level of the church, government and society should be engaged in efforts to de-escalate nuclear tensions that are rising by the day. We must all work together towards a nuclear weapon-free world.”

    “500 Protest Westminster Abbey Nuclear Weapons Thanksgiving,” Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, May 3, 2019.

    Resources

    Which Companies Are Building Nuclear Weapons?

    A new report by PAX has found that nuclear-armed governments have at least $116 billion in contracts with private companies to build nuclear weapons. Large corporations like Honeywell International, General Dynamics, and Jacobs Engineering have all been directly involved in the nuclear weapons industry and have heightened the risk that weapons of mass destruction will be used again.

    A majority of the 28 companies listed in the report have contracts with the U.S., and some companies have France, India, the UK, and China as clients. The report also contains information about the development of new hypersonic submarine-launched ballistic missiles in various countries. The new contracts, types of weapons, and allocations of resources in the report shows that a new nuclear arms race is happening.

    To read a copy of the report, click here.

    Toward a New Era of Peace and Disarmament: A People-Centered Approach

    Daisaku Ikeda, President of Soka Gakkai International, has published his 37th annual peace proposal, entitled “Toward a New Era of Peace and Disarmament: A People-Centered Approach.”

    This year’s main theme is the need to increase momentum toward disarmament. Mr. Ikeda urges more nations to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and calls for a fourth special session of the UN General Assembly devoted to disarmament to be held in 2021. He also proposes the establishment of a legally-binding instrument that prohibits all lethal autonomous weapon systems.

    Mr. Ikeda wrote, “The darker the night, the closer the dawn: now is the time to accelerate momentum toward disarmament by taking the present crises as an opportunity to create a new history.”

    To read the full proposal, click here.

    World Military Spending Tops $1.8 Trillion

    A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) shows that in 2018, the nations of the world spent over $1.8 trillion on its militaries. The United States remained by far the top military spender, at 36% of the world’s total ($649 billion). China was the second-largest spender, at $250 billion.

    To read the full report from SIPRI, click here.

    Foundation Activities

    2019 Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future

    The 18th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future will take
    place on Thursday, May 9, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at the Karpeles
    Manuscript Library in Santa Barbara, California.

    This year’s speaker is Elaine Scarry. Scarry
    teaches at Harvard University, where she is the Cabot Professor of
    Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value. She lectures nationally and
    internationally on nuclear war, law, literature, and medicine. The title
    of her talk is “Thermonuclear Monarchy and a Sleeping Citizenry.”

    The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, click here.

    Peace Literacy and Virtual Reality

    NAPF Peace Literacy Director Paul K. Chappell’s recent community event at the Red Skelton Theater in Vincennes, Indiana led to an article in the Vincennes Sun-Commercial on his talk regarding our human needs and the coming Virtual Reality revolution.

    For more info on Chappell’s insights into social media, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence, download Chappell’s pamphlet on “The World of Electric Light: Understanding the Seductive Glow of Screens.”

    2019 Poetry Contest

    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 2019 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards is accepting submissions through July 1. The contest encourages poets to explore and illuminate positive visions of peace and the human spirit.
    The Poetry Awards include three age categories: Adult, Youth 13-18, and Youth 12 & Under.

    For more information on the contest, click here.

    2019 Video Contest Winners Announced

    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has announced the winners of the 2019 Swackhamer Disarmament Video Contest. This year’s winning video is entitled “Hard to Imagine” by Noah Roth. To watch the winning video, as well as the other prize winners, click here.

    The Truth-Teller: From the Pentagon Papers to the Doomsday Machine

    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has republished an interview with NAPF Distinguished Fellow Daniel Ellsberg. The interview for the Great Transition Initiative gave Ellsberg an opportunity to talk about his motivations for releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971, as well as his recent book about nuclear weapons, The Doomsday Machine.

    To read the full interview, click here.

    Take Action

    Tell Congress to Embrace the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    Representatives Jim McGovern and Earl Blumenauer have introduced H. Res. 302, a resolution that embraces the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

    This resolution in the House of Representatives follows on the heels of successful resolutions in the state of California, and the cities of Los Angeles, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and many others. This is the first resolution on the national level that calls on the United States to embrace this vital new treaty, and to make nuclear disarmament the centerpiece of national security policy.

    Click here to ask your representative to sign on to this resolution.

    Quotes

     

    “Revolutionary change does not come as one cataclysmic moment…but as an endless succession of surprises, moving zigzag toward a more decent society. We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”

    Howard Zinn. This quote appears in the book Speaking of Peace: Quotations to Inspire Action, which is available to purchase in the NAPF Peace Store.

     

    “The prospect of the use of nuclear weapons is higher than it has been in generations.”

    Izumi Nakamitsu, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, speaking at the United Nations Security Council in April.

     

    “Nuclear deterrence is not a policy that guarantees the absence of war but rather the absence of trust.”

    H.E. Mr. Vitavas Srivihok, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Thailand to the United Nations in New York, speaking on April 30 at the Non-Proliferation Treaty PrepCom.

    Editorial Team

     

    David Krieger
    Louisa Kwon
    Colin Scharff
    Carol Warner
    Rick Wayman

  • Winning Videos: 2019 Swackhamer Disarmament Video Contest

    Congratulations to everyone who entered the 2019 Swackhamer Disarmament Video Contest. We are inspired by your ideas and your passion!

    For more information about the contest, visit peacecontests.org.

    FIRST PRIZE: Hard to Imagine by Noah Roth

    SECOND PRIZE: Securing Nuclear Deterrence by Edward Zhang

    THIRD PRIZE: White Light by Eduardo Castillo

    HONORABLE MENTION: Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe by Maya Montell

     

    HONORABLE MENTION: Our President Controlling Nuclear Power?? by Kenny Nguyen