THE LAST BOMB - The project
"THE LAST BOMB: Pathways to Nuclear Zero" marks the convergence of two venerable organizations - the War&Peace Foundation and the World Federalists - in a new effort to use the web to help hasten nuclear disarmament and the achievement of a world without nuclear weapons.Banning the bomb has been a central goal of the members of both organizations. Albert Einstein - together with Oscar Hammerstein II , Alan Cranston, Peter Ustinov and other leading figures - was a founding member of the Word Federalists.
Sir Joseph Rotbalt - together with Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Alice Slater and others - was adviser to War&Peace, an organization founded by Selma Brackman and Arthur Brackman.
Both Einstein and Rotblat were among those who helped create the bomb and devoted much of the rest of their lives to trying to get rid of them.
Both World Federalists and War&Peace joined in creating the first World Opinion Forum project at the United Nations – a day-long conference on “World Opinion: The new superpower.”
The Last Bomb is the next World Opinion Forum project.
Most of the original members of War&Peace and World Federalists are no longer alive, but their efforts continue, newly empowered with yet another, and even greater force for change – the internet and its ever-growing global community of world citizens united in the ever-expanding social networks into a new, leaderless, self-selecting superpower and the beginnings of a truly planetary governance.
Increasingly, the resources and threats that matter disregard governments and borders....
Activists fight battles in cyberspace for every imaginable cause-and the nation-state gives in.
The ramifications of this power shift will be seismic.”
POWER SHIFT, Jessica T. Mathews, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
“Discussion of the political impact of social media has focused on the power of mass protests to topple governments.
In fact, social media's real potential lies in supporting civil society and the public sphere .
THE POLITICAL POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA By Clay Shirky
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To that end we propose a scholarship program in association with the TV and media studies center of the City University of New York (CUNY) which each year presents on Hiroshima Day (August 6th) an update TV Special on the status of nuclear disarmament. These programmes are part of The People vs The Bomb , a continuing series of TV reports produced with support from War&Peace and World Federalists.
The scholarships would bring to the United Nations each year young men and women from each of the nine countries that still have nuclear weapons to take part in a UN conference on using the web to ban the bomb by 2020. The conference will be presented worldwide live and later in video on Youtube. The presentations will be featured in the annual CUNY Hiroshima Day telecast which will also to be made available on Netflix. The young scholars will also be invited to take part in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review conferences at the UN in 2015 and 2020, and work with the CUNY TV department in covering the projects.
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If by 2020 nuclear weapons have still not been banned, then the scholarship winners will be invited re-unite at the UN and address the General Assembly and determine how and when how the project should proceed. Funding for such an ambitious, long-term project will require a professional and detailed presentation for universities with media and web projects , sympathetic governments, UN agencies and other funders who have supported nuclear disarmament
As a first step we will seek seed funding to prepare such a presentation.
In the meantime we are preparing a text-only LAST BOMB draft site of information and background from which the future project can be developed and launched.
Last Updated Saturday, July 02 2011 @ 06:26 PM EDT
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