Beyond Nuclear

Beyond Nuclear is organized exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes. Specifically, the organization aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic. The organization works with diverse partners and allies to provide its members, the public, government officials, and the media with the critical information necessary to move humanity toward a world beyond nuclear. 

Linda Pentz Gunter

International Specialist, Beyond Nuclear

Linda Pentz Gunter founded Beyond Nuclear in 2007 and serves as its international specialist as well as its media and development director. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast, working for USA Network, Reuters, The Times (UK) and other US and international outlets.

Beyond Nuclear works to support grassroots, national and international efforts to phase out nuclear power in favor of safer renewable energy choices. It also draws attention to the perpetual link between nuclear power and the pathway to nuclear weapons and advocates for a global nuclear weapons ban. In creating Beyond Nuclear, Linda’s goal was to reach beyond the immediate circle of committed anti-nuclear activists and engage those environmentalists concerned with climate change and the necessity to move away from fossil and fissile energy use.

In 2018, Linda launched a new web platform, BeyondNuclearInternational,org, which aims to reframe the anti-nuclear message through a more human lens. Primarily a story-telling website, with a strong visual focus, Beyond Nuclear International delivers not only topical news coverage but new and creative ways of communicating the humanitarian impacts of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. It showcases work on these themes in film and television, the performing and visual arts, and books, and covers personal acts of courage, group actions and protests, personality profiles, the effects on animals and nature, and other topics of broader general interest.

While focusing her writing on the Beyond Nuclear International site, Linda continues to write for Truthout, Counterpunch, The Ecologist and others. She makes occasional appearances as an expert on television and radio programs.

Originally from the UK, Linda has a BA Honours degree in English and Italian Literature from Warwick University where she also studied and wrote about film, including a dissertation on the novels and films of Pier Paolo Pasolini.