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Global Zero Pushes for a Nuke-Free World
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... The founders of Global Zero, including Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev and Sir Richard Branson, want to do for nuclear disarmament what Al Gore and other environmentalists did for climate change. While the vast majority of the world’s citizens seem to favor going nukeless, the issue has been confined to the back burner. ...
Global Zero
Newshoggers.com —
... negotiations to cut back nuclear stockpiles. Then a second phase would bring in countries such as China, Britain and France. Finally, it hopes to attract other countries such as Iran — which the West fears is seeking nuclear arms. Tehran insists its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity.
Delegations from the group will go to Moscow for talks with Russian officials Wednesday and to Washington on Thursday.
Global Zero's website is here.
The list of signatories is impressive. For British ...
Global Zero
Crooks and Liars —
... Zero, wants to start with U.S.-Russian negotiations to cut back nuclear stockpiles. Then a second phase would bring in countries such as China, Britain and France. Finally, it hopes to attract other countries such as Iran — which the West fears is seeking nuclear arms. Tehran insists its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity.
Delegations from the group will go to Moscow for talks with Russian officials Wednesday and to Washington on Thursday.
Global Zero's website is here.
The list of signatories is impressive. For British ...
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan on nuclear threat
The Latest on Air America —
... and an outspoken voice on issues of world peace and justice whose conflict recovery and peacebuilding work has focused on the Middle East, the Balkans, Central and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Queen Noor has published two books, "Hussein of Jordan" (KHF Publishing, 2000) and "Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life" (Miramax Books, 2003), a New York Times best seller published in 15 languages. To learn more about Queen Noor's work to eliminate nuclear weapons visit www.globalzero.org. ...
Broad Support for Zero Nukes Goal
Matthew Yglesias —
If you’re interested in some good analysis of the importance of Barack Obama’s Prague speech framing his non-proliferation goals in terms of a long-term effort to entirely rid the world of nuclear weapons, I would recommend this from Steve Coll in The New Yorker, this editorial from The Economist, this piece by Peter Scoblic in The New Republic. You can also see brief statements from figures ranging from Chuck Hagel and Lawrence Eagelburger to Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu courtesy of the ...
Countdown to Zero (Queen Noor of Jordan)
Congress Blog —
... stabilizing impact nuclear weapons may have had during the US-Soviet Cold War confrontation, any residual benefits of these arsenals are overshadowed today by the growing risks of proliferation and terrorism. I, and all of the 100-plus leaders of Global Zero, are thrilled that Presidents Obama and Medvedev are demonstrating bold and historic leadership on this agenda, and taking an approach that is fully in line with the plan we presented at the launch of Global Zero in December 2008. Global Zero is an international, non-partisan initiative formed in response to the growing ...
A Nice Game of Chess
Daily Kos —
... a new START agreement, or Richard Perle and Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), who think we need more (new) nuclear weapons. They are stuck in their 1980s rut, where the "Top Gun" soundtrack is still fashionable, and "the Soviets" are still a threat. Elections have consequences. Barack Obama and Dmitri Medvedev know this, and are going to make the best of it. It won't be easy, but the degree to which they want to cooperate is encouraging. It's a good start down the path to Global Zero.
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A Hundred Holocausts: An Insider’s Window Into US Nuclear Policy
Commondreams.org Views —
... what its constituents have to expect-in the way of homicidal and environmental damage-from a U.S.-Russian nuclear exchange: or for that matter, from an India-Pakistan exchange. These assemblies have a stake in discovering-and changing-the societal and ecological impact of the existent contingency war plans of every nuclear weapons state, the U.S. and Russia above all but the others as well. What is needed is a worldwide movement. Fortunately there are several efforts to join (see here , ...
Hanna Ingber Win: Queen Noor: "We Are Reaching A Nuclear Tipping Point"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Queen Noor, who will attend the UN Security Council session Thursday, told the Huffington Post that the changing face of terrorism and threats by non-state actors make the need for nuclear non-proliferation even more urgent and pressing. Nuclear terrorism, she said, is the great fear among the more than 200 scientists, military experts and political leaders who have joined up to push for nuclear non-proliferation. Their organization, called GlobalZero, launched last December and advocates for the phased, verified elimination of nuclear weapons and ultimately for an ...
