When I teamed up with Ploughshares Fund’s Mother’s Day for Peace campaign last year, I learned that the holiday traces its roots to a mother’s plea for peace in the wake of the American Civil War. This meaning couldn’t be more important to bring back today, at this moment.

We have an historic opportunity to help solve one of the most urgent global issues — reducing the nuclear threat and eliminating nuclear weapons down to zero.

It’s time to take a stand and spread the word…and it can be fun, too!

Join me in pledging to see the film Countdown to Zero, a compelling new documentary about the need to reduce the nuclear threat. It premiered at Sundance to great acclaim, so I can’t wait to see it when it opens this summer.

You can watch a trailer of Countdown to Zero on this website.

Thank you for joining me in reclaiming Mother’s Day for peace, pledging to see Countdown to Zero, and taking part in this powerful, revived effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Happy Mother’s Day for Peace! Lisa Kudrow