In recent months, the threat of proliferation and nuclear terrorism has led to a growing chorus of world leaders calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
Global Zero will support these leaders in this endeavor by combining high-level policy work with global public outreach to achieve a compre- hensive agreement to eliminate all nuclear weapons worldwide through phased and verified reductions. Global Zero is a new international initiative that will launch publicly in Paris, Moscow and Washington December 9-11.
Global Zero’s international team of policy experts has developed a draft step-by-step plan addressing the critical issues necessary to reach the end state of zero nuclear weapons, including de-alerting and deep cuts to U.S. and Russian arsenals; verification and enforcement systems; international management of the fuel cycle; and phased reductions of all arsenals to zero. Global Zero also supports the efforts of George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Bill Perry and Sam Nunn to reduce the nuclear danger.
Global Zero is committed to building broad-based and sustained public support for political leaders to pursue and achieve the vision of eliminating nuclear weapons—through worldwide media and online communications and grassroots organizing. Global Zero recently commissioned a poll of 21 countries that found overwhelming global public support for an international agreement to eliminate all nuclear weapons according to a timetable.
Global Zero is spearheaded by more than 100 political, military, business, faith and civic leaders from around the world and from across political lines. (See list below.) Beginning with its inaugural conference in Paris December 8-9, Global Zero will conduct a series of international events, including a World Summit for 500 leaders in January 2010.
Global Zero Signatories
Lloyd Axworthy Chuck Hagel Guangqian Peng Margaret Beckett Lee Hamilton Thomas Pickering Lawrence Bender David Hannay Vasantha Raghavan Sandy Berger Stanley Hoffmann Fidel Ramos Alexander Bessmertnykh Charles Horner Malcolm Rifkind Ela Bhatt Liming Hua Mary Robinson Robert Blackwill Douglas Hurd Michel Rocard Lakhdar Brahimi Wolfgang Ischinger Henrik Salander Richard Branson Igor Ivanov Yukio Satoh Zbigniew Brzezinski Max Kampelman Jack Sheehan Gro Harlem Brundtland Sergei Karaganov Jennifer Allen Simons Richard Burt Jehangir Karamat Jaswant Singh Richard Butler Yoriko Kawaguchi Jeffrey Skoll Fernando H. Cardoso Bob Kerrey K. Subrahmanyam Frank Carlucci Konstatin Kosachev Strobe Talbott Jimmy Carter Roland Lajoie Horst Teltschik Naresh Chandra Anthony Lake John Thornton Richard Cizik Mikhail Margelov Desmond Tutu Liru Cui Evgeny Maslin Shashindra Pal Tyagi Ivo Daalder Jack Matlock Ehsan ul-Haq Romeo Dallaire Robert McFarlane Evgeny Velikhov Jayantha Dhanapala Merrill McPeak Shirley Williams Michael Douglas Brajesh Mishra Jianmin Wu Lawrence Eagleburger Amr Moussa Xuetong Yan Rolf Ekéus Satish Nambiar Jiemian Yang Tetsuya Endo Queen Noor Muhammad Yunus Gareth Evans David Owen Philip Zelikow Mikhail Gorbachev Zhenqiang Pan Anthony Zinni