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Webinar Presentation by VFP Nuclear Abolition Working Group: Warheads to Windmills

Thursday, February 29th (Leap Year Day) 7pm EST, 6 pm CST, 5 pm MST, 4 pm PST Veterans for Peace presents: “Warheads to Windmills: addressing the threats of climate and nuclear weapons before it’s too late” REGISTER Join Dr. Ivana…

How to move from a legal prohibition, that of the TPNW, to an effective, total and irreversible elimination of nuclear weapons

How to move from a legal prohibition, that of the TPNW, to an effective, total, and irreversible elimination of nuclear weapons (1) [Achieving] this from the progress emerged in the 2nd Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (Treaty on…

G20 and nuclear weapons: ICAN’s commentary

G20 members must go beyond reiterating their condemnation of the threats of the use of nuclear weapons The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) calls on G20 members to go beyond reiterating the condemnation of nuclear threats already formulated…

We Fell In Love with the Word PEACE

But just falling in love is not enough. For peace to ensue, a call is urgently needed. To call for an end to all wars and all forms of violence, the first World March for Peace and Non-violence took place on…

Nuclear armament: more than a threat

Nonviolent Alternatives. For technical reasons, we were unable to publish this article on the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima by the US military. We do so ten days later, remembering that hundreds of survivors…

Oppenheimer Paradox: Power of Science and the Weakness of Scientists

The new blockbuster film on Oppenheimer has brought back the memories of the first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It has raised complex questions on the nature of the society that permitted such bombs to be developed and used and…

Reducing the risks of nuclear war—the role of health professionals

In January 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 s before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war.1 In August 2022, the UN…

ZERO WOULD BE NICE: We can safely abolish all nuclear weapons

Been hearing about the Oppenheimer movie? Oscar buzz! Barbenheimer! Cillian Murphy’s alarmingly blue eyeballs! In all the hoo-hah, two crucial things are missing. We have to fully grasp the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons: The movie offers only the tiniest…

The Ukraine War and Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

By Ramesh Jaura Ahead of first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) from 31 July to 11 August 2023 in Vienna, the Global…

The Danger of Peace

“When violence causes silence, then we’re doing something wrong,” says a Cranberries lyric. This was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the figures of two studies that came out last Monday, on arms spending (SIPRI)[1]…

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