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Reykjavik – a Play by Richard Rhodes

fundforp — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:19:34 +0000

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.”

To learn more about future Reykjavik productions, visit: http://www.richardrhodes.com/appearances.html

On Nuclear Activism

fundforp — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:22:28 +0000

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?

To listen to her interview log-in to an hour long interview for the last twenty minutes here: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/71838

BRIEFING & LUNCHEON: NUCLEAR NEXUS

fundforp — Mon, 16 May 2011 08:20:32 +0000

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.

The lunch will be a private event to focus on the implications of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident for the U.S. and global nuclear industry as well as the next urgent steps needed to secure nuclear weapons and weapons-usable fissile material to prevent nuclear terrorism. In addition, the presenters will discuss the work that the Federation of American Scientists is performing to understand the science and technology underlying national and international security issues and to develop practical recommendations to improve security.

Attendees will receive a copy of my latest book Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know, published by Oxford University Press. This newly published book includes an analysis of the Fukushima Daiichi event.

The Federation of American Scientists is working to prevent the next Fukushima and Hiroshima. Les Dewitt, Martin Hellman, Sri Srikrishna, and Tom Tisch, the Event Host Committee, want the business community to add its voice to these important issues. Using research, analysis, and outreach on nuclear energy and nuclear security, FAS advances safe and secure nuclear power solutions that are resilient to natural disasters, accidents, and attacks. And we want a world free of nuclear explosions, especially from a terrorist’s use of nuclear weapons.

Through advice and investment, the business community must play a role to ensure safe and secure nuclear power and to prevent nuclear terrorism.

This event will focus on the implications of the Fukushima Daiichi accident for the nuclear industry and the next steps needed to secure nuclear weapons and the fissile material to make these weapons.

The event organizing committee includes Les DeWitt, Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, Martin Hellman, and Tom Tisch.

Get Ready for the Upcoming NPT Review Conference: 28 April – 09 May, 2010

fundforp — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:49:29 +0000

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.

The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. The NPT represents the only binding commitment in a multilateral treaty to the goal of disarmament by the nuclear-weapon States.

The Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute have produced a very useful resource on everything one needs to know about the NPT (Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty). To read the full text or download a pdf file, please click here.