White House to Screen "Nuclear Tipping Point" tonight at the White House

[Clio the Leo]

Former secretaries of state and defense are attending a screening hosted by President Barack Obama on Tuesday evening of a film about nuclear dangers, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced.

Obama will host the screening of the film, “Nuclear Tipping Point,” in the company of former Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger as well as former Defense Secretary William Perry and former Sen. Sam Nunn, all of whom have roles in the film. Gen. Colin Powell, who also has a role, will be there, as will actor Michael Douglas, Gibbs said at his daily briefing.

Visit the film's website...
http://www.nucleartippingpoint.org/

Given the opening sequence on that site reads "What if terrorists got control of a nuclear weapon...." and then consider the fact that the President considers the film important enough for an official screening at the White House is enough to scrare the CRAP out of you.

Nuclear Tipping Point is a conversation with four men intimately involved in American diplomacy and national security over the last four decades. Former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry and former Senator Sam Nunn share the personal experiences that led them to write two Wall Street Journal op-eds, in support of a world free of nuclear weapons and the steps needed to get there. Their efforts have reframed the global debate on nuclear issues and, according to the New York Times, "sent waves through the global policy establishment."
"Nuclear weapons today present tremendous dangers, but also an historic opportunity. U.S. leadership will be required to take the world to the next stage — to a solid consensus for reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally as a vital contribution to preventing their proliferation into potentially dangerous hands, and ultimately ending them as a threat to the world." From The Wall Street Journal Op-ed by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn, January, 2007

The film is introduced by General Colin Powell, narrated by Michael Douglas and includes interviews with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Nuclear Tipping Point was written and directed by Ben Goddard and produced by the Nuclear Security Project in an effort to raise awareness about nuclear threats and to help build support for the urgent actions needed to reduce nuclear dangers. It was produced with support from NTI’s Nuclear Security Project in cooperation with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Anderson, Phineas Anderson and Stephen Stranahan.

http://www.nucleartippingpoint.org/film/about_the_film.html

Anyone still have any questions as to why we're in Pakistan? ;)