Tom Mludzinski, a Warwick University student and Research Assistant for BASIC, wants more momentum towards a nuclear weapon free world.
Obama’s slogan is simple and effective… Yes we can. It can be applied to anything and yet it rarely is. His brilliant and inspiring speeches succeed in breeding hope and inspiration, but what can the change be? Try putting this question in front of Obama’s beloved answer: Nuclear disarmament? … Yes we can.
The British American Security Information Council (BASIC) aim to see a nuclear weapon free world, although this sounds impossible and the inevitable first reaction is ‘it will never happen’ there are movements to suggest otherwise. Barack Obama and indeed David Cameron talk of real change, new agendas, making a difference, so why not. Nuclear disarmament? Yes we can.
January 4th 2007 saw a seismic shift in movement toward a nuclear weapon free world when a group of former Secretaries of State and Defense published an article in the Wall Street Journal calling for a world free of nuclear weapons. The politicians involved are not those you may expect. Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, Sam Nunn and William Perry, hardly representatives of the liberal-left wing of American politics, but nevertheless concerned about the threat nuclear weapons pose to the world. Twelve months later they produced a follow up highlighting the urgency of the need to disarm.
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