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- “I will not be discouraged”by IPPNW on March 10, 2025 at 4:56 pm
By Lars Pohlmeier, IPPNW Germany Chairperson and IPPNW Delegate to the 3rd Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW Now it is time for my personal impressions. I attended my first UN conference in 2000, as a participant in the NPT delegation. It was the first Review Conference after the unlimited extension of the Nuclear
- “Nuclear deterrence can never be a responsible or sustainable security strategy”by IPPNW on March 10, 2025 at 4:31 pm
The following statement was delivered by Julianne Hauschulz of IPPNW Germany and Jean-Marie Collin of ICAN France, on behalf of ICAN Europe Partners, to the third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). United Nations Headquarters, NYC | 7 March 2025. Our organisations, European partners organizations of the
- Our prescription for survivalby IPPNW on March 5, 2025 at 9:57 pm
The following statement was delivered by Walusungu Mtonga and Stella Ziegler, IPPNW’s International Student Representatives, to the General Debate of the third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). United Nations Headquarters, NYC | 5 March 2025. Distinguished delegates, esteemed colleagues, and honored guests, We stand before you
- Two different American approaches to the worldby Lawrence Wittner on February 10, 2025 at 4:35 pm
The recent whirlwind of Trump administration foreign policy measures―many reversing those of the Biden administration―illustrates the fact that Americans have sharply different opinions about their relationship to other nations. The Trump approach―which he has labeled “America First”―is clear enough. He has blocked US humanitarian assistance abroad by shutting down the US Agency for International Development, twice pulled the United
- We helped people grasp what a nuclear war would really be likeby IPPNW on January 31, 2025 at 5:32 pm
[On January 28, Dr. Eric Chivian, one of IPPNW’s founders in the 1960s, spoke at Harvard University’s Countway Library at an event entitled “Prescriptions for Peace: Physician Activism in the Nuclear Age, 1961-1985.” The event accompanied the launch of the Center for the History of Medicine’s “Prescriptions for Peace” exhibition on physician anti-nuclear activism, 1961-1985. The
Earlier this month, IPPNW, ICAN, and Pugwash hosted a webinar, “Autonomous Armageddon: Nuclear Weapons and AI“, to explore the alarming dangers posed by the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into nuclear weapons systems.
The expert panel discussed the general and specific risks AI presents to nuclear command and control systems, the catastrophic humanitarian and environmental consequences of nuclear war, and ongoing initiatives to mitigate these threats.
On October 11, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that it was awarding the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots group of Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again,” sending a message to countries that are considering acquiring or threatening to use them.
This recognition is significant and appropriate as we approach the 80th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Hibakusha have worked for decades to bear witness to the horrors of nuclear war and are central to our common goal of banning and eliminating nuclear weapons.
In March 2023, IPPNW established a new office in Geneva, the “Peace Capital” of the world. In just a year, IPPNW’s presence in the center for medicine and world peace is facilitating our ability to better coordinate with the like-minded organizations. Major highlights include meeting with WHO Director General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, to discuss the renewal of the WHO’s 1987 study, “Effects of Nuclear War on Health and Health Services”; coordinating more than 150 medical journals, including the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, to call for urgent steps to decrease the growing danger of nuclear war; participating in Norwegian People’s Aid and the ICRC’s NukeEXPO in Brussels and Oslo; and much more.