Grant Program Disarmament

To educate decisionmakers and the public about the importance of taking nuclear weapons off high alert.

To provide technical support to citizen organizations working at Department of Energy production facilities on nuclear weapons related issues, including plutonium and waste management, laboratory nuclear testing, de-alerting and disassembling weapons, and environmental cleanup.

To participate in Ban Landmines Week in Washington, DC, in March 2001, including the presence of 20 US and international landmine survivors to highlight the personal and human side of the tragedy of landmines and the need to ban these…

To stimulate critical debate and raise questions about proposed US policies on missile defense and nuclear weapons through the publication of original research and commentary on their linkages with campaign contributions and special interest lobbying policies.

To promote nuclear nonproliferation in Northeast Asia, primarily through electronic information exchange.

To promote a ban on the production and use of landmines by serving as coordinator of the US Campaign to Ban Landmines and providing leadership in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines

To monitor Department of Energy activities at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, and to encourage citizen involvement in opposing nuclear weapons production and promoting environmental cleanup at the site.

To improve export controls in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by training officials in the use of an export control database.

To develop dialogue between members of the British Parliament and members of the US Congress on security and arms control issues.

To enlist the governments of “middle power” states in pressing the nuclear weapons states to eliminate nuclear weapons, and to take practical steps toward that goal.