Global Zero

Hey everyone! Welcome again to my blog for my radio show What Not to Talk about Over Dinner broadcast on KUCI Irvine, 88.9FM every Saturday 12-1pm and podcasted at http://talkradio889wnttod.podbean.com.

This Saturday, we will be discussing the Global Zero movement to urge nuclear countries to rid their nations of all nuclear weaponry. Since the end of World War II and Hiroshima built its peace memorial museum to the victims of the atom bomb, people around the globe have campaigned to wipe nuclear weapons from the planet.

After visiting the Hiroshima museum and memorial myself this past March, I feel deeply connected to the movement and compelled to perpetuate its mission as best I can. Nuclear weaponry should not be a worry for future generations. People should be able to live in peace and not with the fear that they could be evaporated in a moment.

Now, at UC Irvine and other campuses and in communities around the world, chapters of the Global Zero Movement have begun to crop up after a 2008 declaration was signed by 100 leaders to get the nuclear weapon count down to 0. The website includes Global Zero's mission statement, information on the world summit to be held in Paris January 30-February 4, how you can get involved and an interactive map of all the locations of the nuclear weapons in the world.

Francoise Genard and Nahian Taha, the founders of the Global Zero chapter at UC Irvine, went through a rigorous application and interview process to get their chapter as leaders of the movement want their first heads to be well-versed in the subject and evaluated for their teaching and organizing abilities so that the movement can spread with vigor and intelligibility. To email them on how you can get involved, email globalzero.uci@gmail.com.

I hope you take a look and see the movement for yourself!