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GLOBAL ZERO: NOT YOUR GRANDMA’S ANTI-NUKE CAMPAIGN

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Derek Johnson Chief of Staff Global Zero.

We are all connected

Global Zero leaders meet ban Ki-moon

Twenty years after the end of Cold War, there are more than 17,000 nuclear weapons held by nine countries—at a staggering cost of $1 trillion per decade globally. Thousands are kept on hair-trigger alert, enough destructive power to wipe the human race off the face of the earth in thirty minutes or less.

Global Zero Summit in London

Global Zero Summit in Paris Student Leaders: US and Pakistan

Understand this: nuclear weapons will continue to spread. The fragile system of arms control that holds them in check will crumble. Arsenals and the bloated budgets that sustain them will swell, and scores of nations will develop the capability to kill millions in a flash. With each new nuclear country, the balance of global security will shift and the world will grow more dangerous. Terrorists will succeed in their decades-long quest to buy or steal the bomb. And the day will come when, whether by mistake, miscalculation, or madness, these weapons will be used. Unless we eliminate them. All of them.

We’re on a major roll with the recent passage of a European Union declaration endorsing Global Zero’s plan, the nomination of Global Zero founding member Chuck Hagel as U.S. Secretary of Defense, our student movement topping 150 campus chapters in twenty countries, and prominent and supportive media coverage of our agenda. With a head of steam behind us, we’re calling on President Obama to negotiate deep cuts in the U.S. and Russia arsenals (who between them hold 90% of the world’s nukes) and then bring the other nuclear powers to the table for historic treaty negotiations.

At Global Zero, the international movement for a world without nuclear weapons, that’s an inescapable truth that guides our work. We understand that nuclear weapons represent the greatest existential threat to humanity, and that the only way to eliminate that threat is to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, secure all nuclear materials and eliminate all nuclear weapons: “global zero.”

This isn’t your grandma’s anti-nuke campaign. We’re combining media outreach, cuttingedge online tools and actions, campus mobilization and grassroots initiatives, policy development, and direct dialogue with senior government officials worldwide. All of this culminates in Demand Zero Day—April 5, 2013—a massive, global grassroots day of action that will be impossible to ignore.

And we have a plan.

From heads of state to high school students, Global Zero is coordinating a sophisticated, 21st century international movement, fueled by the credibility of world leaders and the relentless creativity, passion, and optimism of the world’s first post-Cold War generation— to end the nuclear threat once and for all.

Over the last five years, we’ve built a nonpartisan, global community of 300 influential world leaders, matched by an unprecedented grassroots movement that’s a half million strong and spearheaded by student activists worldwide. We’ve produced the acclaimed documentary film, Countdown to Zero, laid out a step-by-step Global Zero Action Plan to eliminate nuclear weapons, which is backed by experts and leading newspapers worldwide. Political leaders around the world have endorsed Global Zero, with President Obama declaring, “Global Zero will always have a partner in me and my administration.” Queen Noor and Valerie Plame Wilson

straightforward. With the reelection of President Obama—a passionate supporter of Global Zero—this year could mark the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons. But world governments are facing a host of other pressing problems and need to hear strong, sustained, urgent support for Global Zero from the public, leaders, and the media.

The solution is clear and the process

The paradigm is shifting; the world is waking up. With your help, we can build a powerful and disruptive force for the future. Join us as we call on President Obama to set the world’s course to zero. Sign the petition, add your voice through photo or video, start a Global Zero chapter, host a film party, or financially support the campaign. Together, we can demand zero: because a world without nuclear weapons is a world worth fighting for. globalzero.org

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