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Jordan's Queen Noor.
"The progress that we have seen over the past year with President Obama... has been very encouraging but we still have so far to go," said Queen Noor, the American-born last wife and widow of the late King Hussein of Jordan.
Global Zero presented a documentary called "Countdown to Zero" which aims to dispel the notion that the nuclear threat disappeared with the end of the Cold War.
Former American spy Valerie Plame, an ex-CIA agent who was specialized in nuclear proliferation, highlighted the lingering dangers of nuclear arms.
"The only way to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons terrorism is to lock down all nuclear material and eliminate all nuclear weapons in all countries: global zero," she said.
She called on world leaders attending a two-day nuclear security summit next week in Washington "to commit to a swift and decisive action to achieve this critical goal."
Global Zero, which is made up of former heads of state, military leaders and ministers, welcomed Thursday's signing of the new US-Russian treaty in Prague.
"We are going to work in the coming years to bring China, India, Pakistan, the European powers, Britain, France and Israel into the talks to reduce nuclear weapons," added former US ambassador Richard Burt.
"The world has changed. There was a reason for nuclear weapons in the Cold war. That world is gone."
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Global Zero presented a documentary called "Countdown to Zero" which aims to dispel the notion that the nuclear threat disappeared with the end of the Cold War.
Former American spy Valerie Plame, an ex-CIA agent who was specialized in nuclear proliferation, highlighted the lingering dangers of nuclear arms.
"The only way to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons terrorism is to lock down all nuclear material and eliminate all nuclear weapons in all countries: global zero," she said.
She called on world leaders attending a two-day nuclear security summit next week in Washington "to commit to a swift and decisive action to achieve this critical goal."
Global Zero, which is made up of former heads of state, military leaders and ministers, welcomed Thursday's signing of the new US-Russian treaty in Prague.
"We are going to work in the coming years to bring China, India, Pakistan, the European powers, Britain, France and Israel into the talks to reduce nuclear weapons," added former US ambassador Richard Burt.
"The world has changed. There was a reason for nuclear weapons in the Cold war. That world is gone."
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