NIRS has launched a new project, Beyond Nuclear. Please visit the temporary Web site at http://www.beyondnuclear.org/ (The permanent Web site will be up soon at the same address.)

Beyond Nuclear is a new NIRS initiative that aims to educate wider audiences about the connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear promotes positive, solutions-focused messages and will provide guides to safer alternatives to these dangerous and obsolete technologies.

Beyond Nuclear plans to focus its efforts on creating a consistent media presence for these issues using high-profile campaigns and its stable of expert spokespeople. It will also serve as a resource with which to build and expand the movement for a world beyond nuclear.

NIRS is launching Beyond Nuclear at an auspicious moment. As we follow the ominous developments in North Korea and Iran , the deadly connection between civilian and military nuclear technology is ever more apparent. And at home, nuclear utilities are lining up to pocket fat handouts paid by us, the taxpayers, to build more nuclear reactors.

Please take a moment to read the preliminary information at http://www.beyondnuclear.org/ To help NIRS launch the permanent site, initiate this important new outreach and expand its visibility in communities around the country, please consider making a donation today by clicking the Donate Here icon on the Beyond Nuclear Web site.

And as always, thank you for your continued support of NIRS and our essential work!

Linda Gunter Nuclear Information and Resource Service lindag@nirs.org