Why We Should Eliminate Nuclear Weapons: Gareth Evans
Lecture by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans at University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 4 October 2012.
View ArticleStanding on the threshold: banning nuclear weapons
On the 25th anniversary of the first real disarmament agreement of the Cold War, Rebecca Johnson looks back at how the 'people to people' and 'women to women' peace campaigns helped to reframe Europe...
View ArticleNuclear Disarmament: An Urgent Humanitarian Cause
Rebecca Johnson | The nuclear-free countries have to stop giving veto powers to their nuclear-armed neighbours.
View ArticleBringing Nuclear Disarmament Back on the Agenda
Sergei Duarte' | States have reached an impasse over disarmament issues. The standoff is particularly apparent at the Conference on Disarmament, which was meant to be the single multilateral forum for...
View ArticleAn open letter to President Obama: The time on the Doomsday Clock is five...
The Bulletin's Science and Security Board announces its 2013 decision to keep in place the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock: It will remain at five minutes to midnight. In this open letter to US...
View ArticleNuclear Disarmament: An Agenda Out of Play?
Ramesh Thakur | The state-of-play report documents pockets of progress in each of the four categories it addresses chapter by chapter (nuclear disarmament, nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear security,...
View ArticleAfter Oslo: A Ban on Nuclear Weapons?
A quiet revolution took place in Oslo earlier this month. More than 120 governments, UN agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross and civil society gathered to debate the problem of...
View ArticleIndia’s shameless abstention from the historic Arms Trade Treaty
In the 15th year of its nuclear tests, India has abstained from the just concluded UN Arms Trade Treaty, having become the largest importer of arms in the world last month. What happened to the...
View ArticleNuclear Disarmament NOW: Gensuikyo’s Letter to the Heads of Nuclear Weapon...
It will soon be the 68th summer since Hiroshima and Nagasaki were obliterated by two atomic bombs. With call of the survivors who witnessed the “nuclear hell” for “No more Hiroshimas, No more...
View ArticlePokharan: The End of Imagination [Arundhati Roy]
The nuclear bomb is the most anti-democratic, anti-national, anti-human, outright evil thing that man has ever made. If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's...
View ArticleInternational Appeal for Peace in India-Pakistan: Stop the Wardrums, Revoke...
Dear Friends, The war-drums between India and Pakistan have touched insane proportions with the Kashmir police, on the Indian side, issuing a citizens advisory on civil defence in the possible event of...
View ArticleCNDP Statement Against India’s Acquisition of Nuclear Submarine and Missile
We strongly condemn India's recent acquisition of a nuclear-propelled submarine close on the heels of the recent flight-test of another nuclear-capable missile. Brandishing these tools of mass...
View ArticlePMANE Statement on the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, August 29 2013
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) commemorates the International Day Against Nuclear Tests on August 29, 2013 by demanding the government of India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban...
View ArticleDelegitimizing Nuclear Weapons: The Role of Citizens and Hibakusha
"Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons" is a speech delivered November 4 in a plenary session of the fifth Nagasaki Global Citizens' Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in Japan. Nagasaki was the...
View ArticleTwo billion at risk from nuclear famine in South Asia: IPPNW’s new report
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...
View ArticleNuclear Famine: Two Billion People at Risk?
Executive Summary of the report on Global Impacts of Limited Nuclear War on Agriculture, Food Supplies, and Human Nutrition published by International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).
View ArticleThe world is meeting in Mexico to discuss nuclear ban. India must support.
Next week, around 130 governments, UN agencies and civil society organisations are gathering in Nayarit where the Mexican government is hosting a conference on the Humanitarian Consequence of Nuclear...
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Interview video: Setruko Thurlow, a Hibakusha calling for nuclear disarmament
Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow talks about the nuclear bombing and how she managed to survive, her life after the tragedy and her life's mission. The post Interview video: Setruko Thurlow, a...
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French Polynesia and other Pacific Island Nations Join the Marshall Islands...
The Marshall Islands submitted complaints at The International Court of Justice in The Hague in 2014 against the United States, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and China for flagrant violation of...
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Women and the ban the bomb movement: out to save the world!
Ray Acheson | This week at the United Nations in New York City, governments, international organizations and civil society groups are gathering to resume negotiations on a treaty banning nuclear...
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