BASIC's Project on Getting
to Zero
Working Towards a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
Visions for a New Century
Event to launch a new public conversation
between opinion makers and policy leaders concerned with nuclear
disarmament
Brian Eno, rock musician and artist, invited an eclectic collection
of fellow musicians, artists, business people, senior politicians,
officials, philanthropists, actors and writers to his London
studio on the evening of February 1st to broaden support for
nuclear disarmament.
 Guests
included musician Peter Gabriel; philanthropist Vanessa Branson;
film maker Stephen Frears, and writer Armando Ianucci. Specially
invited US policymakers were Under-Secretary of State Ellen
Tauscher and former Senator Sam Nunn (currently Co-Chair and
CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative);
UK politicians included Rt. Hon. Des Browne, MP (former Defence
Secretary), Lord Howe, Baroness Shirley Williams and Sir Menzies
Campbell, MP.
 Comedian
Rory Bremner kicked off the evening with customary panache.
He was followed to the podium by Brian Eno, Ellen Tauscher,
Des Browne (convener of the Top
Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear
Disarmament and Non-proliferation), Ploughshares President
Joseph Cirincione, BASIC Executive Director Paul Ingram and
Baroness Williams (UK member of the International
Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament).
All came to contribute to and hear impassioned calls for people
across the social spectrum to get involved with the cause
of global nuclear disarmament at a moment of great promise.
A series of international opportunities are in the offing
for 2010, but the message was clear —our leaders would
be unable to follow through without clear public support.
 Brian
Eno, a board member of the British American Security Information
Council, collaborated with BASIC and the US Ploughshares
Fund to host the event.
More related coverage:
- UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office background
on the event.
- Phil Harvey of Coldplay
gives support to BASIC and nuclear disarmament, 9 February
2010.
- Brian
Eno on the Third Millenium - Brian Eno delivered his
"5x15" presentation on reasons behind his commitment to
nuclear disarmament and highlighted BASIC's work in advancing
the agenda in London and Washington, Tabernacle in Notting
Hill, London, 15 March 2010.
More on Getting
to Zero
Working Towards a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
BASIC's work is made possible by the generous support
of our donors: the Ploughshares
Fund, the Ford Foundation,
the Joseph Rowntree Charitable
Trust, Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation,
Marmot Trust, Allan and Nesta Ferguson Foundation, Network
for Social Change, the Nuclear
Education Trust, Rockefeller Family & Associates,
and individual contributors to BASIC. We are grateful to all
of them for their support.
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