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INF Treaty suspension: Prevent the deployment of new missiles
One day after the USA announced suspension of the INF Treaty, Russia has followed suit and announced the development of new missiles. US withdrawal from the INF Treaty by Donald Trump breaks with a proven arms control measure, and is thus exposing the world, and Europe in particular, to an… »
Ban treaty is a “significant forward step” toward elimination of nuclear weapons
The following joint statement has been released by International Physicias for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the World Medical Association, the International Council of Nurses, and the World Federation of Public Health Associations. The… »
A nuclear bomb on New York can kill 6 million people in one go. Time to sign the Ban Treaty
Last week I had the great pleasure to interview Beatrice Fihn from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and towards the end of that interview Beatrice said quite matter-of-factly that no one would ever consider building bridges to Nazism and create a consensus in which… »
John Loretz, IPPNW: Strengthening the message about the consequences of nuclear weapons
Pressenza is in York, in the north of England, to cover the Health through Peace conference organised by MedAct, the UK affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. IPPNW are also here in force to hold their world congress. Despite his intense schedule,… »
Nuclear weapons transferred from New York to Old York for medical treatment
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize winning organisation, gathered around 400 delegates from around the world today, 4th of September, in the old city of York in the United Kingdom, to consider strategy and the way forward in the light of the Earth-moving… »
Doctors tackle nuclear weapons as nations prepare to ban them
The launch this week of SIPRI’s annual nuclear forces data highlights the growing trend towards massive investment in nuclear weapons modernisation programmes by all 9 nuclear weapons States, despite a reported 3% reduction of 460 weapons in the year. The USA and… »
The nuclear bomb is a weapon of crime and mass destruction
by Roland Oldham, Moruroa e Tatou, Tahiti The nuclear bomb is a weapon of crime and mass destruction. We should all be well aware of the examples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the consequences still today have effects across generations. Like those in other places, nuclear tests in the… »
Time to go: ban nuclear weapons
This week several demonstrations have taken place in four NATO-member European countries where US nuclear weapons are deployed. The demonstrators demand that their governments get rid of them and call for them to be banned. ICAN activists have organised protests in Germany, Holland, Belgium and Italy under the slogan “Time… »
The United Nations votes to start negotiations to ban the bomb
One hundred and twenty-three nations voted to move forward with negotiations to prohibit nuclear weapons—just as the world has already done for biological and chemical weapons. In a historic vote on October 27 at the United Nations… »
93% of Germans rejects nuclear weapons
The overwhelming majority of Germans – a staggering 93 per cent – want nuclear weapons to be banned just as chemical and biological weapons have been banned, according to an opinion poll commissioned by the German chapter of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW),… »
Film: The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons
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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
