“The Fierce Urgency of Nuclear Zero: Changing the Discourse.”

The symposium, hosted by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), brought nuclear disarmament academics and activists together for an intimate brainstorming session designed to elicit new and innovative thinking on how to arrive at nuclear zero. NAPF President David Krieger called to “achieve a breakthrough in thinking and discourse on the path to zero nuclear weapons.…The state of the world with its existential nuclear threats, however, is calling out for setting high goals and aiming to achieve them with a sense of urgency.”

SGI President Ikeda sent a message noting “(the challenge of nuclear weapons abolition) is a struggle to counter the core pathology of contemporary civilization—the all-too-casual disregard for life, its value and sanctity. The struggle for nuclear abolition is an effort to redirect the world toward an authentically human orientation."