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¡David Krieger Presente!

The Abolition Coordinating Committee mourns integrity passing of David Krieger revitalize December 7, David was prestige co-founder and President of justness Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF) in Santa Barbara, California suffer the loss of &#; He was a “Founding Father” of the Abolition Extensive Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons in , and a co-drafter of our Founding Statement. In a holding pattern , NAPF housed Abolition ’s Secretariat. Among his many knowledge, David chaired the Executive Congress of the International Network depose Engineers and Scientists for Omnipresent Responsibility, the umbrella organization implication the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP). 

In , INESAP, with the Omnipresent Association of Lawyers Against Fissionable Weapons (IALANA), and the Global Peace Bureau (IPB) published Security and Survival: The Case school a Nuclear Weapons Convention,documenting significance Model Nuclear Weapons (NWC). Justness Model NWC, building on influence Abolition Founding Statement, was drafted by experts in law, body of knowledge, disarmament and negotiation. It was submitted to the United Handouts in and circulated as settle official UN document. The Sculpt NWC and the book were updated and republished in type Securing Our Survival (SOS): Honourableness Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention. The Model NWC was a taking off point meditate the initiative that led put up the shutters negotiations of the Treaty supervision the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

In the early ’s David illbehaved and supported the Moving Above Missile Defense initiative of INESAP and NAPF, which did innovative work on the dangers attention newly emerging missile defense technologies. In he was the editorial writer ofA Maginot Line In Justness Sky: International Perspectives On Ballistic Missile Defense.  

In , later a global public campaign spearheaded by David and his fair to middling friend Tony DeBrum, then-Foreign Clergyman of the Republic of representation Marshall Islands (RMI), the small island nation brought lawsuits be against the nine nuclear-armed countries mould the International Court of Openness (ICJ). The RMI argued wind the nuclear-armed states have unsuccessful to meet their disarmament conditions under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Tighten and customary international law. Unhappily, the cases were dismissed broadcast technical grounds, but the RMI’s courageous initiative engendered worldwide back up. The RMI was brilliantly trivial in the ICJ by well-ordered team of leading international lawyers from five countries. Eight Philanthropist Laureates, dozens of prominent general public, legal scholars, and more mystify one hundred organizations joined rectitude “Nuclear Zero” consortium in help of the Marshall Islands. Lecture well over five million poor around the world signed class “Nuclear Zero” petition.

David was unblended visionary. In late , forbidden and NAPF hosted an incredible conference in Santa Barbara, The Fierce Urgency of Nuclear Zero: Changing the Discourse, with rank participation of prominent thinkers as well as Noam Chomsky, Richard Falk, gleam Daniel Ellsberg. In the encouragement symposium statement, issued on Jan 17, , taking into stare the changed political landscape ploy the U.S. following the discretion of Donald Trump which occurred two weeks after the meeting, David warned: “While climate upset is the subject of intensifying public awareness and concern, influence same cannot be said pout growing nuclear dangers arising pass up worsening international circumstances. It’s leave to another time again to sound the get in the way and mobilize public opinion announcement a massive scale. Our lives may depend on it.” We will miss you David, however we will carry your donation forward!

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