CHAPTER FIVE: NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
Think Tanks and Advocacy Organizations

Arms Control Association
http://www.igc.apc.org/ACA/

Bonn International Center for Conversion (Germany)
http://bicc.uni-bonn.de/
Clearinghouse for information on defense-related conversion activities.

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
http://www.igc.apc.org/basic/
London and Washington-based research organization concentrating mostly on European issues and the arms trade.

Brookings Institution
http://www.brook.edu/
The nation's oldest think tank. The site includes a list of inhouse experts.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
http://NEOG.COM/atomic/

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) (UK)
http://www.mcb.net/cnd/

Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies (Canada)
http://www.ciss.ca/
Research and analysis organization.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
http://www.ceip.org/

The publications from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Program are especially useful. The journal "Foreign Policy" has a homepage at the Carnegie website, with many articles online. The Carnegie Moscow Center at http://www.carnegie.ru/ has an extensive series of publications online, and excerpts from its new journal "Pro et Contra."

Center for Defense Information (CDI)
http://www.cdi.org
Extensive though not very well organized resource. Includes a compendium of Selected Nuclear Quotations at http://www.cdi.org/~nukenerd/issues/nukef&f/nukequo.html.

Center for Policy Studies in Russia
http://www.pircenter.org/
Moscow-based research organization focusing on arms control and nonproliferation issues in Russia.

Center for Security Policy
http://www.security-policy.org/

Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research (Switzerland)
http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment
http://www.erols.com/csba
Formerly the Defense Budget Project, the think tank does analysis of defense budgets, emerging technologies, the defense industrial base, and nonproliferation and counterproliferation.

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
http://www.csis.org/
Organizational news, bios, and reports of the large Washington-based think tank.

Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute
http://www.capitol.net/~cbaci/

Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers (Council for a Livable World Education Fund)
http://www.crnd.org
A group of seventeen member organizations based at the Council for a Livable World Education Fund.

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
http://www.cpsr.org/home
Focusing on the impact of computer technology on society.

Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
http://www.nets.com/ccns/
Santa Fe, New Mexico-based organization focusing on radiation and the nuclear industry, especially WIPP.

Council for a Livable World
http://www.clw.org/pub/clw/welcome.html
Includes current arms control legislation analysis and voting records for Senators and Congressmen relating to military issues.

DFax
http://www.gn.apc.org/dfax
http://csf.colorado.edu/dfax
Consortium of several primarily British arms control groups producing "Disarmament Diplomacy" (http://csf.colorado.edu/dfax/dd/index.htm), a monthly review of news and documents; an excellent resource.

Downwinders
http://www.downwinders.org/
Utah-based nuclear testing grassroots organization focusing on human effects.

Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
http://www.fas.org/
Multiple homepages and extensive documents dealing with Star Wars and ballistic missile defense, Space Policy, Secrecy and Intelligence, and Military Doctrine.

Government Accountability Project
http://www.accessone.com/gap/
Whistleblower-assistance organization.

Greenpeace International
http://www.greenpeace.org
The fading nuclear page is located at http://www.greenpeace.org/cnuk.html.

GRIP, European Institute for Research and Information on Peace and Security (Belgium)
http://www.ib.be/grip/

Henry L. Stimson Center
http://www.stimson.org/pub/stimson
Well-maintained and excellent site covering nuclear weapons and arms control, missile defense, confidence building measures.

Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org/
Biographies and briefing papers, reports, and news of the premier Washington-based conservative think tank.

Institute for Energy and Environment Research (IEER)
http://www.ieer.org/ieer/fctsheet/index.html

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (UK)
http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/iiss/
The prestigious publishers of the "The Military Balance," "Strategic Survey," "Survival" and the "Adelphi Papers," but only with the barest of information and abstracts online.

International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP) (Germany)
http://www.th-darmstadt.de/ze/ianus/in-coal.htm

International Peace Bureau (Switzerland)
http://www3.itu.ch/ipb/index.htm

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
http://www.healthnet.org/IPPNW/IPPNW.html
Nobel Prize-winning organization dedicated to safeguarding health through the prevention of war. The U.S. affiliate is the Physicians for Social Responsibility.

International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflict (ISODARCO) (Italy)
http://141.108.16.217/ISODA/generall.html
Italian-based organization that provides an open forum for the study of the technical aspects of arms control, disarmament and conflict resolution.

Italian Union of Scientists for Disarmament (USPID) (Italy)
http://www.dsi.unimi.it/~uspid/
Organizers of international conferences relating to nuclear disarmament and proliferation.

Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
http://www.jinsa.org/
Washington-based organization dealing with Israel.

Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS)
http://home.earthlink.net/~laws/
Membership organization of legal professionals focusing on the dangers of nuclear weapons. Affiliated with the Committee for National Security.

Monday Lobby Group
http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/mlg/
Working group of peace-oriented lobbying organizations in Washington, DC.

National Security Archive
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv
Research institute and library located at George Washington University. Among other subjects, contains the Nuclear Non-Proliferation (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/nnp/nuclear.html) and Nuclear History databases (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/NC/nuchis.html) of primary source declassified U.S. government documents, as well as the Cold War International History Project Bulletin.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
http:/www.nrdc.org
Sponsors of this Guide, authors of the Nuclear Weapons Databook series, and suppliers of nuclear data.

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development
http:/www.nautilus.org
California-based research organization concentrating on the Asia-Pacific region.

NGO Committee on Disarmament
http://www.igc.apc.org/disarm/index.html
Based at, and accredited to the United Nations in New York and serving hundreds of peace and disarmament groups.

Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC)
http://www.wizard.net/~npec/
Founded in 1994, a project of the Institute for International Studies.

Nuclear Abolition Network (NAN)
http://prop1.org/2000/nan.htm
A global network of 300 grass-roots organizations working towards the abolition of nuclear weapons by the year 2000.

Nuclear Control Institute
http://www.nci.org/nci/
Washington-based institute focusing on nuclear materials and proliferation issues.

Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)
http://www.nirs.org
International organization focused on nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues.

Nuclear Waste Citizens Coalition
http://www.essential.org/orgs/nwcc/nwcc.html
Coalition of 16 local groups focusing on the nuclear waste problem.

Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project (Brookings Institution)
http://www.brook.edu/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/WEAPONS.HTM
An ongoing study to assess the cost of nuclear weapons since 1940.

Oak Ridge Education Project
http://korrnet.org/fgs/fgsorep.html

Parliamentarians for Global Action
http://www.pglobal.org/pglobal/
International network of members from 85 national Parliaments.

Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
http://www.nucmed.buffalo.edu/psr
The U.S. affiliate of IPPNW, focusing on the environmental health hazards of the military and nuclear weapons.

The Progressive Policy Institute
http://www.dlcppi.org/
Democratic Party think tank, part of the Leadership Council, that occassionally does work relating to defense spending and priorities.

Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
http://www.mnsinc.com/pogo/
Originally named the Project on Military Procurement, investigates the abuse and mismanagement of power by the federal government. A new Military Industrial Complex initiative will focus on the defense budget.

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (UK)
http://www.qmw.ac.uk/pugwash/home.html
Notices and agendas of conferences.

Radiation Effects Research Foundation (Japan)
http://www.rerf.or.jp/
Formerly the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, a cooperative U.S.-Japanese research organization, doing research on the effects of radiation on atomic bomb survivors since 1947, with laboratories in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) (Sweden)
http://www.sipri.se
Broad range of research on arms transfers and production, European security issues, chemical and biological weapons. The site includes an extensive list of publications back to 1969.

Student Pugwash USA
http://www.spusa.org/pugwash/

20/20 Vision Education Fund
http://www.2020vision.org/
Washington-based grassroots organization, with agenda including ratification of the CTB, closure of the Nevada Test Site, and reduced defense spending.

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
http://www.ucsusa.org

Verification Technology Information Centre (London)
http://www.gn.apc.org/vertic/
Research and information about the role of verification in arms control and environmental agreements.

Women in International Security (WIIS)
http://www.puaf.umd.edu/wiis/
Located at the University of Maryland, the purpose is to enhance the careers of women in the fields of foreign and defense policy.

World Court Project
http://www.prop1.org/prop1/wcp-what.htm
http://www.oneworld.org/world_court/index.html
http://www.peacenet.org/disarm/worldct.html
A collaborative effort of international lawyers and volunteer activists seeking to make nuclear weapons illegal.

World Information Service on Energy (WISE) (Netherlands)
http://antenna.nl/~wise
Amsterdam-based organization focusing the nuclear energy industry, proliferation, and accidents.

World Policy Institute
http://worldpolicy.org/
Now located at the New School for Social Research in New York, publisher of the "World Policy Journal," with some full-text articles online.