The Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons was initiated by the Prime Minister of Australia the Honourable Paul Keating in 1996. The Commission was convened in the Australian Federal Capital City of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. The Commission consisted of a number of notable persons including Professor Joseph Rotblat who was the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Peace, Michel Rocard who was the former Prime Minister of France, Robert McNamara who was the former United States Secretary of Defense and then President of the World Bank, General George Butler, the former Commander of the United States Strategic Air Command , Doctor Maj Britt Theorin who was the former President of the International Peace Bureau , Field Marshal the Lord Carver who was the former Chief of the British Defence Staff , Professor Robert O'Neill who is an eminent Australian strategic thinker and who was Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University and Jacques Cousteau the world renowned swashbuckling oceanographer and seafaring environmentalist activist adventurer. The Canberra Commission was to deliberate on issues of nuclear proliferation and how to eliminate the world of nuclear weapons. Minimal results were achieved as a result of the commission, however there is now less nuclear weapons in the world than what there used to be.