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Reaching Critical Will hosts four free email news services: the General E-News List, the Conference on Disarmament Report, the News in Review, and the First Committee Monitor.

To subscribe to any of these lists, please send an email to info@reachingcriticalwill.org, indicating which list you would like to sign up for.

The General E-News list produces, on average, two emails per month on general international disarmament news, updates for civil society wishing to participate in international fora, and all the newest from RCW. All updates from the DDA, the Chair, and civil society concerning preparations for the NPT and other international disarmament fora are distributed through this subscription.

Archived General Advisories from 2007 are available here.
Archived General Advisories from 2006 are available here.
Archived General Advisories from 2005 are available here.
Archived General Advisories from 2004 are available here.
Archived General Advisories from 2003 are available here.

The CD Report list features weekly reports throughout the Conference on Disarmament.
This is the only NGO service that reports on the world's sole negotiating body for disarmament.

Read the most recent Reports from 2007.
Read archived Reports from 2006, 2005, 2004, and 2003.

The News in Review is a daily publication produced during the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee and Review Conferences. It features analysis of the day's events, feature articles from NGOs around the world, interviews with diplomats and NGO representatives, nuclear facts, announcements, cartoons, calendar of events, and more.

Read archived News in Reviews from 2002-2007 here.

The First Committee Monitor is a weekly NGO newsletter during the entire session of the General Assembly First Committee. It is a cooperative project between a dozen New York-based NGOs that share the monitoring and reporting responsibilities at the GA. This subscription is available in PDF, HTML, or both, each with their own unique features and benefits. It is also available in plain text format.

If your group would like to contribute to the Monitor, contact the Project Associate today!

Archived editions, including a Compendium of the 2004 and 2003 volumes, can be found here.

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Other Useful Email Services from RCW friends and advisors:

1. BASIC Email Updates
Format: Email updates. (3 lists)

Host: British American Security Information Council (BASIC).

Description: BASIC provides email updates on three of the issue areas it focuses on: missile defense, biological weapons, and Washington's nuclear weapons policy. All three provide analysis of the latest news, along with a selection of information and articles illustrating new trends in policy and public opinion and are sent out either once or twice a month. While examining events from all parts of the globe, the updates focus primarily on illuminating the swings and shifts of the US debate for a European audience.

To subscribe: Fill out the form available at: http://www.basicint.org/nuclear/NMD/email.htm

2. The Nonproliferation Review
Format: quarterly journal

Host: Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterrey Institute of International Studies.

Description: The Nonproliferation Review is a refereed journal concerned with the causes, consequences, and control of the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The Review features case studies, theoretical analyses, and policy debates on such issues as individual country programs, treaties and export controls, WMD terrorism, and economic and environmental effects of weapons proliferation.

Archived editions: Selected back issues from Volume I - Volume VI of the Review may be ordered from CNS at: http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/back.htm for $18 per issue. Issues from Volume VII on may be ordered from http://www.rienner.com/viewbook.cfm?BOOKID=1313

To subscribe: To subscribe to Volume 9 of the Review, please contact Martha Peacock at Lynne Rienner Publishers (LRP) at peacock@rienner.com or see the LRP website at www.rienner.com/

3. Global Security Newswire
Format: Email newswire

Host: Nuclear Threat Initiative

Archives: The most recent edition can be found here: http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2005_8_2.html but if you scroll down, you can search through all archived issues by date.

Subscribe: http://www.nti.org/signup

4. Proliferation News
Format: Summaries of proliferation threats in major newspapers, email updates

Host: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Archives: www.ProliferationNews.org

Subscribe: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/resources/index.cfm?fa=newsletters or email proliferationnews@carnegieendowment.org

5. Arms Control E-Update
Format: Email updates

Host: Arms Control Association.

Description: The ACA email updates feature links to the newest editions of Arms Control Today (a monthly journal) as well as the latest news and press releases from the Arms Control Association.

Archives: All issues of Arms Control Today dating back to 1997 are available on the ACA Website
Issues prior to 1997 may be obtained by contacting the Assistant Editor.

Subscribe: For the E-Update, fill out the E-Update Form. To subscribe to ACT, fill out the Subscription Form

6. INESAP Email Discussion List
Format: Email listserve

Host: International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation

Description: A forum for networking as well as for general discussion of issues concerning the non-proliferation and disarmament of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction and of missiles and other relevant delivery systems as well as the prevention of missile defenses and space weapons.

Archives: The discussion list is not archived, but members of the list often contribute to the INESAP Information Bulletin, an analytical digest that focuses mainly, though not entirely, on technical and scientific aspects of nonproliferation, disarmament, and other issues of war and peace. Archived Information Bulletins are available in HTML and PDF at: http://www.inesap.org/publ_bul.htm

Subscribe: Email INESAP with the following test in the body of the message: subscribe [youremail]@[yourprovider]
(Replace [youremail] and [yourprovider] with your email address.) To post messages to the list, use the following address: inesap@fy.chalmers.se

7. ATRC Email Updates
Format: Bi-weekly news email

Host: Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy Institute

Description: News updates for activists, educators, and interested individuals covering different arms trade and military budget issues.

Archives: Available on the http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/updates.html

Subscribe: Send an email to Research Associate Frida Berrigan

8. FPIF Email Updates
Format: Email updates with links to the newest articles at Foreign Policy In Focus

Host: Foreign Policy in Focus, a self-described “think tank without walls" that functions as an international network of more than 650 policy analysts and advocates.

Description: FPIF is committed to advancing a citizen-based foreign policy agenda--one that is fundamentally rooted in citizen initiatives and movements and promotes broad progressive principles as respect for human rights, environmental protection, broadly shared economic development, a preference for multilateral solutions, and demilitarization. It is our aim for all FPIF materials to be concisely argued and factual, and to conform to rigorous intellectual standards of policy analysis.

Archives: All FPIF materials are available in various formats on the site.

Subscribe: enter your email address in SUBSCRIBE box on the left-hand column of www.fpif.org.

9. TFF Fora
Format: Email

Host: Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research

Description: TFF hosts three different email lists:
....... PressInfo: includes analyses and debate articles;
....... PeaceBrowser: updates on the TFF website, including TFF articles and feature articles produced by non-TFF staff;
....... PeaceTips: offers small hints, good ideas, short texts and other alerts.
....... With a focus on the Balkans, Iraq, global conflict-(mis)management, the UN and alternative security as well as non-violence, TFF provides alternatives to mainstream concepts of security and the policies that develop out of this conceptual ....... framework.

Subscribe: To view descriptions of the other TFF lists, visit http://www.transnational.org/

10. South Asia Citizens Wire
Format: Email

Host: South Asia Citizens Web

Description: A volunteer-run web service that carries reports (both from the mainstream media and autonomous media) and information on implications of the dangerous rise of fundamentalist politics and shrinking secular spaces in South Asia. It is intended as a counter information effort for people concerned and interested in issues of peace, secularism, human rights, democratization in or connected to South Asia.

11. The Sunflower
Format: monthly email news update

Host: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Description: Provides educational information on nuclear weapons abolition and other issues relating to global security.

Archives: Available in html format
Also available in PDF format

12. Abolition Global Caucus:
Format: listserve. All members can post messages.

Host: Abolition 2000, a global network calling for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons, is supported by concerned individuals, citizen action groups, religious leaders, political and civic leaders, retired military leaders, Nobel laureates, municipalities, and colleges and universities.

Description: The Abolition Global Caucus promotes international dialogue on key nuclear issues and provides a forum for individuals and organizations to contribute action alerts, news bulletins and ideas that will lead to a more secure and peaceful world, free from the threat of nuclear weapons.

Archived postings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/abolition-caucus/

To subscribe: Send email with "subscribe" in subject heading.

Other: There are also Abolition Caucus listserves for specific regions (Abolition-USA, Abolition-U.K., for example.

13. Chemical Weapons Update
Format: Email updates

Host: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Description: Regular press releases concerning the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention. As the permanent Secretariat of the CWC, the OPCW works to ensure a credible, transparent regime to verify the destruction of chemical weapons and prevent their re-emergence in any Member State; to provide protection and assistance against chemical weapons; to encourage international cooperation in the peaceful uses of chemistry; and to bring about universal membership of the OPCW by facilitating international cooperation and national capacity building. Archives: All documents relating to the CWC are available at: http://www.opcw.org.

14. European Security Update
Format: Email updates

Host: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Description: OSCE sends email updates tailored to your interests. You can choose to receive news related to a specific topic including action against terrorism; arms control; border monitoring; conferences, meetings and seminars; conflict resolution and negotiations; democratization; economic and environmental issues; elections; external co-operation; human rights; media affairs; military aspects of security; minorities; police training; Rome and Sinti issues; Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe; or trafficking.

Subscribe: Fill out the form on the website.

Other Peace and Disarmament Email Services can be found at:

Riseup.net.

Yahoo Disarmament Groups

Radiation Bulletin

DOE Watch

NucNews is posted each day has reports and upcoming events -- http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.