by Mike Gray

From the same film maker who helped bring you An Inconvenient Truth, Lawrence Bender, comes a new “documentary” promoting the complete elimination of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth:

The international Global Zero movement launched in December 2008 includes more than 200 political, military, business, faith and civic leaders – and hundreds of thousands of citizens – working for the phased, verified elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide.

Global Zero members believe that the only way to eliminate the nuclear threat – including proliferation and nuclear terrorism – is to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, secure all nuclear materials and eliminate all nuclear weapons: global zero.

The international Global Zero Commission of 23 political and military leaders has developed a practical step-by-step plan – backed by hundreds of former heads-of-state, foreign ministers, national security advisers and military commanders – to achieve this goal over the next two decades.

The Global Zero Action Plan calls in its first phase for the U.S. and Russia to cut their arsenals to 1,000 total warheads each, all other countries with nuclear weapons to freeze their arsenals, and the international community to conduct an all-out global effort to block the spread of nuclear weapons. These steps would be followed by the first multilateral negotiations in history for stockpile reductions by all nuclear weapons countries.

“… secure all nuclear materials,” huh? And in whose hands would those materials be secure? The United Nations? And what is the U.N. but a collection of sovereign nations, the majority of whom hate the United States? It’s almost certain the current President would yield to international pressure to let the United Nations administer such a plan, the net result of which would likely be an even wider proliferation of nukes in the hands of people who can barely read a road sign, much less a weapons manual.

At Pajamas Media, Christian Toto offers background on Bender’s film:

Bender hopes Countdown to Zero won’t be cast aside as an ideological film.

“I believe the next step needs to occur in a bipartisan way,” he says of the move to reduce stockpiles of nuclear weapons. The film wraps with that message, one that conservative audiences will think requires rose-colored glasses to envision, and the film also lacks voices who support producing these kinds of weapons to keep rogue nations in check.