Countdown to Zero

Forest Row community cinema
hosts national premiere

There are three ways to acquire a nuclear weapon: you can steal a bomb, you can buy a bomb, and you can build a bomb.

The Global Zero initiative aims to eliminate nuclear weapons, and the USA and Russia have committed to “a nuclear-free world.” As part of the grassroots support for such a move, Tuesday 21 June has been designated Demand Zero Day, and cinemas all over the country will be simultaneously screening the national premiere of the new documentary Countdown to Zero, which will also be shown in Forest Row Village Hall.

Following the screening there will be a live-streamed panel discussion consisting of anti-nuclear weapons activists, Global Zero movement leaders, Queen Noor, ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and producer Lawrence Bender, who will discuss the on-going urgency to eliminate worldwide nuclear weapons.

Countdown to Zero traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs: nine nations possessing nuclear weapons capabilities with others racing to join them, with the world held in a delicate balance that could be shattered by an act of terrorism, failed diplomacy, or a simple accident. Written and directed by British film-maker Lucy Walker, the film makes a compelling case for worldwide nuclear disarmament and features an array of important international statesmen, including Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair.

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