GWEN Project Records

GWEN (Ground Wave Emergency Network was a grass roots organization founded in the mid 1980s. Mobilized citizens protested the establishment of a GWEN network, a plan by the U.S. Air Force to build a system of radiotowers around the U.S. for the purpose of maintaining military communications in the event of nuclear war. The GWEN Project was a national organization, headquartered in Amherst, Massachusetts. The co-directors were Nancy Foster and Lois Barber. In 1994, the U.S. Congress refused further funding for GWEN, calling it wasteful and unnecessary.

This collection contains files of various GWEN projects across the U.S.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these records.

Gift of Nancy Foster 2001 [Acc. 01A-030]; 2003 [Acc. 03A-027]; Gift of Ronald Fraser 2016 [Acc. 2016-091], [Acc. 2016-105]; 2017 [Acc. 2017-012].

This collection remains partially unprocessed. Those files are listed by the separate accession in which they were donated.

Materials are in English.

Items removed: Photographs; Videorecordings

Use

None.

Preferred Citation

Cite as: [Identification of item], in the GWEN Project Records (DG 202), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Publisher

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Creator

GWEN Project (U.S.)

Subject

Ground Wave Emergency Network -- History -- Sources

Arms control -- Citizen participation -- History -- Sources

People

Foster, Nancy E.

Barber, Lois Jewel

Organization

GWEN Project (U.S.)

Language

English