so i'm reverend moore i'm executive director of the coalition for by a political action committee known as peace pact by next tuesday night roughly twenty five percent of the voting american public will have had a chance to support or turn down the notion of a nuclear free either where there will be little immediate practical effect it was a scary time president reagan had just been elected he was talking about nuclear warning shots and fighting and winning a nuclear war in the in his cabinet members you know somebody who had said focus of evil in the modern world so it was really a time of a lot of the year in foreboding and it was tough for some years but we got engaged and involved tens of thousands of citizens average citizens and saying that this was immoral and didn't make sense and it was dangerous but the really the main ingredient was to have average people say that they weren't bytes of the military to attack you because it might have led to a nuclear war we came very very close and then the vietnam war of course was emerging as i was in high school i was very hawkish on that and realizing vietnam was all about deception and trying to protect access to oil and it really wasn't about freedom and it was it took six or eight years really of intensive anti war movement organizing and i became involved in that organizing so that was the attitude that i had as i enrolled in college but my first semester chemical was recruiting on campus del including people from fulfilling their god given potential and from having their basic needs even met and so my analysis just kept getting deeper and deeper and i ended up with this posture which i think is very much was partly at least inspired by dr king of of nonviolence as a as an approach to life of peace making positive peacemaking and trying to build that beloved community to replace this system of first ten years almost that i was when they ran it with all volunteers many of them were from the faith community and so they were really rooted in a value system that's not just catholic or protestant or jewish but now it's so the people who persisted you know by nine hundred eighty seven we had the first nuclear reduction treaty in history and i feel very sure that that would not have happened if it wasn't for every citizen here and around the medium range nuclear weapons verifiably destroyed them and so i think that's a credit to the persistence the peace movement so we still face this and we've got to get it down not only t zero got started recently with some very prominent former cold warriors george shultz former secretary of state henry kissinger so these were prominent republican secretaries of state who were very hawkish along with sam nunn who was a very hawkish democratic chairman of the armed services committee and bill perry as secretary of defense and of bill clinton so these four wrote articles in the wall street journal starting in january of two thousand and nine and repeated again the next year saying that you know it's inevitable that these weapons are going to eliminate them for everyone i mean it really gives it a lot of credibility when former cold warriors say that kind of thing is so global zero  we've been very much a part of it and it has a plan that's developed by experts from around the world which shows when four stages nuclear weapons could be eliminated over twenty years that we could get there it will take a huge effort by people here and around the world but it is possible and that's part of the montreaux that i think i've tried to live by is to not just go in with the senate and the people who say can't be done but to say peace is possible