Nuclear abolition news

At the opening of the two-day ICAN campaigners meeting preceding the government conference, we learned from the Foreign Ministry that 146 States have now registered—16 more than registered for the first such conference in Oslo last year. This is not ...
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NHK-TV in Japan aired a profile of Dr. Masao Tomonaga, IPPNW's Regional Vice President for North Asia and Director of the Japanese Red Cross Hospital in Nagasaki. Dr. Tomonaga will join the Japanese delegation to the Second International Conference on ...
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A new "consensus statement" from the conservative Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) warns the nuclear-armed states that this new focus on humanitarian impact—in other words, what nuclear weapons actually do when used, regardless o...
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Instead of continuing to bury their heads in the sand, the nuclear-weapon states should rather join the ongoing process to find a real path to a safer world without nuclear weapons. In his five years as US President, Barack Obama has repeatedly made s...
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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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You might have known that South Africa built nuclear weapons and then destroyed them again in the early 90s. But did you know that Sweden tried to get nuclear weapons? Or Switzerland? Countries that have had a nuclear weapons programme and have then ch...
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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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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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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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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 B-61 role is being changed. All these (NATO) bombs in US possession will be upgraded and modernized. Under the Nuclear Stewardship program they will be extensively overhauled. Moreover, they will be equipped with a tail fin and a steering system, m...
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We in SLMK, the Swedish affiliate of IPPNW, have worked hard over a long time to resurrect the failing dedication to nuclear disarmament in the Swedish Foreign Office. We tried repeatedly to get the MFA to sign on to the South African paper at the NPT ...
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ICAN—the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons—has started a global petition drive calling for the commencement of negotiations on a treaty banning nuclear weapons.
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When some 50 protesters gathered outside the Japanese Mission to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva yesterday, questioning that country's refusal to sign onto a joint statement on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons submitted to the N...
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The number of countries demanding the elimination of nuclear weapons as a humanitarian imperative grew to 74 today, when South Africa read a joint statement on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons on behalf of that many delegations to the 2013 No...
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I did something new last week. I started a petition on change.org for ICAN. Now I have signed many online petitions in my time and I have written quite a few too. But I have never used a large online petitioning platform before. The title of the petiti...
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So get this: I’m sitting in an enormously successful conference in Oslo where one after another states are calling for a ban on nuclear weapons. I’m twittering (or tweeting – both words are equally silly) to the world when up jump 140 characters ...
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The campaign to build support for a nuclear weapons convention took a big step forward at the UN Monday when a group of 34 nations and the Holy See released a joint statement calling for nuclear abolition.
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