The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space was founded in 1992 by the joint efforts of the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice (FCPJ); Citizens for Peace in Space (Colorado Springs); and New York-based Journalism professor Karl Grossman. The inaugural meeting of the Global Network (GN) was held in Washington D.C. City Council Chambers.

Between 1992-1997 the GN was housed in the offices, and subsidized by, the FCPJ. Bruce Gagnon, at that time the Coordinator of the FCPJ, served as Co- Coordinator of the GN with Bill Sulzman from Colorado.

Since its 1992 founding the GN has met each year in order to bring together key activists who are working on, or are interested in, space issues. It was the intention of the founders to create an organization that would serve as a clearinghouse for space issues and act as a spark to ignite education and organizing in order to build an international citizens movement.

Objectives & Demands For Space:

• Apply space technology to social and environmental needs here on Earth
• Explore alternative technology paths for space power and propulsion
• Solve problems on planet Earth instead of creating new imbalances and conflicts in space
• Prevent confrontation, enhance international cooperation in space
• Ban space weapons and space military installations by national and international laws
• Avoid oversized, costly and risky space projects
• Ban the use of nuclear power in space
• Encourage and foster global democratic debate about space exploration and colonization
• Strengthen existing international space laws that call for collective use of celestial bodies