OAKLAND, CA – As President Obama prepares his Nuclear Posture Review, pressure to water down his vision of American leadership to reduce the threat from nuclear weapons builds within his administration. 179 national, regional, and local organizations from across the country are responding with a letter to the president asking him to continue his leadership on nuclear weapons issues. The letter outlines how the Nuclear Posture Review can best achieve the vision the president laid out in his speech in Prague.
Arms Control Advocates, Faith Groups Applaud Obama’s Plan for Achieving a Nuclear Weapons Free World
Oakland, CA – In a major speech made from Prague today, President Obama placed a commitment by the US to achieve a “world without nuclear weapons” at the center of US nuclear policy, outlining the need for arms control agreements and a series of steps to address the threat posed by nuclear weapons.
Oakland, CA - Today, as President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev met for the first time, the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World applauded their embrace of arms control measures and pragmatic steps for nuclear arms reductions.
I wasn't clear if we decided to do a e-alert in response to Gates speech or if that was just highlighted as an opportunity. Martin if you want help with that let me know. I think it could like to the speech (and Ban Ki-Moon's), have a letter to the editor function as the action. Thoughts?
“Nuclear Weapons are the Elephant in the Room” -- is the headline for ads by The Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World, teamed up with the Peace Education Fund, which ran in Nevada and North Dakota newspapers on Monday, August 4. Click here to see the ad, which encourages readers (and you!) to “Tell our Presidential candidates to lead us away from the biggest threat facing the U.S. and the world.” The nearly-full-page ads appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Fargo Forum.
The Union of Concerned Scientists (a CNWFW coalition partner) stirred up a hornet's nest in August with billboards in airport concourses in Minneapolis and Denver urging Senators McCain and Obama to reduce nuclear dangers. Northwest Airlines, the official airline of the Republican National Convention, pressured Clear Channel Outdoors to take the Minneapolis airport billboard back down, saying the sign was “scary” and “anti-McCain." Less than a week later, Clear Channel also removed the Denver sign.
The Union of Concerned Scientists (a CNWFW coalition partner) stirred up a hornet's nest in August with billboards in airport concourses in Minneapolis and Denver urging Senators McCain and Obama to reduce nuclear dangers. Northwest Airlines, the official airline of the Republican National Convention, pressured Clear Channel Outdoors to take the Minneapolis airport billboard back down, saying the sign was “scary” and “anti-McCain." Less than a week later, Clear Channel also removed the Denver sign.
Joint Statement On The Presidential Debates
ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, the McCain and Obama campaigns released the following statement on the Presidential debates:
- Date: October 15
- Site: Hofstra University
- Topic: Domestic and Economic policy
- Moderator: Bob Schieffer
- Staging: Candidates will be seated at a table
- Answer Format: Same as First Presidential Debate
- Closing Statements: At the end of this debate (only) each candidate shall have the opportunity for a 90 second closing statement.
Joint Statement On The Presidential Debates
ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, the McCain and Obama campaigns released the following statement on the Presidential debates:
- Date: October 7
- Site: Belmont University
- Moderator: Tom Brokaw
- Staging: Town Hall debate
- Format: The moderator will call on members of the audience (and draw questions from the internet). Each candidate will have 2 minutes to respond to each question. Following those initial answers, the moderator will invite the candidates to respond to the previous answers, for a total of 1 minute, ensuring that both candidates receive an equal amount of time to comment. In the spirit of the Town Hall, all questions will come from the audience (or internet), and not the moderator.
Joint Statement On The Presidential Debates
ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, the McCain and Obama campaigns released the following statement on the Presidential debates:
- Date: September 26
- Site: University of Mississippi
- Topic: Foreign Policy & National Security
- Moderator: Jim Lehrer
- Staging: Podium debate
- Answer Format: The debate will be broken into nine, 9-minute segments. The moderator will introduce a topic and allow each candidate 2 minutes to comment. After these initial answers, the moderator will facilitate an open discussion of the topic for the remaining 5 minutes, ensuring that both candidates receive an equal amount of time to comment
Joint Statement On The Presidential Debates
ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, the McCain and Obama campaigns released the following statement on the Presidential debates:
- Date: October 2nd, 2008
- Site: Washington University (St. Louis)
- Moderator: Gwen Ifill
- Staging/Answer Format: To be resolved
- All four debates will begin at 9pm ET, and last for 90 minutes. Both campaigns also agreed to accept the CPD's participation rules for third-party candidate participation.
Susan Gordon
Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) In January 1995, Susan Gordon became the director of the one of the nation’s oldest and most effective networks of local and national grassroots anti-nuclear and environmental organizations. She is responsible for facilitating communications within the ANA network and for fundraising.
Nearly 60 years ago, Americans learned of the first case of nuclear proliferation. The Soviet Union, thought to be years away from acquiring its own atomic bomb, set off a successful test explosion in August 1959. The nuclear-weapons arms race had begun.
Last month's anniversary was a grim reminder of the threat we still face from the spread of nuclear weapons. Certainly, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 only emphasized the danger. More than one person mused the next day: What if they had had The Bomb?
Despite the pressures of campaign season, it will be important for John McCain and Barack Obama to stay united on one theme -- reducing and eventually eliminating the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons. Both have said they support that goal.
This is especially critical at a time of increased tension with Russia, upheaval in Pakistan and concerns about the nuclear aspirations of North Korea and Iran. While the Cold War is over, the world is perhaps a more dangerous place than ever, thanks to the profusion of states and nonstate actors who would like to acquire nuclear capabilities.