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When presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev meet today for the first time..

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

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

BBC security correspondent, Paris, December 10, 2008,

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

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.

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.''

"El mundo está ante una posibilidad sin precedentes para llegar al desarme nuclear si se alcanza un acuerdo entre Estados Unidos y Rusia para recortar sus arsenales"

Jordan’s Queen Noor, a founder of an international initiative to eliminate nuclear weapons, called on the presidents of the United States and Russia to advance the cause at their Monday summit by agreeing to significant cuts in their arsenals.

On the eve of one-on-one talks between President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Kremlin, one of the founders of Global Zero, an initiative aimed at ridding the planet of nuclear weapons, said the time was now to do away with the weapons.

Richard Burt, who was the top U.S. negotiator for the START 1 negotiations and now leads Global Zero, an international coalition working to eliminate nuclear weapons, said the summit is a chance for Obama and Medvedev to "set the course toward a world without nuclear weapons."

Будучи участником инициативы Global Zero, я согласен с поэтапным планом постепенного сокращения ядерного оружия до нулевого уровня.

Политики и военные России и США предложили план радикального сокращения или даже ликвидации ядерных арсеналов. Военный бюджет России выдержит только сокращенную ядерную программу, считают эксперты

В преддверии переговоров в Москве Дмитрия Медведева и Барака Обамы международная экспертная комиссия Global Zero, выступающая за мир без ядерного оружия, предложила свой план последовательного сокращения мировых ядерных арсеналов...

Группа известных политиков и военных со всего мира, объединившихся в рамках инициативы Global Zero, представила план по поэтапному полному уничтожению ядерного оружия на планете.

Американские СМИ и эксперты в целом оптимистично восприняли итоги первого дня визита президента Барака Обамы в Москву и достигнутые на встрече президентов РФ и США соглашения.

Накануне визита в Россию президента США Барака Обамы группа известных политиков и военных со всего мира, объединившихся в рамках инициативы Global Zero, представила план по поэтапному полному уничтожению ядерного оружия на планете.

The Commission, consisting of prominent experts on disarmament and national security, comes out in favour of complete elimination of nuclear weapons. Ahead of the Russia-US summit, they have gathered in Washington to present their four-stage plan that envisions the elimination of all nuclear arms by the year 2030 (2030).

Комиссия Global Zero, выступающая за мир без ядерного оружия, обнародовала вчера в Вашингтоне план последовательного снижения мировых ядерных арсеналов.

The assumption that nuclear weapons are indispensable to keeping the peace is crumbling. Disarmament is back on the global agenda -- and not a moment too soon. A groundswell of new international initiatives will soon emerge to move this agenda forward.

The United States has drafted a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on all countries with atomic weapons to get rid of them, a text Washington hopes will be approved by a special council session presided over by U.S. President Barack Obama.

Richard Burt, the lead US negotiator in the arms reduction talks in the 1990s and now a commissioner at Global Zero, a pressure group committed to a nuclear-free world, said: "This is part of a broad process that is very much on his agenda. He takes it very seriously and is very committed."

With an American president presiding for the first time, the U.N. Security Council is opening a summit-level meeting aimed at boosting long-stalled efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Her Majesty Queen Noor will be at today's U.N. Security Council meeting -- to be chaired by President Obama -- but she won't be representing her home country of Jordan.

With an American president presiding for the first time, the U.N. Security Council is opening a summit-level meeting aimed at boosting long-stalled efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Watch Global Zero Leader Ambassador Richard Burt debate Richard Pearle on the issue of global zero.

Eine Außenansicht von Wolfgang Ischinger Die neue Bundesregierung strebt eine Welt ohne Atomraketen an - hier ist der Plan, wie dies zu schaffen wäre.

Over the past year, the work of Global Zero has proceeded amid the “reset” in U.S.-Russian relations. Inspired by circumstances, the first item on our agenda was the question of disarmament and the follow-up treaty to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START.

U.S. and Russian arms-control negotiators have reached an "agreement in principle" on the first nuclear-arms-reduction treaty in nearly two decades, administration and arms-control officials said Tuesday.

Russia plans to do its utmost to achieve success at the talks with the U.S. on a new arms reduction treaty.

La France oppose la menace iranienne au «rêve » de Barack Obama. Ce n'est sans doute pas un hasard si la 3e réunion annuelle du mouvement «Global Zero» pour le désarmement nucléaire à l'horizon 2030, a encore été, comme l'année dernière, organisée à Paris...

Россия готова сделать все необходимое для успеха переговоров по новому договору на замену соглашения об СНВ, заявил президент РФ Дмитрий Медведев.

Россия активно взаимодействует с США в подготовке новой, юридически обязывающей договоренности на замену договора по СНВ, заявил президент России Дмитрий Медведев в приветствии участникам саммита инициативы "Глобальный ядерный ноль", отмечая, что Россия выбрала договорный путь к ядерному разоружению.

The United States and Russia have broken a logjam in arms control negotiations and expect to sign a treaty next month to slash their nuclear arsenals to the lowest levels in half a century, officials in both nations said Wednesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Russia and the United States have long fulfilled and overfulfilled the tasks of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) of 1991 and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT).

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently viewed producer Lawrence Bender’s latest documentary, “Countdown to Zero,” she gave it two thumbs up.

Hollywood and Silicon Valley leaders have teamed up with Middle Eastern royalty and high-level U.S. diplomats to send a message to heads of state who are gathering here in Washington next week: the world needs to reduce its nuclear arsenal to zero as soon as possible.

Lawrence Bender, whose film "An Inconvenient Truth" changed the way we view Global Warming discusses his latest film, "Countdown to Zero", which explores the ramifications of a global nuclear crisis.

'Global Zero' reminds us that eradicating nuclear weapons should still be our ultimate goal.

The Obama administration's nuclear posture review, together with the new START treaty with Russia, will strengthen American security and reinforce the nation's global leadership. This is an impressive achievement for at least four reasons.

Lawrence Bender: "Earlier this week, I was excited to be in Washington, DC with Jeff Skoll, founder of Participant Media and the leaders of Global Zero, to screen our new film, Countdown to Zero, for a high-level DC group. The film is an edge of the seat wake up call about the global nuclear threat.."

During the standoff of the post-war period between the superpowers, possessing nuclear weapons had a bleak sense to it. The justified fear felt on all sides of their appalling potential consequences kept their use in check. Mutually assured destruction maintained the peace among a handful of nuclear armed nations. 20 years after the end of the cold war, however, the world has changed radically and we need to change our approach to nuclear weapons in consequence.

Wendy Sherman and Jordan's Queen Noor talk with CNN's John King about nuclear security and international policy

Richard Burt likes the nuclear arms reduction treaty being discussed between Medvedev and Obama, but it's only a first step.

Медведев, США, ядерная проблема, стратегические вооружения, Обама, СНВ

Медведев, Обама, США, ядерная проблема, стратегические вооружения, СНВ

Tweeting, Skyping and blogging on Huffington Post, holding forth on CNN or al-Jazeera, debriefing arms negotiators and parleying with generals, the queen is perfecting her nuclear strategy. Her strategy is to get rid of them.

James Boyce: "It's shocking, sobering and as Lawrence said in his intro, a documentary that is trying to not just draw attention to an issue but to drive action on this issue. The screenings and soon to be broader distribution of the film is just part of the leadership that Lawrence, Participant and other partners are involved in."

Andrea Rael, Global Zero chapter leader, reports in the Huffington Post on Her Majesty Queen Noor's speech at CU-Boulder.

Andrew Kurzrok and David Manners-Weber, Global Zero chapter leaders at Yale University, go over recent developments in nuclear disarmament, first steps on "the path to global zero, a path that is politically difficult but strategically and morally imperative."

Competition bulks up; 'Zero' gets special screening.

There are currently 23,000 nuclear weapons on the planet. The goal is to get to zero. This is the message of the documentary “Countdown to Zero,” which premiers in New York City July 9 and was previewed at the Garden Theater in downtown Princeton Wednesday. Almost 150 students and community members were in the audience.

Activist Students Say Nuclear Weapons Elimination Should Be a Top Priority for Their Generation.

Xeni Jardin interviews Jeff Skoll and Lawrence Bender on COUNTDOWN TO ZERO

Film ‘Countdown to Zero’ Delivers Message about Danger of Nuclear Weapons ‘with Passion and Power’, Says Secretary-General at New York Screening

There's a reason President John F. Kennedy said that we would have to abolish nuclear weapons before nuclear weapons abolish us. After all, upon detonation of a nuclear weapon, the immediate area impacted will see temperatures of several tens of million degrees centigrade. And nothing says automatic vaporization of life like a thermometer set to 10,000,000 degrees.

On Day 3 of the nuclear non-proliferation talks at the U.N., the talking stopped. For a few hours at least, delegates and participants in the three-week summit just watched.

They'd been invited by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to a sneak preview of a film central to their discussions: Countdown to Zero. Produced by Lawrence Bender and Jeff Skoll, who joined Ban to introduce the screening, Countdown to Zero traces the history of the atomic bomb and makes an emotional appeal for a world without nukes.

The launch of "Countdown to Zero" at Cannes marks the latest effort to turn a theatrical documentary into a global event.

The film, a wakeup call about nuclear proliferation, is following the same trajectory as "An Inconvenient Truth" from the same producers, Lawrence Bender and Participant Media, which also took its consciousness-raising campaign from a world premiere at Sundance to an international splash on the Croisette where it gets a special screening berth.

Queen Noor of Jordan and former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson were among the luminaries who gathered at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday to support “Countdown to Zero,” a new film about nuclear proliferation. Hoping to follow in the footsteps of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the film was backed by Jeff Skoll’s Participant Productions and producer Lawrence Bender, who also came to Cannes in 2006 with the Al Gore environmental documentary.

CANNES, France -- Like a lot of people, I've been living under the blithe impression that the end of the Cold War had ended the threat of nuclear annihilation, and that the possibility of al-Qaida or some similarly nihilistic group acquiring a weapon was remote. At a screening and press conference here for "Countdown to Zero," the enraging and terrifying documentary from British director Lucy Walker, Participant Media and producer Lawrence Bender (best known as the man who makes Quentin Tarantino's movies happen), I learned how wrong all that was.

More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the threat of nuclear annihilation remains a grave concern. Today, however, the focus is not an identifiable nuclear superpower as foe, but rogue groups, extremists or anyone with enough money, engineering capability and access to enriched uranium be it by theft or paying off corrupt officials. Lucy Walker’s disturbing Cannes doc, “Countdown to Zero,” produced with Participant Media, explores the all too real threat of a nuclear event that could easily destroy a major city, and with that plunging the world into a crisis that could not only kill millions and topple the economy, but also devestate age-old social mores as civilizations panic and demand an end to the sort of rights considered the norm in the world’s democracies.

Global Zero roadie Scott Ibaraki gives a thorough account of his and his fellow roadies' life on the road, experiences, and determination as they travel the country raising public awareness on the nuclear danger and screening the documentary Countdown to Zero.

As the recent UN and Washington summits have demonstrated, nuclear arms control and disarmament are among the top issues on the world’s political agenda. They are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Indeed, 2010 will determine whether US President Barack Obama’s vision of a nuclear-free world will remain a distant but achievable hope, or must be abandoned.

Queen Noor, the widow of King Hussein of Jordan, sat down with a small group of reporters at a private luncheon on Friday to discuss the documentary, "Countdown to Zero" about nuclear bomb proliferation, which hits U.S. theatres in July.

THE unlikely summer blockbuster of 2006, “An Inconvenient Truth” — the global-warming documentary based on Al Gore’s slide-show lecture — proved that socially conscious movies about calamitous subjects could raise awareness and also do big business.

The Queen talks about a new film that is working to get rid of nuclear weapons