Fall 2003 Vol 13-2 - Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

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NEWSLETTER OF THE NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION Fall 2003 Vol. 13, No. 2
New Dangers in the Nuclear Age

CONTENTS
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 1
Fall 2003 • Vol. 13, No. 2
Editors:
David Krieger and
Frank K. Kelly
CONFRONTING NEW DANGERS
IN THE NUCLEAR AGE 2-3
TRIBUTE TO WALLACE DREW 4
Associate Editor:
Chris Pizzinat
20TH ANNUAL EVENING FOR PEACE 5
Copy Editors:
Ilene Pritikin and
Selma Rubin
Design/Production:
Samer Mina
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NAPF BOARD STATEMENT 6-7
FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES 8-9
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in Geneva
• UNESCO Conference on Teaching and Learning
• Sadako Peace Day
• Peace Retreat
PROGRAM UPDATES 10-11
• American Civil Liberties &
Human Rights Under Siege
• UC Nuclear Free Campaign
• Youth Outreach Initiative
• International Law & The Quest for Security
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DIRECTORS: Richard Falk, J.S.D., Chair • David Krieger, J.D., Ph.D., President • Frank K. Kelly, Senior Vice President •
Lessie Sinclair Nixon, Secretary • Selma Rubin, Treasurer • Diandra Douglas • Léni Fé Bland • Anna Grotenhuis, J.D. • Mark
Hamilton • Peter O. Haslund, Ph.D. • Marc Kielburger • Eli Luria ** • Peter R. MacDougall, Ed.D., • Anita Roddick •
Jennifer Allen Simons, Ph.D. • Imaging Spence • Ethel R. Wells
ADVISORY COUNCIL: Hafsat Abiola • Hon. Lloyd Axworthy, Ph.D., PC • Helen Caldicott, M.D. • Hon. Rodrigo Carazo •
Jean-Michel Cousteau • Michael Douglas • Anne H. Ehrlich, Ph.D. • Paul R. Ehrlich, Ph.D. • Daniel Ellsberg, Ph.D. •
Benjamin B. Ferencz, J.D. • Harrison Ford • Johan Galtung, Dr hc mult • Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.• The XIVth
Dalai Lama* • Hon. David Lange, C.O.H. • Admiral Gene R. La Rocque • Bernard Lown, M.D.* • Mairead Corrigan Maguire*
• Alan McCoy, O.F.M. • Hon. Robert Muller • Queen Noor of Jordan • Admiral L. Ramdas • Hon. Arthur N.R. Robinson •
Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C. • Sir Joseph Rotblat, Ph.D., F.R.S.* • Jonathan Schell • Stanley K. Sheinbaum • Gerry Spence, J.D.
• Ted Turner • Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu*
CONSULTANTS: Larry Agran, J.D. • Robert C. Aldridge • Dean Babst • Eric H. Boehm, Ph.D. • Francis A. Boyle, J.D., Ph.D.
• Selma Brackman • Adam Curle, Ph.D. • M. M. Eskandari-Qajar, Ph.D. • Dietrich Fischer, Ph.D. • Don George • Jonathan
Granoff, J.D. • Gene Knudsen Hoffman • Fred H. Knelman, Ph.D. • Peter R. MacDougall, Ed.D.• Ved P. Nanda, L.L.M. •
Farzeen Nasri, Ph.D. • Jan Øberg, Ph.D. • Dan K. Smith, Ph.D. • Theodore B. Taylor, Ph.D. • Leonard Wallock, Ph.D. •
Burns H. Weston, J.S.D. • Robert C. Wilkinson
STAFF: Luke Brothers • Michael Coffey • Samer Mina • Kristen Morrison • Michelle Myers • Christopher Pizzinat • Ramona
Romero • Sharon Rossol • Justine Wang
INTERNS & VOLUNTEERS: David Benson • Emma Carswell • Michael Cox • Brit Fenton-Olsen • Victoria Hassid • Irina
Kozlova • Leslie Lai • Scott MacKenzie • Angela McCracken • Jui Shah • Lisa Swid
*Nobel Peace Laureate
** Director Emeritus
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Is a Nuclear 9/11 In Our Future
S
ooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 in an American city
or that of a US ally unless a serious program is undertaken to
prevent such an occurrence. A terrorist nuclear attack against an
American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would
be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending
upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds
of thousands or even millions of people.
Terrorists could obtain a nuclear device by stealing or purchasing
an already created nuclear weapon or by stealing or purchasing
weapons-grade nuclear materials and fashioning
a crude bomb. While neither of these options
would be easy, they cannot be dismissed as
beyond the capabilities of a determined terrorist
organization.
If terrorists succeeded in obtaining a nuclear
weapon, they would also have to bring it into the
US, assuming they did not already obtain or create
the weapon in this country. While this
would not necessarily be easy, many analysts have
suggested that it would be within the realm of
possibility. An oft-cited example is the possibility
of bringing a nuclear device into an American
port hidden on a cargo ship.
Another form of terrorist nuclear attack requiring far less sophistication
would be the detonation of a radiation weapon or “dirty
bomb.” This type of device would not be capable of a nuclear
explosion but would use conventional explosives to disperse
radioactive materials within a populated area. The detonation of
such a device could cause massive panic due to the public’s appropriate
fears of radiation sickness and of developing cancers and
leukemias in the future.
A bi-partisan task force of the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board,
headed by former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and former
White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler, called upon the US in
2001 to spend $30 billion over an eight to ten year period to prevent
nuclear weapons and materials in the former Soviet Union
from getting into the hands of terrorists or so called “rogue” states.
The task force called the nuclear dangers in the former USSR “the
most urgent unmet national security threat facing the United States
today.” At present, the US government is spending only about onethird
of the recommended amount, while it pours resources into
By David Krieger
PRESIDENT’S
MESSAGE
paying for the invasion, occupation and rebuilding of Iraq as well
as programs unlikely to provide effective security to US citizens
such as missile defense.
The great difficulty in preventing a nuclear 9/11 is that it will
require ending the well-entrenched nuclear double standards that
the US and other nuclear weapons states have lived by throughout
the Nuclear Age. Preventing nuclear terrorism in the end will not
be possible without a serious global program to eliminate nuclear
weapons and control nuclear materials that could be converted to
weapons. Such a program would require universal
agreement in the form of a verifiable and
enforceable treaty providing for the following:
• full accounting and international safeguarding
of all nuclear weapons, weapons-grade nuclear
materials and nuclear reactors in all countries,
including the nuclear weapons states;
• international tracking and control of the movement
of all nuclear weapons and weapons-grade
materials;
• dismantling and prohibiting all uranium
enrichment facilities and all plutonium separation
facilities, and the implementation of a plan to expedite the
phasing out of all nuclear power plants;
• full recognition and endorsement by the nuclear weapons states
of their existing obligation pursuant to the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty for an “unequivocal undertaking” to eliminate
their nuclear arsenals;
• rapidly dismantling existing nuclear weapons in an orderly and
transparent manner and the transfer of nuclear materials to international
control sites; and
•criminalizing the possession, threat or use of nuclear weapons.
While these steps may appear extreme, they are in actuality the minimum
necessary to prevent a nuclear 9/11. If that is among our top
priorities as a country, as surely it should be, the US government
should begin immediately to lead the world in this direction. Now
is the time to act, before one or more US cities are devastated by
nuclear terrorism.
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PERSPECTIVE
Confronting New Dangers in the Nuclear Age
By David Krieger
“The world has entered
a new nuclear age, a
second nuclear age.
The danger is rising
that nuclear weapons
will be used against the
United States. Just as
bad, the danger is rising
that the United States
will use nuclear
weapons against
others….”
— Jonathan Schell
W
ith the fall of the Berlin Wall and the
breakup of the Soviet Union, many
Americans gave a deep sigh of relief and pronounced
the nuclear threat at an end. It was a
heady time. I can remember being asked,
“What will the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
do now that the nuclear threat is gone” My
response was that the nuclear threat was still
with us despite these momentous changes in the
geopolitical landscape. It was far too soon to
pronounce the Nuclear Age dead.
In retrospect, from a vantage point of more
than 12 years after these tectonic shifts in
geopolitics, we can see that the Nuclear Age,
with new and growing dangers, is still with us.
The first half-century of the Nuclear Age was
marked by a mad arms race between the United
States and the former Soviet Union that resulted
in the development and deployment of tens
of thousands of nuclear weapons capable of
destroying civilization and most life on Earth.
While the nuclear standoff between the US and
former USSR is no longer the extraordinary
danger it was, new nuclear dangers have arisen
that have led many observers to the conclusion
that we have entered a second Nuclear Age.
Among these new dangers are:
• the nuclear standoff between nuclear-armed
rivals India and Pakistan, two countries that have
more than a fifty-year history of warfare and serious
tensions;
• the partial breakdown of command and control
systems that protect nuclear weapons and
weapons-grade nuclear materials in the former
Soviet countries, giving rise to the increased possibility
that these weapons and materials could
fall into the hands of other countries and terrorist
organizations;
• the pursuit of nuclear weapons programs and
the development of nuclear arsenals by countries,
such as North Korea and possibly Iran, that
feel threatened by the Bush administration’s
policy of preemptive war;
• the impetus that Israel’s nuclear arsenal gives
to other countries in the Middle East to develop
their own nuclear arsenals;
• the provocative policies of the Bush administration
to pursue smaller, more usable nuclear
weapons and those with a specific use in warfare
such as the so-called “bunker busters,” blurring
the distinction between conventional and
nuclear arms; and
• the possibility that the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty, which has already lost its
first member, North Korea, could fall apart due
to the failure of the nuclear weapons states to fulfill
their obligations under Article VI of the
Treaty to achieve nuclear disarmament.
The United States, as the world’s sole surviving
superpower, has had the opportunity to lead the
world toward a nuclear weapons free future. It
is an opportunity that our country has largely
rejected, and has done so at its own peril.
Political leaders in the United States have yet to
grasp that nuclear weapons make us less secure
rather than more so, and their policies have
reflected this failure to comprehend the new
dangers of the Nuclear Age.
In the year 2000, the parties to the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, including the United
States, agreed to 13 Practical Steps for Nuclear
Disarmament. These included “[a]n unequivocal
undertaking by the nuclear-weapon states to
accomplish the total elimination of their
nuclear arsenals,” along with specific steps such
as ratification and entry into force of the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), preserving
and strengthening the Anti-Ballistic
Missile (ABM) Treaty, and applying the principle
of irreversibility to nuclear disarmament.
In each of these areas the United States, under
the Bush administration, has led in the opposite
direction. The administration’s policies have
sent a message to the world that the world’s
strongest military power finds nuclear weapons
useful for its national security and plans to
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maintain its nuclear arsenal for the indefinite
future. The Bush administration has opposed
ratification of the CTBT and has withdrawn
from the ABM Treaty. Its approach to nuclear
disarmament has been to employ maximum
flexibility and make reductions fully reversible.
The US pact with Russia, the Strategic
Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), signed by
Presidents Bush and Putin in May 2002, calls
for reductions in deployed strategic nuclear
weapons to between 1,700 and 2,200 weapons
on each side by the year 2012. The treaty has
no timetable other than the final date to
achieve these reductions, and there is no
requirement to make these reductions irreversible.
The Bush administration has already
announced that it plans to put the weapons it
takes off active deployment status into storage
ready for redeployment on short notice. The
Russians are likely to follow suit, creating more
opportunity for the stored nuclear weapons in
both countries to fall into the hands of terrorists.
In the meantime, the US and Russia are
each maintaining over 2,000 nuclear weapons
on hair-trigger alert, subject to being launched
accidentally.
In addition, the Bush administration pursued
an illegal preventive war against Iraq because of
its purported, but never found, weapons of
mass destruction. This action sent a message to
North Korea, Iran and other states that if they
want to be more secure from US attack, they
had better develop nuclear forces to deter the
US.
North Korea has repeatedly made a simple
request of the US. They have asked for security
assurances from the US that they will not be
attacked. This is not unreasonable considering
that the Korean War has never officially ended,
that the US maintains some 40,000 troops near
the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two
Koreas, that the US keeps nuclear-armed submarines
in the waters off the Korean Peninsula,
and that the Bush administration has pursued a
doctrine of preemption. In return for a Non-
Aggression Pact from the US, the North
Koreans have indicated that they would give up
their nuclear weapons program and rejoin the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
It would be a great shame if Americans only
awakened to the new dangers of the Nuclear
Age with the detonation of one or more nuclear
weapons somewhere in the world. Given the
increased threats associated with terrorism and
the dangers that nuclear weapons or bombgrade
nuclear materials could fall into the
hands of terrorists, it is not beyond the realm of
possibility that the next detonation of a nuclear
weapon or other weapon of mass destruction
could take place in a city in the United States.
It is of critical importance that Americans be
made aware of these dangers and reverse our
policies before we are confronted by such
tragedy. The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
has set forth a series of needed steps that have
been widely endorsed by prominent leaders,
including 38 Nobel Laureates, in its Appeal to
End the Nuclear Weapons Threat to Humanity
and All Life. These steps are de-alerting all
nuclear weapons, reaffirming commitments to
the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, commencing good
faith negotiations on a treaty to eliminate all
nuclear weapons, declaring a policy of No First
Use of nuclear weapons and reallocating
resources from nuclear arsenals to improving
human health, education and welfare throughout
the world
Our challenge is to translate this program into
action. It will require a sea change in the thinking
of US political leaders. This cannot happen
without a grassroots movement from below, that
is, from ordinary citizens, who hold the highest
office in the land. The starting point is the
recognition that the Nuclear Age did not end
with the fall of the Berlin Wall, and that we are
still living in the Nuclear Age. We ask for your
support in this fight for the future of humanity
and all life on our planet.
Calendar of Events
& Commemorations
October 24
United Nations Day
October 24-30
Disarmament Week
November 15
The Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation's
20th Annual Evening for
Peace honoring Harry
Belafonte and Jonathan
Schell
December 5
Foundation to host
International Law
Symposium on "Preventing
Genocide and Crimes
Against Humanity:
The Challenge of Prevention
and Enforcement" at UCSB
December 10
Human Rights Day
February 17
Third Annual Frank K. Kelly
Lecture on Humanity’s
Future, “Kindness As a Key
to Humanity’s Future” by
Dame Anita Roddick
Take Action
We invite you to add your
voice by signing and circulating
the Foundation’s Appeal
to End the Nuclear Weapons
Threat to Humanity and All
Life at:
www.wagingpeace.org/menu/
action/ongoing-actions/appeal/
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TRIBUTE
Wallace Drew, A Man of Peace (1917-2003)
W
allace Drew, chair emeritus of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, died peacefully on
September 7, 2003 at the age of 85. Wally was one of the Foundation’s founders and served
as its first treasurer and later as the first chair of the Board. A disabling stroke in 1998 slowed
Wally down considerably, but he fought back courageously and remained involved in the work of
the Foundation until his death.
During World War II, Wally served as a major in the Army Corps of Engineers. He landed at
Normandy and fought in seven major battles across France. He was part of the US forces that liberated
Paris and one of the first Americans to enter the Buchenwald concentration camp. Wally
received a Bronze Star and seven battle stars. After the conclusion of the war in Europe, Wally was
assigned to be part of the planning group for the invasion of Japan.
His experiences in war as a young man strengthened Wally’s commitment to building a peaceful
world. In a 1997 interview, Wally reflected upon these experiences, “I was one of four boys. One
brother was killed in action, another was wounded. I wanted to do everything possible to prevent
future wars.”
Wally’s commitment to preventing future wars led him to join with David Krieger, Frank Kelly and
Charles Jamison in the creation of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in 1982. Wally served on
the Foundation’s Board of Directors for the next 21 years.
Wally was a humble man who did not seek recognition for himself,
but for his efforts he received many awards. These included a
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Santa Barbara News Press,
a Community Service Award from the Anti-Defamation League,
and a Community Hero Award from Sansum Clinic. Wally
believed in giving back to his community and to the world, and he
did so in many admirable ways.
Foundation President David Krieger said of Wally in his eulogy:
“In a world filled with suffering, Wally lived compassionately. In a
world awash in apathy and complacency, Wally lived with commitment.
And in a world too often marked by the cowardice of inaction,
Wally consistently acted with courage.”
We will miss Wally’s determination and good humor, along with
his compassion, commitment and courage, but we will carry forward
his spirit in the work of the Foundation.
In honor of Wally, the Foundation is establishing the Wallace T.
Drew Internship for Peace and Disarmament. This internship will support
the work of a summer intern to work on issues of peace and
disarmament each year at the Foundation.
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20th Annual Awards Dinner
& Evening for Peace
T
his year the Foundation celebrates twenty years of waging
peace. In conjunction with this occasion, it is also hosting
its 20th Annual Evening for Peace. This gala dinner and awards
ceremony will take place on Saturday, November 15th at the
Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara, California.
We are very pleased on this special occasion to honor singer/songwriter
and humanitarian Harry Belafonte with our World
Citizenship Award and to honor Pulitzer-Prize nominee author
and educator Jonathan Schell with our Distinguished Peace
Leadership Award. Belafonte, a man whose background
includes working with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during
the Civil Rights Movement and being an
Ambassador for the United Nations Children’s
Fund, is being honored for his lifetime of service
to humanity and the children of the world.
Jonathan Schell, Senior Fellow at Yale's Center
for the Study of Globalization and author of
The Fate of the Earth, is being honored for his
clear, intelligent and tireless voice for ending
the nuclear weapons threat to humanity.
Photo by Michael Collopy
FOUNDATION
ACTIVITIES
Harry Belafonte
Since 1983, the Foundation has presented its Distinguished Peace Leadership
Award to some of the great peace leaders of our time. Former recipients
include His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
Jacques Cousteau, Jody Williams, Helen Caldicott and King Hussein, to
name a few. The World Citizenship Award was inaugurated in 1998 recognizing
significant contributions for the betterment of humanity and has been
presented to such notable individuals as Ted Turner, Queen Noor, Daisaku
Ikeda and Robert Muller.
Each year we make a concerted effort to have young people attend this
event. Through the generosity of our student sponsors, we hope
to have 100 students participate and hear from our two outstanding
honorees that are helping to define the term "role
model."
Photo by Martha Stewart
Jonathan Schell
If you would like more information about the honorees or
wish to make reservations for the event, please contact the
Foundation at (805) 965-3443. We look forward to having
you join us for this very special evening.
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FOUNDATION
ACTIVITIES
The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
T
he peoples and governments of the world face an urgent challenge relating to weaponry of mass destruction and particularly to
nuclear weaponry.
At the crossroads of technology, terrorism, geopolitical ambition, and policies of preemption are new and potent dangers for humanity.
Despite ending the nuclear standoff of the Cold War era, nuclear weaponry is again menacing the peoples of the world with catastrophic
possibilities.
We recognize the need for any government to pursue its security interests in accordance with international law; and further, we recognize
that distinctive threats to these interests now exist as a result of an active international terrorist network having declared war on the
United States and its allies. Nonetheless, we reject the assessment of the current US administration that upgrading a reliance on
nuclear weapons is in any sense justified as a response. We find it unacceptable to assign any security role to nuclear weapons. More
specifically, nuclear weapons are totally irrelevant and ineffective in relation to the struggle against terrorism.
Nuclear weapons, combined with policies that lower barriers to their use, pose unprecedented dangers of massive destruction, recalling
to us the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Any major use of such weapons could doom humanity's future and risk the extinction of
most life on the planet.
The international regime preventing proliferation of nuclear weapons has badly eroded in recent years, and is in danger of unraveling
altogether. This is due in large part to the refusal of the nuclear weapons states to fulfill their long-standing obligations set forth in
Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to pursue nuclear disarmament in good faith. Other states, taking note of this
underlying refusal to renounce these weapons over a period of more than five decades, have seen growing benefits for themselves in
acquiring nuclear weapons.
Back in 1998, India and Pakistan, responding at least in part to the failure of the declared nuclear weapons states to achieve nuclear
disarmament, decided to cross the nuclear weapons threshold. These two countries, both having always remained outside the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, have a long history of conflict and war with each other. They are a flashpoint for potential nuclear war in
South Asia.
Another flashpoint is Israel's undeclared, yet well-established, nuclear weapons arsenal, which introduces the risk that nuclear weapons
will be used in some future crisis in the Middle East. Israel's nuclear arsenal and the implicit threat of its use has encouraged other
Middle Eastern countries to seek or acquire weapons of mass destruction, including the establishment of nuclear weapons programs.
A third flashpoint exists on the Korean Peninsula in Northeast Asia, where North Korea has withdrawn from the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty and other agreements restricting its nuclear program. The North Korean government has announced that it will
expand its nuclear weapons program unless the US agrees to negotiations to establish a mutual security pact.
US government policies are moving dangerously in the direction of making nuclear weapons an integral component of its normal force
structure, and terrorists are becoming increasingly unscrupulous in challenging the established order. Terrorist organizations have been
boldly seeking access to weaponry of mass destruction. Beyond this, the recent Iraq War, supposedly undertaken to remove a threat
posed by Iraqi possession of these weapons, seems to have sent the ironic message to North Korea and others that the most effective
way to deter the United States is by proceeding covertly and with urgency to develop a national arsenal of nuclear weapons.
US official policies to develop smaller and more usable nuclear weapons, to research a nuclear earth-penetrating weapon for use as a
"bunker buster," and to lessen the timeframe for returning to underground nuclear testing, along with the doctrine and practice of preemptive
war, have dramatically increased the prospect of future nuclear wars. The nuclear policies and actions of the US government
have proved to be clearly provocative to countries that have been named by the US president as members of "the axis of evil" or that
have been otherwise designated by the present US administration to constitute potential threats to the United States. Several of these
countries now seem strongly inclined to go all out to acquire a deterrent in the face of American intimidation and threats.
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in the Twenty-First Century: A Path Forward
A Statement of the NAPF Board of Directors
There is no circumstance, even retaliation, in which the use of nuclear weapons would be prudent, moral or legal under international
law. The only morally, legally and politically acceptable policy with regard to nuclear weapons is to move rapidly to achieve their universal
and total elimination, as called for by the world's leading religious figures, the International Court of Justice in its 1996 opinion,
and many other governments and respected representatives of civil society. Achieving such goals would also dramatically reduce the possibilities
of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorist organizations.
Given the existence of treaty regimes that already ban chemical and biological weapons, the outlawing and disarmament of nuclear
weapons would complete the commitment of the governments and peoples of the world to the prohibition and elimination of all
weaponry of mass destruction. Such a prohibition, and accompanying regimes of verification and enforcement, could lead over time to
a greater confidence by world leaders in the rule of law, as well as encourage an increased reliance on non-violent means of resolving
conflicts and satisfying grievances.
It is the US insistence on retaining a nuclear weapons option that sets the tone for the world as a whole, reinforcing the unwillingness
of other nuclear weapons states to push for nuclear disarmament and inducing threatened or ambitious states to take whatever steps
are necessary, even at the risk of confrontation and war with the United States, to develop their own stockpile of nuclear weaponry. In
this post-September 11th climate, the United States has suddenly become for other governments a country to be deterred rather than,
as in the Cold War, a country practicing deterrence to discourage aggression by others.
For these reasons, we call upon the United States government to:
• Abandon its dangerous and provocative nuclear policies, in particular, researching, developing and making plans to shorten the time
needed to resume testing of new and more usable nuclear weapons;
• Take its nuclear arsenal off the high alert status of the Cold War;
• Meet its disarmament obligations under Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Treaty's Review Conferences,
including making arms reduction agreements irreversible;
• Renounce first use of or threat to use nuclear weapons under all circumstances;
• Enter into negotiations with North Korea on a mutual security pact; and
• Assert global leadership toward convening at the earliest possible date a Nuclear Disarmament Conference in order to move rapidly
toward the creation and bringing into force of a verifiable Nuclear Weapons Convention to eliminate all nuclear weapons and
control all nuclear materials capable of being converted to weapons.
We also call on other nuclear weapons states to accept their responsibilities to work toward a world without weapons of mass destruction
as a matter of highest priority.
These steps leading to the negotiation and ratification of a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons should then be coordinated with existing
arrangements of prohibition associated with biological and chemical weapons to establish an overall regime dedicated to the elimination
of all weaponry of mass destruction. It would be beneficial at that stage to also create an international institution with responsibility
for safeguarding the world against such diabolical weaponry, including additional concerns associated with frontier technologies,
such as space weaponization and surveillance technology, radiological weapons, cyber warfare, advanced robotics, genetic engineering
and nanotechnology.
Finally, we recommend that an international commission of experts and moral authority figures be appointed by the Secretary General
of the United Nations to issue a report on existing and emerging weaponry of mass destruction and to propose international arrangements
and policy recommendations that would enhance the prospects for global peace and security in the years ahead and, above all,
the avoidance of any use of weapons of mass destruction.
Humanity stands at a critical crossroads, and the future depends upon our actions now.
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FOUNDATION
ACTIVITIES
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Meeting
in Geneva
D
evon Chaffee, formerly the Foundation’s Research
and Advocacy Coordinator and now its
Washington, DC Representative, traveled to Geneva,
Switzerland at the end of April to attend the opening
debate of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review
Conference Preparatory Committee (NPT PrepCom).
While at the United Nations, Devon distributed the
Foundation’s analysis on the status of the NPT to country
delegates and other participating organizations. To
read this analysis, entitled "Facing the Failures of the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Regime," visit the
Foundation's website at:
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2003/
04/23_krieger_npt-failures.htm
Devon also participated in the 8th NPT Strategy
Consultation of the Middle Powers Initiative (MPI) in
advance of the Geneva PrepCom. The Right Honorable
Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada and
MPI Steering Committee Member, chaired the
Consultation. Additional speakers included H.E. Mr.
Laszlo Molnar, Permanent Representative of Hungary to
the UN in New York and Chair of the 2nd NPT
PrepCom; Dr. Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima;
H.E. Mr. Tim Caughley, Permanent Representative of
Aotearoa/New Zealand to the UN in Geneva and
Ambassador for Disarmament; and Dr. Tariq Rauf,
Head of IAEA Verification and Security Policy
Coordination in Vienna. The Foundation is one of
nine international organizations involved in the MPI
coalition.
While in Geneva, Devon also attended the international
steering committee meetings of the Middle Powers
Initiative and the International Peace Bureau, connecting
with European partners working toward the abolition
of nuclear weapons.
UNESCO Conference on Teaching and Learning
L
eah Wells, a Foundation Consultant and former Coordinator for Peace Education, participated in the
UNESCO Conference on Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding, Human Rights and a
Culture of Peace. The conference was held from June 15-18 in Jyvaskyla, Finland. Leah presented a paper
entitled "A Culture of Teaching Peace." The conference gave educators from several different cultures an
opportunity to discuss how they can better integrate intercultural understanding into their institutional policies,
study and training programs, courses and curricula, classroom strategies and activities, in-service education
and scientific research.
Read Leah’s Paper:
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2003/06/00_wells_unesco.pdf
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Sadako Peace Day
O
n August 6th, the Foundation held its 9th Annual Sadako Peace Day, commemorating
the 58th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The event was held
in Sadako Peace Garden at La Casa de Maria Retreat Center in Santa Barbara, California.
The Foundation inaugurated the garden on the 50th anniversary of the bombings.
This annual event seeks to highlight the message of survivors of
the atomic bombings: that human beings and nuclear weapons
cannot co-exist. The event consisted of music, poetry and reflection.
Marty Blum, Mayor of Santa Barbara, shared her insights
into the dangers of current U.S. nuclear policy and reported on
the city's participation in the Mayors for Peace program.
Photo by Rick Carter
Rev. Mark Asman, Rector of Santa Barbara’s Trinity Episcopal
Church, spoke eloquently about the moral and ethical dilemmas
inherent in war and weapons of mass destruction.
Copies of their talks can be found online at:
http://www.wagingpeace.org/
articles/03.08/0806chaffee_sadako-htm.
Marty Blum, Mayor of Santa Barbara
Annual Peace Retreat
From June 29 to July 2, the Foundation co-sponsored the 22nd annual Peace Retreat with La Casa de Maria Retreat
Center in Santa Barbara, California. The retreat offers activists and concerned individuals an opportunity to renew
their energy and commitment to the work of peace. This year's theme was "The Spirituality and Practice of
Nonviolence and Peacemaking in a Broken World." Facilitators included Fr. Louie Vitale, OFM, a Franciscan pastor,
professor and activist, and co-founder of the Nevada Desert Experience and Pace e Bene. He was joined by
Toni Flynn, author, Benedictine Oblate and founder of the High Desert Catholic Worker. Toni recently served a
prison term for her nonviolent demonstration against the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. Janice
Freeman provided the musical accompaniment for the retreat.
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PROGRAM
UPDATES
New Publication by Richard Falk Released
T
he Foundation has published the 2nd Annual Frank K. Kelly
Lecture on Humanity's Future delivered by Richard Falk. The
publication entitled "American Civil Liberties & Human Rights
Under Siege" is available online at:
http://www.wagingpeace.org/resources/publications/
2003_02_siege-lecture.pdf or can be ordered from the Resources page.
Professor Falk delivered the lecture in February 2003 at the University
of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). Falk is Professor Emeritus of
International Law and Practice at Princeton University, a
Distinguished Visiting Scholar at UCSB and the Chair of the Nuclear
Age Peace Foundation.
UC Nuclear Free Campaign Update
T
By Michael Coffey, Youth Outreach Coordinator
wo major announcements were made in the final months of the 2002-2003 school year that had significant relevance to the UC
Nuclear Free Campaign. First, in April, Energy Secretary Abraham announced that the University of California (UC) will have to
compete with other defense research and academic institutions for the federal contract to manage Los Alamos National Laboratory, a key
nuclear weapons facility that has come to epitomize scandal in the already scandal-ridden military-industrial complex. Second, it was
announced that the next president of the UC system will be Robert Dynes, Chancellor at UC San Diego and a consultant with Los
Alamos National Laboratory for over 20 years.
Campaign organizers welcomed these developments as we continued our grassroots education activities throughout the end of the school
year. For example, the UCSB Student Coalition for Peace and SB Rail co-hosted a panel discussion in May featuring Joachim Piprek, a
UCSB computer science professor who ceased his Pentagon-funded research on the grounds that he did not approve of the US aggression
against Iraq. Similarly, The Nuclear Free Community at UCLA co-hosted a teach-in discussing the US use of weapons of mass
destruction and the human and environmental aftermath.
On August 11th, 18 stakeholders in the UC Nuclear Free Campaign, representing four UC campuses and three community organizations,
gathered at UC Berkeley for a summer strategy session. Just days later, UC Nuclear Free representatives facilitated a workshop at the
University of California Student Association (UCSA) Congress held at UC Davis. Recognized as the official voice of UC students by the
UC Regents and administration, California State Assembly, and federal agencies, UCSA is a coalition of students and student governments
aimed at providing a collective voice for all students. Campaign organizers and allies were busy this summer visiting the Bradbury
Science Museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico; connecting with student activists within the University of Texas system; participating in
the Student Pugwash USA "Nuclear Weapons Education and Policy Seminar" held in Washington, DC and the United States Students
Association Congress at UC Riverside; and conducting a Citizens Weapon Inspection at U.S. Strategic Command Headquarters.
These achievements can be attributed to a passionate and committed team of students and community allies whose collective efforts
amount to more than just the sum of their individual parts. We are poised and prepared for an eventful 2003-2004 year that will include
a survey of students on nuclear policy, a "100 Letters, 100 Days" campaign around the new UC president taking office and a push to
include participation by all UC campuses in passing resolutions denouncing UC ties with the nuclear weapons labs.
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Youth Outreach Initiative
T
he Foundation's Youth Outreach Initiative has made considerable strides in recent months as evidenced by the quality of speaking
engagements and our consistent and productive team of interns.
In June, Michael Coffey, our Youth Outreach Coordinator, traveled to Chicago, Illinois to participate in the United for Peace and Justice
Conference. Over 500 grassroots activists from over 300 organizations convened there to forge a more unified national peace movement.
Michael participated on a workshop panel on "Sliding Towards the Brink: The Role of Nuclear Weapons and Missile Defenses in Bush's
War-Fighting Agenda (and what we can do about it).”
The following month Michael traveled to Washington D.C. to speak at the "Nuclear Weapons: Science and Policy Educational Seminar"
hosted by Student Pugwash USA. Michael discussed the role of academia in nuclear weapons development, along with Dr. Paul White,
a Los Alamos Laboratory scientist, and Dr. Natalie Goldring, Executive Director of the Program on Global Security and Disarmament at
the University of Maryland. Fifty high school and undergraduate students from various parts of the US participated. The seminar also
featured Nobel Peace Laureate and Foundation Advisor Sir Joseph Rotblat, among other notable speakers.
The anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki drew Michael to Livermore, California in August as a speaker at the "Hands
Around the Lab" Rally and March at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Drawing excellent media coverage, the event commemorated
two landmark events of the nuclear age by mobilizing over 1,200 people around the core values of nonviolence and disarmament.
This summer, as with almost every summer, the Foundation staff nearly doubled with the addition of three impressive interns and a committed
team of volunteers. Jui Shah, a 2nd year student at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, and Leslie Lai, a third year student
in American Studies at Yale University, were selected for our two Lena Chang Internship positions for ethnic minority students. Angela
McCracken, a 2nd year Ph.D. student at USC's School of International Relations, was selected for the Ruth Floyd Internship on Human
Rights and International Law. Following her experience, Leslie said, "One of the best aspects of the internship is the fact that the relatively
small size of the Foundation allowed me to really get to know and work closely with the other members of the staff…The internship
was a great learning experience for me in regards to a variety of areas (e.g., the workings of an NGO, nuclear matters, international law,
community outreach, domestic policy, etc)." We truly appreciate the contributions made by our three interns as well as our volunteers
Parker Abercrombie, David Benson, Michael Cox, Victoria Hassid, Scott MacKenzie and Lisa Swid.
New Publication on
International Law Available
T
he Foundation has published a new booklet entitled "International
Law and the Quest for Security." The publication covers topics
ranging from the International Criminal Court to the nature of global
and human security in the post-September 11th environment.
Contributors to the publication include His Excellency Arthur N.R.
Robinson, Richard Falk, David Krieger, John Burroughs, Lisa Hajjar,
James Herman, Cecelia Lynch and Manou Eskandari-Qajar. Many of
the papers included were presented initially at the Foundation's
Symposium on International Law and the Quest for Security held in
October 2002 at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB).
The booklet is available online at:
http://www.wagingpeace.org/resources/publications/
2003_thequest.pdf or can be ordered from the Resources page.
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HIGHLIGHTS
Michelle Myers, Development and
Communications Officer
Justine Wang, Research and
Advocacy Coordinator
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Visitors to the Foundation The
Foundation continues its Luncheon Dialogue
Series and hosted Prof. Farzeen Nasri in May
speaking on “American Policy in the Middle
East: Who Does It Benefit” A native of Iran
and a Consultant to the Foundation, Prof. Nasri
teaches Political Science and Economics at
Ventura College where he also serves as Director
of the International Studies Program.
Conferences Foundation president David
Krieger participated in “The Day After the Day
After” conference on peacemaking and nuclear
terrorism in April sponsored by the California
Center for Strategic Studies. Foundation Chair
Richard Falk participated in a conference on
globalization in May at UCSB and spoke on a
panel on “Globalization and International Law.”
He was also a featured speaker in May at “An
Intergenerational Retreat on the
Interdependence of Soul, Soil and Society” in
Santa Barbara, sponsored by the Institute for
Reverential Ecology. Leah Wells, the
Foundation’s Peace Education Consultant, gave
the keynote speech to the Campus Antiwar
Network Conference in Chico, California in
April. Leah also presented at the PAX 2100
Forum 2 nd International Conference at Notre
Dame in May. Also in May, Devon Chaffee, the
Foundation’s Washington, DC representative,
participated in a conference on “Understanding
How the New American Peace Movement
Works: Beyond the War with Iraq,” at UC
Irvine. Devon also participated in a conference
sponsored by the Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research (IEER) in June in
Washington, DC on nuclear weapons.
Outreach In April, David Krieger spoke at
the University of Montana on new nuclear dangers
. He also spoke to several classes during the
spring and presented at a Day of Reflection on
“War, Peace and the US Role in the World” at
UCSB in May. Later that month, he spoke at a
photo exhibit of “Children of Iraq War” and
“Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibit” in
Los Angeles. In August, David addressed a large
audience at the Monterey Youth Festival sponsored
by Soka Gakkai International-USA.
Richard Falk spoke in April at UCSB on “Iraq,
Israel/Palestine and the Prospects of Global
Empire.” Leah Wells addressed a class at the
Naval War College in Port Hueneme, CA in
April on Iraq and peace education. The following
month she spoke to the Ventura Green Party
on peace education. Devon Chaffee spoke on a
panel in May on the “Future of the Peace
Movement: Where to Go from Here” at the 3 rd
Annual People’s March for Economic and Social
Justice in Santa Barbara. Michael Coffey, the
Foundation’s Youth Outreach Coordinator, participated
and spoke during numerous events
regarding the University of California’s role in
managing the nation’s nuclear weapons labs (see
Program Updates).
Board News The Foundation is pleased to
welcome several new members to its Board of
Directors: Sue Hawes is a retired attorney and
mediator; Peter MacDougall is President
Emeritus of Santa Barbara City College; Léni Fé
Bland is President of the Fé Bland Foundation,
providing scholarships to talented young musicians;
Anita Roddick is founder of The Body
Shop; and Mark Hamilton is a retired educator
and community leader. We welcome their new
ideas and participation. We also wish to
acknowledge the work and dedication of several
outgoing board members: Ilene Pritikin, Selma
Brackman and Yoel Haller. We thank them for
their years of service and support.
Advisors The Foundation is pleased to welcome
Major General Jack Kidd who joins its
Advisory Council. General Kidd retired from
the U.S. Air Force in 1972 and has devoted his
time to writing and speaking for an end to
nuclear weapons and war.
Staff News Devon Chaffee, the
Foundation’s former Research and Advocacy
Coordinator, has left to pursue a degree in public
interest law at Georgetown Law School this
fall. She continues to stay associated as the
Foundation’s Washington, DC Representative.
The Foundation welcomes Michelle Myers as its
Development and Communications Officer.
Michelle recently received her Masters degree in
International Conflict Analysis from the
University of Kent’s Brussels School of
International Studies where she founded one of
the first international Foundation Affiliates. We
are also pleased to welcome Justine Wang as our
new Research and Advocacy Coordinator.
Justine recently served as the Information and
Peace Education Officer at the Campaign for
Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in London.
Justine earned her Masters degree in
International Politics at the School of Oriental
and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of
London.
Affiliates The Foundation’s organizational
Affiliate program is making headway. The
Nuclear Peace Programme in Scotland received
formal charitable status and has launched their
website which can be accessed at
www.nuclearpeaceprogramme.org. Leaders in
Mexico met in July to discuss the formation of
our Mexico Affiliate, Fundación Paz En La Era
Nuclear (FPEN) which would be coordinated
jointly with the Latin American Circle of
International Studies (CLAEI) in Mexico City.
More information will be forthcoming as this
develops. For more information, please contact
Rubén Arvizu, the Foundation’s Director for
Latin America at rarvizu@napf.org.

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2) Hope in a Dark Time, edited by David Krieger, foreword by
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3) The Iraq Crisis and International Law, edited by Richard Falk and David
Krieger $6:00. S/H $2.00 per copy.
4) The Poetry of Peace, edited by David Krieger. First seven years of
winning poems in the Foundation’s Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry
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5) Iraq, Terrorism and the Danger of Nuclear War by Daniel
Ellsberg, March 2003. Audiotape $8.00 per copy. S/H $1.00 per copy.
6) American Civil Liberties and Human Rights Under Siege 2nd
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Richard Falk, February 2003. Booklet $6.00 per copy. Audiotape $8.00
per copy. S/H $2.00 per copy.
7) Recorded speeches from the Foundation's 2002 Awards Dinner:
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Robinson and Seeing the World with Global Eyes by Dr. Robert Muller.
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institutions, to use
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and sustainably, and to
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