The Nuclear Weapons Complex Consolidation Policy Network will release “Transforming the U.S. Strategic Posture and Weapons Complex for Transition to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World,” Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 9:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M. EST. Location: Root Room of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. Teleconference dial-in Number: (641) 715-3635, Access Code: 539953#

Contributors to the report include Tri-Valley CAREs, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Physicians for Social Responsibility – Greater Kansas City Chapter, Just Peace, and the Project on Government Oversight. The report is the result of a collaborative project supported by the Connect U.S. Fund.

 Lead report author Dr. Robert Civiak, a physicist and former White House OMB budget examiner, will summarize major recommendations and findings.

 Following that briefing, senior researchers from the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Federation of American Scientists will discuss the conclusions of a new joint report, “From Counterforce to Minimal Deterrence: A New Nuclear Policy on the Path Toward Eliminating Nuclear Weapons.” 

Both reports are being released at the time the congressionally appointed Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States readies its report. And, both reports contain steps for the Obama Administration to follow toward “the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,” as the President stated in Prague, Czech Republic, on Sunday, April 5.

To better accommodate reporters in other time zones, an additional press teleconference will be held at 1:00 P.M. EST, Wednesday, April 8, 2009, at the Natural Resources Defense Council, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC. By phone: 1-866-901-2585; please ask for “nuclear report.”  Journalists only, please.

 The Network’s report’s executive summary, full report and map of the current and proposed nuclear weapons complex will be available at www.trivalleycares.org and www.nukewatch.org in advance of its release in order to give journalists an opportunity to read it and formulate questions. The report is EMBARGOED, however, until AFTER the above-listed release events of April 8, 2009. Contact marylia@trivalleycares.org for further details.      

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