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“Today is Not a Good Day for War” – a poem by David Krieger........1

President’s Message ............................................................................2-3

How We Make A Difference:

Voice of Conscience ........................................................................4

U.S. Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World ........................5

Our DVD: Nuclear Weapons and the Human Future ....................6

Presidential Candidates’ Quotes ....................................................7

Middle Powers Initiative .............................................................. 7

Grass Roots Advocacy ....................................................................8

Washington, DC – Influencing Legislation & Policy ....................9

Youth Empowerment Initiative ..............................................10-11

Foundation Websites ....................................................................12

25th Annual Evening for Peace – Rev. George Regas & Stanley Sheinbaum ....................................13

7th Annual Frank Kelly Lecture – Colman McCarthy ................14

Lifetime Achievement Award – Judge Christopher Weeramantry ................................................15

14th Annual Sadako Peace Day ....................................................16

Hibakusha Visit..............................................................................17

2008 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards................18-19

New Book – At the Nuclear Precipice – Catastrophe or Transformation? ........19

2008 Contributors ..........................................................................20-21

2008 Financial Report ..........................................................................22

Legacy Circle/ Peace Leadership Council............................................23

The First One Hundred Days –A Nuclear Disarmament Agenda for President Obama ....................24

DirectorsRichard Falk, J.S.D., Chair Mark Hamilton, Vice Chair & Treasurer David Krieger, J.D., Ph.D., President Frank K. Kelly, Senior Vice President Peter R. MacDougall, Ed.D., Vice PresidentRobert Laney, J.D., Secretary Jill Dexter · Diandra de Morrell Douglas · Anna Grotenhuis, J.D. · Laurie Harris, J.D. · Peter O. Haslund, Ph.D. · Sue Hawes, J.D. · Marc Kielberger, J.D. · Steve Parry · John Randolph Parten, J.D. · Chris Pizzinat ·Selma Rubin · Lessie Nixon Schontzler, J.D. ·Imaging Spence ·

Advisory CouncilHafsat Abiola · Tadatoshi Akiba · Harry Belafonte · Blase Bonpane · Helen Caldicott, M.D. · Hon. Rodrigo Carazo ·Jean-Michel Cousteau · Walter Cronkite · 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 · Jane Goodall, Ph.D. ·DBE · Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. · Bianca Jagger · The XIVth Dalai Lama* · Admiral Gene R. La Rocque (Ret.) ·Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. · Bernard Lown, M.D. ·Mairead Corrigan Maguire* · Hon. Robert Muller ·Queen Noor of Jordan · John Polanyi* · Admiral L. Ramdas (Ret.) · Rev. George Regas ·Hon. Arthur N.R. Robinson · Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C. · Jonathan Schell · Stanley K. Sheinbaum · Gerry Spence, J.D. · Paul (Noel) Stookey · Ted Turner · Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu* · Judge Christopher Weeramantry · Peter Yarrow

AssociatesRobert C. Aldridge · Richard Appelbaum, Ph.D. ·Eric H. Boehm, Ph.D. · Selma Brackman · M. M.Eskandari-Qajar, Ph.D. · Dietrich Fischer, Ph.D. ·Jonathan Granoff, J.D. · Martin Hellman, Ph.D.Peter Kuznick, Ph.D. · Ved P. Nanda, L.L.M. ·Farzeen Nasri, Ph.D. · Jan Øberg, Ph.D. · Jennifer Allen Simons, Ph.D. ·Michael Wallace, Ph.D. · Lawrence Wittner, Ph.D.

StaffSteven Crandell · Nick Robinson · Sharon Rossol ·Vicki Stevenson · Steve Stormoen · Rick Wayman

InternsWallace T. Drew Intern: Chloe Brown (Williams College)Lena Chang Intern: Sheena Nayak (Monterey Institute for International Studies)La Vera Garcia Intern: Maribel Angulo (University of California, Santa Barbara)Eddie Edelson (University of California, Santa Barbara) Tyler Baldridge (Westmont College) Beca Lee (Westmont College) Loan Pham (University of California, Santa Barbara) Roy Kurver (EF Language School) Erin Dowley (Santa Barbara City College) Adriana Zyskowski (Wheeling Jesuit)Angie Fitzgerald (University of California, Santa Barbara) Rie Sugisaki (Santa Barbara City College)

*Nobel Peace Laureate

Waging Peace is published annually by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan, international education and advocacy organization that provides leadershiptoward a nuclear weapons-free world under international law.Waging Peace is distributed internationally.

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T O D AY I S N O T A G O O D D AY F O R W A R

Today is not a good day for war,Not when the sun is shining,And leaves are trembling in the breeze.

Today is not a good day for bombs to fall,Not when clouds hang on the horizonAnd drift above the sea.

Today is not a good day for young men to die,Not when they have so many dreamsAnd so much still to do.

Today is not a good day to send missiles flying,Not when the fog rolls inAnd the rain is falling hard.

Today is not a good day for launching attacks,Not when families gatherAnd hold on to one another.

Today is not a good day for collateral damage,Not when children are restless Daydreaming of frogs and creeks.

Today is not a good day for war,Not when birds are soaring,Filling the sky with grace.

No matter what they tell us about the other,Nor how bold their patriotic calls,Today is not a good day for war.

David Krieger

NUCLEAR WEAPONSPOSE A TRULY GLOBAL PROBLEM. All nations must worktogether for disarma-ment. But without anew U.S. nuclear policy, little progresscan be made.

Join the Dalai Lama,Archbishop DesmondTutu and WalterCronkite in supportingU.S. Leadership for aNuclear Weapons-Free World. Find out more at www.wagingpeace.org.

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D E A R F R I E N D O F T H E F O U N D AT I O N ,

In 2008, the Foundation focused its efforts on U.S. leadership for a nuclear weapons-free world.We gathered signatures on our Appeal to the Next President of the United States calling for suchleadership. Over the course of the year, we gathered some 60,000 signatures in the U.S., which we plan to present to President Obama or his representative in spring 2009. Our Appeal was alsopromoted in Mexico, where the results were even more dramatic, with hundreds of thousands ofsignatures collected. For this, we thank our Latin American representative, Ruben Arvizu, and hiscolleagues in Mexico for a great effort.

Toward the end of 2008 and in early 2009, the Foundation proposed the idea of “U.S. Leadershipto Abolish Nuclear Weapons Globally” to a contest on the website Change.org, which was seekingthe best ideas for change in America to present to the Obama administration. Out of nearly 8,000ideas proposed, our idea received enough votes to reach the final 90 ideas and then ended up asthe 23rd highest vote getter. The idea also had 76 endorsements from other organizations, andindividuals from throughout the world posted hundreds of positive comments on the idea. All ofus should be proud of the efforts we made to raise the profile of nuclear weapons abolition andour leadership in promoting this idea.

We also revised and distributed our DVD, Nuclear Weapons and the Human Future, throughoutthe year. Over 4,000 copies of the DVD were sent to individuals who pledged to show the programto groups they organized or to which they belonged. The DVD has also had more than 4,000 viewson YouTube.

In November 2008, the country chose a new president, Barack Obama, who has expressed a com-mitment to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. The prospects for nuclear weapons abolitionunder President Obama are much improved. He believes in the importance of international law,and he has spoken often of the need to pursue a course leading to a world free of nuclearweapons. On his White House website, he lists as goals of his administration: securing loosenuclear materials from terrorists, strengthening the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and movingtoward a nuclear free world. In the latter category, it states, “Obama and Biden will set a goal of aworld without nuclear weapons, and pursue it.” We believe that Obama’s ascendancy to the presi-dency bodes well for our efforts and those of the nuclear weapons abolition movement in general.

Of course, we did much more during 2008, including fostering new peace leaders, holding success-ful “Think Outside the Bomb” youth conferences at American University in Washington, DC and at MIT in Boston, continuing to promote our UC Nuclear Free campaign at the University ofCalifornia, and initiating a new Swackhamer video contest. We also held the 7th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future with Colman McCarthy, our annual Sadako Peace Day in the Sadako Peace Garden we helped create, and our 25th Annual Evening for Peace honoringReverend George Regas and Stanley Sheinbaum. In addition, we improved our websites and published numerous articles on issues related to peace and nuclear weapons abolition.

During 2008, our membership increased from 10,000 to over 23,000. Our Turn the Tide ActionAlert Network also grew during the year and now exceeds 15,000 participants.

All that we do is made possible by our supporters. We thank you for caring and for your help increating an organization that is making an impact for peace and a world free of nuclear weapons.

David KriegerPresident, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

A M E S S A G E F R O M T H E P R E S I D E N T

NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION 3

“The most important thing to understand about

nuclear weapons is this: these weapons do not

and cannot provide physical protection to their

possessors.

“The second most important thing to understand

about these weapons is that they are weapons of

genocide writ large or, as the philosopher John

Somerville has labeled them, weapons of omnicide,

capable of the destruction of all. These weapons

put at risk the future of humankind and most life

on earth.

“The third most important thing to understand

about nuclear weapons is that they are in the

hands of human beings with all their frailties

and fallibilities, and, as such, these weapons are

disasters waiting to occur.”

—David Krieger, from A Return to Sanity – United States Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World – A Briefing for the New President

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation President David Krieger makes a point at a World Future Council Conference onFuture Justice in Santa Barbara in April 2008. He is joined in this panel by the Hon. Arthur Robinson, formerPresident of Trinidad and Tobago, and Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker, former dean of the Bren School ofEnvironmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara.

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H O W W E M A K E A D I F F E R E N C E

VOICE OF CONSCIENCE,

RESOURCE FOR A WORLD

FREE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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For 26 years, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation hasbeen a voice of conscience to our community, nationand world. Our message is that nuclear weaponsthreaten the future of all life on our planet, and it isthe responsibility of all of us, working together, toend this threat forever. Nuclear weapons were creat-ed by humans, and they must be abolished by us –by all of us. Peace in a world free of nuclearweapons is everyone’s birthright. It is the greatestchallenge of our time to restore that birthright toour children and all future generations.


U.S. LEADERSHIP FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPONS-FREE WORLD

We focused much of our efforts in 2008 on promot-

ing U.S. leadership for a nuclear weapons-free world.

Our primary vehicle for this was the “Appeal to the

Next President.”

We worked closely with dozens of organizations

around the world to collect signatures for the

Appeal. Together with our primary partner, the

Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, we

collected over 60,000 signatures in the United States.

Special recognition goes to our supporters in Mexico,

where hundreds of thousands of signatures were

collected under the leadership of Ruben Arvizu, our

director for Latin America. Support for the Appeal

was widespread in other countries as well, particular-

ly Japan and Argentina.

The signatures were submitted to the Obama admin-

istration on March 11, 2009. We will continue to

advocate for U.S. leadership for a nuclear weapons-

free world as President Obama’s agenda develops.

• De-alert all nuclear weapons;

• Commit to No First Use;

• No new nuclear weapons;

• Ban nuclear testing forever;

• Control nuclear material worldwide;

• Nuclear weapons convention; and

• Reallocate resources for peace.

A N A P P E A L T O P R E S I D E N T B A R A C K O B A M A

The Appeal outlinesseven steps leadingtoward the abolition of nuclear weapons:



O U R D V D Nuclear Weapons andthe Human Future

The Foundation’s DVD Nuclear Weapons and the

Human Future achieved great success in 2008. Over

4,000 copies were sent to interested individuals and

groups around the world. Many recipients showed

the DVD to a group they are involved with, multiply-

ing the effect of our outreach many times over.

The DVD was also played on many public tele-

vision stations throughout the United States,

and is now available in many public libraries.

Online, the video has been viewed nearly

7,000 times.

Video will play an increasingly important role

in our work in the coming years. We will pro-

duce a new DVD in 2009. Visit our website

www.wagingpeace.org regularly for more details

and to order a copy.

The video was produced and edited by Ryan

Roberson, a film student at the University of

California, Santa Barbara; and Ivan Van Wingerden,

a student at California Polytechnic State University,

San Luis Obispo. Many thanks to them for their

excellent work.


P R E S I D E N T I A LC A N D I D AT E S ’ Q U O T E S

As part of our educational mission, the Foundation pub-

lished and continually updated a webpage featuring

quotes from the major candidates in the 2008 presidential

campaign. We monitored candidates’ statements on

nuclear disarmament, missile defense, new nuclear

weapons, the use of nuclear weapons and the

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

This project, featured prominently on the Foundation’s

wagingpeace.org website, was a valuable resource for

people interested in these key issues. This resource was

accessed nearly 18,000 times in 2008.

This was a well-researched non-partisan project that laid

out each candidate’s position based on their statements

and past actions. Because of our status as a 501(c)3 non-

profit organization, we never endorse particular candi-

dates or political parties.

M I D D L EP O W E R SI N I T I AT I V E

InternationalAdvocacy

The Middle Powers Initiative

(MPI) is a coalition of eight inter-

national non-governmental organi-

zations working for the elimination

of nuclear weapons. MPI works

with “middle power” governments

to encourage them to press the

nuclear weapons states to fulfill

their obligations for nuclear disar-

mament and take immediate steps

to reduce risks.

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

is a founding member of this coali-

tion and Foundation President

David Krieger is a member of the

MPI International Steering

Committee.

In March 2008, the Middle Powers

Initiative, with the support of the

Government of Ireland, convened

the fifth Article VI Forum in

Dublin, Ireland. Entitled NPT:

Pathfinder to a Nuclear Weapons-

Free World, the consultation sought

to link the vision of the abolition

of nuclear weapons with the need

to reconnect with the necessary

practical measures.


The year 2008 was a major turning point for our Turn

the Tide action alert network. We gained nearly 13,000

new subscribers – a four-fold increase over 2007.

Thousands of Turn the Tide activists sent messages

encouraging Congress and the President to take action

on issues including:

• Stopping new nuclear weapons (the ReliableReplacement Warhead);

• Rejecting the US-India nuclear deal; and

• Encouraging President Obama to adopt our 100-dayagenda for nuclear disarmament upon his inauguration.

We will be watching carefully for opportunities for Turn

the Tide members to take action for a nuclear weapons-

free world in 2009. To sign up for our action alert list,

visit http://capwiz.com/wagingpeace/home.


G R A S S R O O T S A D V O C A C Y

Community Peace Leaders

In 2008, more than 200 people took

steps through the Nuclear Age Peace

Foundation to become peace leaders

in their own communities.

Our program is both easy to start and

flexible. Here’s how it works:

1. Community peace leaders begin

by watching our 20-minute DVD

Nuclear Weapons & the Human

Future on-line and reading our U.S.

Leadership Appeal for a Nuclear

Weapons-Free World.

2. Then, if they decide to proceed,

peace leaders commit to reaching out

to 50-100 people over six months.

Each peace leader chooses their own

approach – showing the DVD at their

homes to friends and neighbors, or

to larger groups. Some peace leaders

choose to gather signatures on the

Appeal at local farmer’s markets or

shopping malls, door-to-door or

among organizations they know.

Those interested in getting started, can

do so on-line at http://www.waging-

peace.org/menu/action/peace-leaders/.


Transition and new potential were the key words for our Washington, DC operation in 2008.The Foundation decided to concentrate its resources in a new, flexible approach to impact-ing government policy and legislation – emphasizing rapid responses to issues as they arise.

In 2009, the key to our success will be fresh access to key policymakers provided by experienced Washington consultants, which we have engaged to help us with Congressional and Executive Branch outreach.

We also plan to continue to grow our Turn the Tide Campaign (see opposite page) so thatindividual voices can directly influence the decision-making process in the U.S. capital.

W A S H I N G T O N , D CInfluencing Legislation & Policy

In May 2008, The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability presented Senator Dianne Feinsteinwith an award for introducing the Nuclear Policy and Posture Review Act of 2007 (S. 1914), which requires nuclear policy andposture reviews that consider international nuclear disarmament obligations. The bill also calls for public input and declassifiedversions of the reports. Left to right: Nickolas Roth (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation), Senator Dianne Feinstein, Marie Rietmann(Women’s Action for New Directions), Paul Kawika Martin (Peace Action), Alfred Meyer (Alliance for Nuclear Accountability).

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Nearly 80 people gather in Boston for four days of peace leadership at Think Outside the Bomb in 2008.

UC Nuclear Free Since its founding in 2001, the UC Nuclear Free campaign hashelped guide the campaign to end University of Californiamanagement of the Los Alamos and Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratories. Contributing to a coalition featuringactive students from most UC campuses, UC Nuclear Free hasseen this coalition, known as the Coalition to Demilitarizethe UC, become the most powerful and effective grassrootsstudent movement against nuclear weapons in the country.Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory are responsible for the research anddevelopment of every nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal.We believe students can guide their university towards send-ing a vote of “no confidence” in the U.S. nuclear weaponscomplex. We believe the UC should stop lending their goodname to weapons of mass destruction. Our goal is straight-forward: to delegitimize nuclear weapons at their source.


Y O U T H E M P O W E R M E N T I N I T I AT I V E

Beyond educating about nuclear weapons and their abolition, the Youth Empowerment Initiative seeks to helpyoung people find their own paths to leadership for peace. Our main programs are:

In 2008, the fledgling UC Student Department ofEnergy Lab Oversight Committee (DOELOC) began toassert itself on the issues surrounding the UC’s nuclearweapons lab management. DOELOC is an officialStudent Government committee at both UC SantaBarbara and UC Berkeley, and is charged with moni-toring and investigating the work of the LawrenceLivermore and Los Alamos Nuclear WeaponsLaboratories. DOELOC also educates the student com-munity on their findings as well as giving fact-basedreports at UC Regent’s meetings. This committee hasalso been tapped to write a briefing for California Lt.Gov. John Garamendi in regards to nuclear weaponsmanufacturing at the Los Alamos Lab. The Foundation’sYouth Empowerment Initiative Coordinator, SteveStormoen, serves as an advisor to DOELOC.


Think Outside the Bomb The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation initiat-ed the first Think Outside the Bomb stu-dent leadership conference in the summerof 2005 at the University of California atSanta Barbara. Since then, with Foundationsponsorship, Think Outside the Bomb hasgrown into the nation’s biggest network ofyouth nuclear abolition, holding seven con-ferences in four cities.

In 2008, Think Outside the Bomb held itssecond regional conference in Washington,DC, in advance of the DC Days disarma-ment conference, hosting several dozenyoung people.

The 2008 national conference in Bostonattracted nearly 80 participants. Twenty-one U.S. states were represented at theconference; additionally, we had exchangestudents present from Germany, Denmark,Ukraine and Haiti, making this the mostgeographically diverse Think Outside theBomb conference yet.

The conference took place atMassachusetts Institute of Technology in the Stata Center, the use of which was donated to us by the MIT Technologyand Culture Forum.

We sought to give each participant notonly the inspiration to work for a nuclear-free future, but the tools and skills to dothat work. To this end, each participanthelped create a year-long action plan touse in their own communities.

“It was amazing, and I learned so muchabout nuclear issues and how to be aneffective activist, and I really look forwardto utilizing my new activist skills.”

“I felt that a community was developedthat made me feel comfortable and safe.”

“I had an amazing time! Highlight of mysummer, would recommend it to any oldor young activists or intellectual seekers.”

“Best TOTB thus far!”

Speaker and conference co-organizer Erin Placey maps out the connec-tions in her life to the military-industrial complex. Models like this helpengage each participant, who find similar connections in their owneveryday lives.

Participants from Maryland, Iowa, NewHampshire and Massachusetts bond overlunch at the national Think Outside theBomb Conference held in August 2008 atthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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F O U N D AT I O N W E B S I T E S Resources for All People

www.wagingpeace.org

The Foundation’s main website, www.wagingpeace.org, had another strong performance

in 2008. Over 449,000 unique visitors came to our site to read informative articles by experts

in the nuclear disarmament movement, inspirational quotes and messages from world-

renown peace leaders and to take action for a nuclear weapons-free world.

Popular features on our website in 2008 included:

• The Appeal to President Obama, calling for US leadership for a nuclear weapons-free world;

• Presidential candidates’ quotes on nuclear issues, described elsewhere in this report;

• A 100-Day Agenda for Nuclear Disarmament for President Obama; and

• The peace quotes page.

We will be adding new features to the website in 2009, including RSS feeds, which will

automatically notify subscribers when new articles are posted to the site. We will also

expand our outreach through blogging and online social networking sites such as

Facebook and MySpace.

www.nuclearfiles.org

The Foundation’s other website, www.nuclearfiles.org, also continued the success of recent

years. We provided 280,000 unique visitors to the site in 2008 with a comprehensive look

at the Nuclear Age. From an interactive timeline to primary-source documents relating to

the Nuclear Age, Nuclear Files has tremendous educational resources for students, educators

and other curious individuals.

Popular features on Nuclear Files in 2008 included:

• An interactive timeline that allows visitors to search by date, subject or keyword;

• Information on nuclear weapon-related mishaps throughout history; and

• Information on nuclear energy, from the basics of how a nuclear reactor works to the

complex debate surrounding waste storage plans at Yucca Mountain.



Peace sounded like thunder at the Doubletree Resortballroom in November when about 280 people leapt to their feet to give standing ovations to two leaderswho have spent their lives waging peace.

Reverend George Regas received the DistinguishedPeace Leadership Award in recognition of his courage,commitment and vision in building interfaith move-ments for nuclear disarmament and peace.

Stanley Sheinbaum received the World CitizenshipAward for his sustained and courageous efforts to forgepeace and create new dialogue between old adversaries.

Those in the audience for the Santa Barbara event saidthey found the 25th Annual Evening for Peace exciting,inspiring and memorable. The choir from WestmontCollege and Cantor Mark Childs provided moving music,while speakers David Krieger, Rev. Mark Asman, MikeFarrell and Board Members Anna Grotenhuis and SelmaRubin weaved insight with inspiration.

The Foundation wishes to thank all those people andorganizations who made this Evening for Peace possiblethrough their volunteer work, their gifts and their dedi-cation to creating a world free of nuclear weapons.

As Rev. George Regas and Stanley Sheinbaum both indicated in their talks, there is great opportunity forprogress on nuclear disarmament in the near future.Imagine future generations marveling that we were thepeople with thedetermination,will and wisdomto take action.

A just and securepeace in a worldfree of nuclearweapons. It’s agoal we all canshare, that bene-fits all people.

2 5 T H A N N U A L E V E N I N G F O R P E A C E Renewed Hope for Peace Honoring Rev. George Regas and Stanley Sheinbaum

A rapturous standing ovation resounds for World Citizenship Award recipient Stanley Sheinbaum in appreciation for his courageand determination in working for peace.

Rev. George Regas gives an inspirationaladdress after receiving the Foundation’sDistinguished Peace Leadership Award for his vital role in the nucleardisarmament movement.

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7 T H A N N U A L F R A N K K . K E L LY L E C T U R E O N H U M A N I T Y ’ S F U T U R E Teach Peace – Colman McCarthy

One of the country’s premier peace educators came to SantaBarbara in February 2008 to deliver the Kelly Lecture, and his message was clear: Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.

Colman McCarthy is an adjunct professor at GeorgetownUniversity Law Center. In addition, he teaches classes at threeWashington, DC high schools. He wrote columns for theWashington Post for 28 years and founded the Center forTeaching Peace in 1985.

In addition to giving the Kelly Lecture, McCarthy spoke to hun-dreds of area students, including a large assembly at Cate School.

McCarthy believes peace studies should be part of the core cur-riculum. He believes the philosophy of peace, the writings of greatpeace leaders, and non-violent conflict resolution should be partof a very practical, community-oriented approach to education.

“What makes us happy is service to others,” he says. “If schoolsdon’t expose students to the joys of community service, we graduate people who are idea rich but experience poor. In theseaddled times of leave no child untested, we think it’s enough topound ideas into the kids’ heads. You can make all A’s in schooland go out and flunk life.”

The Kelly lecture series honors Nuclear Age Peace Foundation senior vice president and co-founder, Frank King Kelly.

“In only the pastquarter-century,at least six brutalregimes have beenoverthrown by people who had noweapons of steel,but only whatEinstein called‘weapons of the spirit.’”

— ColmanMcCarthy

Great minds gather for some informal peace education. From left: ColmanMcCarthy, Foundation President David Krieger, Filmmaker Andy Davis,Foundation co-founder Frank Kelly and SBCC lecturer ManoutchehrEskandari-Qajar.

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L I F E T I M E A C H I E V E M E N T A W A R D Judge Christopher Weeramantry

On April 12, 2008, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundationpresented a Lifetime Achievement Award forDistinguished Peace Leadership to Judge ChristopherWeeramantry of Sri Lanka. Judge Weeramantry is a former Supreme Court Justice of Sri Lanka and former Vice President of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. He was also a professor of law at Monash University in Australia.

Judge Weeramantry currently heads theWeeramantry International Centre for PeaceEducation and Research. He views justice as the prerequisite to peace, and peace education as a prerequisite to justice. He is an active educator, lec-turing throughout the world and writing prolifically.He is the author of more than 20 books and 200 articles related to peace, cross-cultural understandingand international law. He is an expert on the moralinfluences of religions on international law.

As a judge on the InternationalCourt of Justice, JudgeWeeramantry wrote a lengthy dissent to the Court’s AdvisoryOpinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of NuclearWeapons. The Court found thatthe threat or use of nuclearweapons would be generally ille-gal, but held open the possibilityof legality in an extreme circum-stance in which the very survival ofa state was at stake. In his dissent,Judge Weeramantry concludedthat there was no instance inwhich the threat or use of nuclearweapons could be considered legalunder international law. JudgeWeeramantry’s dissent in this caseremains the most comprehensiveand important legal opinion writ-ten on this critical issue.

In his acceptance speech upon receiving the Foundation’s LifetimeAchievement Award, the judge

expressed the concern that unless the internationalcommunity is able to resolve conflicts peacefully andabolish its most destructive weapons, we may fore-close the human future. Thus, each of us alive on theplanet today has special responsibilities to assurethat the decisions made today will not destroy theplanet for ourselves or future generations.

Previous recipients of the Foundation’s LifetimeAchievement Award are former Canadian SenatorDouglas Roche (2005); psychiatrist and author Dr.Robert Jay Lifton (2005); scientist of conscience SirJoseph Rotblat (1997); civil society leader for the law of the sea Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1995); andtwo-time Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling (1991).The Foundation is proud to add Judge ChristopherWeeramantry to this list of distinguished previoushonorees.

Two kindred spirits — Foundation President David Krieger presents one of theFoundation’s highest honors to Judge Christopher Weeramantry.

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Noted historian Professor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa was

the featured speaker at the Foundation’s 2008

Sadako Peace Day, commemorating the 63rd

Anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima

and Nagasaki.

Prof. Hasegawa, from the University of California,

Santa Barbara, gave insight into one of the defin-

ing events of the 20th century in his talk: “The US

Decision to Drop the Bomb: Paths Not Taken.”

Prof. Hasegawa is an expert on the Cold War and

foreign relations involving Russia, Japan and the

United States. The ceremony, held at the Sadako

Peace Garden at La Casa de Maria in Santa

Barbara, also included readings from several local

poets, including Santa Barbara’s poet laureate

Perie Longo, Carol DeCanio and Christine Kravetz.

Bob Sedivy provided beautiful, evocative music on

the shakuhachi or traditional bamboo flute. Four

children, Emily and Nicole Janée, Ciara Giordani

and Jazmin Hall, charmed the audience with songs

of peace, hope and understanding.


Four years old and full of hope for peace, JazminHall sings “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

Bob Sedivy sets the mood for the Sadako Day ceremony with his soothing, ethereal music. He plays the Japanese traditional bamboo fluteor shakuhachi.

Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa offers a fresh perspectiveon an American decision that changed the courseof world history.

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“I looked up to the sky, having no idea about what happened, and I saw there a indescribably strange fireballfloating up in the mid-air.” — Miyako Yano describing the atomic attack on Hiroshima. She was 14 years old.


H I B A K U S H A V I S I T

Junko Kayashige was 6 years old when the atomicbomb was detonated over Hiroshima in 1945. Herhouse was a little over a mile from ground zero.

In September, Southern Californians had a rare

opportunity to listen to two women who survived the

U.S. nuclear attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

Junko Kayashige, aged 69, and MiyakoYano, 78,

spoke at two different high schools as well as to the

general public in a free evening lecture. They told

their personal stories of the devastation wrought by

nuclear weapons. Survivors of the atomic attacks in

Japan are called hibakusha.

Foundation President David Krieger wrote this

about their moving presentation:

“The women traveled from Hiroshima to the United

States to tell their stories. They did so in the hope that

their past will not become our future. They wish that no

one else will suffer the fate of the victims at Hiroshima

and Nagasaki. Junko Kayashige stated, “There is not

much time left for us hibakusha. We must find ways to

not create even one more hibakusha.”

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2 0 0 8 B A R B A R A M A N D I G O K E L LYP E A C E P O E T RY A W A R D W I N N E R S

About the AwardsThe Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards. In 1995,the Foundation established the annual series of awards to encourage poets to explore and illuminate positive visions of peace and the human spirit. The poetry awards are offered in three categories: Adults, Youth 13-18, and Youth 12 & Under. The contest is open to people worldwide. For more information, please visit www.wagingpeace.org.


Adult Category

Gettysburg,Pennsylvania

BY ASHLEY WELLINGTONFIRST PLACE

I.

Even the field, sweating through dusty pores,Reeked of brass and drying bloodAs a cluster of gray coats waited to spillOut into the open.In the soggy July heat, the stench of decay.A wounded soldier, resting in the shadeOf a cannon, was struck by an officer for sitting down.The officer later fell from a bullet not shot by his enemy,And his skull cracked like a clay pot.The soldier died near himWith outstretched arms and twisted neck,His trampled carcass stripped to the sinews.

II.

You and I stop here, not as they stoppedIn the roar, face down, blood seeping upFrom the ground into dirty clothes and hair –But to climb little Round Top, see Devil’s Den,Probe our fingers into bullet holesIn tree trunks. It is so quiet now,As if the land, washed clean by so much rainAnd stripped for souvenirs,Wants, impossibly, to be just a field again.

Youth (13-18) Category

the ungodly hour

BY JENNIFER HUFIRST PLACE

even he felt the heaton a night like that oneweighing on himlike giles corey’s stones

in the darkness he hugged his gunand saw puritans in the villagecreeping by the devilwitchcraft in the forest

but he knew it was only his platoonhiding in the woodsburrowed under sweaty blanketsthe puritans had nothing to fear

he might have been mistaken thoughmaybe there was witchcraftin the forest that nightwaiting under a starless sky

because in the morning the land was helllit up with mortar roundsand the devil’s preylay strewn on the ground

a burnt girla soldiera cow with shrapnel in its side


Youth (12-Under) Category

The Light is Shining on Us

BY XIAO JIN JACKSONFIRST PLACE

Inside a shooting star are wolves so fastthey make the star shoot

Inside a shooting star is cold airpushing to get out

Inside a shooting star are frogscroaking so loud it’s like an elephant yellinginto a microphone that has a speaker that runsall the way around the world.

Inside a shooting star is peacetrying to make its way to Earth.

Inside a shooting star is laughter,everybody is happy.

Inside a shooting star is light,light shining on us.

N E W B O O K

AT THE NUCLEARPRECIPICECatastrophe orTransformation?

Edited by Richard Falk and David Krieger

Published in 2008 by Palgrave

Macmillan, this book focuses on an

even more urgent and “inconvenient

truth” than global warming. Edited by

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Board

Chair Richard Falk and Foundation

President David Krieger, At the

Nuclear Precipice – Catastrophe or

Transformation? explores the present

nuclear predicament, and how to step

away from the nuclear danger and

assure humanity’s future. It examines

the intersections between international

law and national policies. It also shows

the interrelationships of nuclear prolif-

eration, nuclear terrorism and nuclear

disarmament. The book offers a way

out if policymakers of leading countries

can summon the political will to move

in a new direction.


2 0 0 8 C O N T R I B U T I O N S

$100,000 & UpDynamic Strategies ResearchFoundation

$50,000-$99,999James S. Bower FoundationMs. Marion Rose WellsWestcliff Foundation

$25,000-$49,999Mr. John Randolph PartenMr. Arthur B. Schultz

$10,000-$24,999AnonymousAhn Byoung SunFoundation for Global CommunitySue HawesMs. Juliane HeymanConrad N. Hilton FoundationMr. and Mrs. Terence KellyMr. and Mrs. Herbert KendallLear Family FoundationMr. and Mrs. Jon LovelaceMs. Sherry Melchiorre, Ph.D.Mr. and Mrs. Steven ParryMr. and Mrs. Richard L. SchallWallis FoundationYardi Systems, Inc.

$5,000-$9,999CSU Dominguez HillsMr. and Mrs. Yvon ChouinardMr. and Mrs. Ron Dexter

The Fund For Santa BarbaraMr. and Mrs. David GrotenhuisHerbert KurzSBCC FoundationThe Simons FoundationMr. and Mrs. Stan TomchinMs. Lila Trachtenberg

$1,000-$4,999Mrs. Janet AichesMr. and Mrs. Robert C. AldridgeMr. and Mrs. William AllawayAlliant Int’l UniversityBartlett, Pringle & WolfMr. and Mrs. Gary BeckerMr. and Mrs. Theodore Boutrous, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Roland F. BryanCFC 1998-2008CLAMCSU BakersfieldCSU Dominguez HillsMs. Susan Nora ClarkMs. Nancy E.W. ColtonMr. and Mrs. Andrew DavisDesmond Tutu Peace FoundationMr. Donald FerenczHo Ming FongSophia HaimovitzMr. and Mrs. Mark HamiltonLaurie HarrisDr. Fujio HironobuINESLaguna Blanca SchoolMr. and Mrs. Robert B. LaneyLassen Community CollegeMs. Diantha LebenzonDonna Mae LitowitzMrs. Ann MinnerlyProfessor Akbar MontaserMr. and Mrs. Frederick NicholasMr. and Mrs. William PalladiniWill ParrishPresbytery of Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara City CollegeLessie Nixon SchontzlerMr. and Mrs. Stanley K. SheinbaumMr. and Mrs. Gerry SpenceMr. and Mrs. Brian TevenanTurner Foundation Inc.Mr. Gebb TurpinUCSB/Office of Student LifeUniversity of Notre DameVerde Valley SchoolLepska WarrenWashington & Lee UniversityBeate WeberWeithorn and Ehrmann Families Fundof the Tides FoundationWidmark FoundationMrs. Allen C. WilcoxMrs. Rita Williams

$500-$999Mr. and Mrs. Jerar AndonAnonymousMr. and Mrs. Robert E. BasonDr. Eric H. BoehmDr. and Mrs. Earl BudinMr. Bert ChapmanMrs. Amelia L. DallenbachMr. and Mrs. Don & Catherine DishionMr. and Mrs. Ralph EdeboMr. Robert EgelstonMr. and Mrs. Dick FlacksLa-Vera GarciaIsabelle GreeneMr. and Mrs. Richard S. GuntherMr. and Mrs. Ed HammondMr. and Mrs. Stanley HatchMr. and Mrs. Thomas F. HeckDr. Martin HellmanRabbi Steven JacobsMr. and Mrs. Gene KelleyKiel Projects, Inc.Ms. I. Murphy LewisMr. and Mrs. Jim LichtmanDr. and Mrs. Peter MacDougallMr. and Mrs. John MasonMr. and Mrs. Sean McGrathMr. Robert PotterMs. Michelle RheaMs. Vicki RiskinMr. Stephen RohdeMr. Bruce RothRuth StarkMr. and Mrs. Dan SweeneyMr. and Mrs. Eric P. TrautweinUCSB/Accting & Financial Svcs.University of Alaska-FairbanksMr. and Mrs. Eduard Van WingerdenMr. and Mrs. Winfred Van WingerdenProf. Ernst von WeizsaeckerWestmont CollegeMr. and Mrs. Dennis Wylie

$100-$499Ms. Lucille BantaMrs. George BarrettMrs. Louise A. BarrowMr. and Mrs. Ralph BaxterMr. and Mrs. James P. BeldenMr. Robert BernsteinMs. Mary BerwickProfessor Gayle BinionMr. John T. BishopMr. and Mrs. Martin BlakewayMs. Mignon BradleyMs. Heather BrodheadMr. Ben BycelMs. Julie M. CadeCalifornia Lutheran UniversityMs. Judith Chaddick

The Nuclear Age PeaceFoundation is grateful toall of its supporters fortheir generosity andcommitment to a moresecure and nuclearweapons-free world. Thefollowing is a partial listof contributors for 2008.Those individuals whogive $1,000 or moreannually are recognizedas members of theFoundation’s PeaceLeadership Council.


Ms. Antoinette ChartierMs. Dahlia ChazanChris ClemensMr. William CokerConcerned Citizens for PeaceMs. Joann ConnorsMr. Donald H. CraigMs. Joan CudheaMr. Andrew DavisMs. Jean De MullerConstance Delbrook-MarquezJoan DewberryMrs. Jackie DiamondDijo Productions/Jerry Oshinsky Ms. Maurine DoerkenMr. and Mrs. George EagletonDrs. Paul and Anne EhrlichMrs. Mercedes H. EichholzMs. Charlotte EllenMr. and Mrs. Howard ElliottProfessor and Mrs. Richard A. FalkMr. Terry FernandezZelda FieldsMr. and Mrs. Joel FithianMr. and Mrs. Ronald J. FoxMrs. Judi FriedmanMs. Elaine FriedrichMr. and Mrs. Dennis FuruikeMrs. Dorothea GalesSandrine C. GeninMrs. Marilyn GevirtzDr. G. Wayne GlassMr. John GrandinettiDr. John GrulaNadine B. HackMs. Virginia HadleyMrs. Lois HamiltonMs. Pat Callbeck HarperGloria HartleyDr. Peter Haslund

Ms. Rosilla H. HawesDr. Bruce HawkinsArawana HayashiMs. Sonia HaywardMr. and Mrs. Dick HeiserMr. Harold HillMr. John HirschiMs. Susan Davis HopkinsMr. and Mrs. Paul IgnatiusHannah-Beth JacksonMr. and Mrs. Chris JonesDr. Martin Jones, MDMr. and Mrs. Michael D. JonesMr. Nathan JorgensenMr. and Mrs. Ned E. KassoufMr. Frank King KellyDr. George KentMr. and Mrs. Charles KimbellMs. Katharine H. KinkadeMrs. Tybie KirtmanPia M. KohlerDr. and Mrs. David KriegerJudith L. Kuipers, Ph.D.Mr. and Mrs. John H. Kultgen, Jr.Ms. Eleanor KuserMs. Leah LaCava KellyMr. Poka LaenuiDr. Gary LapidLeo Baeck Temple/Rabbi LeonardBeermanMacFarlane, Faletti & Co. LLPThe Markland GroupMs. Judith McDermottMr. William McGrawCheryl McQueen-DallasMr. Ray MedhurstMs. Martha MiddendorfMr. Steve MilamMr. and Mrs. Hale MilgrimMr. William Milmoe

Kathleen MoellenhoffMr. Richard MorrisonMaryanne MottMs. Valerie MullenMs. Marjorie NavidiGary D. Nelson, IIIRev. and Mrs. Vernon C. NicholsMr. and Mrs. Ralph H. NutterJohn and Ann OrlemanMr. and Mrs. Steve PatchenMs. Vickie PatikMr. and Mrs. Robert PetersonMr. and Mrs. Agris PetersonsMr. and Mrs. Nick PiediscalziMr. and Mrs. Christopher PizzinatMrs. Ilene PritikinProgressive Christians UnitingMr. Nathan PylesVicki ReynoldsMr. Robert RheemMs. Lia K. RobertsMr. and Mrs. James RobertsonMr. and Mrs. Gilbert RobledoMr. Stan RodenKatie O’Reilly RogersDr. and Mrs. Wade Clark RoofLily RossiMs. Selma RubinMr. Phillip RunkelDr. Randy J. RydellMr. Masaaki SakaiHamoud SalhiSanta Barbara United NationsDr. and Mrs. Arent Schuyler, Jr.Mr. Doug ScottMiss Muriel V. SelfMr. Martin SherwinMr. and Mrs. Lloyd G. ShoreKaren B. SinsheimerSoka University of AmericaMr. James StockstillJean SturgeonMr. and Mrs. Joseph SulockMr. and Mrs. Hal ThorntonElizabeth TraubmanMs. Sharon TrembleMs. Debra TygellKoichi UematsuUnited WayUnited Way of Rhode IslandMs. Rhonda G. VannMs. Estelle VoellerDr. and Mrs. Dean VogelSusan D. WardKaren WeingardMr. and Mrs. Peter WeissCicely WheelonDr. and Mrs. Martin WidzerDr. Robert WinemillerMr. and Mrs. Harvey WolfeMr. John WyandDr. and Mrs. James N. Yamazaki

Philanthropist Marion Wells, far right, congratulates Judge ChristopherWeeramantry on his Lifetime Achievement Award.

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2 0 0 8 F I N A N C I A L R E P O R T

AssetsCash $32,024Inventories $99,817Investments $4,010,869

Property & Equipment:Building & Improvements $358,727Land $143,836Furniture & Office Equipment $76,746Less: Accumulated Depreciation ($305,793)Net Property & Equipment $273,515

Total Assets $4,416,225

Revenue by Source AmountIndividual Contributors* $390,203Foundations and Grants $416,754Investment Revenue -$1,139,876Other** $3,150Bequests $2,232,702Total Revenues $1,902,933

* includes private family foundations

** less than 1%

Expenses by FunctionExpenses by Function AmountPrograms $1,055,129General Administration $95,937Fundraising $93,230Total Expenses $1,244,296

Liabilities and Net AssetsLiabilities:Accounts Payable $5,292

Total Liabilities $5,292

Net Assets:Unrestricted $103,364Unrestricted – Board Designated $1,917,133Temporarily Restricted $422,495Permanently Restricted $1,967,941

Total Net Equity $4,410,933

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $4,416,225

Revenue by Source


The Legacy Circle and the Peace Leadership Council are the major vehicles that have been created for interestedindividuals who choose to substantially aid the work of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. For more information,please contact Foundation President David Krieger orDirector of Development, Steven Crandell, at (805) 965-3443.

The Legacy CircleThe Legacy Circle was established in 1994 with the help of individuals committed to the future of the Foundationand its work for a more peaceful world. Since then, manyothers have joined this special group of supporters, at varying levels of commitment. There are now more thanfifty members of the Legacy Circle.

The Legacy Circle recognizes various levels of commitment in the following categories:

Regents $500,000 and upGuardians $250,000 to $499,999Benefactors $100,000 to $249,999Patrons $25,000 to $99,999Stewards $10,000 to $24,999

A permanent recognition wall is displayed in the WellsConference Room at the Foundation office to highlightLegacy Circle members in each of these categories.

Each member of the Legacy Circle is helping to secure thefuture of our world through the work of the Foundation, byensuring that the necessary work to realize peace continueswell into the 21st century. The legacy of peace that we arehelping to create is arguably the greatest gift we can give to our children and grandchildren. Gifts to the Legacy Circleare most often made by bequest through one’s will or trust.These gifts can also be made through means that allow thedonor to receive current tax benefits and income for life,such as a charitable remainder trust or pooled income fund.

Peace Leadership CouncilThe Nuclear Age Peace Foundation established the PeaceLeadership Council in order to help meet the many challenges to a peaceful and nuclear weapons-free world.The Council is made up of committed Foundation memberswho provide significant annual financial support, as well as advice to the Foundation’s leadership team. The Council was created to honor the vision and generosity of thoseindividuals whose annual financial partnership makes it possible to substantially further the Foundation’s goals.

H E L P S E C U R E O U R C O M M O N F U T U R E

You can help ensure that your desire for a secure and peaceful future is realized through your charitable support of our programs. We have expert professional advisors who can assist you in structuring your individual gift plan to help us to continue our important mission. Please consider gifts of stock, real estate,or other tangible assets. In partnership with the Foundation, your gift will significantly impact the future success of our shared goals of a world at peace for generations to come.

Levels of SupportThe Council is comprised of various giving categories:

Visionaries $25,000 and upAmbassadors $10,000 - $24,999Peacebuilders $5,000 - $9,999Guarantors $2,500 - $4,999Sustainers $1,000 - $2,499

BenefitsPeace Leadership Council members share a uniquerelationship with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.Members at the designated levels receive the follow-ing benefits:

Visionaries – One-on-one dialogue with thePresident, invitation to accompany the President to anational or international conference as a representa-tive of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, invitationto attend Foundation-sponsored forums and sym-posia, e-mail updates from the President, and anautographed Foundation book of your choice.

Ambassadors – One-on-one dialogue with thePresident, invitation to attend Foundation-sponsoredforums and symposia, e-mail updates from thePresident, and an autographed Foundation book of your choice.

Peacebuilders – Invitation to attend Foundation-sponsored forums and symposia, e-mail updates fromthe President, and an autographed Foundation book of your choice.

Guarantors – E-mail updates from the President, andan autographed Foundation book of your choice.

Sustainers – E-mail updates from the President and a free DVD of our Evening for Peace.

We invite you to join the Legacy Circle, Peace Leadership Council,or both, and become part of the

solution to the issues that impact the destiny of life on our planet.


T H E F I R S T H U N D R E D D AY S A Nuclear Disarmament Agenda for President Obama

1. Public Commitment Make a major foreign policy address, affirming his commitment to initiate a global effort to achieve aworld with zero nuclear weapons; to deemphasize reliance on nuclear weapons in U.S. military policy; to not develop new nuclear weapons; to not use nuclear weapons first under any circumstance; to seek Senate ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; and to launch a major global initiative to assure control of all nuclear weapons and the material to construct them.

2. Bilateral Engagement Open negotiations with Russia on a range of nuclear policy issues, including taking both sides’ ballistic missiles off high alert status; extending the verification provisions of the 1991 Strategic ArmsReductions Treaty (START 1); and agreeing to the verifiable reduction to under 1,000 nuclear weaponseach (deployed and reserve) by the end of 2010. To achieve these goals will likely require the U.S. toretract its plans for deployment of missile defenses in Eastern Europe.

3. Global Action Organize to convene a meeting of all nuclear weapons states prior to the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in order to initiate negotiations for a new treaty for thephased, verifiable, irreversible and transparent elimination of all nuclear weapons by the year 2020.

This 100-day nuclear disarmament agenda would demonstrate U.S. commitment, bilateral engagementand global action for achieving the goal of zero nuclear weapons, a path rooted in legality, moralityand consideration for the security of the people of the United States and all humankind.

We launched this campaign late in2008, mobilizing public opinionboth inside and outside the United

States. The goal was straight-forward: support President Obama’s new policies onnuclear weapons and ask that they becomepriorities for the new administration.

Barack Obama has made a long and impressive list of pledges in support of a world free of nuclearweapons. He has argued,

“A world without nuclear weapons is profoundly in America’s interest and the world’s interest. It is our responsibility to make the commitment, and to do the hard work to make this vision a reality.”

To advance this vision and the goals he has set forth to achieve it, we propose that he place nuclear disar-mament high on his agenda, and act boldly, taking the following steps in his first 100 days in office:


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V I S I O NOur vision is a world at peace, free of the threat of war and free of weapons of mass destruction.

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