Nuclear Disarmament

Time to Ban Nuclear Testing

During his campaign, now-President Obama promised to "build bipartisan consensus behind ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty."

Since the United States failed to ratify the treaty ten years ago, technical advances and a changing political climate have increased the chances that this country will embrace making the world safer by banning nuclear test explosions.

You can help by distributing this flyer (PDF), organizing in your community, and getting the attention of your elected officials through letters to the editor and op-eds in your local newspaper.

Obama Seeks a World Without Nukes

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"Today, I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons."
~ President Barack Obama, Prague, April 5, 2009

Barack Obama has became the first U.S. president in history to declare the U.S. commitment to seek peace and security in "a world without nuclear weapons."

Find Out More

• Read or watch the president's speech.
• What does FCNL want the new administration to do to advance nuclear disarmament? Last summer, we compiled our wish list.
• Read a Wall Street Journal op-ed from George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn urging a "global effort to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons, to prevent their spread into potentially dangerous hands, and ultimately to end them as a threat to the world."