Sonya Rapoport, with whom the Fund for Peace Initiatives closely collaborates, will have a show of interactive works exhibited at the Mills College Art Museum. Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport will feature an interactive work Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age produced with support of FFPI’s Les DeWitt and Elena Ilina Nicklasson.
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Fund for Peace Initiatives is currently working on a with Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Rhodes to plan and produce a play, Reykjavik, in Stanford, Palo Alto (California) with anticipated date January 2012. Rhodes writes about the play: “my play based on the historic summit meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 11 – 12 October 1986, is receiving staged readings nationwide. Paul Newman advised me on writing Reykjavik; he read the third draft just weeks before his death. He was a warm, modest, decent, generous man; his death on 27 September 2008 carried away one of the good people of the world. Reykjavik is dedicated to him.”
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Elena Ilina Nicklasson, Partner at the Fund for Peace Initiatives, spoke on KPFA about nuclear activism and the role women take in nuclear disarmament. Elena indicated that the young people relate less to the problem of nuclear weapons and security, because most of them grew up in the post-Cold War world. What nuclear future do you envision?
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The Board of Directors and staff of the Federation of American Scientists in partnership with the Fund for Peace Initiatives will host a lunch on Thursday, June 2nd 2011 at the Menlo Circus Club.
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Les DeWitt, President of the Fund for Peace Initiatives on John F. Kennedy’s speech: JFK’s speech at American University in Washington DC in June1963 was a truly remarkable speech for the USA. If he had lived, I think, he may have taken our Country on a very different course that the military/industrial power based path that we have seemed attached to over the course of my lifetime.
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On August 26, 2010 a former Secretary of State, George Shultz, and a former Secretary of Defense, William Perry, presented a documentary “The Nuclear Tipping Point” and talked about nuclear threats of today at the Intel auditorium. The talk was organized by the Intel’s Beyond the Cube project and the Fund for Peace Initiative. The event was attended by more than 350 Intel employees and it was made accessible for 80,000 employees worldwide via podcast. This is the very first event of such kind. Silicon Valley is known for its technological innovations, forward-looking thinking and beyond the future vision. However, the topic of nuclear disarmament does not usually attract that many people and the interest of leading businesses in technology innovation. The Fund for Peace Initiatives hopes there will be many more events of this kind to help promote peace-building and disarmament.
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May 19, 2010 – business leaders of the Silicon Valley attended a briefing at the Hoover Institution hosted by George Shultz and William Perry. The briefing also involved screening of the film produced by Nuclear Threat Initiative and titled “Nuclear Tipping Point”. An educational short film on the today’s reality of the world with nuclear weapons is shocking, overwhelming and puzzling. The film was followed by a discussion with opinions expressed by top experts on nuclear issues such as Sid Drell, Honorable James Goodby and other Stanford professors. The Fund for Peace Initiatives together with the Citizens to Stop Nuclear Terrorism participated in the initiating and hosting the meeting.
More on Silicon Valley Executives Gather to Learn and Discuss Dangers Posed by Nuclear Weapons.
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From the UN NPT Bulletin: The 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will be held in May 2010 at UN Headquarters in New York. The President-elect of the Review Conference is Ambassador Libran N. Cabactulan of the Philippines.
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In a speech today on the Obama administration’s nuclear weapons policy, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden is expected to call on the Senate to finally ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Wall Street Journal reported (see GSN, Feb. 17).
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Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) Japanese member Hideo Hiraoka and 203 other Japanese legislators sent a letter today to US President Obama (copied to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and key leaders in the US Congress) with regard to the US Nuclear Posture Review and the forthcoming NPT Review Conference.
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Check out this interactive map video that shows how we can eliminate nuclear weapons.
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