Where We Stand: Our Mission at the Project for Nuclear Awareness
No New Nuclear Weapons. We oppose new nuclear weapons development, testing, and production. New weapons send the wrong signal to those nations who have agreed to stop testing or developing them. We oppose plans for new U.S. nuclear weapons, as well as those of any other nation.
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No Space Weapons. A single strike against an opposing satellite can have devastating effects on our own telecommunications, weather, and even spy satellites. Space-strike weapons violate our own security, and could set off an arms race with China, Russia, possibly Japan and others as well.
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Enforce the Treaties. Uphold the Non-Proliferation Treaty and other treaties that have served to prevent proliferation, and strong measures to enforce such treaties. Ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT); if no one can test new weapons then their development is much less likely, adding to global stability.
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Collaboration, not Confrontation. A collaborative foreign policy helps to prevent wars, and can ultimately end all nuclear weapons. To do so we need to re-energize diplomatic, multilateral aspects of US policy, and realign our strategic resources away from an emphasis on the military as a first solution to complex problems.
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De-Alert Missiles. This includes de-alerting the 2,500 missiles that the US and the Russians each have pointed at each other. This one measure would build confidence, instead of conflict, and make us safer. We can update a new US-Russia START Treaty, and reduce nuclear weapons to 1000 each. The old START Treaty has expired, and must be replaced promptly.
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Enforce Human Rights for All. This includes the provisions of the Geneva Conventions on the Laws of War and on the Treatment of Non-Combatants.
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Achieving the Mission. To achieve these goals, we visit Congress regularly; we organize conferences and exhibitions, such as our International Youth Dialogues, and our Capitol Hill Seminar on Middle East Solutions; and we visit the US State Department and other UN delegations with our message of change and renewal. We’re also on Social Networking sites, and our youth blog for Ban All Nukes USA is www.bang-usa.org. You can also now tune in on Disarm-TV, which as the name implies, shows all kinds of videos on getting to zero nukes.
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To contact PNA, go to www.Projectfornuclearawareness.org, or call us at (215) 546-3030.
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Project for Nuclear Awareness Founders
John C. Haas, of Rohm and Haas (ret.), and the Haas Charitable Trusts
Frederick Heldring, of the Global Interdependence Center
Meet the Staff
Chairman, Craig Eisendrath, PhD
Dr. Craig Eisendrath is a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer and Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. An award winning playwright, Dr. Eisendrath is the author of a number of books on foreign affairs, including War in Heaven: Stopping The Arms Race in Outer Space (New Press, March, 2007); Bush League Diplomacy (Prometheus, 2004), The Phantom Defense: America’s Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion (Praeger, 2001) ; and National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence after the Cold War (Temple University Press, 2000). Craig is also the author of The Khan Game, which was performed as part of a PNA Campus Tour. Email
Executive Director, Edward A. Aguilar, Esquire
Edward A. Aguilar is PNA’s founding Executive Director. A graduate of Temple University Law School, he was a recipient of the Bancroft-Whitney Award. Ed served as an attorney and Court Master in Philadelphia for twenty-one years. Ed was executive director of the PA-DE Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, which worked on issues of the federal budget and emphasized nuclear disarmament, from 2000-2006. He was on the national board of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security from 1990 on. Ed has taught criminal and civil rights law. As a Board of Directors member of Physicians for Social Responsibility/ Philadelphia, Ed has chaired its global security committee. Ed participated with international lawyers and NGO’s in drafting the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention. This document was endorsed in October, 2008, as part of Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s recommendations of ways to speed work on nuclear disarmament and eventual elimination, with close verification by a multilateral body. In 2007, Ed was appointed to the President’s Council of Common Cause, a good-government and public-interest group which champions human rights, electoral and campaign reform, led by Rev. Bob Edgar. He has represented PNA at several UN-sponsored conferences in Geneva on nuclear policy issues, and has pioneered in developing PNA’s own International Video Dialogues with experts and youth in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and the Russian Federation, which will be extended to other key regions of the world, in the next phase of our International Dialogues. Email
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Assistant Director, Kim-Thao Nguyen
Kim-Thao Nguyen graduated from The University of the Arts, where she studied Advertising and Professional Writing, while intensively pursuing independent studies in illustration, graphic design, and social marketing. Before joining the PNA team, she was the Creative Communications consultant for FAIR Fund (DC), where she worked on campaigns, branding, and copywriting for anti-human trafficking and sexual exploitation issues. Her creative work has been published and performed for numerous national corporate businesses and nonprofit organizations. At PNA, Kim offers innovation, insight and style in the supervision of programs development and execution, event planning, and artistic and cultural outreach. Kim is also the co-founder of PNA’s youth disarmament network, Ban All Nukes Generation- USA (www.bang-usa.org). Email
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Assistant Director, Mary Boardman
Mary F. Boardman has worked in the field of disarmament and non-proliferation for thirteen years. She began her work in the field as a youth advocate, speaking about the importance of creating a security paradigm that does not rely on nuclear weapons. Over the course of her career, she worked for the Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, the Global Security Institute, the Women’s Health and Environment Network and the True Majority Network. Mary completed her undergraduate degree in Political Science with a concentration in Security Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and currently serves as assistant director with the Project for Nuclear Awareness. As PNA’s newest addition to the team, Mary is spearheading the Civic Advocacy Skills Initiative (CASI) that will be enjoying it inaugural year of programming beginning in the Fall of 2010. Email
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Research Associate, Emily Gleason
Emily Gleason, undergraduate student at Temple University, serves as a research associate at PNA headquarters. She is a leader in our youth outreach, and assists with research, educational presentations, and office duties. Emily is also a key youth organizer for Ban All Nukes Generation-USA. Email
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PNA International Advisory Board
Edward S. Brinton
DuPont Company (Retired)
Helen Caldicott, M.D.
President, Nuclear Policy Research Institute
Susan Campbell
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Abolish Nuclear Weapons Working Group
Charles Day
American Society of Civil Engineers, Association Executive (Retired)
Reverend Dr. Bob Edgar
President, Common Cause
Stuart Feldman
Philadelphia Attorney
Gary Ferdman
Director of Major Gifts, Common Cause
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.
Executive Chairman of the Board, Lightbridge
Jonathan Granoff, Esquire
President, Global Security Institute
Patricia Harner
Executive Director, Philadelphia Physicians for Social Responsibility
Mark Lichty, Esquire
PA businessman, activist, former Common Cause PA Director
Margaret Lippincott
Global Education Motivators
Roy MacLeod, Ph.D
Professor Emeritus of (Modern) History, University of Sydney
Michael McCally, M.D.
Former Executive Director, National Physicians for Social Responsibility
Christiaan Morssink, Ph.D
President, United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia
Matthew Schwartz, M.D.
Board President, Project for Nuclear Awareness
National Advisory Board, Union of Concerned Scientists