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NOT WEAPONIZE BOARD of DIRECTORS Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE REPRESENTATIVES Ira Helfand, M.D 2021 Annual Report I Volume 31 NOT WEAPONIZE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE REPRESENTATIVES Ira Helfand, M.D. Robert B. Laney, J.D., Chair Rubén Arvizu (Latin America) Bianca Jagger Lisa Gosdschan, Vice Chair & Alice Slater, J.D. (U.N.) TABLE OF Marc Kielburger, J.D. Secretary Rev. James Lawson Jill Dexter, Treasurer STAFF Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. Richard Appelbaum, Ph.D. Mairead Corrigan Maguire* Sandy Jones, Interim President CONTENTS Frank C. Bognar, D.P.A. Judith Mayotte, Ph.D. Carol Warner, Office Manager Diandra de Morrell Douglas John Polanyi* Richard Falk, J.S.D., Sr. Vice Queen Noor of Jordan CONSULTANTS COLLEAGUES & CONTRIBUTORS .........................2 President Admiral L. Ramdas (Ret.) Jamal Hamdani Christian N. Ciobanu, Policy & HUMANIZE. NOT WEAPONIZE. ...........................3 Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C. Jimmy Hara, M.D. Advocacy Coordinator Robert Scheer NUCLEAR WEAPONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN David Krieger, J.D., Ph.D., Josie Parkhouse, Social Media Gerry Spence, J.D. IMMORAL. NOW THEY’RE ALSO ILLEGAL. ...... 4–5 President Emeritus Specialist Oliver Stone Perie Longo, Ph.D., LMFT LEGISLATING THE WAY TO A SAFER WORLD .......6 Noel (Paul) Stookey Mara K. Sweeney, M.D. INTERNS Setsuko Thurlow BIDEN’S FOREIGN POLICY AND Geoff Whittaker Patricia Agnes, UPENN Ted Turner NUCLEAR WEAPONS: A DIALOGUE .....................7 Sumeyye Arpaci, Columbia’s Teachers Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu* ADVISORY COUNCIL College REVERSE THE TREND .........................................8 Peter Yarrow Hafsat Abiola Mathilde Haas, Catholic University AWESOME INTERNS ...........................................9 of Lille, France Christine Ahn ASSOCIATES Tadatoshi Akiba Karuna Khemaney, Soka University INTERN INTERVIEWS ...................................10–11 Robert C. Aldridge Harry Belafonte of America John Scales Avery, Ph.D. SPOTLIGHT: THE MARSHALLESE Medea Benjamin Andrew Kim, Princeton University C. Edward Crowther, Ph.D. EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE ................................12 Helen Caldicott, M.D. E. Isaac Lee, UPENN Alumnus M.M. Eskandari-Qajar, Ph.D. Noam Chomsky, Ph.D. Emma Locker, University of Notre CONNECTING • TOGETHER • APART ............13–14 Jonathan Granoff, J.D. Jean-Michel Cousteau Dame, Australia CMDR Robert Green (Ret.) GRATEFUL ..................................................15–16 The XIVth Dalai Lama* Jack Moses, Fordham University Martin Hellman, Ph.D. Michael Douglas Sajani Patel, Fordham University SOCIAL MEDIA ...........................................17–18 Peter Kuznick, Ph.D. Shirin Ebadi, J.D.* Jed Peterson, Williams College Ved P. Nanda, L.L.M. EIGHT A-BOMB HAIKU .....................................19 Anne H. Ehrlich, Ph.D. Camila Tobon, Drew University Farzeen Nasri, Ph.D. Paul R. Ehrlich, Ph.D. Brandon Wingfield, Williams College FINANCIAL REPORT..........................................20 Jan Øberg, Ph.D. Riane Eisler, J.D. Jennifer Allen Simons, Ph.D. MISSION & VISION ..........................................21 Daniel Ellsberg, Ph.D. IN MEMORY OF LONG-TIME Steven Starr Benjamin B. Ferencz, J.D. FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS Bill Wickersham, Ed.D. Beatrice Fihn* Ward Wilson Bernard Lown, M.D. Harrison Ford Lawrence Wittner, Ph.D. Rev. George Regas Johan Galtung, Dr. hc mult *Nobel Laureate 2 NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION I HUMANIZE NOT WEAPONIZE I 2021 ANNUAL REPORT I VOLUME 31 HUMANIZE. NOT WEAPONIZE. It’s been said, a budget is a moral document, the numbers reflecting the priorities of those who create it. So what does the US nuclear weapons budget request of $634 billion over the next decade tell us about the morality of this country? It tells us that one of the wealthiest countries in gender inequality, and climate chaos. It could even the world is morally bankrupt. It tells us the US begin to pay for what it will cost to weed out the would rather pay for the well-being of its nuclear lies and disinformation that are driving the demise arsenal than the well-being of its people. It tells of our democracy. us the US government values winning wars over Just a fraction of this $634 billion would provide ending wars and wielding power over vaccinations to every person in every country restoring peace. around the world. It could buy hospital beds “ A nation that Imagine what this country could do with just and ventilators. It could pay doctors, nurses, and continues year after a fraction of the money now earmarked for frontline workers what their actually worth. The global annihilation. US could alleviate the suffering of millions of year to spend more It could take that insane amount of money and people the world over. money on military use it to humanize the entire world. It could President Biden’s first six months in office would provide food, shelter, and clean water for the have us believe he’s a decent and caring man. If defense than on homeless and refugees around the world. It could that’s true, his nuclear weapons budget should programs of social deliver basic healthcare for those in need and reflect decency and compassion. Instead, it education for children everywhere. It could fund furthers the US capacity for nuclear annihilation. uplift is approaching initiatives needed to address systemic racism, spiritual death.” —Martin Luther King Jr. 3 NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION I HUMANIZE NOT WEAPONIZE I 2021 ANNUAL REPORT I VOLUME 31 NUCLEAR WEAPONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IMMORAL. NOW THEY’RE This landmark treaty prohibits nations from developing, testing, ALSO ILLEGAL. producing, manufacturing, transferring, possessing, The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) stockpiling, using or threatening Entered Into Force on January 22, 2021. to use nuclear weapons, or Until the entry into force of the David Krieger, President Emeritus allowing nuclear weapons to be TPNW, nuclear weapons, despite of NAPF commented, “ The entry their catastrophic humanitarian into force of this long-awaited stationed on their territory. It also and environmental consequences, treaty is the culmination of more prohibits assisting, encouraging were the only weapons of than 75 years of effort on the mass destruction not subject part of survivors of the bombings or inducing anyone to engage in to a comprehensive ban. The of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and any of these activities. TPNW closed this crucial gap in many more nuclear abolitionists international law and now nuclear throughout the world. At a weapons will join land mines and minimum, this treaty delegitimizes chemical and biological weapons the possession, threat, and use of as weapons of mass destruction nuclear weapons. This day marks that are declared illegal by the the beginning of the end for these international community. weapons of mass annihilation. It will be remembered in history.” 4 NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION I HUMANIZE NOT WEAPONIZE I 2021 ANNUAL REPORT I VOLUME 31 “Entry into force is a tribute The TPNW effort has been led by the International Campaign to Abolish to the survivors of nuclear Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which is made up of more than 500 non-governmental organizations from over 103 countries. NAPF has been a Partner Organization explosions and tests, many of ICAN since the campaign began in 2007. ICAN received the 2017 Nobel of whom advocated for this Peace Prize for it’s efforts to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian Treaty … It represents a consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for their groundbreaking efforts to achieve the TPNW. meaningful commitment The treaty is a clear indication that the majority of the world’s countries towards the total elimination no longer accept nuclear weapons and do not consider them legitimate. It of nuclear weapons, demonstrates that the indiscriminate mass killing of civilians is unacceptable and that it is not possible to use nuclear weapons consistent with the laws of war. which remains the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations.” —António Guterres United Nations, Secretary-General If you would like to read the treaty in its entirety go to http://undocs.org/A/CONF.229/2017/8. 5 NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION I HUMANIZE NOT WEAPONIZE I 2021 ANNUAL REPORT I VOLUME 31 LEGISLATING THE WAY TO A SAFER WORLD Currently, there are several bills in the US congress under consideration regarding arms control and nuclear disarmament. NAPF is actively engaging with senators and their staff to help move this legislation forward and bring us closer to a nuclear free world. “No First Use” “Investing in Vaccines “Nuclear Weapons AUTHORED BY: Before Missiles (ICBM) Act” Abolition and Economic Elizabeth Warren I Adam Smith AUTHORED BY: and Energy Conversion This legislation would establish into law Ed Markey I Ro Khanna Act of 2021” that it is US policy not to use nuclear This legislation, introduced by Senators AUTHORED BY: weapons first. A “no first use” policy Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chairman would reduce the likelihood that a Eleanor Holmes Norton of the Senate Foreign Relations nuclear weapon would ever be used, Subcommittee on East Asia, and Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced by malicious intent, miscalculation, or Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17), HR-2850, a bill designed to abolish careless accident. While NAPF’s mission Member of the House Armed Services nuclear weapons worldwide, and will always be the total elimination of Committee, would stop development convert the arms industries to nuclear weapons, because these horrific of the Pentagon’s new $93-96 billion instead provide for human needs. weapons already exist, we support intercontinental ballistic missile and HR921/S272,
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