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2009-06-30

The New York Times

Group Offers Plan to Eliminate Nukes by 2030

A group committed to eliminating nuclear weapons presented on Monday a four-step plan to achieve that goal by 2030, while acknowledging that Iran could be a ''show stopper.''




 



2009-06-10

The Toronto Sun

Putin: Russia might abandon nukes

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is willing to abandon nuclear weapons, if the United States and all other countries that have them do the same.




 



2009-03-29

New York Times

International Leaders Urge Obama to Back Nuke Ban

President Barack Obama's first meeting next week with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is a historic opportunity to ...




 



2009-03-11

International Herald Tribune

World leaders try to ban nuclear weapons

A new international group committed to eliminating nuclear weapons over the next 25 years has enlisted scores of world leaders...




 



2009-03-01

PARADE Magazine

The End of Nuclear Weapons

Queen Noor of Jordan, born and educated in the U.S., is one of the 100 political and civic leaders behind Global Zero...


Recent Signatories

Anthony Lake

Anthony Lake is Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown...

Chuck Hagel

The world would be far more secure if no one had nuclear weapons.... [I]t is so critically important that...

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Mpilo Tutu is an Anglican priest who became the first black General Secretary of the South African Council of...

Evgeny Maslin

Colonel General (Ret.) Evgeny Maslin is the director of ANO “Aspect-Conversion” specializing in the upgrade of physical protection systems at...

Evgeny Velikhov

Dr. Evgeny Velikhov is an accomplished Russian scientist and is the current president of the national research center, the Kurchatov...

Guangqian Peng

Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Peng Guangqian was a military strategist with the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences of the People's Liberation...

Jack Sheehan

One could argue that nuclear weapons played a significant role during the Cold War because of the deterrent value...

Jehangir Karamat

General (Ret.) Jehangir Karamat is a Pakistani military officer and diplomat. General Karamat graduated from the Pakistan Military Academy and...

Jianmin Wu

Ambassador Jianmin Wu began his diplomatic career in 1960.  He worked as Second Secretary in the Chinese Mission to the...

Jiemian Yang

Dr. Jiemian Yang is the President of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), a leading think tank advising the...

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United States of America. As a young man, he was a submariner...

K. Shankar Bajpai

Time and events have made it increasingly obvious that the only dependable way to prevent nuclear weapons from causing devastation...

Lee Hamilton

Lee H. Hamilton is a former United States Congressman and is the President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International...

Malcolm Rifkind

Nuclear weapons helped ensure peace and security during the Cold War. We live in a different world. We do...

Mikhail Margelov

For more than half of a century, nuclear weapons have coexisted with us and remained the most powerful means...

Queen Noor

The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent...

Richard Branson

Richard Branson is a British businessman and philanthropist. In 1970, he founded the now ubiquitous Virgin as a mail order...

Richard Burt

Ambassador Richard Burt is an accomplished American diplomat with special expertise in the area of nuclear weapons. He successfully concluded...

Shaharyar Khan

Ambassador Shaharyar M. Khan is an accomplished former Pakistani diplomat. After serving as Pakistan’s ambassador to Jordan, the United Kingdom,...

Shashindra Pal Tyagi

I am committed to a nuclear weapons-free world not only for moral reasons, which are well known, but for...

Thomas Pickering

Ambassador Thomas Pickering is a former American diplomat who held the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the...

Wolfgang Ischinger

Wolfgang Ischinger is an experienced German diplomat with the current mandate as Chairman of the Munich Conference on Security Policy...

Yukio Satoh

Eliminating the threat of nuclear weapons is critically important for the future of all humanity. To this end, it...