About Us
People should be free. Free to dream for our children. Free to love our planet. Free to build a future more beautiful than today.
In short, people should be free to live. But as long as nuclear weapons remain in the world, all of our hopes for the future can be taken away in a blink of an eye.
After all, the threat of nuclear destruction never went away. It lingers, long after the end of the Cold War.
Even today, the United States and Russia maintain thousands of nuclear bombs, and refuse to ban the testing and production of new ones. Seven other countries have from a handful to a few hundred nuclear bombs. Meanwhile, more and more countries push their way past the velvet rope to get into the nuclear club -- ratcheting up the chances that a bomb will be sold, stolen or used.
It’s time to be free.
So in 2007, 46 organizations joined forces to create the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World to promote practical steps today to free the world from nuclear weapons tomorrow. There are now more than 100 organizations that have joined this coalition. We call on Congress and President Obama to make a world free of nuclear weapons an urgent priority, and to demonstrate U.S. leadership by taking steps to realize this goal.
It's amazing what we accomplish when we work together. That's why we bring together the best advocates and organizations working on nuclear weapons issues to plan and collaborate on national campaigns. We also provide our grassroots partners with the information and support that helps shape the public debate through the media and to influence key decision makers. And to grow our strength, we reach out to organizations all over the country to offer them a way to get involved.
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