Signatories

I am very much in favour of Global Zero because I am convinced it can work, not over night, but step by step. There is proof of that. On December 1987 U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev signed in Washington the INF – Treaty, abolishing all medium and short range nuclear systems (500 to 5500 km range) and banning their production. Germany, which had started to deploy such systems, got rid of them and I, who was at that time the Security Adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, took part in these successful negotiations.

Horst Teltschik is a German politician and business manager. He served as national security advisor to Chancellor Helmut Kohl and held a number of other important positions in the German government. From 1999 to 2008, he chaired the Munich Conference on Security Policy which hosts the premier global international security event bringing security professionals and decision-makers together. He is a former president of Boeing Germany and also served as chief executive officer of the Bertelsmann Foundation.