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Global Zero leaders take our message to Obama and Medvedev

Prior to Presidents Obama’s and Medvedev’s historic first meeting in the spring, we gave them letters co-signed by more than 90 Global Zero leaders, urging them to commit to the elimination of nuclear weapons, beginning with reductions in their arsenals.  Then, on the day of the meeting, the London Times published an op-ed authored by six Global Zero leaders.

The Global Zero Action Plan

After months of work culminating in an intensive two-day meeting in Washington, the international Global Zero Commission of 23 political and military leaders released a plan for the phased, verified elimination of all nuclear weapons over the next 20 years and briefed senior Obama Administration officials prior to the Moscow Summit.  
To see the action plan click here

Governments take action

In April, Presidents Obama and Medvedev committed to achieving a nuclear free world. Several months later, at their Moscow Summit, they announced a framework agreement for new reductions to U.S. and Russian arsenals -- a critical step toward global zero. One week later, G8 leaders declared their support of the Obama-Medvedev effort and called on all countries to “undertake further steps in nuclear disarmament.”  At the G8 meeting, President Obama announced that he will convene a summit meeting on nuclear security in Washington, D.C. in March, 2010.

A Snowball of Positive Media Coverage

We’ve generated extensive worldwide media coverage -- over 1500 news stories in print and online outlets, and television appearances by Global Zero leaders on CNN International, PBS’s Charlie Rose, BBC TV, Al Jazeera, Australian Broadcasting Network, Canada Today, NHK Japan, Phoenix TV (Hong Kong), Xinhua News Agency, CNBC, MSNBC, Reuters and Russia Today, among others Click here for more:  

Global Zero Grassroots Action

Achieving global zero will require an unprecedented worldwide grassroots campaign.  Global Zero is involving citizens in innovative ways and providing the support they need to educate and organize their communities, workplaces and schools. 

We partnered with Avaaz.org at key global decision-making moments. When President Obama gave his historic speech in Prague and called on other nations to join him in working towards a nuclear-free world, Avaaz members in France sent 23,000 emails to President Sarkozy urging him to participate in multi-lateral negotiations for global zero.  This July, before the Obama/Medvedev Summit, over 100,000 people from every country in the world signed the Global Zero declaration in just three days.  This kind of growth can only be achieved if all of us take a minute to tell our friends and family about Global Zero. If you haven't done so, please use our simple tool to invite your friends and family to join our cause.

We are also providing a new generation with advocacy and media trainings from top practitioners and the opportunity to become Global Zero campus leaders. The leadership training enables outstanding young leaders to educate and organize others in their schools and build the foundation for a massive global grassroots campaign for zero.

To start a Global Zero chapter, organize or attend a Global Zero event in your city or town, or find out ways to be more involved with the campaign click here

Educating the Public

We know that achieving Global Zero will also require educating the global public about the nuclear threat and why eliminating nuclear weapons is the only answer. In the past six months, Global Zero leaders have spread the message to students in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, with more events planned worldwide in the next six months.

We have also developed a state of the art interactive online video. If you haven’t seen the Global Zero interactive flash maps, please click on the image below: