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"The end of the Cold War has offered the most promising opportunity since the advent of nuclear arms in 1945 to free the world from nuclear danger. Instead we witness the spread of nuclear weapon technology and a deepening crisis of the nuclear arms control regime fashioned by both Republican and Democratic presidents.
To take advantage of the new opportunity and avert the new perils, we call upon the United States government to commit itself unequivocally to negotiate the worldwide reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons, in a series of well-defined stages accompanied by increasing verification and control. As immediate steps along that path, we urge the global de-alerting of nuclear weapons and deep reduction of nuclear stockpiles."
Maya Angelou, Poet, Author
Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel Laureate, Economics
Marc Benioff, Chairman, Salesforce.com
Hans Bethe, Nobel Peace Laureate; Physicist, Manhattan Project
Eli Broad, Chairman and CEO, Sun America, Inc.
Pierce Brosnan, Actor, Producer
Betty Bumpers, Founder and President, Peace Links
President Jimmy Carter
Liz Claiborne, Co-Founder, Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Joe Costello, Chairman & CEO, think3
Senator Alan Cranston, President, Global Security Institute
Walter Cronkite
James Crowe, CEO, Level 3 Communications, Inc.
Admiral William J. Crowe Jr., U.S.N. (Ret.), Director, BioPort Corp.; Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Lester Crown, Chairman, Executive Committee, General Dynamics Corporation
Rob DeSantis, Co-Founder, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Ariba, Inc.
Alan M. Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Michael Douglas, Actor, Producer, UN Messenger of Peace
Richard Dreyfuss, Actor
Peter Drucker, Writer; Professor of Social Science and Management, Claremont Graduate School
Gloria Duffy, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Freeman J. Dyson, Professor Emeritus Mathematical Physics and Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study
Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children’s Defense Fund
Mia Farrow, Mother, Actress
Joe Firmage, CEO, Project Voyager; Former CEO, US Web
Harrison Ford, Actor
Seth Glickenhaus, Sr. Partner, Glickenhaus & Co.
General Andrew Goodpaster, U.S.A. (Ret.), Former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Robert Haas, Chairman of the Board, Levi-Strauss & Co.
William Hambrecht, Chairman and CEO, W.R. Hambrecht & Co.
David Hamburg, President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman and CEO, Hasbro, Inc.
Francis Hatch
Peter deCourcy Hero, President, Community Foundation Silicon Valley
Father Theodore Hesburgh, Former President, University of Notre Dame
Arnold Hiatt, Former CEO, Stride Rite
Dee Hock, Founder and CEO Emeritus, VISA
General Charles Horner, U.S.A.F. (Ret.), Commander, Coalition Air Forces, Desert Storm; Former Commander in Chief, USSPACECOM
Bill Joy, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems
Jerry Kaplan, Co-Chair, Egghead.com
Henry Kaufman, President, Henry Kaufman Company
Coretta Scott King, Founding President, Martin Luther King Jr. Center
Michael King, Former CEO, King World
Steven Kirsch, Founder, Infoseek; Chairman and Founder, Propel
Ann Landers, Columnist
Gary and Laura Lauder, General Partners, Lauder Partners
William Laughlin, Former Chair, Saga Corporation
Elisabeth Leach, Chairman, Peace Links
Ambassador James Leonard, Director, Washington Council on Nonproliferation; Former Assistant Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Kathy Levinson, Former President and COO, E*Trade
Robert McNamara, Former Secretary of Defense
Mike Medavoy, Chairman, Phoenix Pictures
Harry Motro, Chairman, CEO and Founder, Motroventures.com
Ambassador Paul Nitze
Admiral William A. Owens, U.S.N. (Ret.), Co-CEO, Teledesic; Former Vice-Chair, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Kim Polese, Chairman, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, Marimba, Inc.
Sally Ride, Astronaut; President, Space.com
Anita Roddick, Chairman, The Body Shop
Tom Rubin, President, Focus Media, Inc.
George F. Russell Jr., Chairman of the Board, Frank Russell Company
Vincent Ryan, CEO, Schooner Capital Corporation
Robert Saldich, Former CEO, Raychem
Marion Sandler, Chairman and CEO, World Savings and Loan Association
Jared Schutz Polis, President, JPS International
Sarah Sewall, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Martin Sheen, Actor
Jeffrey Skoll, Vice President, eBay
George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management
John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO
Admiral Stansfield Turner, U.S.N. (Ret.), Former Director of Central Intelligence; Former Commander in Chief, Allied Southern Forces, Europe
Ted Turner
Paul Volcker, Former Chair, Federal Reserve Board
Frederick A. Wang, Former President and COO, Wang Laboratories, Inc.
Steve Westly, Senior International Vice President, eBay
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Laureate, Author
Herb York, Senior U.S. Arms Control Advisor; Former Director, Livermore Laboratory
Alejandro Zaffaroni, Founder and Director, Alza Corporation
George Zimmer, CEO, Men’s Wearhouse
*Affiliations provided for identification purposes only
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The Appeal for Responsible Security is a simple, two-paragraph statement calling for immediate de-alert and deep reductions of U.S. nuclear weapon stockpiles, leading to their complete elimination. The individuals and organizations that sign the Appeal will be known as "Americans for Responsible Security."
How di the Appeal get started?
The Appeal began as a cooperative effort of prominent U.S. nuclear policy experts and national advocacy organizations, including Senator Alan Cranston of the Global Security Institute, Jonathan Schell of the Nation Institute, the Fourth Freedom Forum, Peace Action, Peace Links, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Women’s Action for New Directions Education Fund.
What is the purpose of the Appeal?
Nuclear disarmament advocates use the Appeal to enlist the support of hundreds of politically influential and well-known Americans, national and local civil society organizations and professional associations for the cause of eliminating nuclear weapons. These include religious, military, labor, business and political leaders, celebrities, academics, athletes and professionals, and the many diverse organizations that represent their interests. The Appeal can also be presented in the form of a resolution to state assemblies and city councils. The Appeal is a public awareness tool, alerting mainstream America to the dangers of nuclear weapons and generating the political support needed at the elite and grassroots levels of our society to achieve their reduction and abolition.
What can you do?
Ask all the organizations to which you belong, including non-profit and community organizations, societies, clubs, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, unions, businesses, and professional associations to sign the Appeal and to stay involved. Contact the Global Security Institute to let us know you want to work on the Appeal, and inform us of new signatories for our nationwide tally and national media releases. Contact us by emailing appeal@gsinstitute.org.
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