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Organization Name |
Web Address |
How They Describe Themselves |
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RESEARCH AND ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS |
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Acronym Institute |
www.acronym.org.uk |
Conducts research and publishes information on negotiations and
verification of arms control, disarmament and related treaties and
agreements. |
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American Enterprise Institute |
www.aei.org |
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is
dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom
scholarly research, open debate, and publications. Publishes The
American Enterprise |
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Arms Control Association |
www.armscontrol.org |
A national, nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to promoting
public understanding of, and support for, effective arms control policies.
Publishes Arms Control Today |
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BASIC (British American Security Information Council) |
www.basicint.org |
An independent research organization that analyzes government policies
and promotes public awareness of defense, disarmament, military strategy
and nuclear policies in order to foster informed debate. |
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Brookings Institution |
www.brook.edu |
Dedicated to understanding evolving realities, define U.S. interests,
and determine the best policies and tools for defending and promoting
them.
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament |
www.cnduk.org |
Campaigns non-violently to rid the world of nuclear weapons and other
weapons of mass destruction and to create genuine security for future
generations. |
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
www.ceip.org |
The Non-Proliferation Project is an internationally recognized source
of information and analysis on efforts to curb the spread of nuclear,
chemical, and biological weapons and missile delivery systems. Published Foreign
Policy. |
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Center for Defense Information (CDI) |
www.cdi.org/issues/proliferation |
A private, nongovernmental research organization dedicated to the idea
that strong social, economic, political, and military components and a
healthy environment contribute equally to the nation’s security.
Publishes The Defense Monitor. |
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Center for Policy Studies in Russia |
www.pircenter.org |
The Center is currently focused on international security, arms
control, and nonproliferation issues that are directly related to Russia's
internal situation. |
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Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment |
www.csbaonline.org |
An independent, nonprofit public policy research institute established
to promote innovative thinking about defense planning and investment
strategies for the 21st century. |
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Council for a Livable World
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www.clw.org |
Arms control group committed to ridding the world of weapons of mass
destruction and eliminating wasteful military spending. |
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CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) |
www.csis.org |
A public policy research institution dedicated to impact
on global policy issues. |
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Federation of American Scientists |
www.fas.org |
Conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public
policy, including national security, nuclear weapons, arms sales,
biological hazards, secrecy, and space policy. |
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French Institute for International Relations |
www.ifri.org |
France’s leading independent center for research and debate on
international relations whose aim is to develop thinking on major
contemporary international issues as well as to promote discussion at
regional and international levels on international economic and security
issues. |
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Heritage Foundation |
www.heritage.org |
A think tank whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative
public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited
government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong
national defense. |
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Institute for Energy and Environmental Research |
www.ieer.org |
The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) is dedicated
to increasing public involvement in and control over environmental
problems through the democratization of science. |
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Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) |
www.isis-online.org |
ISIS is a non-profit, non-partisan institution dedicated to informing
the public about science and policy issues including stopping the spread
of nuclear weapons, bringing about greater transparency of nuclear
activities worldwide, and achieving deep reductions in nuclear arsenals. |
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Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies |
www.ipcs.org |
An Indian site covering South Asian security issues that aims to
analyze, inform and nurture debates on crucial strategic choices affecting
South Asia. |
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International Institute for Strategic Studies |
www.iiss.org |
An independent center for research, information and debate on the
problems of conflict. |
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Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
www.armscontrol.ru |
A Russian center that studies arms control issues including the START
process. |
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Natural Resources Defense Council |
www.nrdc.org |
NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more than 400,000 members
nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure
a safe and healthy environment for all living things. |
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Nautilus Institute |
www.nautilus.org |
The Institute’s nuclear goals are to avoid renewed first-use of
nuclear weapons, to halt the proliferation of nuclear weapons, to
de-institutionalize and de-legitimate nuclear weapons as an instrument of
coercive diplomacy, and to develop long-term cooperative problem-solving
capacities capable of reducing
global insecurity comprehensively and fostering realistic progress
toward nuclear disarmament. |
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NGO Committee on Disarmament |
www.igc.apc.org/disarm |
An independent private voluntary organization based at the United
Nations in New York providing services and facilities to citizens' groups
concerned with the peace and disarmament activities of the United Nations. |
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Nuclear Control Institute |
www.nci.org/home.htm |
An independent research and advocacy center specializing in problems of
nuclear proliferation. |
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Nuclear Information and Resource Service |
www.nirs.org |
An information and networking center for citizens and environmental
organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation,
and sustainable energy issues. |
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Physicians for Social Responsibility |
www.psr.org |
Working to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons, wisely dispose of
nuclear material from retired weapons, and clean up contaminated nuclear
facilities. |
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Policy Architects International |
www.jeffsys.net/pai |
A private research, consulting and advisory services organization that
concentrates on
services needed in international policy areas, including international
security, economic development, technology transfer, trade controls,
public and private assistance and direct investment. |
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Programme on Promoting Nuclear Non-Proliferation |
www.soton.ac.uk/~ppnn |
PPNN is an international non-governmental networking organization
structured around a Core Group of acknowledged authorities in the field of
nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. PPNN's aim is the strengthening
of the nuclear non-proliferation regime. |
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Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council |
www.ransac.org |
An independent organization consisting of Russian and American experts
with the purpose of developing new U.S.-Russian cooperative nuclear
security initiatives and ensuring that existing programs become deeply
rooted and are implemented expeditiously. |
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Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) |
www.saic.com |
A company of people dedicated to delivering best-value services and
solutions based on innovative applications of science and technology. |
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |
www.sipri.se |
The task of SIPRI is to conduct research on questions of conflict and
cooperation of importance for international peace and security, with the
aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful
solutions of international conflicts and for a stable peace. |
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Verification Technology Information Centre |
www.vertic.org |
VERTIC’s mission is to promote effective and efficient verification
as a means of ensuring confidence in the implementation of international
agreements and intra-national agreements with international involvement. |
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Washington Institute for Near East Policy |
www.washingtoninstitute.org |
A public education foundation dedicated to scholarly research and
informed debate on U.S. interests in the Middle East. |
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Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom |
www.wilpf.org |
Promoting disarmament and peace with the goal of conversion to socially
constructive operations consistent with human needs. Home to the Reaching
Critical Will initiative. |
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Organization Name |
Web Address |
How They Describe Themselves |
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GOVERNMENTAL AND INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS |
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Argonne National Laboratory |
www.anl.gov |
Argonne National Laboratory is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's
largest research centers. It is also the nation's first national
laboratory, chartered in 1946. |
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Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade |
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca |
The Department's legal mandate includes fostering the development of
international law and its application in Canada's external relations. |
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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) |
www.iaea.org |
The International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) serves as the world's central inter-governmental forum
for scientific and technical cooperation in the nuclear field. |
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Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute |
www.jaeri.go.jp/english/index.cgi |
JAERI aims at developing innovative technologies such as advanced
exploitation of atomic energy, achievement of higher safety in nuclear
facilities, and extensive utilization of radiation, and it is coping with
challenges leading to frontier sciences. |
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Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute |
www.kaeri.re.kr/english/index.html |
KAERI is Korea’s center for promoting the peaceful application of
nuclear energy. |
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Los Alamos National Laboratory |
www.lanl.gov |
The Laboratory continues to ensure the safety and reliability of the
U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile; to reduce threats to U.S. security; to use
science to clean up the legacy of the Cold War; and to provide technical
solutions to key energy, environment, infrastructure, and health security
problems. |
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Sandia National Laboratories |
www.sandia.gov |
Sandia is a national security laboratory operated for the U.S.
Department of Energy by the Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Co. that
designs all non-nuclear components for the nation’s nuclear weapons,
performs a wide variety of energy research and development projects, and
works on assignments that respond to national security threats — both
military and economic. |
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U.S. Department of State (Arms Control and International Security) |
www.state.gov/t/ |
The Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International
Security manages global U.S. security policy, principally in the areas of
nonproliferation, arms control, regional security and defense relations,
and arms transfers and security assistance. |
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United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs |
un.org/Depts/dda/DDAHome.htm
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UN department that oversees issues covered by the General Assembly 1st
Committee, Conference on Disarmament, Disarmament Commission,
Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, and United
Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. |
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