Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Good Weapons Make Good Neighbors

Steven Crandell | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Frost, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Mending Wall, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Hiroshima, Peace, An Appeal to the Next President, Yasuo Fukuda, Japan, Sadako, Politics News
Steven Crandell

This week marks the 63rd anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and nowhere are people as united as they are in Japan in the conviction that nuclear weapons must never be used again.

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Solar Energy Breakthrough

Steven Crandell | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Dalai Lama, Renewable Energy Sources, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, University of California, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Photosynthesis, Professor Daniel Nocera, Climate Change, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Green Energy, Solar Power, Appeal to the Next President of the United States, Green News
Steven Crandell

This week's discovery -- using solar power to mimic photosynthesis -- could help us use the huge abundance of sun energy in a way that can give power to people everywhere.

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The Dalai Lama Sends Message to White House

Steven Crandell | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dalai Lama, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Non-Proliferation Treaty, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Peace, Appeal to the Next President of the United States, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Proliferation, Politics News
Steven Crandell

If US policy changes, the goal of nuclear weapons abolition becomes possible. Therefore, it makes sense to use education to spur public pressure for such a change in US policy

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McCain, Obama & the Trojan Horse of Nuclear Energy

Steven Crandell | Posted 06.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Yucca Mountain, Nuclear Waste, John McCain, Nuclear Energy, Plutonium, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Presidential Campaign, Plutonium-239, Proliferation, Chernobyl, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Green News
Steven Crandell

Under the guise of concern over climate change, some ask us to re-consider our aversion to new nuclear power, ignoring the same old problems that have stopped any plants from being commissioned since 1979.

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One Person Can Make a Difference -- 83 Year-Old Peace Activist

Steven Crandell | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Gandhi, Leadership for Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Climate Change, One Person Can Make a Difference, Safer World, Make a Difference, Wilma Whitehurst, Santa Barbara, US President, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Message to President, Peace Activist, Appeal to the Next President of the United States, California, Green News
Steven Crandell

When we think about global issues like peace it's easy to feel intimidated by the enormity of the task. Ah, but something can be done. And sometimes it takes an 83 year-old woman to show the way.

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Cell Phone Video Games -- A New Threat to Nuclear Security

Steven Crandell | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear-Tipped Cruise Missiles, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Security Failure, Nuclear Weapons, Minot Air Force Base, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, An Appeal to the Next President, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Politics News
Steven Crandell

Forget Iran. Forget North Korea. We may turn out to be our own worst nuclear enemy -- we let security dudes play video games on their cell phones while guarding nuclear weapons.

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The United States of Cluster Bombs

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Southern Lebanon, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Pakistan, Treaty, Banning, United States, International Committe of the Red Cross, China, Cluster Bombs, Cluster Munitions, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Israel, India, Dublin, Prime Minster Gordon Brown, Politics News
Steven Crandell

The treaty banning cluster munitions would not be seen as undermining "military utility" but instead as a prudent step to stop avoidable civilian deaths and injuries.

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What You Don't Know Might Kill You -- And Everyone Else

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reliable Replacement Warhead, Threat, Education, US House of Representatives, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Council for a Livable World, Terrorist, Nonproliferation Treaty, Congress, William Perry, Peace, Steve Pearce, Rrw, Politics News
Steven Crandell

Nuclear weapons are seen as the most serious and immediate threat to human life on the planet, but few of us know much about that threat.

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Security Flaws, Terrorists & Nuclear Weapons

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Weapons-Free World, University of California, Nuclear Weapons, International Cooperation, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Bechtel, Terrorist, Sam Nunn, Fissile Material, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Appeal to the Next President of the United States, Nuclear Policy, US Leadership, Politics News
Steven Crandell

It may come as a surprise that a storehouse of 2,000 pounds of plutonium and weapons-grade uranium -- estimated to be enough to build 300 nuclear weapons -- sits only about 40 miles from San Francisco.

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Everything's Weird Until You Get Used to It

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Ben Cohen, Bonnie Raitt, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Disarmament, Mother's Day, Daniel Ellsberg, Peace, Appeal to the Next President of the United States, Nuclear Weapons, Activism, Susan Sarandon, Walter Cronkite, Environment, Jackson Browne, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Petition, Parents, Living News
Steven Crandell

Change is essential to save our planet. And we need to get over our resistance to the "weirdness" of doing things differently.

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Nuclear Weapons & the Next President

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: 3am Phone Call, Nuclear War, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Politics News
Steven Crandell

Let's start working with other countries to eliminate nuclear weapons -- and the need for a 3 AM wake-up call.

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