Global Zero is goal of Group seeking nuclear weapons ban

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Global Zero is goal of Group seeking nuclear weapons ban by Amitjha

"Nuclear weapon free world" seems to be an utopian goal.Some 100 eminent personalities from across the world trying to make a pitch to make this world nuclear weapon free.The Global Zero goal is good effort indeed, particularly becaues a new nuclear weaponisation wave is going on in developing nation.

In todays world , nuclear weapon lost its strategic detterance value, new tecnilogies ang warfare is making it totally wasteful expenditure. 


A group of international dignitaries have launched a new campaign in Paris to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Global Zero consists of 100 leading figures seeking practical steps towards nuclear abolition and gaining public support for that goal.

They say the risk of nuclear weapons spreading to unstable countries or getting into the hands of extremist groups is too great.

The group will hold meetings in Moscow and Washington in the coming days.

In the past, talk of nuclear disarmament was confined to the margins of political debate, but now a chorus of national security officials past and present have joined calls for multi-lateral disarmament.

In the US, the debate was kick-started by a joint call for "getting to zero" from a group of veterans of the Cold War, including Henry Kissinger and George Schultz.

Global Zero's aim is to translate this stance to the international arena and into public debate.

Signatories for Global Zero include former US President Jimmy Carter, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, former Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, businessman Sir Richard Branson, Ehsan Ul-Haq, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Pakistan, and Brajesh Mishra, former Indian National Security Advisor.

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