Grant Program Disarmament

To support and assist citizen action in cleaning up and monitoring future plans for weapons production at the Pantex Plant for nuclear weapons assembly/disassembly in Texas.

To raise public awareness and knowledge of the importance of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which would ban all tests of nuclear weapons throughout the world.

To provide national coordination of the citizen organizations promoting environmental cleanup and preventing future production at Department of Energy nuclear weapons facilities.

To promote an international ban on the production, trade and use of antipersonnel landmines.

To monitor Department of Energy plans for radioactive waste disposal and environmental cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and to promote citizen involvement in decisions involving the facility.

To support the Northeast Asia/Korea Nuclear Free Zone Project, which advocates a nuclear-free Northeast Asia using research, analysis and discussion among policy experts, policymakers and the press.

To conduct research, policy analysis and advocacy on nuclear nonproliferation issues, including deep reductions in nuclear weapons, a nuclear weapons test ban, and Russian nuclear weapons control.

To strengthen the expert nuclear nonproliferation communities in the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union, and to begin an equivalent program in China.

To provide independent research and policy analysis on nuclear disarmament.

To write, publish, and disseminate a report on the Department of Energy’s Stockpile Stewardship Plan, which is intended to continue nuclear weapons research and development.