Excerpted from a brochure, by the Los Alamos Study Group, introducing that group. Reprinted for educational purposes, under fair use guidelines.
Who We Are
Since 1989, the Los Alamos Study Group community—our staff and board, volunteers, interns, and supporters—has consistently provided leadership on nuclear disarmament and related issues in New Mexico. Not infrequently, we have also provided leadership nationally as well. Our work includes research and scholarship (central to all we do), education of decisionmakers, providing an information clearinghouse for journalists, organizing, litigating, and advertising. We place particular emphasis on the education and training of young activists and scholars.
Our careful, reasoned approach has gained us many friends, and built bridges even with people in the nuclear labs and plants. Since September 11, 2001, our work has increasingly placed nuclear weapons in the context of aggression abroad and the militarization of our society at home.
The study group is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our board of directors includes both New Mexico and national members, and the work of our staff is supplemented by the contributions of interns and volunteers. We are supported largely by individual donations. We welcome your questions, participation, and support.
Resistance and Renewal
The work of the Study Group has been directly effective in changing public policy, and serves as a public "deterrent" against still worse policies.
But more than this, to the extent it embodies our commitment to truth and nonviolence, the Study Group itself is an essential part of the culture of peace, and anticipates the society we seek to create. We enjoy that freedom now.
If you are interested in working with us, give us a call.
"[W]e as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values… A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of spiritual uplift is approaching spiritual death."
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
