Biography

We were told it's going to be a cakewalk and oil will pay for it and we'll be greeted as liberators. I think the Iraq war will be seen by history as one of the greatest follies ever perpetrated by U.S. foreign policy.

Without doubt, terrorist groups are trying a buy, build or steal a bomb. Furthermore, there is enough highly-enriched uranium (HEU) in the world to build more than 100,000 weapons, and rogue individuals are selling technology on the black market. If terrorists get a hold of HEU, they could not be prevented from smuggling it into a targeted city, building a bomb and exploding it.

To my mind, the only realistic solution to this danger is to lock down all nuclear materials and eliminate all nuclear weapons in all countries: Global Zero. I am now dedicated to achieving this goal as a leader of the Global Zero movement. This movement was launched in December 2008 in Paris by an international group of 100 current and former heads-of-state, national security officials, military commanders and business, civic and faith leaders -- and in just two years has grown to 300 leaders and 400,000 citizens worldwide.

The group believes that whatever deterrent value nuclear weapons had in the Cold War is now outweighed by the dangers of proliferation and nuclear terrorism. Our international Global Zero Commission had developed a practical, step-by-step plan to eliminate all nuclear weapons through a phased and verified reductions. To build on the progress made to date, we need a worldwide public movement to make Global Zero an urgent global imperative -- and to bring all nuclear weapons countries to the table to negotiate multilateral nuclear arms reductions for the first time in history.