 |
|||||||||||||||||
|
David Krieger is president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He is a leader in the global effort for a world free of nuclear weapons. A Message for the New Year --December 28, 2007 For 25 years the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has worked daily for a better world. As we enter a New Year, our work to abolish nuclear weapons, strengthen international law and empower a new generation of peace leaders has never been more critical. To succeed, we need your involvement and your support. Read more>> Japan's Role in Building Peace in the Nuclear Age --December 20, 2007 In the latter part of his life, Ozaki Yukio wrote, "The only reason for my persevering at my advanced age was that I might live...so as to contribute what I could to the creation of a new world." He envisioned contributing toward a world at peace, a noble vision. "I dreamed I would find a way," he wrote, "for the peoples of the five continents to live in peace." Read more>> Nuclear Weapons Abolition: Signs of Hope --December 12, 2007 Young people must be educated to understand that it is their future that is most endangered by nuclear weapons. They cannot wait to become the leaders of tomorrow; in their own interest, they must step up and become the leaders of today on this critical issue. Read more>> You Can Help End the Thermonuclear Threat to Humanity --November 6, 2007 Do you think the threat of nuclear weapons is a relic of the past? If so, think again. The nuclear threat remains very real. At any moment of the day or night, a nuclear war could be triggered by accident or design. This isn't an exaggeration or a paranoid delusion. It's a fact. Read more>> Nuclear Dangers and Challenges to a New Nuclear Policy --October 17, 2007 It is worthwhile asking the question: What are nuclear weapons? In some respects the answer to this question may seem obvious, but this is not necessarily the case. Read more>> Nuclear Weapons and the Responsibility of Scientists --October 4, 2007 Do the scientists who created nuclear weapons have special responsibility for these weapons? Do scientists today continue to have responsibility for nuclear weapons? Read more>> US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons Free World? --September 27, 2007 The principal elements of US nuclear policy favor continued reliance on these weapons. When taken together, the first letters of these elements actually spell out "Death Plan." I don't mean to imply that there is a conscious plan to destroy humanity, but that is the result of such policy. Read more>> The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons --September 3, 2007 There are still some 26,000 nuclear weapons in the world. Twelve thousand of these are deployed, and some 3,500 are on hair-trigger alert, ready to be fired in moments. Nuclear weapons are a delicately balanced "Sword of Damocles" hanging over our human future. Read more>> Why I Oppose Nuclear Weapons --August 22, 2007 I oppose nuclear weapons because they are long-distance killing machines incapable of discriminating between soldiers and civilians, the aged and the newly born, or between men, women and children. Read more>> 2007 Sadako Peace Day --August 9, 2007 Welcome to Sadako Peace Day, which this year is also on Nagasaki Day - the day 62 years ago that Nagasaki was destroyed by a single nuclear weapon. Read more>> Sixty-Two Years After the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings --August 4, 2007 August 6 and 9, 2007 will mark respectively the 62nd anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sixty-two years after the onset of the Nuclear Age humanity still lives with the constant threat of nuclear annihilation. Why do we tolerate this? The anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are reminders of the continued peril that humanity faces. Read more>> Nuclear Weapons and the University of California --July 26, 2007 Most of us would agree that the primary purpose of a university is to educate students to be compassionate and decent human beings who play a meaningful role in improving society. This is a serious challenge under any circumstances, but particularly in the Nuclear Age when our most destructive technologies are capable of destroying civilization and eliminating the human species. Read more>> The Greatest Immediate Danger to Humanity --July 19, 2007 It is perhaps the least talked about and most worrying irony of our time. The United States has a massive defense budget, but spends relatively little addressing the most immediate danger to humanity. Read more>> Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility --June 13, 2007 I have just returned from Berlin and the annual Council meeting of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES). This is an organization much needed in our world, one that supports the ethical uses of science and technology for disarmament and sustainable development. Read more>> Responsibility In An Era Of Consequences --May 17, 2007 The inaugural meeting of the World Future Council was recently held in Hamburg, Germany. At the conclusion of the four-day meeting, the Council released the Hamburg Call to Action, a document calling for action to protect the future of all life. It began, "Today we stand at the crossroads of human history. Our actions - and our failures to act - will decide the future of life on earth for thousands of years, if not forever." Read more>> The Creation Of A Student Oversight Committee For The Us Nuclear Weapons Laboratories --May 3, 2007 For more than five years the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, through its Youth Empowerment Initiative, has conducted a UC Nuclear Free Campaign. The purpose of the campaign is to educate and inform students at the University of California that their University has provided management and oversight to United States nuclear weapons laboratories since the beginning of the Nuclear Age, and that every weapon in the United States nuclear arsenal has been designed and developed under the auspices of the University of California. Read more>> Ten-Point Nuclear Policy Platform For Us Presidential And Congressional Candidates --May 1, 2007 Our continued reliance on nuclear weapons only incites non-nuclear countries to acquire or develop nuclear weapons of their own. A number of current US nuclear policies are in need of either renewed commitment or a new direction. Read more>> Mourning The Tragic Death Of Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Itoh --April 18, 2007 The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation mourns the death of Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Itoh, whose life was cut short by an assassin's bullet. With this tragedy, the world has lost a great peace leader. Read more>> Nuclear Weapons Dialogue - Socrates and the President --April 5, 2007 On a pleasant spring day, Socrates ran into the President while on a stroll through Washington. After exchanging greetings, the following dialogue ensued. Read more>> Speech to the Organization of American States --March 15, 2007 I fear that there exists far too much complacency about nuclear weapons, and I ask for your leadership as though the future of our precious planet depended upon it. I ask for your leadership to break out of this complacency and to challenge those nations and leaders that continue to hold humanity hostage to the threat of nuclear annihilation. It is not enough to limit the sphere of nuclear weapons or their testing; we must eliminate the weapons themselves - all of them. This is the great challenge of our particular time on Earth. Read more>> Preventing War Against Iran --February 16, 2007 The United States is deeply mired in a preventive war of its own making in Iraq with no clear way out. Now the Bush administration is making accusations against Iran and bolstering US forces in the Persian Gulf with two additional naval battle groups. Read more>> Congress Must Act to Stop a US Attack on Iran --February 13, 2007 George Bush has already lost the illegal war of aggression that he initiated in Iraq. In the process, he has spent enormous sums of money, stretched the US military to the breaking point, undermined international law and the US Constitution, been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis as well as more US citizens than died on September 11, 2001, and brought respect for the United States to new lows throughout the world. He now appears poised to initiate a new war against Iran. Read more>> It's Time For a Plan to Abolish Nuclear Weapons --January 18, 2007 In early January 2007, a surprising commentary appeared in the Wall Street Journal pleading for US leadership to move toward a world free of nuclear weapons. Read more>> A Bipartisan Plea For Nuclear Weapons Abolition --January 5, 2007 An amazing and important commentary appeared in the January 4, 2007 issue of the Wall Street Journal, co-authored by four high-level architects of the Cold War: George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn. The article, entitled "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons," was amazing not so much for what it proposed, but for who was making the proposal. Read more>> Year End Appeal --December 15, 2006 Next year the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation will celebrate its 25th Anniversary. For nearly a quarter century the Foundation has been a strong and steady voice for peace and a world free of nuclear threat. Our work today is more important than ever. Read more>> Arthur N.R. Robinson and the Power of One --December 15, 2006 I believe in the Power of One, the capacity of a single individual to make an important difference in our world. Read more>> Teaching Peace --December 7, 2006 Peace is not a subject matter taught in many schools. I have often heard it said that the curriculum is too full to add more, but what could be more important than learning about making peace? Read more>> Building Global Peace in the Nuclear Age --November 10, 2006 In an age in which the weapons we have created are capable of destroying the human species, what could be more important than building global peace? Read more>> Can We Change Our Thinking? --October 26, 2006 It is a privilege to return to Nagasaki for this third Global Citizens' Assembly to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. I am convinced that it is only by the actions and initiatives of citizens leading leaders that humanity shall bring nuclear weapons, its most deadly invention, under control. Read more>> Ehren Watada, an American Hero --September 26, 2006 I write in praise of Ehren Watada, a brave young man who has placed truth, honor and the law above blind obedience to authority. Watada, a 1st lieutenant in the US Army, has refused orders for deployment to Iraq on the grounds that he is bound to uphold the Constitution of the United States and not follow illegal orders. Read more>> Preventing a Nuclear 9/11 --September 1, 2006 In the September/October 2006 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Harvard University professor Graham Allison discusses a "nuclear 9/11" and concludes that "a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States is more likely than not in the decade ahead." Read more>> The challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons --August 28, 2006 There are many serious problems confronting humanity, but none looms larger than the continuing dangers of nuclear weapons. Read more>> Time to Wake Up --August 9, 2006 In this season of the 61st anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, it is noteworthy that there are still 27,000 nuclear weapons in the world. Read more>> Global Hiroshima --August 1, 2006 Hiroshima was destroyed by a single atomic weapon, giving rise to the Nuclear Age, an era characterized by humankind living precariously with weapons capable of destroying the human species. Read more>> Hiroshima Day Message --August 1, 2006 As I write, wars are raging in Lebanon and in Iraq. Innocent people are being injured and killed. Read more>> Why Nuclear Weapons Should Matter --May, 2006 For most Americans, nuclear weapons are a distant concern, and deciding what to do about them is a low priority. Read more>> The Courage of Sophie Scholl --April, 2006 If young people today would like to learn something about courage, they should see the movie "Sophie Scholl - The Final Days." Read more>> Your Role in Nuclear Weapons Abolition --March 25, 2006 Future historians, looking back at our time, may be perplexed at humanity's tepid collective response to nuclear weapons. Read more>> Why Nations Go Nuclear --November 2005 Understanding the reasons why a country chooses to go nuclear are complex, variable and speculative, but I would offer as a hypothesis four principal, though often overlapping factors: Read more>> The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize --October 2005 In this 60th anniversary year of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nobel Committee chose to again focus its award, as it had in 1985 and again in 1995, on abolishing nuclear weapons. Read more>> Sir Joseph Rotblat: A Legacy of Peace --September 1, 2005 Joseph Rotblat was one of the great men of the 20th century. He was a man of science and peace. Read more>>
|
||||||||||||||||
| Copyright (C) by each individual author,
All Rights Reserved. Contact: office@peaceproposal.com |
|||||||||||||||||
