UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
Recommended IPPNW publications
Nuclear Famine 2022—New research findings on global nutrition impacts of nuclear war [PDF]
The Devastating Consequences of Nuclear Testing: Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing on Health and the Environment (2023) published by IPPNW Germany [PDF]
Proposed US/UK nuclear-powered submarines for Australia: jeopardising health
and fuelling an arms race. 2021. [PDF]
The health and humanitarian case for banning and eliminating nuclear weapons. 2016. [PDF]
Working paper to the UN conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. 2017. [PDF]
Nuclear famine: Two billion people at risk? 2013. [PDF]
Executive summary [PDF]
Spanish [PDF]
Spanish summary [PDF]
Banning nuclear weapons: The humanitarian facts (IPPNW campaigner’s kit) 2014.
Medicine and nuclear war: preventing proliferation and achieving abolition. 2007. [PDF]
Recommended multimedia presentations
The medical, environmental and humanitarian consequences of nuclear war. 2013. [YouTube]
“Can we prevent nuclear war?” TEDxVail talk by Dr. Ira Helfand. January 2016. [YouTube]
Video and audio
(IPPNW1 is our YouTube channel)
Catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. 28-minute video. 2012. (IPPNW1)
Co-president Ira Helfand at Oslo Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. 2013 (IPPNW1)
Nuclear weapons: catastrophic impacts on health. Sir Andy Haines. First International Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. Oslo, Norway, 2013.
Friends don’t let friends have nuclear weapons. Co-president Ira Helfand speaking at Nayarit Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. 2014. (IPPNW1)
Atomic bombing of a modern city. Dr. Masao Tomonaga speaking at Nayarit Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. 2014. (IPPNW1)
Co-president Tilman Ruff addresses UN Open-Ended Working Group. 2016. (IPPNW1)
Co-president Tilman Ruff addresses ban treaty conference at UN. 2017. (IPPNW1)
Dr. Ron McCoy on the abolition of nuclear weapons (IPPNW1)
Nuclear winter—still possible but preventable. IPPNW science adviser Alan Robock at TEDxHoboken
Powerpoint presentations
Nuclear Famine: The global climate effects of regional nuclear war (2013)
Other recommended resources
The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons — 56-minute documentary film (Pressenza International Press Agency) about efforts to bring a nuclear weapon ban treaty into international law; features IPPNW leaders and other ICAN campaigners.
The humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons (HINW); key documents from all three HINW conferences, and a large number of civil society resources.
Catastrophic humanitarian harm. ICAN. August 2012. [PDF]
Filling the gap—report on the Third Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. Reaching Critical Will. 2014. [PDF]
One day in Hiroshima – An oral history. 2007. [PDF]
French [PDF]
Moruroa: The bomb and us. (English translation) 2017. [PDF]
Moruroa: La bombe et nous. Original booklet, in French, about the impact of French nuclear testing on South Pacific island populations. 2011. [PDF]
Archived resources
(Studies, reports, other print resources from 1962-2016)
For more information about IPPNW’s nuclear abolition programs, contact Chuck Johnson.