Ending sanctions must not wait for the conclusion of negotiations and plans for a Peace Treaty and reunification. Humanitarian work and confidence building measures, exchange visits for training and education, and family reunification can begin as part of the peacebuilding process. Women must be involved in all stages of resolution of this conflict and the peacebuilding process.
Korean sanctions are a humanitarian disaster
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Confessions of a nuclear war planner
Although Daniel Ellsberg is best-known for his 1971 role in delivering the Pentagon Papers (the Top Secret Defense Department study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam) to the American people, he spent much of his 13-year career as a military analyst at the highest levels of the U.S. national security apparatus grappling with issues of nuclear war. Ellsberg reports that, “contrary to the cliché that `no nuclear weapons have been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki,’ U.S. presidents have usedour nuclear weapons dozens of times in `crises,’ mostly in secret from the American public (though not from adversaries).” Ellsberg’s conclusion is stark, but follows logically from this evidence. “Any social system that has created and maintained a Doomsday Machine and has put a trigger to it, including first use of nuclear weapons, in the hands of one human being―. . . still worse in the hands of an unknown number of persons―is in core aspects mad. Ours is such a system. We are in the grip of institutionalized madness.”
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North Korean nuclear weapons are only part of the nuclear dilemma
As dangerous as the US-DPRK nuclear confrontation is, it is just another flare from the 70 years of risk created by the development of nuclear weapons. Their continued possession by the world’s powers has bred proliferation with a dangerous increase in the number of nuclear-armed nations.
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IPPNW urges JCPOA parties to adhere to Iran agreement despite US withdrawal
The national affiliates of IPPNW in France, Germany, and the UK, and IPPNW's international leadership, have appealed to officials in the three governments to stand by the agreement that they made with Iran on their nuclear program. In a letter to President Macron, Chancellor Merkel, and Prime Minister May, reprinted here, IPPNW has urged the leaders to continue working closely with Iran’s government to ensure the obligations of the agreement continue to be met by all remaining parties to it.
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Watch out world: peace may be breaking out!!
Guest Opinion by Alice Slater Less than a week or so before Donald Trump’s groundbreaking meeting planned with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, to take place after the NATO summit in mid-July, the new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons celebrated its first birthday on July 7 when 122 nations voted a year ago in […]
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Humanity is connected by common threats and shared benefits
Humanity is connected by common threats and shared benefits. You must also realize that nuclear weapons constitute a common threat and their destruction benefits us all. No matter if the country is large or small, a permanent arms or military economy offers no solution for the world’s biggest problems.
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Panmunjeom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula
Following is the text of the Declaration issued at the conclusion of the historic Summit between President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on April 27.
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Space: The next battlefield?
Russia and China have been arguing for years in the halls of the United Nations that the world needs a treaty to prevent stationing such weapons in outer space in order to maintain global “strategic stability” among the major powers and enable nuclear disarmament. Although the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 prevented the placement of weapons of mass destruction in outer space, it never prohibited conventional weapons in space.
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Youth-led nuclear disarmament
By guest authors Kelvin Kibet, IPPNW International Student Representative (Kenya) & Nikki Shah, medical student member of Physicians for Global Survival (IPPNW’s Canadian affiliate) “In the quest for total nuclear disarmament, we must take every opportunity to speak against nuclear weapons to every human. By doing this we shall solidify the hard truth that nuclear weapons […]
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Asian affiliates affirm commitment to peace and nuclear disarmament “as an urgent imperative to safeguard health”
It is a global health imperative as well as legal obligation that all nuclear-armed nations eliminate their nuclear arsenals as a matter of great urgency. The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) provides a pathway for all nations to abolish nuclear weapons. All nations should take that path.
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US and Russia must preserve INF Treaty, begin negotiations for nuclear abolition
In a world already nervous about the intentions of the nuclear-armed states and their continued modernization of nuclear weapons, the Trump Administration’s announcement that it will withdraw from the historic INF Treaty is grave and unwelcome news. IPPNW called upon [Trump and Putin] to begin a wider discussion of their nuclear arsenals, rather than ending an iconic nuclear weapons limitation treaty. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), adopted at the United Nations last year by a vote of 122-1-1, should provide the starting point for such discussions.
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Time out for nukes!
Now is an opportunity to take a time-out on nuclear gamesmanship, new threats, trillions of wasted dollars and IQ point on weapons systems that Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev acknowledged, back in 1987 at the end of the Cold War, could never be used, warning that “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”
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IFMSA and IPPNW students issue joint call for nuclear abolition and peacebuilding
Press release, dated 26 November 2018, from the students of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA). The prevalence of peace is a major determinant of a society’s health and together they represent a vital determinant of a sustainable future and society. The deterioration […]
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Why Green New Deal advocates must address militarism
If climate change is not addressed rapidly by a Green New Deal, global militarism will ramp up in response to increases in climate refugees and civil destabilization, which will feed climate change and seal a vicious cycle fed by the twin evils militarism and climate disruption.
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Kashmir conflict risks nuclear war
IPPNW calls on India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan to take immediate steps to deescalate the tensions in the disputed Kashmir region and to reduce the grave danger of nuclear war. Dr. Arun Mitra, IPPNW’s Indian Co-President said, “India and Pakistan must end their border clash before it engulfs the world. Leaders from both sides must sit down to finally resolve their issues peacefully at the negotiating table and to take immediate steps to reduce and eliminate the threat that their nuclear weapons pose to all humanity.”
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“Denuclearization” is for every country
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistsdoomsday clock has placed the minute hand at two minutes before midnight, the closest we have come to nuclear warfare since 1945. With 15,000 nuclear weapons in the arsenals of nine nations, will all leaders expand their concept of “denuclearization” to every country in the world?
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Nepal assures South Asian doctors TPNW will be ratified soon
IPPNW's South Asia affiliates have urged government officials in Kathmandu, Nepal, to take additional steps towards nuclear disarmament, reduction of small arms, and resolution of issues through dialogue.
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The Truth-Teller: From the Pentagon Papers to the Doomsday Machine
We, as a society, are conscious of the risk of the devastating impacts that could come from climate disruption. In contrast to the absence of public discourse around nuclear conflict since the end of the Cold War, climate has been a subject of intense public debate. Although the danger of the nuclear threat remains undiminished, the proposed $1.7 trillion nuclear modernization program in the US is not a matter of serious debate.It is difficult to compare climate and nuclear threats. The climate catastrophe toward which we are moving, while uncertain in terms of timing and outcomes, is indisputable. We have survived the nuclear danger for seventy years, although we have come close to conflict more frequently than the public realizes.
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Executed for being an anti-nuclear activist
By Maria Arvaniti Sotiropoulou and Panos Trigazis Under present conditions, it seems inconceivable that a 22-year-old fighter for the anti-nuclear movement was arrested, sentenced to death by court martial and executed in Thessaloniki, on a charge of collecting signatures under the Stockholm Appeal for the abolition and prohibition of all nuclear weapons. But Nikos Nikiforidis […]
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A race against time
Originally posted on Beyond Nuclear International:
Tilman Ruff’s life mission is to help rid the world of nuclear weapons By Robert Fedele In 2007, Associate Professor Tilman Ruff and a small group of antinuclear activists founded the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Melbourne. In 2017, the global nongovernmental organisation captured the first…
Tilman Ruff’s life mission is to help rid the world of nuclear weapons By Robert Fedele In 2007, Associate Professor Tilman Ruff and a small group of antinuclear activists founded the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Melbourne. In 2017, the global nongovernmental organisation captured the first…
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