The Obama moment could slip away

    

"...I state clearly and with conviction, America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons."

U.S. President Barack Obama
April 9, 2009
Prague

 		 

With this stunning reversal of U.S. nuclear diplomacy, the nuclear weapons abolition movement was invigorated.

The United States moved from being the biggest obstacle to nuclear disarmament to a vigorous proponent.

Canada has an important history of active support for nuclear disarmament, even though there have been elements of ambivalence in Canadian disarmament policy.

 

But rather than boldly and publicly supporting the U.S. President, the Harper government has been silent

 

Project Ploughshares is calling on the Prime Minister and others at the highest level of government to

  • Publicly address nuclear disarmament and reaffirm Canada’s commitment to a world without nuclear weapons

Learn more about our program work on Nuclear Weapons

 

Recent Publications

From START to Zero: The Importance—and Limitations—of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty December 2010

More than Empty Promises at the NPT June 2010

Practical Steps to Zero Nuclear Weapons: Conference Report March 2010

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World Peace Day

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 3:40pm.
I state clearly and with conviction myself that the time has come that citizen everywhere have to www.voice-consensus.com for world peace. As I wrote my Congressman to support bill H.R. 808 Establishment of a Dept. of Peace, his respond was that he cannot support another Dept. with more bureaucracy. Why is everybody missing the point, why we need world peace. How can we get all peace loving people and peace orientated organizations to come together and create peace solidarity. If people and organizations offer their help to the United Nations through a petition world-wide and demand from their government in all countries peaceful ways and means, should this not bring a new optimistic outlook for the future and break the status quo divide and conquer philosophy? Nuclear disarmament must be set back into the center of interest, because we live on borrowed time if we think that governments will solve our problems. Sincerely Klaus Todte

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