International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

The world stands at a turning point in regard to nuclear proliferation and nuclear disarmament.

Participate in a Japanese newspaper's survey about nuclear weapons.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced plans for an International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, to be co-chaired by former Foreign Minister Gareth Evans.

ICAN welcomes this move, following on from the 1995 Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

POINT OF VIEW/ Jayantha Dhanapala:

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

The vision of a nuclear weapon-free world was most famously dismissed by the former Prime Minister of Britain, Margaret Thatcher, as a "pie in the sky." Such was the derision which greeted the disarmament scenario championed by governments, especially from the Non-aligned Movement, as well as nongovernmental organizations such as Pugwash.

It is therefore a revolutionary change to see senior officials in former U.S. Administrations combine to write - not one but two - pieces in the conservative Wall Street Journal, calling for such pie in the sky.