NEW HAVEN — Matt Brown, who co-founded the anti-nuclear weapons group Global Zero, told students at the Global Zero Summit Saturday they need to remember the story of the emperor who had no clothes as they spread their message.

Speaking at the Yale Art Gallery auditorium, Brown said the worldwide stockpile of nuclear weapons is as senseless as that naked emperor.

(L-R) Jonathan Schell, Amb. Richard Burt, Dr. Hans Blix, Amb. Shayam Saran, Matt Brown, and Galit Gun address attendees at the Reaching Zero Student Summit at Yale 2012 (photo: cjzurcher)

But Shyam Saran, former foreign secretary of India, noted, “The unfortunate reality is that everybody is racing to be naked. … Those outside of the club always want to get in.”

The “club” is composed of those seven to nine nations believed to have nuclear weapons.

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This weekend, anti-nuclear weapon activists will congregate on campus to discuss how to make the atomic bomb a thing of the past.

The Global Zero Summit, called “Reaching Zero: Student Summit at Yale 2012,” will bring students, activists and experts from across the world to Yale for a two-day discussion about eliminating nuclear weapons. Harrison Monsky ’13 and Matt Shafer ’13 collaborated with Global Zero, an anti-nuclear weapon nonprofit advocacy organization, in organizing this weekend’s events. Global Zero co-founder Matt Brown LAW ’01 and Monsky said they hope to spread awareness and galvanize student movements in support of Global Zero’s mission through the summit.

“This is an issue that speaks to our generation, born right after the end of the Cold War,” Shafer said. “This is a truly international issue, a global movement.”

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