At a time when the threat of war is again increasing, the World Council of Nuclear Workers and the International Institute for Sustainable Peace wish to underline that this threat must be met through the broadest possible use of nuclear energy. This principle finds its clearest expression today in the work of the Director General of IAEA, Dr ElBaradei who strongly support the development of nuclear energy for the production of electricity, the production of fresh water by nuclear desalination, the production of hydrogen as the fuel of the 21st century by nuclear production, the several uses of nuclear energy for medical purposes and for safe storage of foods. The best way to avoid the uses of weapons and to insure a Sustainable Peace is to avoid to create or to maintain the conditions of precariousness which is the very beginning of conflicts. In bringing wealth to the world, the peaceful uses of nuclear energy appear to be playing an increasingly significant role. Dr ElBaradei's work is of incalculable importance.

In their aims, the Atoms for Peace Committee wrote that the Prize should, be awarded to whoever had done most for the achievement of a Sustainable Peace which insure the protection of environment, the improvement of social welfare and the establishment of worldwide wealth. In its application of these criterions, the World Council of Nuclear Workers and the International Institute for Sustainable Peace have concentrated on the struggle to insure a World Wide Sustainable Peace.