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Former U. S. officials Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Bill Perry, and Sam Nunn ( aka ' The Gang of Four ' on Nuclear Deterrence ).

" proposed in January 2007 that the United States rededicate itself to the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons, concluding: " We endorse setting the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons and working energetically on the actions required to achieve that goal.

" Arguing a year later that " with nuclear weapons more widely available, deterrence is decreasingly effective and increasingly hazardous ," the authors concluded that although " it is tempting and easy to say we can't get there from here,.

we must chart a course ” toward that goal.

" During his Presidential campaign, U. S. President Elect Barack Obama pledged to " set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons, and pursue it.