International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

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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Victor W. Sidel, MD, a former PSR president and IPPNW co-president and a contributor to the original studies on the medical consequences of nuclear war that were published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1962, was honored over the weekend at ...
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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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We the African affiliates of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW, Nobel p...
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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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IPPNW congratulates the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for being awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.
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The High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament, which took place this past Thursday at the UN General Assembly, was a trip to the woodshed for the nuclear-weapon States. The effort to reframe the discourse about nuclear weapons in terms of their abhorre...
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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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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry signed the international Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations (UN). The U.S. joins over 100 countries who have now signed this historic treaty less than four months since the treaty opened for signature on June 3rd...
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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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IPPNW Co-Presidents Ira Helfand, Robert Mtonga, and Tilman Ruff, along with former Co-President Sergey Kolesnikov and a number of affiliate leaders have signed a call for medical neutrality in Syria. "As doctors and health professionals we urgently dem...
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It is clear that an urgent, political, non violent agreement should be the most accepted solution. I suggest calling for an urgent meeting of the so-called quartet (UN, USA, Russia and the EU). The first issue will be the complete removal and eliminat...
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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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"Chemical weapons are banned because of their capacity to cause indiscriminate deaths in large numbers, extreme suffering and long-term disability. If the facts determine that chemical weapons have been used , then those who used them should ...
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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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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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On June 18, 2013, IPPNW Co-President Ira Helfand participated in an unprecedented debate about nuclear weapons in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. At an event organized by ICAN-Israel and the Israeli Disarmament Movement, Dr. Helfand presented the s...
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