The People 'vs' The Bomb

In this video, Ken appears in a promo for the Hiroshima Day report alongside US Presidential Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, together with Michal Gorbachev, Christie Brinkley and Ted Turner amongst others.



This report by UN World Opinion Forum correspondent, Kevin Sanders updates and expands an earlier program on the failure of the last Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference at the UN in 2005, when the Bush Administration blocked discussion of earlier agreements on nuclear disarmament. The next NPT Review will not be until 2010.Then-Secretary-General of the UN Kofi Annan called the failure "a real disgrace."


Others appearing in the program include former UN nuclear weapons inspector Hans Blix, Michail Gorbachev, former US Defense Secretary Robert McNamarra, former Kennedy advisor Ted Sorensen, the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, anti-nuclear activist Dr Helen Caldicott, World Court Justice Weeramantry, former Canadian Disarmament Minister Senator Douglas Roach, Gareth Evans co-chair of Australia's International Commission on Disarmament and the late Nobel Peace Laureate Joseph Rotbalt - who worked on the Manhattan Project that build the bomb - together with citizens, youth groups and peace organizations from around the world.

In addition to highlights of UN presentations, "The People v The Bomb" also features scenes from the mass anti-nuclear rally in Central Park, and excerpts from the historic hearings on the legality of nuclear weapons at the World Court in The Hague, together with updates on developments worldwide as governments, groups and citizens press for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

The program concludes with statements by the two major party presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain on issues of nuclear proliferation, nuclear testing, disarmament and the abolition of nuclear weapons.