nuclear weapons

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and its US affiliate Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) today released a new report concluding that more than two billion people—a quarter of the world’s population—would ...
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The interim nuclear deal signed on Sunday is important for reasons that go beyond its specific terms. Everyone benefits from even this partial accomplishment. Successful diplomacy can be followed by more diplomacy, and the world has become a safer, som...
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The Council of Delegates of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement renewed its call for the elimination of nuclear weapons at the IFRC’s General Assembly this month in Sydney, Australia. The resolution, “Working towards the e...
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Nuclear weapons are an existential threat to humanity, and must never be used again, under any circumstances. We therefore welcome the recent shift in the international discourse about nuclear weapons towards the recognition by a number of States that ...
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A joint statement on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons was delivered by New Zealand today at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Expressing deep concern for the catastrophic consequences that any use of nuclear weapons would...
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There’s been a lively discussion on the ICAN campaigners list the past couple of days about the kinds of words we use when we’re talking about nuclear weapons policy. The term that started us off was “nuclear umbrella states” — countries such...
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Over many decades we have heard of substance abuse among soldiers in US forces responsible for nuclear weapons. Some similar information actually leaked from Russia in the nineties. Now we are learning of serious problems in the quality of the leaders ...
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IPPNW congratulates the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for being awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Civil society statement to the UN high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament Delivered by Joseph Gerson of the American Friends Service Committee on behalf of civil society 26 September 2013, New York I want to begin by invoking the words of Yamaguchi S...
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A treaty banning nuclear weapons is achievable. It can be initiated by states that do not possess nuclear weapons. Nuclear-armed states should not be allowed to prevent such negotiations. We should not abandon productive or promising efforts in other f...
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Given Japan’s already huge stockpile of nuclear weapons-usable material, the opening of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant appears both unnecessary and hazardous. Adding to an already large plutonium stockpile is not consistent with Japan’s stated sup...
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Hans M. Kristensen and Robert. S. Norris of the Federation of American Scientists have published the latest data on global nuclear weapons arsenals. Of the 17,200 nuclear weapons in the world, about 10,000 are in stockpile. Approximately 4,400 are acti...
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In these very dangerous circumstances, surely the safest course of action would be to have the international community agree on a treaty requiring the destruction of all existing stocks of nuclear weapons and a ban on their future production. Nuclear d...
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Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor of Climatology at Rutgers University and a consultant with IPPNW on the climate effects of nuclear weapons, has posted an informative blog for the American Geophysical Union on the lessons of volcanoes for both glob...
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Resorting to violence is a long-term, deeply-ingrained habit in human history, and is not easily discarded. To shake it probably requires less attention to a royal childbirth or the latest sex scandal and more attention to the dangers of mass violence ...
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IPPNW Co-president Ira Helfand explained the medical and humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons at a Hiroshima Day memorial gathering in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 6. Dr. Helfand asked the participants to sign a petition urging President ...
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We greet the morning of the 68th return of “that day.” At 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945, a sing...
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The Uttrakhand state in the Himalayas, in North India, had flash floods in June. Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)—took a medical relief team to the disaster-affected area on 7 July and stayed there for a week.
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IPPNW Co-President Tilman Ruff has written an important, very thoughtful essay on the links between nuclear weapons abolition and human rights for Right Now, an Australian not-for-profit media outlet. Referring to the three existential threats to life ...
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The first time Albert Schweitzer talked of his concerns about the use of nuclear bombs was in a letter to the "Daily Herald" in London, in 1954. The second was his acceptance speech for the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, “The Problem of Peace,” delivered ...
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