Dear Friends and Supporters,

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has had a full summer thus far and I want to share with you some of our accomplishments.

• We are proud to announce the launch of our Turn the Tide Campaign, a national effort to chart a new course for US nuclear policy. Turn the Tide is a campaign to educate and mobilize concerned citizens who have a vested interest in making America and the world safer and more secure. As part of the campaign, we have developed and made available a US Presidential Candidate Report Card. It is available on the website and in print form. We have sent it to a number of e-mail listserves so that this information can be shared with others across the country. Click here to join us in charting a new course for US nuclear policy by visiting the Turn the Tide and taking action today!

• We are in the process of a major remodel of our Nuclear Files website, our primarily educational site visited by some one million visitors each year. The site is being reconstructed to provide drop down menus for easier navigation and will be much more intuitive for visitors to easily see the full depth of the site's 1,500+ pages without leaving the homepage. Additionally, new content is being added, including the development of Study Guides to assist educators and students in learning about the Nuclear Age. We will be continuing to work on this through the fall. Click here to visit the Nuclear Files.

• Continuing our work in Educational Outreach, Carah Ong participated in a Summer Institute on Teaching Non-Proliferation at the University of North Carolina in June. Carah presented the Foundation's Nuclear Files website to more than 30 university professors from across the US, as well as one from Australia and one from Albania. The professors were very impressed with Nuclear Files and will be using it as a teaching resource in their classrooms. Click here to visit the Nuclear Files.

• A new website was developed and launched this summer for our UC Nuclear Free Campaign. The new site includes an online petition campaign, background information and ways to get involved on the various UC campuses. The campaign, largely geared toward University of California students, seeks to raise awareness about the University's role in the research and development of nuclear weapons through its management and oversight of the nation's nuclear weapons labs. It also seeks to broaden students' understanding of nuclear policy issues beyond the lab relationships. Click here to check out the UC Nuclear Free website.

• Our international visibility and reach was furthered this summer by  my participation in the annual meeting of the International Council and Executive Committee of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES), a network that the Foundation initially helped form and which it continues to support. The meetings were held in Sopron, Hungary. I also gave the keynote speech at the opening plenary at the 40th anniversary meeting of the International Association for Peace Research (IPRA), also in Sopron, Hungary. Additionally, I spoke at the International Summer Academy of the Schlaining Peace Center in Austria and also gave a talk to the International Institute for Peace in Vienna. Click here for a full report of this trip.

• In July, Carah Ong, the Foundation's Communications and Development Officer, was a member of the first non-governmental delegation to visit Libya. Sponsored by the Libyan government, the purpose of the trip was to open dialogue between the government of Libya and civil society organizations in Libya and the US. The delegation held discussions and exchanged views and ideas regarding democracy, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and US foreign policy from an Arabic point of view. Click here for a full report of Carah's trip.

• Michael Coffey, the Foundation's Director of Youth Programs, and Forrest Wilder, our Ruth Floyd summer intern, attended the Boston Social Forum in July. The event brought together several thousand people to encourage various social movements to exchange information, network with one another, form new alliances, and advance new movements. Michael and Forrest organized a coalition workshop promoting greater engagement of and a more active role for young people in nuclear organizing and policy issues. Click here for more information about the Foundation's Youth Outreach Initiative.

• The Foundation is hosting three summer Interns from across the nation: Forrest Wilder from the University of Texas, Archana Bharathan from the University of Michigan, and Bayley Lopez from Stanford University. Archana and Bayley are both collaborating on the Nuclear Files website remodel, while Forrest is focusing on the UC Nuclear Free Campaign and the Turn the Tide Campaign. Click here for more information about the Foundation's internship and volunteer opportunities.

• This Summer, the Foundation opened its doors to the community in a series of casual gatherings called "Summer Movie Nights," featuring a movie, refreshments and dialogue. "Summer Movie Nights" gained traction over the summer and we are delighted to announce that the series will continue into the fall. Mark your calendars, the next movie night will be on Tuesday, September 14th from 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm and feature "Hijacking Catastrophe." We hope you will join us if you are in or near Santa Barbara.

• The Foundation appeared in the Media this summer a total of sixteen times as of August 15th . Media appearances included a mention in the Christian Science Monitor regarding our Nuclear Files website, Op-Eds in the Santa Barbara New-Press and the Miami Herald, and interviews on National Public Radio affiliates in both Nevada and Southern California. Additionally, CNN.com listed the Foundation as a resource in its "Special Report" section on the anniversary of the first Russian nuclear test. Click here to visit the Foundation's Media Center.

Thank you for your continued support of the Foundation. We appreciate your partnership in promoting a more peaceful and secure world in one of the most critical times in history. Please help us add voices to a growing movement for peace and a nuclear weapons-free world by encouraging your friends and family to join the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Membership is free!

Sincerely,

David Krieger
President

P.S. Stay tuned for upcoming opportunities to get involved in the Foundation's work, including our 2004 Annual Evening for Peace honoring Walter Cronkite and our KNUK Radio Project.