
We stand at the brink of a new nuclear age, with 26,000 nuclear weapons - thousands of which remain on "hair trigger" alert, ready for launch within minutes - threatening global security and human survival.
Unless we get rid of all nuclear weapons they will be used again - intentionally or by accident - and the effect will be catastrophic.
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WHAT THEY SAID IN 2007 - see our latest video here.
outlining the state of nuclear weapons today and celebrating the achievements of the peace and anti-nuclear movement.
"A nuclear disaster will not hit at the speed of a glacier melting. It will hit with a blast. It will not hit with the speed of the atmosphere warming but of a city burning. Clearly, the attention focused on nuclear weapons should be as prominent as that of global climate change."
- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in prepared remarks to the Hoover Institution's "Reykjavik II" conference, 26 Oct 2007.