What Obama's inauguration teaches us
January 14th, 2009 by adminWhen I tell people that I'm the Coordinator of the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World, their response is often something along the lines of: “Good luck with that.” But we should be careful about what we rule out, and be ready to expand our horizons.
Late in 2007, during a presentation he was giving at the Brookings Institute, I heard Barry Blechman say, “What is feasible is what people say is feasible.” In 2008, the American voters declared that it is feasible for a black citizen to become the President of the United States. In this lifetime. Let's expand our horizons further to declare that a nuclear weapons free world is not only feasible, but necessary.