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By Valerie Plame Wilson - Friday, July 30, 2010

The smoke was still drifting off the World Trade Center when the CIA discovered that Osama bin Laden had secretly met just a few days before the attack with a top Pakistani nuclear scientist, seeking help in building a nuclear bomb. Immediately, nuclear terrorism jumped to the top of the list of urgent threats to the civilized world. My clandestine work as a CIA operations officer became laser-focused on counterproliferation as we mobilized to prevent a nuclear 9/11.

By Valerie Plame Wilson - Thursday, July 22, 2010

As a former CIA covert operations officer specializing in nuclear counterproliferation, I believe that nuclear terrorism is the most urgent threat we face - and that the only way to eliminate this danger is to lock down all nuclear materials and eliminate all nuclear weapons in all countries: global zero.

We know that terrorist groups are trying to buy, build or steal a bomb and that top nuclear scientists have offered to help them - Osama Bin Laden met with some just before 9/11.

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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sent a video address to the Global Zero Summit in Paris 2-4 February 2010.

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London School of Economincs Event: Can we eliminate nuclear weapons?

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Global Zero, a group of more than 200 political and military leaders from around the world, is hailing the award's recognition of a goal it shares with Obama -- the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Said former ambassador to Germany Richard Burt, chief U.S. negotiator for the START 1 negotiations and Global Zero U.S. chair in a statement: "Global Zero applauds President Obama on receiving the Nobel Prize and for his extraordinary leadership, along with President Medvedev, to achieve a world without nuclear weapons.

It was my privilege to witness the United Nations Security Council Summit yesterday unanimously adopt a resolution calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons. It was the first Security Council Summit ever dedicated to nuclear proliferation and disarmament and the first chaired by a U.S. President.

In addressing the Security Council members, President Obama declared: "The historic resolution we just adopted enshrines our shared commitment to the goal of a world without nuclear weapons."

Barack Obama Barack Obama dreams of Zero. A world without nuclear weapons. None. Zero. The nuclear lions will lie down with the non-nuclear lambs and hope that there are no nuclear wolves hoarding or hiding the deadly devices out there in the darkness. Meanwhile, though, the decisive question—whether this is merely a dream, merely rhetoric—will depend on how seriously the Pentagon's nuclear commanders take what is, in effect, a mandate to zero themselves out.

President Barack Obama has had to face many complex problems during the first year of his presidency, not the least of which are nuclear weapons-related issues. Last week, I interviewed Joe Cirincione, whose current position as president of the Ploughshares Fund is just the latest milestone in his long career as a nuclear non-proliferation expert.

A World Without Nuclear Weapons Is Not a 'Crazy Goal'

Nuclear disarmament is one of the main issues Barack Obama is addressing during his visit to Russia this week. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, Munich Security Conference head Wolfgang Ischinger argues that the dream of a nuclear arms-free world need not remain an illusion.

U.S., Russia settle on nuclear arsenal cuts

By David Jackson, USA TODAY

When presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev meet today for the first time, they will have an historic opportunity to confront the most urgent security threat to our world: the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the risk of nuclear terrorism. The two leaders can move beyond traditional arms control and, in a bold move, set the world on a course towards the total elimination of all nuclear weapons - global zero.

New York Times (AP Syndication), March 26, 2009

International Leaders Urge Obama to Back Nuke Ban

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The End Of Nuclear Weapons

PARADE Magazine, February 1, 2009

Queen Noor of Jordan, born and educated in the U.S., is one of the 100 political and civic leaders behind Global Zero, a new initiative to eliminate nuclear weapons. We asked what can be done.

Past efforts at nuclear disarmament have failed. What makes you think Global Zero can succeed?

World leaders try to ban nuclear weapons

International Herald Tribune (The Associated Press), Saturday, December 6, 2008

WASHINGTON: A new international group committed to eliminating nuclear weapons over the next 25 years has enlisted scores of world leaders as its campaign gets under way at a conference in Paris on Tuesday.