Signatories

I am committed to a nuclear weapons-free world not only for moral reasons, which are well known, but for strategic reasons. The world will be free of weapons of mass destruction only when the people of the world feel secure and are at peace with themselves. In working towards "Global Zero," we will indeed be working towards a more peaceful and secure world. 

Air Chief Marshal (ret.) Shashindra Pal Tyagi is a retired Indian military officer who served as the Chief Staff of the Indian Air Force. Tyagi was commissioned as a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force in 1963. He held many important staff appointments in the Indian military, including Director of Air Defence, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence), Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operations) at Air Headquarters, and Senior Air Staff Officer, HQ Central Air Command.  He is one of the few officers to command three separate Air Commands in the Indian Air Force: the Central, South Western, and Western Air Commands. In 2004, he became Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force, a post he held until 2007.