Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

10/15/2026

What a delight it was to celebrate two incredible women waging peace, Annie Jacobsen and Katrina vanden Heuvel, in Santa Barbara on September 30th! Thanks for joining us at the Luncheon.

🌻For video, remarks, and more photos from the Women Waging Peace Luncheon, please visit: https://www.wagingpeace.org/women-waging-peace-luncheon-2026/

10/13/2026

Our 2025–26 Annual Report is here!

It was a year of urgency, community, and collaboration in the pursuit of peace. From youth empowerment, a historic nuclear justice meeting at the United Nations, and to countless articles and interviews, see what your support has made possible!

→ Read the report: https://www.wagingpeace.org/napf-annual-report-2025-2026/

10/07/2026

“It has never been easy to argue for peace in a world built for war.”

Read Katrina vanden Heuval's Award acceptance speech at our 2026 Luncheon, outlining the history of ’s formidable engagement with peace and disarmament issues, from the nuclear freeze movement to today’s calls for disarmament. 🕊️

It has never been more urgent to revive the idea of peace, not as a slogan, but as the only serious, respectable, responsible, reasonable, humane position.

09/30/2026

We are so excited for our 2026 Women Waging Peace Luncheon today in Santa Barbara!🌻

We hold this event to honor women on the forefront of peace building. Our 2026 honorees, Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation Magazine, and Annie Jacobsen Author have been educating the public on nuclear risks, war, international politics, and what’s at stake during incredibly dangerous times. Today we celebrate their work bringing this dialogue worldwide!

09/28/2026

Stanislav Petrov’s story shows how a false warning can put lives at risk on a global scale.

Since the beginning of the nuclear age, there have been numerous close calls where nuclear weapons were misplaced, stolen, damaged, or even detonated. Many of these incidents resulted in casualties, including of innocent civilians, and others nearly led to nuclear war.

These close calls emphasize the lack of proper security for nuclear weapons, and the lack of training and overall competence of militaries and leaders who possess nuclear weapons.

Read more about nuclear close calls here: https://www.wagingpeace.org/nuclear-close-calls/

09/23/2026

"As long as we have nuclear weapons, the job of ending humanity will continue to be as easy as the push of a button—or an AI agent hacking into a nuclear command-and-control system."

Read the new article by Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes in The Nation Magazine on facing the combined threat of nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/artificial-intelligence-ai-nuclear-weapons-risk/

09/17/2026

Our 2026 Women Waging Peace Award honors Katrina vanden Heuvel
and Annie Jacobsen.

This year’s honorees have each used writing and public discussion to raise difficult questions about war, political power, and the spectre of nuclear danger to audiences far beyond the policy community, both nationally and worldwide.

Join us in Santa Barbara to celebrate at the Women Waging Peace Luncheon on September 30th.

Learn more here: wagingpeace.org/women-waging-peace-luncheon-2026/

09/10/2026

🇺🇳 For the first time, the United Nations convened an international meeting dedicated to victim assistance and environmental remediation for communities affected by nuclear weapons use and testing.

See highlights from the meeting, plus statements, photos, video, and transcripts:

International Meeting on Victim Assistance and Environmental Remediation September 1, 2026 United Nations Headquarters, New York On September 1, 2026, the United Nations convened the first-ever International Meeting on Victim Assistance and Environmental Remediation at UN Headquarters in New York. T...

09/08/2026

"The pursuit of nuclear justice is more than just the righting of historical wrongs of the nuclear age."

Read and watch the statement and recommendations delivered by Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes to the first International Meeting on Victim Assistance and Environmental Justice.

The pursuit of nuclear justice is more than just the righting of historical wrongs of the nuclear age.